Final Quiz

Brian Wilson was responsible For expanding rock's vocabulary and harmony to include jazz harmonies.

What is program music?

What is the title of one of the most celebrated and infamous examples of program music?

The name of the Rock and Roll group that was partly responsible for stealing the limelight away from jazz in the 1960s

Mozart exhibited great immaturity in his handling of finances and spending habits.

Who was Lorenzo De Ponte?

Instrumental music was very unpopular during the Baroque era. __________

The landscape of music changed more in the 20th century than in any other period in history.

movement that came about in the 1900s and represented a disregard for the traditions of the past and a quest for novelty

Professor North got crazy excited in class when he played a YouTube video of a modern jazz group named........

What musical genre , known as being the "most difficult and lucrative area" was Mozart most determined to succeed?

Who is known as the “King of Rock and Roll?”

When he began losing his hearing Beethoven.....

Who is known as the “King of Pop?”

Two composers that helped define music that had American roots and an American sound were:

Mozart was an extremely humble person who greatly struggled promoting himself and his talents.

2 composers brought music back to “American roots” established and defined American music in the early 20th century were

Many modernist painters rejected the time-honored idea that a painting had to represent a particular object exactly.

was characterized by elements of ambiguity, blurring of "colors" (harmonies), and elusive form.

Name one thing that completely changed the landscape of music as an art and as a business in the 20th century.

In the modern movement many composers focused more on the use of dissonance in composition

Opera existed long before the Baroque Era.

Impressionism was an early modernistic style that was characterized by elements of

The modernism movement that came about at the beginning of the 20th century represented...

What texture is being sung at the beginning of this video when the voices enter?

The shift that occurred in western musical composition in the late 1800s into the 20th century could best be described:

Modernism in music and art involves portraying concepts in a way that is...

The civil unrest of the 1950s and 60s had little effect on the Jazz art form.

John Cage composed a piece of music in which the performer or performers do absolutely nothing but sit in silence.

Beethoven is considered a composer who bridged together the classical era and the romantic eras of music.