avant-garde, chance and electronic music

It is a French word for “advance guard” or vanguard.

• Chance Music

• Avant-Garde

• Electronic Music

• Primitivism

Who is the American Avant-Garde composer whose inventive compositions and unconventional ideas greatly influenced 20^th century music?

• John Cage

• Edgard Varese

• George Gershwin

• Philip Glass

He is one of the leading composers of electronic and serial music

• John Cage

• Edgard Varese

• Karlheinz Stockhausen

• Philip Glass

It is a style that is closely associated with electronic music and deals with the parameters of sound.

• Chance Music

• Avant-Garde

• Electronic Music

• Primitivism

It is a 20^th century music style in which undetermined elements are left to chance and/or some elements of a composed work’s realization are left to the performer’s discretion.

• Chance Music

• Concrete Music

• Modern Nationalism

• Electronic Music

Who composed the song “Someone to Watch Over Me”?

• Philip Glass

• Igor Stravinsky

• George Gershwin

• Leonard Bernstein

What do you call the music style produced by synthesizers and other electronic instruments and devices?

• Chance Music

• Concrete Music

• Modern Nationalism

• Electronic Music

Who was considered the “Father of American Jazz”?

• Philip Glass

• Igor Stravinsky

• George Gershwin

• Leonard Bernstein

He was a French-born American innovative composer of the 20^th century

• John Cage

• Edgard Varese

• Karlheinz Stockhausen

• Philip Glass

Who was an avant-garde composer and exponent of minimalist movement?

• Philip Glass

• Igor Stravinsky

• George Gershwin

• Leonard Bernstein