Music of the 20th Century

What is a term borrowed from painting to describe music that is intended to convey an impression rather than a dramatic or narrative idea?

• A. Avant-garde

• B. Expressionism

• C. Impressionism

• D. Neo-classicism

What is the French term used to describe composers, artists and writers whose works are radical and dissonant?

• A. Avant-garde

• B. Expressionism

• C. Impressionism

• D. Neo-classicism

What term is borrowed from painting and literature that is used to refer to music which is designed to express a state of mind?

• A. Avant-garde

• B. Expressionism

• C. Impressionism

• D. Neo-classicism

What uses seven-note diatonic scale with carefully modulated dissonances?

• A. Avant-garde

• B. Expressionism

• C. Impressionism

• D. Neo-Classicism

What do you call the kind of music with no extra-musical

association such as words, visual imagery opposite to program music?

• A. Aria

• B. A Capella

• C. Aerophone

• D. Absolute Music

What is the Latin term applied to vocal music without

accompaniment?

• A. Aria

• B. A Capella

• C. Aerophone

• D. Absolute Music

What is a song for solo voice with orchestra and is usually a part of an opera, cantata or oratorio?

• A. Aria

• B. A Capella

• C. Aerophone

• D. Absolute Music

Which musical form of the 20th century focused on nationalist composers and musical innovators who sought to combine modern techniques with folk materials?

• A. Avant-garde

• B. Expressionism

• C. Impressionism

• D. Modern Nationalism

What do you call a music without a central key that produces dissonant harmonies and disjoint melodies?

• A. Blues

• B. Ballet

• C. Ballad

• D. Atonality

Which musical style is tonal by the stressing of one note as

more important than the others?

• A. Primitivism

• B. Chance Music

• C. Neo-Classicism

• D. Modern Nationalism