Review of Contemporary Music

Which theme means composers almost always have a story or setting in mind when composing?

• A. fascination with meaning and process

• B. blending of genres and styles

• C. fascination with dissonance

• D. utilization of new technologies

This theme has made it possible to compose music faster than ever before.

• A. fascination with meaning and process

• B. blending of genres and styles

• C. fascination with dissonance

• D. utilization of new technologies

Which theme involves the extreme pertinence of atonality in today's world?

• A. blending of genres and styles

• B. fascination with dissonance

• C. utilization of new technologies

• D. fascination with meaning and process

Which religious genre has not only flourished, but influenced other genres?

• A. gospel music

• B. Gregorian chant

• C. chorales

• D. Christian rock

What philosophical movement characterizes Turnage's music?

• A. Renaissance

• B. Modernism

• C. Realism

• D. Enlightenment

Turnage uses music to create ____.

• A. beauty

• B. new worlds

• C. feelings

• D. excitement

Mark-Anthony Turnage is known for writing what kind of music?

• A. confrontational

• B. agreeable

• C. humorous

• D. traditional

Much of Dylan Mattingly's music is _____.

• A. tonal

• B. atonal

• C. homophonic

• D. monophonic

Above all, Mattingly writes music to _____.

• A. make money

• B. elicit emotion

• C. express himself

• D. push the limits

After an eight-year creative crisis, Arvo Pärt debuted a piece in his own unique style. What was it called?

• A. Perpetuum Mobile

• B. Für Alina

• C. Tribute to Caesar

• D. Symphony No. 1