MUSIC OF THE 20TH CENTURY 21-22

1. Which of the following music characterize its works centered on nature and its beauty, likeness, and brilliance?

• Impressionism

• Expressionism

• Neoclassicism

• Minimalism

Which movement of music characterizes the composer’s mind, instead of presenting an impression of the environment?

• Impressionism

• Expressionism

• Neoclassicism

• Minimalism

Which musical style deals with the parameters of sound in space with an absence of traditional rules on harmony, melody, and rhythm?

• Impressionism

• Expressionism

• Modern nationalism

• Avant-garde

Which type of musical style has a freer seven-note diatonic scale?

• Neoclassicism

• Primitivism

• Avant-garde

• Modern Natinalism

Which music of the 20th century seeks to combine modern techniques focusing on nationalist composers and innovators?

• Neo-classicism

• Avant-Garde

• Primitivism

• Modern Nationalism

Who was the proponent of Claire de Lune and the foremost impressionist composer?

• Joseph Maurice Ravel

• Clause Debussy

• Arnold Schoenberg

• Claude Monet

Which of the following countries Claude Debussy was born in?

• Germany

• Italy

• France

• Sweden

Which of the following composers created a system of pitch organization based on the chromatic pitches called the twelve-tone series?

• Arnold Schoenberg

• Claude Debussy

• Claude Monet

• Joseph Maurice Ravel

Who among the following composers was born to musical parents and died on September 26, 1945, in New York City?

• George Gershwin

• Igor Stravinsky

• Sergei Prokoffief

• Bela Bartok

Which of the following is NOT the work of Bela Bartok?

• Six String Quartet

• Allegro Barbaro

• Concerto for Orchestra

• The Rite of Spring