Music in the 20th Century

Claude Debussy was influenced by which impressionist painter?

• Pablo Picasso

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Claude Monet

• Édouard Manet

Define Impressionism.

• Attempting to make a good impression through one's artwork.

• Expressing the impression a composer would like the audience to perceive.

• Conveying the impression of the Gamelan, or the Indonesian orchestra.

• Expressing only the suggestion, or impression, of an object, an idea, or an experience.

Define Primitivism.

• Artwork and music that exalted the beauty of an unsophisticated, distant way of life.

• A derogatory label intended to put down other, simpler people.

• An expression of the more primitive instincts that are within humans.

• Music that sought to express emotions in a way that was far simpler than in the Romantic Era.

Which composer is associated with the Primitivism movement in music?

• Gustav Mahler

• Igor Stravinsky

• Sergei Diaghilev

• Paul Gauguin

Define Expressionism.

• The pinnacle of Romanticism - expressing all of one's emotions freely.

• Artwork and music that exalted the beauty of an unsophisticated, distant way of life.

• An artistic expression of a disturbed inner life.

• The study of how artists express themselves through their paintings.

Composers of the 20th Century can be put into which two categories?

• Revolutionaries and Evolutionaries

• Classical and Popular

• NeoClassical and NeoRomantic

• Tonal and Atonal

Arnold Schoenberg saw the path opened by Wagner's extreme use of chromaticism, led to what music genre?

• Electronic Music

• Atonality

• Aleatory

• Polytonality

Define Experimentalism

• Pushing the boundaries of form and function, in much the same way as Beethoven.

• Radically altered methods of composing and presenting music, as well as pushing the boundaries of what constitutes music.

• The process by which composers experimented with new and innovative ways of enhancing the emotionality in their music.

• Artwork and music that exalted the beauty of an unsophisticated, distant way of life.

Which of the following is NOT a 20th Century innovation in music?

• Polytonality

• Tone Clusters

• Indeterminate Music

• Tonal Dissonance

These two musical revolutionists were both fascinated by sounds - all sounds, and considered almost anything music.

• Ludwig van Beethoven & Hector Berlioz

• Pyotr Tchaikovsky & Arnold Schoenberg

• Gustav Mahler & Paul Hindemith

• John Cage & Pauline Oliveros