Ch. 21-22 Modernism

The chief composers associated with the early phase of modernism - Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg - were members of the

• Blue Rider Group

• Apaches

• Symbolists

• avant-garde

Which artistic movement took its inspiration from Wagner's leitmotivs?

• Impressionism

• Symbolism

• Expressionism

• Cubism

Which composer is sometimes called an impressionist and sometimes a symbolist?

• Arnold Schoenberg

• Claude Debussy

• Igor Stravinsky

• Anton Webern

The composers Stravinsky and Bartok were associated with ____ and sometimes suggested ____ in their works.

• impressionism; atonality

• minimalism; rubato

• serialism; consonance

• expressionism; violence

Modernist composers before World War I were mainly preoccupied with changing their approach to

• rhythm and harmony

• melody, harmony, and tonality

• melody, rhythm, and tone color

• tone color and rhythm

Modernist composers after World War II were preoccupied with changing their approach to

• tone color and rhythm

• tonality, melody, and tone color

• tonality and harmony

• melody, harmony, and tonality

All of the following are characteristics of a modernist approach to melody EXCEPT

• brief, emotionless fragments of folk music

• the use of long, sweeping, inspired melodies

• exaggerated intervals and intense rhythms

• the suggestion of melody, but no clear tunes.

The scale in which eight (8) pitches are made to fit into the octave by alternating whole steps and half steps is the ______ scale

• pentatonic

• whole-tone

• octatonic

• quarter-tone

The "new language" for music invented in the 1920s was

• objectivism

• expressionism

• primitivism

• serialism

The composer who originated serialism is

• Arnold Schoenberg

• Richard Wagner

• Igor Stravinsky

• Bela Bartok