20th and 21st Century Music History

What is atonality?

• The use of two or more keys at the same time.

• The absence of any tonality or key.

• When two different keys are used at once.

• Music with a specified tonal center.

This Hungarian composer was heavily influenced by Eastern Europe folk songs.

• Dmitri Shostakovich

• Bela Bartok

• Igor Stravinsky

• Charles Ives

Riots broke out at the premiere of this Stravinsky ballet.

• Petrushka

• The Nutcracker

• The Firebird

• The Rite of Spring

This American composer combined jazz and classical idioms with his composition, Rhapsody in Blue.

• Charles Ives

• William Grant Still

• George Gerswhin

• Aaron Copland

The process of creating music using computers in synthesizing or producing digital audio signals.

• Electronic Music

• Modern Music

• Computer Music

• Digital Music

It is also called aleatoric music, which is derived from the Latin word ale, meaning “dice”.

• Electronic Music

• Digital Music

• Chance Music

• Classical Music

It is a style of music where different sounds, musical or non-musical, are assembled and combined together to create any kind of musical composition

• Electronic Music

• Digital Music

• Chance Music

• Classical Music

Which composer was interested in folk music and traveled throughout Hungary with Zoltan Kodaly to record folk songs.

• BÉLA BARTÓK

• IGOR STRAVINSKY

• FLORENCE PRICE

• SERGEI PROKOFIEV

Which composer's best known composition is 4’33”, which is a silent work in which audience members are meant to listen to the sounds around them

• RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER

• DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

• JOHN CAGE

• BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Which composer was a well known musical theater, such as West Side Story.

• LEONARD BERNSTEIN

• JOHN WILLIAMS

• PHILIP GLASS

• JOAN TOWER