Final Exam Review- Chapter 13

h of the following artistic styles, derived from the philosophy and practice of a grogp of French painters, influenced musical trends towan teenth century?

• Impressionism

• Avant-garde

• Serialism

• Modernism

A twentieth-century composer who created new music by merging Baroque and Classical forms with jazz and ragtime rhythms was

• Beach

• Stravinsky.

• Schoenberg

• Debussy

A twentieth-century technique involving the manipulation of tape-recorded sounds from existing natural sources is known.

• Musique concrete

• Avant-garde

• Impressionism

• Serialism

Deliberate absence of a tonal center is called atonality.

• True

• False

For whom was atonality an important compositional technique?

• Gershwin

• Stravinsky

• Schoenberg

• Debussy

Music of the twentieth century generally placed more emphasis on

• melody and timbre than on harmony and rhythm.

• texture and timbre than on melody and harmony.

• texture and harmony than on timbre and rhythm.

• melody and harmony than on texture and timbre.

In which context did electronic music begin?

• Contemporary

• Classical

• Folk

• Popular

The best-known and most successful American composer of classical music is

• William Grant Still

• Charles Ives

• Aaron Copland

• George Gershwin

Compositions based on the twelve tones of the chromatic scale arranged in a certain order are described as minimalistic.

• True

• False

Which of the following does the acronym MIDI stand for?

• Musical instrument digital interface

• Musical impressionist digital interface

• Modern impressionist digital interface

• Music industry digital interface