Claude Debussy

What is Impressionism in music primarily characterized by?

• Clear harmonic structures and resolved dissonances

• Blurred formal boundaries using syncopation and unresolved dissonances

• Strict adherence to classical forms and structures

• Use of electronic instruments and synthesized sounds

Which composers are considered the musical exponents of Impressionism?

• Beethoven and Mozart

• Bach and Handel

• Ravel and Debussy

• Stravinsky and Schoenberg

What movement did Debussy and Ravel consider themselves more aligned with than Impressionism?

• Romanticism

• Symbolism

• Neoclassicism

• Baroque

What is Symbolism in music a rejection of?

• Classical forms and structures

• Romantic fascination with nature and material things

• Modernist experimentation

• Baroque ornamentation

What does Neoclassicism in music involve?

• Looking back to ancient music for inspiration and techniques

• Embracing modern electronic sounds

• Focusing on improvisation and free-form structures

• Using minimalistic and repetitive patterns

Where did Debussy show enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten?

• Juilliard School

• Royal Academy of Music

• Conservatoire de Paris

• Vienna Conservatory

Which opera brought Debussy international fame in 1902?

• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

• Nocturnes

• Pelléas et Mélisande

• Images

Which of the following works is NOT composed by Debussy?

• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

• Nocturnes

• La mer

• The Rite of Spring

Debussy's music was a reaction against which composer and the German musical tradition?

• Chopin

• Wagner

• Beethoven

• Mozart

How many Préludes did Debussy compose?

• 12

• 24

• 6

• 18