MUSIC OF THE 20TH CENTURY (QUIZ 1)

A style of music that uses 12-tone scale

• Avant-garde

• Expressionism

• Impressionism

• Neoclassicism

He composed the song Claire de Lune which literally means Moonlight.

• Claude Debussy

• Igor Stravinsky

• John Cage

• Maurice Ravel

Where did the term Impressionism in music originated?

• It was borrowed to depict the lives after the French war.

• It originated from a word which means advance guard.

• It was borrowed from a painting by Claude Monet.

• The term was used to classify a experimental music.

Who among the following composers composed the West Side Story which was used during a musical play in 1957?

• George Gershwin

• Leonard Bernsterin

• Philip Glass

A 20th century composer that turned his preference of composition from tonal to dissonant and atonal, as he explored the use of chromatic harmonies.

• Claude Debussy

• Maurice Ravel

• Igor Stravinsky

• Arnold Schoenberg

He is the most important and most influential composer of the 2oth century. He was the primary exponent of the impressionist movement.

• Igor Stravinsky

• Claude Debussy

• Arnold Schoenberg

• Maurice Ravel

His style was characterized by its uniquely innovative but not atonal style of harmonic treatment.

• Maurice Ravel

• Leonard Bernstein

• Igor Stravinsky

• Bela Bartok

A musical style that use whole-tone scale.  It also applied suggested, rather than depicted, reality. It created a mood rather than a definite picture.

• Impressionism
• Expressionism

• Neo-classicism

• Classicism

It represents Bela Bartok’s greatest achievements of his life, spanning a full 30 years for completion.

• Six string quartets
• Three symphonies
• Five piano concertos
• Seven violin sonatas

A composer that had a coolly elegant modernity, tempered by a classical sense of proportion and member of the French group “Les Six”.

• George Gershwin

• Bela Bartok

• Sergei Prokofieff

• Francis Poulenc