Music Unit 5 Test

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.

What is one way in which Stravinsky departed from the Romantic style?

• He wrote only atonal music.

• He refused to use any meter.

• He used mechanistic rhythms as opposed to rubato.

• He wrote no works for large orchestra.

The composers Stravinsky and Bartók were associated with _________ and sometimes suggested _________ in their works.

• impressionism; atonality

• serialism; consonance

• minimalism; rubato

• expressionism; violence

The “new language” for music invented in the 1920s was

• primitivism.

• objectivism.

• serialism.

• expressionism.

The composer who originated serialism is

• Arnold Schoenberg.

• Richard Wagner.

• Igor Stravinsky.

• Béla Bartók.

In the early twentieth century, harmony

• became more consonant.

• became more dissonant.

• became less important.

• stressed resolution once again.

The performing forces in Clouds consist of

• strings and woodwinds.

• strings and brass.

• strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

• strings, woodwinds, brass, and choir.

Who composed The Rite of Spring?

• Béla Bartók

• Luciano Berio

• Igor Stravinsky

• Claude Debussy

Which statement about The Rite of Spring is FALSE?

• It has a primitive quality.

• It has some complex rhythms with irregular meters.

• It is composed for ballet.

• It is based on a symbolist poem.

What is heard at various times in the “Round Dances of Spring”?

• musique concrète

• a tone row

• fragmented folk songs

• a passacaglia