Music and Art Quiz

Originally, music then was expensive since people need to buy tickets and watch in musical theaters. Which of the following made music somewhat inexpensive during the 20th century?

• Many of the musicians gave free concerts on streets.

• Musicians performed on public halls and musical theaters.

• Invention of electronic gadgets made music easier to access by the general public.

• Invention of recording technologies like vinyl, cassette tapes and cd's made music available in the market.

In music, if Debussy composed Clair De Lune and Ravel composed Bolero, who composed Romeo and Juliet, War and Peace and Peter and the Wolf?

• Bartok

• Poulenc

• Prokofiev

• Stravinsky

Which of the following pair of composers were known as Impressionist?

• Auric-Durey

• Debussy-Ravel

• Poulenc-Prokofiev

• Schoenberg-Stravinsky

Which of the following musical style made use of the whole-tone scale?

• Expressionism

• Impressionism

• Neo-classicism

• Avant-garde

Which of the following was a composition of Karlheinz Stockhausen?

• Peter Pan

• Gruppen

• Music in Fifth

• West Side Story

Chance music refers to a style wherein the piece always sounds different at every performance due to accidental elements which can be natural or man-made. Which of the following is the most prominent composer of this style?

• Cage

• Beige

• Varese

• Stockhausen

Marites loves to collect music pertaining to nature while Marisol her best friend prefers to collect extra emotional music. On the other hand, Maricel curiously experiments by singing songs in reverse order. Which of the following musical styles were described above?

• Expressionism-Impressionism-Neoclassicism

• Impressionism-Expressionism-Avant-Garde

• Modern Nationalism-Avant Garde-Neoclassicism

• Avant-Garde-Impressionism-Modern Nationalism

A style in the 20th century which was highly innovative and experimental.

• Avant-Garde

• Expressionism

• Impressionism

• Neoclassicism

Which of the following pair of composers were known as Expressionist?

• Auric-Durey

• Debussy-Ravel

• Poulenc-Prokofiev

• Schoenberg-Stravinsky

It was a John Cage composition in 1952, composed of three movements, wherein the performers were instructed not to play for the whole duration of the performance. What was the title of the composition?

• 3'33"

• 4'33"

• 5'33"

• 6'33"