Music 10 – Claude Debussy and Impressionism

Impressionism in music was inspired by which art form?

• Sculpture

• Architecture

• Painting

• Photography

Who painted the artwork titled “Impression: Sunrise” that inspired Impressionism?

• Claude Debussy

• Claude Monet

• Maurice Ravel

• Vincent Van Gogh

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Impressionist music?

• Free rhythms

• Use of church modes

• Strict regular meter

• Whole-tone scales

What musical texture features two or more melodies moving together in the same direction?

• Polyphony

• Parallelism

• Counterpoint

• Ostinato

What is the whole-tone mode?

• A scale made up of half steps

• A scale using five notes only

• A scale with six whole steps in an octave

• A major scale with accidentals

What is Neo-Modality in Impressionist music?

• A new type of harmony

• A return to church modes like Dorian or Phrygian

• A jazz improvisation style

• Use of chromatic scales

Who is regarded as the Father of the Modern School of Composition?

• Claude Monet

• Igor Stravinsky

• Claude Debussy

• Ludwig van Beethoven

What is Suite Bergamasque known for?

• It is Debussy’s only opera

• It is Debussy’s ballet

• It includes the famous piece Clair de Lune

• It is a religious mass

What was the Prix de Rome?

• A painting award

• A teaching position

• A scholarship for studying in Rome

• An opera competition

What illness led to Debussy’s death?

• Lung cancer

• Brain cancer

• Tuberculosis

• Stroke