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20th century Music

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A French composer who used many parallel chords and unprepared modulations.

a)

Claude Debussy

b)

Maurice Ravel

c)

Jean-Antoine Watteau.

d)

Paul Dukas

2.

This music may be described generally as having refinement, delicacy and vagueness.

a)

Expressionism

b)

Electronic

c)

Chance

d)

Impressionism

3.

The characteristics of impressionism in music are the following. EXCEPT:

a)

The rhythm of impressionism music is irregular in terms of phrases.

b)

It uses the whole-tone scale, uses the 9th chord, and also frequently uses modality and exotic scales.

c)

It has unresolved resonance.

d)

It avoids the traditional harmonic progression.

4.

It was invented sometime in 1877 and was the popular musical gadget during the 19th-20th century.

a)

Radio

b)

Cassette

c)

Phonograph

d)

Gramophone

5.

He was called the Claude Debussy of the Philippines’ for first introducing several important devices which are technically characteristics of impressionist music.

a)

Levi Celerio

b)

Antonio Molina

c)

Lucio San Pedro

d)

Nicanor Abelardo

6.

The following are Debussy’s musical pieces.EXCEPT:

a)

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

b)

La Mer

c)

Nocturne

d)

La Valse

7.

He won the grand prize in July of 1891 in Schumann’s Sonata.

a)

Claude Debussy

b)

Frédéric Chopin

c)

Henry Ghys

d)

Maurice Ravel

8.

The famous works of Ravel's lifetime of composition are the following. EXCEPT:

a)

Bolero

b)

La Valse

c)

Ma mereloie

d)

Engulfed Cathedral

9.

This evokes moods and ideas for which the artist seeks to e emotional experience rather than the physical reality.

a)

Digital music

b)

Impressionism music

c)

Expressionism music

d)

Electronic music

10.

He is one of the famous composer who applied Expressionism technique in his composition.

a)

Arnold Schoenberg

b)

Edgar Victor Achille Charles Varèse

c)

Frédéric Chopin

d)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

11.

The process o creating music using computers in synthesizing or producing digital audio signals.

a)

Electronic Music

b)

Modern Music

c)

Computer Music

d)

Digital Music

12.

He is considered as the father of electronic music.

a)

Arnold Schoenberg

b)

Edgar Victor Achille Charles Varèse

c)

Frédéric Chopin

d)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

13.

He is a French composer who spent most of his career and life in the USA.

a)

Arnold Schoenberg

b)

Edgar Victor Achille Charles Varèse

c)

Frédéric Chopin

d)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

14.

A musical piece which consists of two or more voices or instruments that are being played or started at different intervals.

a)

Lunaire

b)

Sonata

c)

Prelude

d)

Canon

15.

It is also called aleatory music, which is derived from the Latin word ale, meaning “dice”.

a)

Electronic Music

b)

Digital Music

c)

Chance Music

d)

Classical Music

16.

It is a style of music where different sounds, musical or non-musical, are assembled and combined together to create any kind of musical composition

a)

Electronic Music

b)

Digital Music

c)

Chance Music

d)

Classical Music

17.

The best example of the atonal composition, composed by Arnold Schoenberg.

a)

Pierrot Lunaire

b)

Sprechstimme

c)

Symphony No.9

d)

The Nutcracker Suite

18.

This Music style conveys true emotions in exaggeration through the application of atonality and dissonance.

a)

Expressionism

b)

Impressionism

c)

Digital

d)

Electronic

19.

This Music style can create other sounds from nature and the environment which are the larger range, higher pitch, and with different qualities of sound.

a)

Expressionism

b)

Impressionism

c)

Digital

d)

Electronic

20.

The Greatest Composer in 20th century.

a)

Antonio Vivaldi

b)

Arnold Schoenberg

c)

Igor Stravinsky

d)

Ludwig Van Beethoven