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Music

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. What does Avant Garde means?

a)

Rapid growth of technology

b)

Advance Guard

c)

On your Guard

d)

Early Guard

2.

What is another name for Avant Garde music?

a)

Post World War II Music

b)

French Revolution Music

c)

Post World War 1 Music

d)

1945 Music

3.

Who among the avant garde composers who was considered the most successful composer who explored ballet, opera, theater, film and even television jingles music?

a)

Glass

b)

Cage

c)

Bernstein

d)

Gershwin

4.

Which of the following is NOT a symbol of Avant Garde?

a)

Progression

b)

Innovation

c)

Exploration

d)

Sadness

5.

What year was the period of Avant Garde Music?

a)

1910-1999

b)

1910-1930

c)

1910-1950

d)

1900-1910

6.

Which of the following is the best feature of Avant Garde Music?

a)

It is developed just to create noise

b)

To listen to unpleasant sound arranged properly

c)

To paly with the music

d)

To break various rules and regulations of traditional music

7.

What kind of chords creates a mysterious sound when played?

a)

Regular triad

b)

Augmented triad

c)

Diminished Chords

d)

Tonic Note

8.

What kind of chord creates a dissonant sound when played?

a)

Regular triad

b)

Augmented triad

c)

Diminished Chords

d)

Tonic Note

9.

Who among the following composers of Avant Garde Music make used of jazz and blues style to his compositions?

a)

Gershwin

b)

Glass

c)

Debussy

d)

Sschoenberg

10.

What do you call the characteristic of musical composition that described as the extemporaneous composition or free performance of a musical passage?

a)

Polyrhythm

b)

Improvisation

c)

Dissonance

d)

Syncopation

11.

Which of the following best describes the rhythm of Gershwin’s music?

a)

It uses monotone

b)

it has one regular beat

c)

It uses polyrhythm

d)

It uses microtones

12.

Which of the following best describes syncopation?

a)

It is an extemporaneous composition or free performance of a musical passage

b)

It is a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat.

c)

It uses two or more different rhythms simultaneously

d)

It uses electronic sound

13.

Which of the following composition of Gershwin, is purely orchestral music and plenty of jazz harmonies and is first played at Carnegie Hall?

a)

An American in Paris

b)

Porgy and Bess

c)

Rhapsody in Blue

d)

Swanee

14.

Which of the following compositions received a lot of recognition form 1952-1954?

a)

An American in Paris

b)

Porgy and Bess

c)

Rhapsody in Blue

d)

Swanee

15.

Where was An American in Paris first performed?

a)

Royal Albert Hall

b)

Cultural Center of the Philippines

c)

Carnegie Hall

d)

London Theater