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20th century music

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What musical form meant to create an emotional mood rather than a specific picture?

a)

AVANT GARDE MUSIC

b)

EXPRESSIONISM

c)

IMPRESSIONISM

d)

NEOCLASSICISM

2.

Which musical form revealed the composer's mind, instead of presenting an impression of the environment?

a)

Chance music

b)

Electronic music

c)

Expressionism

d)

Impressionism

3.

It is a style associated with electronic music and dealt with the parameters or dimensions of sound in space.

a)

Avant Garde Music

b)

Chance Music

c)

Electronic Music

d)

Modern Nationalism

4.

New sounds are synthesized from old ones by juxtaposing two simple events to create a more complex new event.

a)

Classical Music

b)

Modern Nationalism

c)

Neo Classicism

d)

Primitivism

5.

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

a)

Electronic Music

b)

Modern Music

c)

Computer Music

d)

Digital Music

6.

What musical form during 20th century focused on nationalist composers and musical innovators who sought to combine modern techniques with folk materials?

a)

Expressionism

b)

Impressionism

c)

Modern Nationalism

d)

Primitivism

7.

Which style of music were improvisation was a necessity, for the musical scores were not necessarily followed as written?

a)

Avant Garde

b)

Chance Music

c)

Classical Music

d)

Expressionism

8.

What musical style sounds differently at every performance because of the random techniques of production?

a)

Chance Music

b)

Expressionism

c)

Impressionism

d)

Romantic Music

9.

It served as a medium for expressing strong emotions such as anxiety, rage and alienation.

a)

Chance Music

b)

Expressionism

c)

Impressionism

d)

Romantic Music

10.

Which among the following statements best describes impressionism music?

a)

It is usually based on atmospheric effects or descriptive ideas.

b)

Impressionist focus on how the surface of objects appeared to the eyes.

c)

Impressionism has hazy and dream-like quality and nature is frequently the subject.

d)

Impressionist composers wrote music with sounds that called forth such images as moonlight, sunlight and fireworks.

11.

Which of the following is a good example of technology that produced electronic music?

a)

Amplifier that increases the strength of electric signals to make the sounds louder.

b)

Microphone into which people speak or sing in order to record their voices or to make them sound louder.

c)

Speaker that is used to make sound louder and to send it out so that many people can hear.

d)

Synthesizer that produces a wide variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies.

12.

Who is a French composer that uses whole tone scale?

a)

Arnold Schoenberge

b)

Claude Debussy

c)

Igor Stravinsky

d)

Joseph Maurice Ravel

13.

A composer whose style is uniquely recognizable for its progressive technique, pulsating rhythms, melodic directness, and resolving dissonance.

a)

Francis Poulenc

b)

George Gerswin

c)

Leonard Bernteins

d)

Sergie Prokofieff

14.

Who of the following is NOT a 20th century composer?

a)

Arnold Schoenberg

b)

Maurice Ravel

c)

Ludwig Van Beethoven

d)

Igor Stravinsky

15.

Who among the following composers utilized changing meters and strong syncopations?

a)

Bela Bartok

b)

Francis Poulenc

c)

Igor Stravinsky

d)

Sergie Prokofieff

16.

Who is known as “Father of American Jazz”?

a)

George Gerswin

b)

Leonard Bernteins

c)

Mario Davidovsky

d)

Philipp Glass

17.

This composer is known as the “Father of Electronic Music”.

a)

Edgar Varese

b)

John Cage

c)

Leonard Bernteins

d)

Philipp Glass

18.

MUSICAL FORM

___________________________


COMPOSER

Claude Debussy


MUSICAL COMPOSITION

La Cathedral

a)

AVANT GARDE

b)

CHANCE MUSIC

c)

EXPRESSIONISM

d)

IMPRESSIONISM

19.

MUSICAL FORM

Expressionism

COMPOSER

_________________________


MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Pierrot Lunaire

a)

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

b)

GEORGE GERSWIN

c)

JOHN CAGE

d)

PHILIPP GLASS

20.

MUSICAL FORM

____________________________________


COMPOSER

Bela Bartok


MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Six String Quartets

a)

ELECTRONIC MUSIC

b)

MODERN NATIONALISM

c)

PRIMITIVISM

d)

ROMANTIC MUSIC

21.

MUSICAL FORM

Avant Garde


COMPOSER

__________________________


MUSICAL COMPOSITION

La La Lucille

a)

John Cage

b)

George Gershwin

c)

Leonard Bernstein

d)

Phiip Glass

22.

MUSICAL FORM

_______________________


COMPOSER

Sergei Prokofieff


MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Concerto in C Major, OP. 26, NO. 3

a)

Expressionism

b)

Minimalism

c)

Modern Nationalism

d)

Neo-Classicism

23.

MUSICAL FORM

Minimalism


COMPOSER

______________________


MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Music in Fifths

a)

Edgar Varese

b)

John Cage

c)

Leonard Bernteins

d)

Philipp Glass

24.

MUSICAL FORM

______________________

COMPOSER

Bela Bartok

MUSICAL COMPOSITION

Six String Quartets

a)

CHANCE MUSIC

b)

EXPRESSIONISM

c)

NEOCLASSICISM

d)

PRIMITIVISM

25.

MUSICAL FORM

Impressionism


COMPOSER

Claude Debussy


MUSICAL STYLE

______________________

a)

Uses 12 tone scale

b)

Uses whole tone scale

c)

Incorporate nationalistic elements in his music.

d)

Utilized changing meters and strong syncopations.