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Impressionism in Music

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where did the Impressionist Movement begin?

a)

Austria

b)

Germany

c)

France

d)

England

2.

Who were the first artists to create Impressionist art?

a)

Painters

b)

Musicians

c)

Dancers

d)

Sculptors

3.

Which Impressionist composer served in the military as an ambulance driver during the First World War?

a)

Claude Debussy

b)

Richard Wagner

c)

Pytor Tchaikovsky

d)

Maurice Ravel

4.

Who wrote Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun?

a)

Claude Debussy

b)

Richard Wagner

c)

Maurice Ravel

d)

Pytor Tchaikovsky

5.

Who wrote Bolero?

a)

Claude Debussy

b)

Maurice Ravel

c)

Richard Strauss

d)

Johann Strauss II

6.

True or False? Impressionist Music is represented by ambiguity and vagueness in terms of harmony and rhythm.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Impressionist composers used _________ to paint "blurry" or "washed together" portraits of sound.

a)

dissonance

b)

whole tone scale

c)

Asian influenced melodies

d)

All of the above

8.

True or False? The Impressionist Movement marks a point where the newest trends in arts and music became separated from the daily life of the average person.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

True or False? Claude Debussy wrote a one-handed piano concerto for servicemen who came back from World War I missing an arm so that they could still play piano.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

True or False? Maurice Ravel recorded himself playing his own compositions.

a)

True

b)

False