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20th Century Music Study Guide

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 2hrs 55mins

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Class
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1.

Which musical time period were “rediscovered?” (Click all that apply)

a)

Jazz

b)

Renaissance

c)

Medieval

d)

Baroque

e)

Classical

2.

What did Leonard Bernstein bridge?

a)

Blues and Jazz Music

b)

Secular and Sacred Music

c)

Serious and Popular Music

d)

None of these

3.

What playing techniques were added for effects? (Click all that apply)

a)

Glissando

b)

Syncopation

c)

Flutter tongue

d)

Scales

4.

What city was the center of jazz music?

a)

New York, New York

b)

Los Angeles, CA

c)

New Orleans, LA

d)

Jacksonville, FL

5.

What is consonance?

a)

Tension or Clash

b)

Harsh Sounds

c)

Stable and Repose

6.

What are the immediate sources of jazz? (Check all that apply)

a)

Classical

b)

Ragtime

c)

Rock

d)

Blues

7.

What is dissonance?

a)

Stable and Repose

b)

Harsh Sounds

c)

Tension or Clash

8.

What is Blues music?

a)

Music from the Deep South made by African Americans

b)

County Music

c)

Bluegrass Music

d)

Music that came out of spirituals

9.

What are the new chord structures? (Check all that apply)

a)

Quintal

b)

Polychords

c)

Quartal

d)

Clusters

e)

None of these

10.

Who is the “King of Ragtime”?

a)

None of these

b)

All of these

c)

Scott Joplin

d)

Duke Ellington

11.

What is polytonal?

a)

Many tones

b)

2 or more keys at once

c)

Different tones

12.

Aaron Copeland wrote music in?

a)

Foreign Style

b)

Modern Style

c)

Popular Style

13.

What is atonal?

a)

Regular Music

b)

Normal Sounds

c)

Many central and key notes

d)

No central or key notes

14.

What accomplishments is William Grant Still known for? (Click all that apply)

a)

First African American to conduct a major symphony orchestra

b)

First African American to win a musical award

c)

First African American to compose an piece of music

d)

First African American to have a opera performed by a major opera company

15.

What is pentatonic?

a)

6 notes

b)

7 notes

c)

5 note scale

d)

3 note scale

16.

What did Bartok use as a basis of her music?

a)

Fairy Tales

b)

Folksongs

c)

Past Experiences

d)

Real Experiences

17.

What is whole tone?

a)

Minor scales

b)

Scales made up of whole steps

c)

Scales made up of half steps

d)

Major scales

18.

How did Webern expand Schoenberg’s idea of tone color being the melody?

a)

Adding multiple chords to a song

b)

Adding new melodies to old melodies

c)

Alternating the melodies

d)

Melodies had 2 to 3 fragments that made a complete whole.

19.

Neoclassicalism composer based their compositions on what?

a)

Classical and Baroque Period

b)

Baroque and Renaissance Period

c)

Romantic and Classical Period

d)

Romantic and Renaissance Period

20.

What is Schoenberg the father of?

a)

Polychord Structure

b)

Major Key Formula

c)

New Music

d)

12 Tone System

21.

What is an ostinato?

a)

Repeated rhythms

b)

Melody that is constantly repeated

c)

One moving musical line

d)

None of these

22.

Stravinsky’s music frequently used what?

a)

Ostinato

b)

Multiple Sounds

c)

New Melodies

d)

New Rhythms

23.

What is Sprechstimme?

a)

Cross between singing and dancing

b)

Cross between singing and speaking

c)

Cross between operas and musicals

d)

Cross between speaking and dancing