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Worksheets20th Century Music Study Guide
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 2hrs 55mins
Which musical time period were “rediscovered?” (Click all that apply)
Jazz
Renaissance
Medieval
Baroque
Classical
What did Leonard Bernstein bridge?
Blues and Jazz Music
Secular and Sacred Music
Serious and Popular Music
None of these
What playing techniques were added for effects? (Click all that apply)
Glissando
Syncopation
Flutter tongue
Scales
What city was the center of jazz music?
New York, New York
Los Angeles, CA
New Orleans, LA
Jacksonville, FL
What is consonance?
Tension or Clash
Harsh Sounds
Stable and Repose
What are the immediate sources of jazz? (Check all that apply)
Classical
Ragtime
Rock
Blues
What is dissonance?
Stable and Repose
Harsh Sounds
Tension or Clash
What is Blues music?
Music from the Deep South made by African Americans
County Music
Bluegrass Music
Music that came out of spirituals
What are the new chord structures? (Check all that apply)
Quintal
Polychords
Quartal
Clusters
None of these
Who is the “King of Ragtime”?
None of these
All of these
Scott Joplin
Duke Ellington
What is polytonal?
Many tones
2 or more keys at once
Different tones
Aaron Copeland wrote music in?
Foreign Style
Modern Style
Popular Style
What is atonal?
Regular Music
Normal Sounds
Many central and key notes
No central or key notes
What accomplishments is William Grant Still known for? (Click all that apply)
First African American to conduct a major symphony orchestra
First African American to win a musical award
First African American to compose an piece of music
First African American to have a opera performed by a major opera company
What is pentatonic?
6 notes
7 notes
5 note scale
3 note scale
What did Bartok use as a basis of her music?
Fairy Tales
Folksongs
Past Experiences
Real Experiences
What is whole tone?
Minor scales
Scales made up of whole steps
Scales made up of half steps
Major scales
How did Webern expand Schoenberg’s idea of tone color being the melody?
Adding multiple chords to a song
Adding new melodies to old melodies
Alternating the melodies
Melodies had 2 to 3 fragments that made a complete whole.
Neoclassicalism composer based their compositions on what?
Classical and Baroque Period
Baroque and Renaissance Period
Romantic and Classical Period
Romantic and Renaissance Period
What is Schoenberg the father of?
Polychord Structure
Major Key Formula
New Music
12 Tone System
What is an ostinato?
Repeated rhythms
Melody that is constantly repeated
One moving musical line
None of these
Stravinsky’s music frequently used what?
Ostinato
Multiple Sounds
New Melodies
New Rhythms
What is Sprechstimme?
Cross between singing and dancing
Cross between singing and speaking
Cross between operas and musicals
Cross between speaking and dancing
