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WorksheetsRomantic and Modern Period Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is tempo rubato?
where the tempo stays the same.
a slight speeding up or slowing down of the tempo according to the preference of the soloist or conductor.
C: a major speeding up or slowing down of the tempo.
What is atonality?
Music that lacks a key or tonal center.
Music that is dissonant.
Music that focuses on making you feel something.
True or False: Music in the Romantic era was meant to evoke emotions from the listener.
True
False
What is special about John Cage's 4'33"?
It is a piece of music that involves a canon.
It is a piece of music that uses silence to make the listener tune into the noises surrounding them.
It is a piece of music that just makes everyone feel triggered.
What is Clara Schumann known for?
She was impressing audiences will her piano skills by the age of nine.
She was a well-respected composer, and both her husband and Brahms came to her for advice.
Both
Gustav Holst's most famous work is:
The Sneezing Charm
The Planets
Japanese Suite
True or False: Modern Period composers such as Gershwin, Bernstein, and Copland combined elements of jazz with art music.
True
False
What is minimalism?
Doing the absolute minimum.
Compositions in which one or more elements are left to chance.
Compositions which employ simple rhythm and tonal patterns, often featuring repetition.
Richard Wagner is known for:
Being a master of German Opera; including the Ring Cycle, an opera that is 4 days long and took 26 years to write.
Being a progressive composer and writing the music of the future.
Being a friend of Hitler and his song "The Ride of the Valkyries" became the theme of the Nazi party.
All of the above
True or False: Nationalism was an ideology that inspired many composers to write music about their appreciation for foreign countries.
True
False
What is dissonance?
music that lacks a key or tonal center.
music that tells a story or evokes another medium such as a painting or a poem.
tension created by two or more musical notes, creating an inharmonious sound.
Sergei Prokofiev is known for:
Composing "Peter and the Wolf" and "Romeo and Juliet" as well as having music that is playful and full of humor.
Being the first African-American woman to be inducted into the American Society of Composers.
Composing "The Rite of Spring"
True or False: Exoticism was an ideology in which the composer writes music based on the appreciation of foreign lands and cultures.
True
False
What is a symphonic poem?
a poem played by the symphony.
instrumental music that tells a story or evokes another medium such as a painting or poem.
vocal music that tells a story or evokes another medium such as a painting or poem.
What is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky most known for?
Composing ballets like "The Nutcracker", "Swan Lake", and "Cinderella".
He went to school to study law instead of music.
His works are some of the most popular in art music, particularly his ballets.
All of the above
Sergei Rachmoninoff is most known for:
Being a composer and considered one of the best pianists of his time.
Attending the Paris Conservatory where he studied composition.
Composing the national march of the U.S.
Are there any rules for music in the Modern Period?
yes
no
Who played a large role in transitioning from the Classical Period and its strict compositional rules to the Romantic Period, full of experimentation and expression?
Mozart
Bach
Beethoven
What is the Modern Period sometimes called?
18th and 19th Century music.
20th and 21st Century music.
14th and 15th Century music.
What is impressionism?
an art movement from the 19th century that aimed to capture a moment in time with a focus on light and color of the moment as opposed to precise details.
a condition where you're constantly trying to impress someone.
C: none of the above
