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WorksheetsMusic in the 20th Century
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Claude Debussy was influenced by which impressionist painter?
Pablo Picasso
Leonardo Da Vinci
Claude Monet
Édouard Manet
Define Impressionism.
Attempting to make a good impression through one's artwork.
Expressing the impression a composer would like the audience to perceive.
Conveying the impression of the Gamelan, or the Indonesian orchestra.
Expressing only the suggestion, or impression, of an object, an idea, or an experience.
Define Primitivism.
Artwork and music that exalted the beauty of an unsophisticated, distant way of life.
A derogatory label intended to put down other, simpler people.
An expression of the more primitive instincts that are within humans.
Music that sought to express emotions in a way that was far simpler than in the Romantic Era.
Which composer is associated with the Primitivism movement in music?
Gustav Mahler
Igor Stravinsky
Sergei Diaghilev
Paul Gauguin
Define Expressionism.
The pinnacle of Romanticism - expressing all of one's emotions freely.
Artwork and music that exalted the beauty of an unsophisticated, distant way of life.
An artistic expression of a disturbed inner life.
The study of how artists express themselves through their paintings.
Composers of the 20th Century can be put into which two categories?
Revolutionaries and Evolutionaries
Classical and Popular
NeoClassical and NeoRomantic
Tonal and Atonal
Arnold Schoenberg saw the path opened by Wagner's extreme use of chromaticism, led to what music genre?
Electronic Music
Atonality
Aleatory
Polytonality
Define Experimentalism
Pushing the boundaries of form and function, in much the same way as Beethoven.
Radically altered methods of composing and presenting music, as well as pushing the boundaries of what constitutes music.
The process by which composers experimented with new and innovative ways of enhancing the emotionality in their music.
Artwork and music that exalted the beauty of an unsophisticated, distant way of life.
Which of the following is NOT a 20th Century innovation in music?
Polytonality
Tone Clusters
Indeterminate Music
Tonal Dissonance
These two musical revolutionists were both fascinated by sounds - all sounds, and considered almost anything music.
Ludwig van Beethoven & Hector Berlioz
Pyotr Tchaikovsky & Arnold Schoenberg
Gustav Mahler & Paul Hindemith
John Cage & Pauline Oliveros
The predominant style of music between the two world wars is called what?
NeoBaroque
NeoClassicism
NeoRenaissance
NeoRomanticism
Who were two American Nationalist composers we covered in class?
Aaron Copland & George Gershwin
Paul Hindemith & Charles Ives
Milton Babbitt & Sergei Prokofiev
Krzysztof Pendercki & Stephen Foster
Which American composer is known for his NeoRomantic music?
Johannes Brahms
Samuel Barber
Igor Stravinsky
Stephen Foster
What were the three main musical styles in the immediate post-Romantic world?
Music, Literature, and Painting
Impressionism, Primitivism, and Expressionism
Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg
Form, Function, and Restraint
Which important composer came out of Harlem Renaissance?
William Grant Still
George Gershwin
Arnold Shoenberg
Bela Bartok
