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Modern Era Music

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did the modern era begin?

a)

1920

b)

1965

c)

2000

d)

1850

2.

Which is a type of composer during the Modern era?

a)

NeoClassical

b)

Simplistic

c)

New Wave

d)

Dance

3.

What does NeoClassical Mean?

a)

To follow the rules of the classical era

b)

the music is older than 25 years

c)

New

d)

orchestra music

4.

Why do they call it Chance Music?

a)

Chance the Rapper performs it

b)

some element is left up to chance

c)

you hear it while gambling

d)

you don't know who wrote it

5.

What do minimalists want?

a)

to do the most with the least amount of material

b)

to live without excess

c)

to play music and only that

d)

to make songs shorter

6.

Who was the first "Americana" composer?

a)

Copland

b)

Haydn

c)

Handel

d)

Mozart

7.

What makes the music in John Cage's 4minutes and 33seconds?

a)

the instruments

b)

the musician

c)

the audience

d)

a recording

8.

Which composer is considered NeoRomantic?

a)

Barber

b)

Holst

c)

Cowell

d)

Reich

9.

What did Serialism replace the system of whole and half steps with?

a)

a number pattern

b)

the alphabet

c)

random notes

d)

chord clusters

10.

Which composer is from the Modern Era?

a)

Cowell

b)

Bach

c)

Mozart

d)

Beethoven

11.

Who composed the "Appalachian Spring"?

a)

Copland

b)

Strauss

c)

Reich

d)

Glass

12.

Who composed "Glassworks"

a)

Phillip Glass

b)

Steven Reich

c)

Eward Elgar

d)

J.S.Bach

13.

Who was Cowell inspired by?

a)

Ives

b)

Elgar

c)

Tchaikovsky

d)

Bach

14.

Which composer is considered a Chance composer?

a)

Cage

b)

Williams

c)

Copland

d)

Schonberg

15.

Which composer is NeoClassical?

a)

Prokofiev

b)

Barber

c)

Schonberg

d)

Reich

16.

Who used Set Theory to compose?

a)

Schonberg

b)

Holst

c)

Haydn

d)

Cage

17.

Who composed "Electric Counterpoint"?

a)

Reich

b)

Williams

c)

Haydn

d)

Smith

18.

Who used Atonality?

a)

Schonberg

b)

Cage

c)

Copland

d)

Prokofiev

19.

Who composed "Peter and the Wolf"?

a)

Prokofiev

b)

Cage

c)

Jones

d)

Mozart

20.

Atonal is the absence of what?

a)

Tonal Center

b)

Rhythm

c)

Lyrics

d)

Sheet music