WorksheetsEarly 20th Century
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is atonality?
The use of two or more keys at the same time.
The absence of any tonality or key.
When two different keys are used at once.
Music with a specified tonal center.
A cross between singing and speaking.
Impressionism
Expressionism
Sprechstimme
Ostinato
This Hungarian composer was heavily influenced by Eastern Europe folk songs.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Bela Bartok
Igor Stravinsky
Charles Ives
Claude Debussy is considered the father of...
Impressionist Music
Expressionist Music
Neoclassicism
20th Century Music
Riots broke out at the premiere of this Stravinsky ballet.
Petrushka
The Nutcracker
The Firebird
The Rite of Spring
This American composer combined jazz and classical idioms with his composition, Rhapsody in Blue.
Charles Ives
William Grant Still
George Gerswhin
Aaron Copland
Impressionist composers often employed a five-note scale. What is this five-note scale called?
Whole-Tone Scale
Pentatonic Scale
Hexatonic Scale
Glissando
William Grant Still was part of a collective of African American writers, musicians, artists, and activists known as the...
Harlem Renaissance
Manhattan Arts Collective
New York Society of Artists
The Society of Friends
Compared with earlier periods, 20th century melodies are often unpredictable.
True
False
Impressionism tends to name an object, rather than suggesting it
True
False
Aaron Copland wanted to write music that would immediately be recognized as...
Modern
English
American
Russian
This Viennese composer's compositions tended to be only 2 - 3 minutes in length.
Arnold Schoenberg
Bela Bartok
Anton Webern
Igor Stravinsky
Who was NOT part of the 2nd Viennese School?
Anton Webern
George Gershwin
Alban Berg
Arnold Schoenberg
Art that stresses intense, subjective emotion.
Expressionism
Impressionism
Neoclassicism
Postmodern
What Soviet doctrine that rejected modernism did Shostakovich have to follow?
Communist Manifesto
Stalin's Creed
The Russian Doctrine
Socialist Realism
What is a glissando?
A rapid slide up or down a scale.
When string players strike the strings with the wood, rather than the hair, of the bow.
A combination of two or more chords heard at the same time.
When two or more independent, contrasting rhythms are performed simultaneously.
This Alban Berg opera is considered the first atonal opera.
Pierrot Lunaire
Lady Macbeth
Wozzeck
Clair de Lune
A succession of tone colors used as a musical idea.
12-tone system
Polytonality
Tone-Color Melody
Atonality
Who wrote the first American opera, Porgy and Bess?
Charles Ives
George Gerswhin
Aaron Copland
Dmitri Shostakovich
This Russian composer's 7th Symphony was composed and performed as a symbol of the Soviet resistance against Nazi Germany.
Igor Stravinsky
Claude Debussy
Dmitri Shostakovich
Maurice Ravel
