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Worksheets20th and 21st Century Music History
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
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.
This Hungarian composer was heavily influenced by Eastern Europe folk songs.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Bela Bartok
Igor Stravinsky
Charles Ives
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
The process of creating music using computers in synthesizing or producing digital audio signals.
Electronic Music
Modern Music
Computer Music
Digital Music
It is also called aleatoric music, which is derived from the Latin word ale, meaning “dice”.
Electronic Music
Digital Music
Chance Music
Classical Music
It is a style of music where different sounds, musical or non-musical, are assembled and combined together to create any kind of musical composition
Electronic Music
Digital Music
Chance Music
Classical Music
Which composer was interested in folk music and traveled throughout Hungary with Zoltan Kodaly to record folk songs.
BÉLA BARTÓK
IGOR STRAVINSKY
FLORENCE PRICE
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Which composer's best known composition is 4’33”, which is a silent work in which audience members are meant to listen to the sounds around them
RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
JOHN CAGE
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Which composer was a well known musical theater, such as West Side Story.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
JOHN WILLIAMS
PHILIP GLASS
JOAN TOWER
Which composer founded the concept of the “Virtual Choir”, which brings together individuals from around the world in an online choir.
TANIA LEÓN
LIBBY LARSEN
JENNIFER HIGDON
ERIC WHITACRE
20th Century Music ran from the years...
1800-2000
1700-1900
1600-1800
1900- Present
Which of the following is 20th century composer
Haydn
Beethoven
Rachmaninoff
Cage
What did composers become increasingly during this time
Composers became experimental
Composers became more restricted
Composers became more focused on composing for orchestra
Composers became stricter in compositions
The idea that a composition's meaning comes directly from its form rather than the feelings it evokes.
Atonality
Dissonance
Minimalist
Formalist
Music that lacks a specific key or tonal center.
Atonality
Aleatoric Music
Impressionism
Minimalism
Tension created by two or more musical notes, creating an inharmonious sound
Serial Music
Minimalism
Dissonance
Neoclassicism
Compositions in which one or more elements are left to chance.
Atonality
Aleatoric Music
Minimalism
Impressionism
Compositions which employ simple rhythm and tonal patterns, often featuring repetition.
Aleatoric Music
Impressionism
Dissonance
Minimalism
There are no rules for music in the 20th and 21st century like there were during the Baroque and Classical Period.
True
False
Composers often experiment with music, such as composing music without a recognizable melody or using non-traditional instruments like a typewriter, vacuum cleaner, or music stand.
True
False
Some composers thought music had become too complicated. In response, they developed a new style called Impressionism, in which a simple theme continually repeats with only gradual changes throughout.
True
False
Which composer wrote the ballets The Firebird, Petrushka, and the Rite of Spring?
Igor Stranvinsky
John Cage
Tania Leon
Phillip Glass
Which composer was a pianist, bandleader, and composer? He earned the nickname of “Duke” from his childhood friends because of his superb manners and politeness.
Aaron Copland
George Gershwin
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
Bela Bartok
Born in 1932 Which composer is best known for his film music, such as his theme for Star Wars, Jaws, and the first three Harry Potter films?
Joan Tower
Philip Glass
John Williams
Tania Leon
Improvised singing using nonsence syllables is called ____.
Atonal Singing
Improvisation Singing
Scat Singing
Minimalism
