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General Music Test #5

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In 1874, a group of French painters led by Claude Monet created a new school of painting known as ___________.

a)

Impressionism

b)

Baroque

c)

Oil-on-Canvas

d)

Renaissance

2.

Impressionism tried to show the natural effect of _________ on objects, and give the impression rather than creating a perfect replica.

a)

Sunlight

b)

Darkness

c)

happiness

d)

sadness

3.

The leading Impressionist composer was ______.

a)

Debussy

b)

Mozart

c)

Beethoven

d)

Bach

4.

Another art movement opposite of impressionism in the 20th century was ______.

a)

expressionism

b)

baroque

c)

Late Romanticism

d)

The Scream

5.

Expressionist Music often uses ________ to shock the audience into feeling emotion.

a)

dissonance

b)

consonance

c)

harmony

d)

melody

6.

Wozzeck's death scene is a perfect example of ______music, or music that does have a central tonality.

a)

atonal

b)

supertonal

c)

neotonal

d)

subtonal

7.

1.       The Spirit of Nationalism that infused much of the music of the _________ period carried over into the twentieth Century.

a)

Romantic

b)

Baroque

c)

Classical

d)

Renaissance

8.

1.       An expression of pride in one’s homeland is evident in the works of several composers of the era. One such composer was _______________.

a)

Igor Stravinsky

b)

Schoenberg

c)

Mozart

d)

Beethoven

9.

1.       Stravinsky composed his first Ballet, __________, in 1910.

a)

The Firebird

b)

Rite of Spring

c)

Nutcracker

d)

Swan Lake

10.

The forerunner of 12 tone music was ________

a)

Schoenberg

b)

Igor Stravinsky

c)

Mozart

d)

Beethoven

11.

Schoenberg devised a method of composition based on a construct he termed the __________, where he would take all 12 pitches and put them in a random order. All 12 tones must be used before one is repeated.

a)

Tone Row

b)

Tone column

c)

pitch row

d)

pitch column

12.

Some composers traded in the tone row for a new style called ___________. This is a musical style that combines tonal melodies with crazy textures and timbres.

a)

neo-romanticism

b)

neo-classicalism

c)

neo-renaissance

d)

neo-baroque

13.

some composers wanted to find new avenues of expression with less fluff, eventually developing _____________, a style of music which stresses the element of repetition with changes dictated by a rule or system.

a)

Minimalism

b)

Maximalism

c)

atonal

d)

Baroque

14.

1.       Another way composers connected to their music was by making music which was based on real events. These pieces were often based on __________ moments of events which lend themselves to music.

a)

Highly Emotional

b)

Low emotion

c)

Neutral

d)

boring