WorksheetsGeneral Music Test #5
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
In 1874, a group of French painters led by Claude Monet created a new school of painting known as ___________.
Impressionism
Baroque
Oil-on-Canvas
Renaissance
Impressionism tried to show the natural effect of _________ on objects, and give the impression rather than creating a perfect replica.
Sunlight
Darkness
happiness
sadness
The leading Impressionist composer was ______.
Debussy
Mozart
Beethoven
Bach
Another art movement opposite of impressionism in the 20th century was ______.
expressionism
baroque
Late Romanticism
The Scream
Expressionist Music often uses ________ to shock the audience into feeling emotion.
dissonance
consonance
harmony
melody
Wozzeck's death scene is a perfect example of ______music, or music that does have a central tonality.
atonal
supertonal
neotonal
subtonal
1. The Spirit of Nationalism that infused much of the music of the _________ period carried over into the twentieth Century.
Romantic
Baroque
Classical
Renaissance
1. An expression of pride in one’s homeland is evident in the works of several composers of the era. One such composer was _______________.
Igor Stravinsky
Schoenberg
Mozart
Beethoven
1. Stravinsky composed his first Ballet, __________, in 1910.
The Firebird
Rite of Spring
Nutcracker
Swan Lake
The forerunner of 12 tone music was ________
Schoenberg
Igor Stravinsky
Mozart
Beethoven
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.
Tone Row
Tone column
pitch row
pitch column
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.
neo-romanticism
neo-classicalism
neo-renaissance
neo-baroque
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.
Minimalism
Maximalism
atonal
Baroque
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.
Highly Emotional
Low emotion
Neutral
boring
