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WorksheetsQ1 REVIEW TEST IN MUSIC
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which of the following musical styles was meant to create an emotional mood rather than a specific picture?
Chance Music
Expressionism
Electronic Music
Impressionism
Which of the following characteristics best describes the Impressionism?
Builds atmosphere or mood
Usual scale and chords
Use of exaggerated tone colors
Use of chromatic scale
Impressionism was a movement from the late 19th to 20th century. Which of the following statements best describes this musical style?
Translucent and hazy texture
Express strong emotions
Freer use of diatonic scale
Dealt with the parameters or dimensions of sound in space
How was the compositions of Debussy differ from the Romantic Period?
His unique approach to the various musical elements.
He avoided metric pulses and preferred free form and developed his themes.
his works deal with water in its flowing or stormy moods as well as with human characterizations.
His refined delicacy and color, contrasts and effects add to the difficulty in the proper execution of the musical passages.
Which of the following compositions were meant for the Moonlight?
Claire De Lune
La Mer
L'Enfant Prodigue
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Which of the following composition of Debussy won the top prize at the Prix de Rome competition?
Claire De Lune
La Mer
L'Enfant Prodigue
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Maurice Ravel was a notable composer of the 20th century music particularly the impressionism. Which of the following statements best describes as his style of music?
Influenced by classicism of Bach and Mozart
Added new ingredient to his nationalistic musical style
Characterized by uniquely innovative but not atonal style of harmonic treatment
Has a melodic gift was considered phenomenal, as evidenced by his numerous songs of wide appeal
Which of the following musical styles reveal the composer's mind, instead of presenting an impression of the environment?
Chance Music
Expressionism
Electronic Music
Impressionism
Arnold Schoenberg was born in a working-class suburb of Vienna, Austria. Which of the following inventions made him credited on the 20th century music?
12 tone system
10 tone system
Diatonic Scale
Chromatic Scale
Igor Stravinsky stands alongside fellow-composer Schoenberg, painter Pablo Picasso, and literary figure James Joyce as one of the great trendsetters of the 20th century. How would you describe the compositional style of the notable composer Stravinsky?
He was spontaneous and liberal in form
His style was constantly undergoing development
Adapted the forms of the 18th century with his contemporary style of writing.
Attentive to classical norms of musical structure and compositional craftsmanship
Which of the following musical pieces was intended and composed for Diaghilev's Russian Ballet?
The Firebird Suite
The Rite of Spring
The Rake's Progress
Petrouchka
Which of the following musical pieces used to alludes heavily to the Baroque and classical styles of Bach and Mozart?
The Firebird Suite
The Rite of Spring
The Rake's Progress
Petrouchka
Which of the following statements best describes Expressionism?
Low Level of dissonance
Stable Textures
Stable Sound
Pleasant melodies and harmonies
Which of the following musical styles uses electronic machines and devices to create music?
Chance Music
Expressionism
Electronic Music
Impressionism
Which type of music uses tape recorders and the composer that are able to experiment with different sounds and cannot be produced by a regular musical instrument?
Avant-garde Music
Chance Music
Concrete Music
Jazz Music
Why was Edgard Varese called as the 'Father of Electronic Music and Stratospheric Colossus of Sound'?
Use of serialism
Created the prepared piano
Involvement with the Zen Buddhism
The use of new instruments and electronic resources
Which of the following musical instruments are used to form electronic music?
Cello
Violin
Acoustic Guitar
Synthesizer
Sergei Prokofieff is regarded today as a combination of neo-classicist, nationalist, and avant-garde composer. Which of the following statements best describes his compositional style?
He wrote music for the movies and rhythmic music with lots of energy.
His compositions had a coolly elegant modernity, tempered by a classical sense of proportion
used traditional ways of composing and wrote in his own, personal way, not wanting to follow form.
His style is uniquely recognizable for its progressive technique, pulsating rhythms, melodic directness, and a resolving dissonance.
Karlheinz Stockhausen is a central figure in the realm of electronic music. Which of the following statements best describes his musical style?
His style was constantly undergoing development
Adapted the forms of the 18th century with his contemporary style of writing.
He challenged the very idea of music by manipulating musical instruments in order to achieve new sounds.
His music was initially met with resistance due to its heavily atonal content with practically no clear melodic or rhythmic sense.
Which musical piece of Stockhausen made for three orchestras that moved music through time and space?
Gruppen
Kontakte
Hymnen
Synchronism
Which of the following musical compositions value the ambitious two-hour work of 40 juxtaposed songs and anthems from around the world?
Gruppen
Kontakte
Hymnen
Synchronism
Which of the following musical pieces were intended to pushed the tape machine to its limits?
Gruppen
Kontakte
Hymnen
Synchronism
Which of the following statements best describes Chance Music?
Refers to a style wherein the piece always sounds different at every performance because of the random techniques of production, including the use of ring modulators or natural elements that become a part of the music
looser form of 20th century music development focused on nationalist composers and musical innovators who sought to combine modern techniques with folk materials.
Exhibited a new attitude toward musical mobility, whereby the order of note groups could be varied so that musical continuity could be altered.
a partial return to an earlier style of writing, particularly the tightly-knit form of the Classical period, while combining tonal harmonies with slight dissonances.
John Cage was known as one of the 20th century composers with the widest array of sounds in his works. Why was the Four minutes and Thirty-three seconds became his most famous compositional style?
Because this work was intended to convey the impossibility of achieving total silence, since surrounding sounds can still be heard amidst the silence of the piano performance.
It is a cycle of pieces containing a wide range of sounds, rhythmic themes, and a hypnotic quality.
It was written for conventional piano, that employed chance compositional processes.
It was a composition which a string quartet performs whilst airborne in four different helicopters.
Which of the following best describes the organized sound?
Use of devices for creating and recording music to add to or to replace acoustical sounds.
Certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together in order to capture a whole new definition of sound
Experiment with different sounds that cannot be produced by regular musical instruments such as the piano or the violin.
It made use of variations of self-contained note groups to change musical continuity, and improvisation, with an absence of traditional rules of harmony, melody, and rhythm.
