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Using all twelve tones without regard to their traditional relationship to major or minor scales, avoiding traditional chord progressions, is known as

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atonality

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In order to "drown the sense of tonality," Debussy

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turned to the medieval church modes, borrowed pentatonic scales from Javanese music developed the whole-tone scale.

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Impressionism in music is characterized by

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a stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity.

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The term impressionist derived from a critic's derogatory reaction to Impression: Sunrise, a painting by

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Claude Monet

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Which of the following countries did not produce an important composer in the Twentieth Century?

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Ecuador

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Twentieth-century music follows the same general principles of musical structure as earlier periods

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Recordings of much lesser-known music multiplied in 1948 through

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the appearance of long-playing disks

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The impressionist painters were particularly obsessed with portraying

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water

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Which of the following characteristics is not usually associated with impressionism?

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Clearly delineated forms

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When viewed closely, impressionist paintings are made up of

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tiny colored patches

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The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called

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polytonality

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One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was

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Nadia Boulanger

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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The impressionist painters were particularly obsessed with portraying scenes of ancient French glories

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Debussy's music tends to

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sound free and almost improvisational

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The most important impressionist composer was

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Claude Debussy

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In music, the early twentieth century was a time of

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revolt and change

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Which of the following is not an alternative to the traditional organization of pitch used by twentieth-century composers?

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Tonic- dominant harmonies

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The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as

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polychord

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The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as

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atonality

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A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was

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Bela Bartok

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The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of

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Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

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Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from

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folk and popular music from all cultures, the music of Asia and Africa, European art music from the Middle Ages throughthe 19th century

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Impressionist painters were primarily concerned with the effect of light, color, and

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atmosphere

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A fourth chord is

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a chord in which the tones are a fourth apart, instead of a third

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The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by

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Arnold Schoenberg

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In twentieth-century music

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string players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their bows. dissonance has been emancipated. percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous.

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During the first quarter of the Twentieth Century many composers left Russia because of

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the violence of the Russian Revolution

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The most influential organization sponsoring new music after World War I was

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the International Society for Contemporary Music

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The glissando, a technique widely used in the twentieth century, is

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a rapid slide up or down a scale

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The first opera created for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti's

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Amahl and the Night Visitors

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Which of the following composers was not stimulated by the folklore of his native land?

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Anton Webern

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A dramatic turning point in Debussy's career came in 1902 when

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his opera Pelléas et Mélisande was premiered

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Twentieth-century composers incorporated elements of folk and popular music within their personal styles because

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they were attracted to the unconventional rhythms, sounds, and melodic patterns

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Which of the following is not considered a symbolist poet

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Victor Hugo

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To create fresh sounds, twentieth-century composers used

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scales borrowed from nonwestern cultures. ancient church modes. scales they themselves invented. All answers are correct

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Ostinato refers to a

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motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section

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All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except

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Hector Berlioz

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Composers from which area rose to importance during the Twentieth Century?

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Latin America

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A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as

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tone cluster

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Composers in the early twentieth century drew inspiration only from serious art music and their own intellect, ignoring popular and folk music

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A scale made up of six different notes each a whole step away from the next is called a ________ scale

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whole-tone

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Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the

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1920s

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The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time is known as

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polyrhythm

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A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called

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ostinato

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In modern music

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noiselike and percussive sounds are often used. uncommon playing techniques have become normal. instruments are played at the very top or bottom of their ranges. All answers correct

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Impressionist painting and symbolist poetry as artistic movements originated in

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France

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Many of Debussy's songs are set to poems by the symbolist poet

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Paul Verlaine

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Striking a group of adjacent keys on a piano with the fist or forearm will result in

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tone cluster

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Among the unusual playing techniques that are widely used during the twentieth century is the _______, a rapid slide up or down a scale.

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glissando

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A piano is often used in twentieth-century orchestral music to

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Add a percussive edge

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