MUSIC QUIZ

• Who was one of the greatest trendsetters of the 20th century?

  Igor Stravinsky
• Who's first song was written in 1916 and his first Broadway musical was La La Lucille?

  George Gershwin
• Who challenged the very idea of music by manipulating?

  John Cage
• Who composed approx. 60 pieces for piano, chamber music, ballet and operas?

  Maurice Ravel
• Who wrote Peter and the Wolf, a light-hearted orchestral work intended for children?

  Sergei Prokofiev
• Who's technique in a composition is the use of a semi-tone scale?

  Schoenberg
• What is the mark of the beginning of the contemporary period?

  Impressionism
• Who believed that "Because there is little sense of goal-directed motion, music does not seem to move from one place to another."?

  Debussy
• Schoenberg experienced Triskaidekaphobia, which is the fear of the number?

  13
• What is also known at Aleatory Music?

  Chance Music
• What tends to make more use of dissonance and more uncommon scales such as the whole tone scale?

  Impressionism
• What is a modern contemporary piano piece in Impressionism?

  Clare De Lune
• What is a piece of experimental or downtown music that originated in the U.S?

  Jazz
• The following are characteristics of Minimalism except:

  1. Minimal tune
  2. Reiteration of motifs
  3. Slow transformation
  4. Steady pulse?
  5. Minimal tune
• Who is known as the 20th-century composers with the widest array of sounds in his works?

  John Cage
• Alea in the word Aleatory means?


  Dice
• Who is the father of Modern Music?

  Debussy
• Who was the primary exponent of the impressionist movement and the focal point for other impressionist composers?

  Debussy
• Which music uses a tape recorder?

  Musique concrete
• Which element of music contains beat and no beat?

  Rhythm
• Which element of music pitches go up, down, or stay the same?

  Melody
• Which element of music talks about how they are organized?

  Form
• Which form talks about two or more notes sounding at the same time?

  Harmony
• Which element describes the layers of music we hear?

  Texture
• Which word for tempo means very fast?

  Presto
• Which word for tempo means very slow?

  Largo
• What si the texture if a piece of music has only one main melody and a chordal accompaniment?

  Homophonic
• Who is one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century?

  Debussy
• Who's skillful handing of material nd rhythmic inventiveness went beyond anything composed by his Russian predecessors?

  Stravinsky
• Who was an Austrian-born American composer and a music theorist?

  Schoenberg
• Who changed the course of musical development by dissolving traditional rules and conventions into a new language of possibilities in harmony, rhythm, form, texture, and color?

  Debussy
• Who was acknowledged for the establishment of the twelve-tone system?

  Schoenberg
• What is the texture if a piece has several different melody lines going at the same time?

  Polyphonic