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Match each composition with its composer. Then check your responses with the Answer Key.
| a. Bela Bartok | 1. The Rite of Spring |
| b. Alban Berg | 2. Appalachian Spring |
| c. Aaron Copland | 3. A Survivor from Warsaw |
| d. Claude Debussy | 4. Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun' |
| e. George Gershwin | 5. Rhapsody in Blue |
| f. Jonathan Harvey | 6. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut |
| g. Charles Ives | 7. Concerto Grosso 1985 |
| h. Richard Rogers | 8. Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10 |
| i. Arnold Schoenberg | 9. Ritual Melodies |
| j. Igor Stravinsky | 10. Wozzeck |
| k. Anton Webern | 11. Concerto for Orchestra |
| l. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | 12. Short Ride in a Fast Machine |
| m. John Adams |
Multiple-choice: Choose the answer that best completes each item.
13. When a composer places one traditional chord against another at the same time, a technique used in twentieth-century music, it is known as
a. a tone cluster
b. a polychord
c. polytonality
d. bitonality
14. The complete rejection of a tonal center, or treating each of the twelve tones as of equal importance, is called
a. expanded tonality
b. polytonality
c. atonality
d. modality
15. An eerily expressive kind of declamation midway between song and speech, introduced by the expressionist composers, is
a. Pierrot Lunaire
b. stile rappresentativo
c. a cappella
d. Sprechstimme
16. The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called
a. expanded tonality
b. polytonality
c. atonality
d. twelve-tone
17. Ostinato refers to a
a. rapid slide through different pitches
b. chord made of tones only a half step or whole step apart
c. combination of two traditional chords sounding together
d. motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section
18. Distortion is a technique used primarily in the _____period.
a. impressionist
b. classical
c. expressionist
d. romantic
19. There are _____different tones in the whole-tone scale.
a. five
b. six
c. eight
d. ten
20. Which of the following characteristics is not usually associated with impressionism?
a. evocation of mood
b. clearly delineated forms
c. suggestion
d. symbolism
Matching: Match each "ism" with its definition.
| a. expressionism | 21. music characterized by its steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic fragments |
| b. impressionism | 22. deliberate evocation of unsophisticated power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds |
| c. minimalism | 23. artistic movement centered in Germany and Austria from 1905 to 1925, that stressed intense, subjective emotion |
| d. neoclassicism | 24. artistic movement from about 1920 to 1950 that is marked by emotional restraint, balance, and clarity |
| e. primitivism | 25. use of the technique of the twelve-tone system to organize rhythm, dynamics, and tone color |
| f. serialism | 26. artistic movement, centered in France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that stressed atmosphere, fluidity, and color |
1-j; 2-c; 3-i; 4-d; 5-e; 6-g; 7-l; 8-k; 9-f; 10-b; 11-a; 12-m
13-b; 14-c; 15-d; 16-b; 17-d; 18-c; 19-b; 20-b;
21-c; 22-e; 23-a; 24-d; 25-f; 26-b.