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Homework #10 (The 20th Century and Beyond)
1. During the 20th century, ________________ became a more important element of music
than ever before, taking a major role, creating variety, continuity, and mood.
2. ________________ and ______________ are both composers of minimalist music.
3. A rapid slide up or down a scale is called a _________________.
4. A ________________ is a combination of two chords heard at the same time.
5. A chord made up of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is called a
________________.
6. The use of two or more keys at the same time is called ________________________.
7. The absence of key in a musical piece is called ______________.
8. __________________ is when a motive or phrase is repeated persistently at the same
pitch throughout a section.
9. In the 1920s there arose a systemized approach to atonality based on a specific ordering
of the pitches of the chromatic scale called ___________________. The composer
credited with the invention of the method is ____________________.
10. A stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity is a characteristic of
__________________ music.
11. ______________’s music shows the influence of Hungarian peasant and folk music,
which he studied and recorded during his free time.
12. From 1920 to about 1950 a musical artistic movement called __________________
arose, which is characterized by emotional restraint, balance, and clarity.
13. Compositions in which composers choose the music elements by a random process (such
as rolling dice) is called ___________ or ________________ music. The leading
composer of this type of music was _________________.
14. The composer _________________ wrote Broadway musicals as well as classical music,
including Rhapsody in Blue.
15. An artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was
_______________________.
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16. ____________________ is a type of vocal performance that is half-speaking, halfsinging.
17. The use of a series of musical elements to organize several dimensions of a composition
is called __________________.
18. A __________________ scale has only five notes.
19. The absence of a key is called _____________.
20. The composer ___________ wrote mostly pieces that were miniatures, lasting only 2 or 3
minutes.
21. _________________ was a movement of the mid-1960s that was a reaction against both
the complexity of serialism and randomness of chance music.
22. The composer _________ was an insurance salesman and composed in his free time.
Pieces to know:
Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire
Schoenberg, A Survivor from Warsaw
Webern, 3rd Piece from Five Pieces for Orchestra
Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
Still, Afro-American Symphony, 3rd mvt.
Copland, Appalachian Spring