CHAPTER 20

The chief composers associated with the early phase of modernism--Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg--were at the forefront of modernism in music, the ___________.

Which musical elements were questioned in the modernist movement?

The apaches:

What is a way in which Stravinsky departed from the Romantic style?

Which artistic movement took its inspiration from Wagner's leitmotivs?

Which composer was sometimes called an impressionist and sometimes a symbolist?

The composers Stravinsky and Bartok were associated with ______ and sometimes suggested _______ in their works.

Modernist composers before World War I changed their approach to:

Modernist composers after World War II changed their approach to:

All of the following characterize a modernist approach to melody except:

The five-note scale playable on the black keys of the piano is called the ______ scale.

The scale in which the octave is divided into six equal intervals is the ______ scale.

The scale in which eight pitches are made to fit into the octave by alternating whole steps and half steps is the _____ scale.

The "new language" for music invented in the 1920s was:

The composer who originated serialism was:

Schoenberg's reference to "the emancipation of dissonance" meant emancipation from the need to:

Atonal music is music in which no ____ can be found.

In the early twentieth century, harmony:

The feeling of centrality or focus toward a particular pitch is related to _____.

Around 1900, some conservative composers referred to melody, harmony, and tonality as: