The Twentieth Century Music

Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from ___________.

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

To create fresh sounds. twentieth-century composers used _________.

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

A motive or phase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called __________.

Debussy's music tends to __________.

Neoclassicism was a reaction against __________________.

Expressionism grew out of the same intellectual climate as Freud's studies of ____________.

Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's __________.

Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called __________-.

Who composed "Le Sacre du Printemps, Part 1: Omens of Spring"?

Who wrote "A Survivor from Warsaw"? What is it an example of?

Who composed "Lost your head blues?" This music features a call and response between the singer and a ___________.

-identify one effect that does not contribute to the impressionistic quality in this passage. - how many of these decorations does it interject? -what is the meter in this passage? -what is the overall mood of this work? -what are the prominent instruments at work in this passage? -what technique is used to play those two notes?

Since World War II, musical styles have ______________.

In chance, or aleatory music, what does the composer do?

John Adams's "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" is scored for a ___________.

Who composed "Sonatas and Inerludes:Sonata II"? This music is performed _________. Which musical element makes the composition so unique?

Who is the composer of "Poeme electronique"? This music features ___________. Which statement is true?

-Which instrument is central to the beginning of this piece? -how? -the meter is obscured in this section by what sound? -what do you hear underneath all those broad brass tones? -what is it?

Antonin Dvorak predicted in the late nineteenth century that the foundation for American music would come from __________-.

Charles Ive's father was a(n) ________.

During most of his lifetime, Charles Ive's musical compositions ___________.

Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" opens with ________.

"Harlem Renaissance" was the name __________.

William Grant Still's works in African American style, such as his "Afro-American Symphony" of 1931, were ____________.

William Grant Still's "Afro-American Symphony" __________.

The flowering of African american culture called the "Harlem Renaissance" spanned the years ____________.

Each movement of William Grant Still's "Afro-American Symphony" is prefaced by lines from a poem by _____________.

An example of Copland's use of serialist technique is ___________.

In additions to his compositions, Copland made valuable contributions to music in America by ____________.

Alberto Ginastera, one of the most prominent Latin-American composers of the 20th century, was born in _________.

Alberto Ginastera's "Entancia Suite" uses a large orchestra and is in __________ movements.

Composer John Adams believes that today;s composers can draw from _______________.

Which of the following musicals is NOT by Leonard Bernstein?

-Who composed "Putnam's Camp. Redding, Connecticut, from Three Places in New England"? -what three instruments play a parody of "Yankee Doodle"?

Who composed "Afro-American Symphony"? what is it best characterized as?

Who composed "Simple Gifts from Appalachian Spring"? what form is it?

Who composed "Estancia Suite, Op. 8a, Final Dance: Malambo"? What is the category for this music? This music featues _________.

Who composed "Short ride in a Fast Machine"? What makes the rhythm?