Music GA 1.2

Question 1

Had brought various changes in music history. The advancement of Science and Technology led to the development of electronic devices such as synthesizers, computers, cassette tape recorders, compact discs (CD), digital video disc (DVD), MP3, MP4, iPod, iPhone, karaoke, mobile phones, etc

Answer 1

20th Century

Question 2

Used to describe the musical styles that evolved after 1945. Term that is considered to be the center of experimentation and innovation applied in music

Answer 2

Avant-Garde

Question 3

What is the english of Avant-Garde

Answer 3

“advance guard” or “vanguard”

Question 4

Leonard Bernstein Works

Answer 4

-Three Symphonies
-Serenade
-Mass
-Chichester Psalms
-Songfest
-Divertiment for Orchestra
-Arias and Barcarolles
-Concerto for Orchestra
-West Side Story in 1957
-Candice, in 1956.

Question 5

It is a 20th century music in which undetermined elements are left to chance and/or some elements of a composed work’s realization are left to the performer’s discretion. The composer uses the element of chance as part of the composition that produces sound

Answer 5

Chance Music or Aleatory

Question 6

John Milton Cage Works

Answer 6

-4’33”
-Imaginary Landscape No.4
-Sonatas and Interludes
-Fontana Mix

Question 7

He was a great pianist and regarded as the “Father of Jazz music”. He began his musical education at age 11. He dropped out of school at age 15 and became a pianist in some clubs in New York and as a rehearsal pianist in Broadway musicals. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants

Answer 7

George Gershwin

Question 8

He was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on August 25, 1918 from a Russian immigrant. A composer, musician, author, lecturer, and a pianist. He received his big break when he conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1943

Answer 8

Leonard Bernstein

Question 9

He was an avant-garde composer and exponent of minimalist movement. His first job on a film soundtrack started his successful cinema career and scored over fifty movies

Answer 9

Philip Glass

Question 10

He was born on September 5, 1912 in Los Angeles, California and died on August 12, 1992 in New York. He was an American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unconventional ideas greatly influenced 20th century music

Answer 10

John Milton Cage

Question 11

A major creative movement of the avant-garde music that uses a tape recorder

Answer 11

Musique Concrete

Question 12

A French-born American innovative composer of the 20th century. His music was characterized as dissonant, non-thematic, and rhythmically asymmetric which he conceived as bodies of sound in space

Answer 12

Edgard Varese