Quiz #6

Question 1

atonal

Answer 1

not written in any key or mode.

Question 2

expressionism

Answer 2

a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world

Question 3

gamelan

Answer 3

a traditional instrumental ensemble of Indonesia, typically including many bronze percussion instruments

Question 4

minimalism

Answer 4

a trend in sculpture and painting that arose in the 1950s and used simple, typically massive, forms.

Question 5

modernism

Answer 5

global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life

Question 6

ostinato

Answer 6

a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm

Question 7

postmodernism

Answer 7

a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.”

Question 8

Sprechstimme

Answer 8

a cross between speaking and singing in which the tone quality of speech is heightened and lowered in pitch along melodic contours indicated in the musical notation

Question 9

tonal

Answer 9

relating to the qualities or pitch of a sound or to the tonality of a piece of music.

Question 10

Claude Debussy

Answer 10

He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Interested in water and the moods it can bring

Question 11

Arnold Schoenberg

Answer 11

Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School

Question 12

Igor Stravinsky

Answer 12

Russian composer, conductor, and pianist with citizenship in France and the United States. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music for his approach to rhythm

Question 13

Philip Glass

Answer 13

American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass’s work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers