Homework #10 (The 20Th Century and Beyond)

MUSC 105, Krumbholz Name:

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 ______. MUSC 105, Homework #10, p. 2

16. ______is a type of vocal performance that is half-speaking, half- singing.

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