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In music, the early twentieth century was a time of revolt and change.

In twentieth-century music All correct

All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except Hector Berlioz

Among the unusual playing techniques that are widely used during the twentieth century is the_______, a rapid slide up or down a scale. glissando

In modern music All answers correct

To create fresh sounds, twentieth-century composers used All answers correct

The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called polytonality

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

One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was

Nadia Boulanger

Impressionist painting and symbolist poetry as artistic movements originated in France

The most important impressionist composer was Claude Debussy.

When viewed closely, impressionist paintings are made up of tiny colored patches.

Impressionist painters were primarily concerned with the effect of light, color, and atmosphere

Impressionism in music is characterized by a stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity.

The poem that inspired the Prelude to quote The Afternoon of a Faun was written by Stephane Mallarme

The faun evoked in Debussy's famous composition is a creature who is half man, half goat

The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Stravinsky's enormous influence on twentieth-century music is due to his innovations in All of the above

The deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds is known as Primitivism

Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of primitivism

Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is scored for An enormous orchestra

Schoenberg's teacher was Schoenberg himself

Schoenberg acquired his profound knowledge of music by All answer are correct

An eerily expressive kind of declamation midway between song and speech, introduced by Schoenberg, is Sprechstimme

Expressionism grew out of the same intellectual climate as Freud's studies of Hysteria and the unconscious

Expressionist painters, writers, and composers used ______________ to assault and shock their audience. deliberate distortions

The expressionists rejected conventional prettiness

The ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in a twelve-tone composition is called a all of the above

The text of A Survivor from Warsaw all of the above

A Survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and Hebrew

Webern's melodic lines are atomized into two- or three-note fragments

Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's students

George Gershwin grew up in New York, New York

Gershwin left high school at the age of fifteen to become a pianist demonstrating new songs in a publisher's salesroom

Gershwin's first piano teacher was himself

George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist Ira Gershwin

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with A solo clarinet

William Grant Still's best known work is Afro-American Symphony

William Grant Still's works in African American style, such as his Afro-American Symphony of 1931, were Performed to critical acclaim in New York...