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1. Schoenberg"s 12-tone composition is based on a/an ____________scale.
D. chromatic
2. __________ music is written in two or more chords played simultaneously.
A. Polychoral
3. A _________scale is based on five notes.
D. pentatonic
4. ___________ was recognized as a musical pioneer who challenged convention and went against the grain.
C. Igor Stravinsky
5. Debussy"s Voiles was inspired by a Javanese ensemble known as a _________.
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A. Gamelan.
6. Expressionist music is generally thought of as B. Probing.
7. In The Unanswered Question, the strings are played __________________.
C. In constant competition with the brass.
8. The ___________ were interested in the hypnotic quality of the repeated melodic fragments and interlocked patterns created by the gamelan.
A. minimalists
9. Which of the following composers sought to obtain a non-percussive sound from the piano in his compositions?
B. Debussy
10. Constantly repeated musical patterns with many abrupt changes in length and tempos are known as _______________.
B. Ostinatos.
11. Bebop is a style of ___________.
C. Jazz.
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B. AABA.
13. ___________notes are produced by lowering the third, fifth, or seventh steps of major scales.
D. Blue
14. Music that doesn"t center on a particular key is referred to as C. Atonal.
15. The most common pattern of verses in blues songs is the ______ pattern.
A. 12-bar
16. Roland says that Ruth Crawford Seeger was a modernist composer. Clive says that she was a collector and arranger of American folksongs. Who is correct?
C. Both Roland and Clive are correct.
17. The _________ style is an attempt to revive the approach used by composers in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
D. Neo-classical
18. You"ll find the "circle-of-fifths" chord progression used in which of the following types of music?
D. Rock
19. The Rite of Spring was composed by Igor Stravinsky.
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D. Igor Stravinsky.
20. Modernism, a movement that represented an abolishment of tradition and a quest for novelty, took place when?
A. Early twentieth century