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The most famous riot in music history occured in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of
1. Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder
2 Igor Stravinsky's the rite of spring
3. Richard Wagner's Siegfried.
4 Igor stravinsky's les Noces
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All of the following composers worked in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century Except
1. Arnold Schoenberg
2. Claude Debussy.
3 Igor Stravinsky
4 hector Berlioz

In the twentieth- century music
1. String players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their brows
2. Percussion instruments have become very prominent and numberous
3 Dissonance has been emancipated
4. All answers are correct

The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is know as
1. Polytonality
2 Ostinato
3 A tone Cluster
4 Atonality

The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by
1. Igor Stravinsky.
2 Claude Debussy.
3. Arnold Schoenberg
4 Aaron Copland

Impressionist painting and symbolist poetry as artistic movements originated in
1. Bohemia
2 England
3 France
4 Austria

The most important impressionist composer was
1. Richard Wagner
2 Bela Bartok
3. Arnold Schoenberg
4 Claude Debussy

The term impressionist derived from a critic's derogatory reaction to impression: Sunrise, a painting by
1. Claude Debussy
2. Camille Pissarro
3 Claude Monet
4 Auguste Renoir

The impressionist painters were particularly obsessed with portraying
1. Water
2 Religious scenes.
3 Scenes of ancient glories
4 Battle scenes

Debussy's music tends to
1. Sound Free and almost improvisational
2. Have a strong sense of tonality
3 affirm the key very noticeably
4. Use the full orchestra for massive effects

In order to " drown the sense of tonality," Debussy
1. Turned to the medieval church modes
2. Borrowed pentatonic scales from Javanese Music
3. Developed the whole tone scale.
4 All answers are correct

Rave's Borefo orgiginated as
1 piano
2 ballet
3 entrance
4 student

Neoclassical compostins are characterized by
1. Forms and stylistic features of earlier periods
2 whole tone scales
3 harsh dissonances
4 the use of twelve tone system

Neoclassicism was a reaction against
1 Romanticism and impression
2. Humanism
3 Classicism
4 traditional forms

The painter who designed the sets for stravinsky's pulcinella, and who went through a pharase that showed the influence of ancient greek art.
1. Pablo Picasso
2 Henn Matisse
3 Edvard Munch
4. Ernst Kirchner