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The chief composers associated with the early phase of modernism - Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg - were members of the:
D. Avant-garde
Modernist composers after World War II were preoccupied with changing their approach to:
A. Tone color and rhythm
All of the following are characteristics of a modernist approach to melody EXCEPT:
B. The use of long, sweeping, inspired melodies
The scale in which the octave is divided into six equal intervals is the ________ scale.
B. Whole-tone
The "new language" for music invented in the 1920s was:
C. Serialism
Atonal music is music in which no _____ can be found.
B. Tonal center
The feeling of centrality or focus toward a particular pitch is related to:
A. Tonality
Debussy's approach to musical form in Clouds is to:
D. Shrink from clear, formal outlines
What instruments seem to dominate the first minute of The Rite of Spring?
C. Woodwinds
What statement about The Rite of Spring is false?
D. It is based on a symbolist poem
Who composed Pierrot lunaire?
D. Arnold Schoenberg
The vocal technique heard in "The Moonfleck" is:
A. Sprechstimme
Three of the leading first-phrase modernist composers were:
A. Stravinsky, Debussy, and Schoenberg
What characterizes Debussy's use of tone color?
D. Subtle, blended, mysterious shades of tone colors
What characterizes Debussy's treatment of melody?
C. Fragmented themes and motives based on exotic scales