1. What name was given to the atonal-driven composers Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, and their circle?
2. Which influential music style in the U.S. became popular during the 1910s?
3. Which compositional approach treats all 12 tones of the chromatic scale equally, removing the idea that one note is a tonic (or home)?
4. Which Modernist concept suggests meanings are hidden and instead represented through fantastic and often otherworldly imagery?
5. Which notable French composer used lots of musical impressionism?
6. Which group consisted of six composers and represented the generation that became the avant-garde of Paris into the 1930s?
7. Polytonality, bitonality, and cluster chords are examples of?
8. This artistic movement was where the artist’s personal view became more important than the realistic depiction of an object.
9. Which nationality of composers traveled to Europe for training in the 19th century, but by the Modernist period, were writing music that had their own flavor?
10. Which scale is made up of six notes, all a whole step apart from one another?
11. The debate concerning __________ was central to the Modernist aesthetic.
12. Using this method, composers would take snippets of other music and include them within their own work.
13. What central event in Europe represented a crisis for the Romantic ideas of the past and contributed to the modernist movement?
14. Which Russian composer fled the October Revolution and settled in Paris, where he came into contact with many major trends of musical modernism?
15. What term describes the use of folk music or folk stories to bolster the music of a specific country?
16. What type of composition has no tonal center and resists functional harmony?
17. What Modernist idea alluded to composers composing as far outside the older rules of music theory as they could possibly go?
18. What technique employed by Schönberg is where lyrics are delivered somewhere between speech and song?
19. Which Parisian avant-garde group put on works that included innovative dance and music, usually partnering with artists for unique costumes and sets?
20. Which South American music style influenced composers of the modernist era?