Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from
		A)	folk and popular music from all cultures
		B)	European art music from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century
		C)	the music of Asia and Africa
		D)	all of the above


2	The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as
		A)	polytonality
		B)	bitonality
		C)	a tone cluster
		D)	a polychord


3	Among the unusual playing techniques that are widely used during the twentieth century is the ____________, a rapid slide up or down a scale.
		A)	buzz
		B)	glissando
		C)	slip
		D)	ostinato


4	Which of the following composers was not stimulated by the folklore of his native land?
		A)	Igor Stravinsky
		B)	Anton Webern
		C)	Béla Bartók
		D)	Charles Ives


5	A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as
		A)	polytonality
		B)	a polychord
		C)	bitonality
		D)	a tone cluster


6	The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as
		A)	polytonality
		B)	ostinato
		C)	a tone cluster
		D)	atonality


7	To create fresh sounds, twentieth-century composers used
		A)	scales borrowed from nonwestern cultures
		B)	scales they themselves invented
		C)	ancient church modes
		D)	all of the above


8	The use of two or more keys at one time is known as
		A)	polytonality
		B)	a tone cluster
		C)	atonality
		D)	the twelve-tone system


9	A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called
		A)	polytonality
		B)	glissando
		C)	ostinato
		D)	atonality


10	In twentieth-century music
		A)	string players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their bows
		B)	percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous
		C)	dissonance has been emancipated
		D)	all of the above

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