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100

Who composed atonal music using the 12-tone technique?

Arnold Schoenberg

100

What technology helped develop electronic music?

Recording equipment

100

Composing using all 12 chromatic notes equally

12-tone tecnique

100

What style lacks a strong key or tonal center?

Atonality 

100

When was the 20th century?

1900-2000

200

Name one minimalist composer.

Steve Reich or Philip Glass

200

Which instrument category does the piano belong to?

Percussion

200

Music created from recorded sounds

'Musique concrète

200

Which style uses repetition and stripped-back music?

Minimalism

200

Music from Europe is sometimes called

Western Art Music

300
Who composed West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein 

300

What replaced writing notes in some 20th-century music?

Recording Sound

300

Tension created by 2 or more musical notes

Dissonance
300

Which style uses all 12 notes of the chromatic scale?

12-tone technique

300

The 20th century is known for..

Innovation

400

Best known for film music like Star Wars, Jaws and Jurassic Park

John Williams

400

Repeating notes is called

Repetition

400

Music relying on repetition and simplicity

Minimalism

400

What is the term for music created from recorded sounds?

Musique concrète

400

What sisters studied composition with Gabriel Favre?

Lila and Nadia Boulanger

500

Best known for the Rite of Spring

Igor Stravinsky

500

What was an instrument used in Musique concrète.

Any recorded sound (e.g., nature, human voice)

500

A scale including all 12 semitones

Chromatic Scale

500

What was a new form of music that emerged in the 20th century

Jazz, Film Music

500

Known for combining jazz elements in his music

George Gershwin 

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