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I'm French! Why do you think I have this outrageous accent?!
I predict a riot
Express Yourself
More recent but none of you were born yet
100
The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as
Atonality
100
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of..."
Elderberries
100
A compositional style featuring Classical use of balance and form but with 20th century musical advancements
Neoclassicism
100
Pierrot Lunaire is a song cycle that features this sad circus performer
Pierrot, a clown
100
A piece one second shorter than John Cage's famous work would be this long
4'32''
200
Striking a group of adjacent keys on a piano with the fist or forearm will result in
a tone cluster
200
This early 20th century composer is known for his atmospheric instrumental works
Claude Debussy
200
This work's premiere caused the most famous riot in classical music history
The Rite of Spring
200
This composer was a leader of his time, creating 12 tone works that would influence many
Arnold Schoenberg
200
John Cage has ruined many pianos by affixing objects to the strings, creating this instrument
A prepared piano
300
The early 20th century is characterized as a time of
revolt and change, violence and progress
300
A musical style that focuses on tone color, atmosphere and fluidity
Impressionism
300
A work that features rhythm and percussion to evoke primitive cultures uses this
Primitivism
300
This 20th century movement stressed intense, subjective emotion
Expressionism
300
Aaron Copland composed this ballet to capture the life of early American settlers
Appalachian Spring
400
Music that relies on an element of randomness in composition or performance is known as
chance or aleatoric music
400
Impressionist composers were trying to capture the way a different type of artist captured light. Their medium was
Paint, Painters
400
This Russian composer is known for his wide range of instrumental styles, and for creating some early 20th century masterpieces
Igor Stravinsky
400
This style of singing used approximate pitches and sounds like theatrical speech
Sprechstimme
400
John Adams composes in a style that features simple, shifting harmonies and repeated motives
Minimalism
500
A rapid slide up or down a scale on an instrument is known as a
glissando
500
This composition by Debussy is based on a Symbolist poem
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
500
The Rite of Spring is from a set of three pieces written by Stravinsky, all from this genre
Ballet
500
A Survivor from Warsaw is this genre
Cantata
500
Edgard Varese composed Poeme Electronique as an example of real world sounds being used as music
Musique Concrete