MU130 - 4/24 Quiz

Claude Debussy

Leading Impressionist composer whose emphasis of harmonic “color” helped pave the way for atonality (1862-1918)

Alexander Scriabin

Russian composer who pioneered his own brand of advanced chromaticism, inspired by synesthesia and mystical traditions (1872-1915)

Charles Ives

One of the most important American composers (1874-1954)

Polytonality

Simultaneous use of more than one key

Arnold Schonberg

Viennese composer whose developments in atonality and twelve-tone technique greatly influenced avant garde music (1874-1951)

Twelve-Tone Matrix

Collection of pitches used in dodecaphonic music, consisting of four types of rows: Prime, Retrograde, Inversion, and Retrograde Inversion

Igor Stravinsky

One of the foremost 20th century composers, whose three main creative periods can be divided into Russian, Neoclassical, and Serial (1882-1971)

Rite of Spring

An early ballet by Stravinsky, and one of the defining works of the 20th century

Béla Bartók

Hungarian composer and pioneer of comparative musicology (later became ethnomusicology) whose combination of Eastern European fold and modernism became one of the most distinct 20th century styles (1881-1945)

Octonic scale

Scale comprising major and minor seconds, evocative of some Eastern European music