Grade 10- Prelim

1) The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by

a. Claude Debussy

b. Arnold Schoenberg

c. Igor Stravinsky

d. Bela Bartok

2) The most important impressionist composer is

a. Bela Bartok

b. Claude Debussy

c. Richard Wagner

d. Arnold Schoenberg

3) Which of the following statements is not true?

a. Twentieth-century music often uses two or more contrasting and independent

rhythms at the same time.

b. In the twentieth century, new rhythmic procedures are drawn from many sources,
including folk music from all over the world, jazz, and European art music from the
Middle Ages through the 19th century.

c. The rhythmic resources of the twentieth-century music have been expanded

through the use of unconventional meters.

d. twentieth-century composers depended on predictable rhythmic patterns.

4) This style was associated with electronic music and dealt with the parameters or
dimensions of sound in space.

a. impressionism
b. Expressionism

c. avant garde

d. Neo-classical

5) His distinctive style involves cell-like phrases emanating from bright electronic
sounds from the keyboard that progressed very slowly from one pattern too the next
in a very repetitious fashion.

a. Leonard Bernstein

b. Philip Glass

c. Francis Poulenc

d. George Gershwin

6) His name became a feature on Broadway and a composer of summertime.

a. Leonard Bernstein

b. Philip Glass

c. Francis Poulenc

d. George Gershwin

7) He is mainly characters by its uniquely innovative but not atonal style of harmonic
treatment.

A. Bela Bartok

b. Claude Debussy

c. Richard Wagner

d. Maurice Ravel
8) What time the 20th century in?

a. 1900s

b. 1800s

c. 2000s

d. 1700s

9) This composer is known for utilizing changing meters and strong syncopations.

A. Bela Bartok

b. Claude Debussy

c. Richard Wagner

d. Maurice Ravel

10) He was an American composer, conductor, pianist, music educator, author and
lecturer. His philosophy was that the universal language of music is basically rooted
in tonality.

a. Leonard Bernstein
b. Philip Glass
c. Francis Poulenc
d. George Gershwin

11. A style of music in which the piece sounds different at every performance because
of the random techniques of production
a. Chance music
b. Avant Garde
c. Electronic Music
d. None of the above
12. The German line of the Electronic Music wherein the music is electronically
produced and recorded
a. Musique Complete
b. Musique Concrete
c. Elektronishe Musik
d. Musiquecoustic

13. He was considered an “innovative French-born composer.” He invented the term

“organized sound”.
A. Edgard Varese B. Karlheinz Stockhausen C. John Cage D. Philip Glass

14. He challenged the very idea of music by manipulating musical instruments in order
to achieve new sounds. He experimented with what came to be known as “chance
music.”
A. Edgard Varese B. Karlheinz Stockhausen C. John Cage D. Philip Glass

15. Total Music composition of Claude Debussy.

a. 227 b. 217 c. 277 d. 237

16. Which does not belong to the musical composition of Maurice Ravel?
a. Pavane for a Dead Princess
b. Bolero
c. Claire De Lune
d. Rhapsodie Espagnole

17. The impressionists found that they could best capture the ever-changing effects of
light on color by painting outdoors in natural light
a. . Color and light
b. Painting outdoors
c. The influence of Photography
d. Open composition
18. He is one of the major influence of Impressionism art movement. His use of
expressive brushstrokes, his emphasis on movement rather than on clarity of form, and
most of all his study of the optical effects of color
a. Claude Monroe b. Eugene Delacroix c. Claude Monet d. Eugen Delacro

19.He was a member of the group of young French composers known as “Les Six and
was a successful composer for piano, voice, and choral music.
a. Bela Bartok b. Igor Stravisky c. Francis Poulenc d. George Gershwin

20. Which does not belong to the musical composition of Claude Debussy?
a. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
b. Bolero
c. Claire De Lune
d. Pelleas et Melisande

21. An art movement that emerged in the second half of the 19th century among a
group of Paris-based artists.
a. impressionism b. expressionism c. neo-impressionism d. post-impressionism

22. The name impressionism was coined from the title of a work by French painter
a. Claude Monroe b. Claudd Monet c. Claude Debussy d. Claude Monet

23. What was the title of work of the French painter that coined the name
impressionism?
a Impression, Sunset
b.. Impression, Sunrise
c. Soleil, Impression
d. Levant, Impression
24. An artwork that contained a then revolutionary technique that would profoundly
influence the coming impressionist movement and it involved something as simple as
droplets of water.
a. The Baroque of Dante
b. The Gates of the Hell of Dante
c. The Barque of Dante
d. The Gates of Dante

25. Impressionist painting also moved away from the formal, structured approach to
placing and positioning their subjects.
a. Color and light
b. Painting outdoors
c. The influence of Photography
d. Open composition