20th century Music

A French composer who used many parallel chords and unprepared modulations.

• Claude Debussy

• Maurice Ravel

• Jean-Antoine Watteau.

• Paul Dukas

This music may be described generally as having refinement, delicacy and vagueness.

• Expressionism

• Electronic

• Chance

• Impressionism

The characteristics of impressionism in music are the following. EXCEPT:

• The rhythm of impressionism music is irregular in terms of phrases.

• It uses the whole-tone scale, uses the 9th chord, and also frequently uses modality and exotic scales.

• It has unresolved resonance.

• It avoids the traditional harmonic progression.

It was invented sometime in 1877 and was the popular musical gadget during the 19th-20th century.

• Radio

• Cassette

• Phonograph

• Gramophone

He was called the Claude Debussy of the Philippines’ for first introducing several important devices which are technically characteristics of impressionist music.

• Levi Celerio

• Antonio Molina

• Lucio San Pedro

• Nicanor Abelardo

The following are Debussy’s musical pieces.EXCEPT:

• Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

• La Mer

• Nocturne

• La Valse

He won the grand prize in July of 1891 in Schumann’s Sonata.

• Claude Debussy

• Frédéric Chopin

• Henry Ghys

• Maurice Ravel

The famous works of Ravel's lifetime of composition are the following. EXCEPT:

• Bolero

• La Valse

• Ma mereloie

• Engulfed Cathedral

This evokes moods and ideas for which the artist seeks to e emotional experience rather than the physical reality.

• Digital music

• Impressionism music

• Expressionism music

• Electronic music

He is one of the famous composer who applied Expressionism technique in his composition.

• Arnold Schoenberg

• Edgar Victor Achille Charles Varèse

• Frédéric Chopin

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart