Exploring 20th Century Music

Schoenberg employed Sprechstimme, or speechlike melody, in his Pierrot lunaire.

• False

• True

What does the German word Sprechstimme mean in English?

• High pitched melody

• Speechlike melody

The system in music composition in which all twelve tones of the chromatic scale are equally important is known as:

• Impressionism

• Atonality

Schoenberg’s composition Pierrot lunaire is a(n):

• Tone poem

• Song cycle

Jazz developed from a blending of West African music with Euro-American vernacular traditions.

• False

• True

A "blue note" is created by melodic pitch-bending.

• False

• True

Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat-singing.

• False

• True

Take the A Train is characterized by frequent call-and-response between instruments.

• False

• True

Louis Armstrong was a famous New Orleans pianist.

• True

• False

Billie Holiday’s first break into the music industry occurred when she recorded with which white clarinetist?

• Dave Brubeck

• Benny Goodman