Match the description with its term. Group of poets who used words to evoke impressions rather than express literal meaning.

Match the description with its term. A term describing sounds drawn from outside the traditional western European musical experience.

Match the description with its term. Initially it was a pejorative term describing the paintings of Monet, Degas, and others.

Match the description with its term. A slow, sultry Spanish dance in triple meter.

After a promising start—while a student he won the prestigious Prix de Rome for composition—he devoted his early years to honing his compositional skills and seeking an original style, yet at the age of 31 he noted with characteristic irony that he still had not written a masterpiece. A year later he did just that with his Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun.

Although his career was spent almost entirely in Paris, he did embark on a brief concert tour of the United States. It was so successful that it provided financial security for the remainder of his life.

The term "Impressionism" was first associated with which particular art form?

Select the answer that fits the term "parallel motion."

What is the term for a scale in which half-steps are omitted?

Which trait is not a characteristic of Impressionist music?

A highly original composer, he created atonal music, used Sprechstimme to project inner anxiety, and was the father of twelve-tone composition.

Compositions that place such elements as pitch, timbre, rhythm, and dynamics in a fixed order are called:

Music without a key center is considered:

Which artistic style attempts to capture the unadorned lines, raw energy, and elemental truth of non-Western art and apply it in a Modernist context?

Which composition resulted in an audience riot during its premiere performance?

Which composition is notable for its percussive orchestra, irregular accents, polymeter, polyrhythm, ostinato figures, and dissonant polychords?

Which twentieth-century artistic movement emphasized the musical forms and size of ensemble that characterized eighteenth-century music?

Match the description with its term. Music in which the smallest interval is not the chromatic half step (as on the piano), but half of half a step.

Match the description with its term. Art made up of disparate materials taken from very different places.

Match the description with its term. The simultaneous sounding of two keys or tonalities.

This composer's ballet on the tragedy Romeo and Juliet was given a happy ending to please Soviet censors.

Identify the incorrect statement about Variations on America.

In the middle of this composer's career, he/she burned all his/her works, reserving only the best. He/she has also been elected to the American Academy of Letters, one of a select group of 250 famous artists.

In the 1930s this composer began to make a deliberate appeal to ordinary citizens by working on a series of projects based on rural and western American ideas. His/her musical style is characterized by the use of folk songs and popular elements, tonal harmony, and a clear, luminous orchestration.

Profoundly influenced by folk music, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe and parts of North Africa using Edison's newly invented recording machine to capture peasant music. His mind became saturated with driving rhythms, odd-number meters, and unusual scales of folk music.