Name: 9th

grade Music

Days: Mr. Roach

20th

Century Time period worksheet

1) Dates:

2) List 6 General characteristics of the 20th

Century era.

3) Describe the characteristics of 20th

Century artwork.

4) List 5 Important people of the 20th

century and what they did.

5) List 5 musical developments of the 20th

century era:

6) Define Atonality

7) What is serialism?

8) For the following, list the differences between the medieval and Renaissance Eras

Romantic 20th

Century

Melody

Harmony

Rhythm

Form

Texture

9) How has technology affected music of the 20th

century

10) What is impressionism? Name one composers of impressionistic music.

11) What is prepared piano

12) What is the whole tone scale

13) List some biographical information for Igor Stravinsky

14) List some biographical information for Arnold Schoenberg

15) List some biographical information for Aaron Copeland

16) List some biographical information for Phillip Glass

17) List some biographical information for John Cage

18) List some biographical information for Charles Ives

19) Put these composers in order of date of birth from earliest to the latest

Stravinsky Schoenberg Glass Cage Copeland Ives

20) List one 20th

Century instrument for each category.

String-

Woodwind-

Brass-

Keyboard-

Percussion-

21) Significant musical works

Listening #1

Composer:

Title:

Date:

Texture:

Form:

Additional Information:

22) Listening #2

Composer:

Title:

Date:

Texture:

Form:

Additional Information

23) Listening #3

Composer:

Title:

Date:

Texture:

Form:

Additional Information