20th Century Music

3. This American composer studied composition with Nadia Boulanger
5. Founder of the impressionist music movement.
6. This composer has also made innovations in music education.
9. The specific timbre or quality of a musical sound.
11. The deliberate evocation of primitive power through repetitive rhythms, harsh dissonances, and percussive sounds.
12. Also known as chance music, where composers use random methods to choose musical elements.
14. This American composer left school at 15 to become a pianist.
16. This Russian composer wrote ballets.
17. A style of music that emphasizes the expression of intense emotions, often using dissonance.
19. Early in the century, this device becomes common in homes.
23. A style that emphasizes a steady pulse, clear tonality, and repetition of short melodic patterns.
24. An art style that emphasizes the unconscious and dreams.
27. A repeated musical pattern.
28. The first woman to win the Prix de Rome.
29. Father of the twelve-tone system.
30. Music that evokes feelings of nationalism and support for a country.
32. A musical style that seeks to capture the essence or atmosphere of a subject, often using ambiguous harmonies.

1. A 20th-century movement that revived and reinterpreted the forms and styles of the 18th-century classical period.
2. Technique A compositional method that uses a fixed ordering of the 12 chromatic pitches as the basis for a composition.
4. The absence of or disregard for an established musical key in a composition.
7. The simultaneous use of two or more different keys or tonal centers in a musical composition.
8. A method of composing in which all pitches of a composition are derived from a special ordering of the twelve chromatic tones.
10. A style that calls for a steady pulse, clear tonality, and repetition of short melodic patterns.
13. By the middle of the century, most people have this device in their homes.
15. An art style where figures are represented by fragmented shapes.
18. Musical styles that incorporate electronic instruments and technology.
20. A style of American music that influenced many 20th-century composers.
21. Harsh or unpleasant-sounding chords or intervals.
22. A style where composers choose pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods, resulting in each performance being unique.
25. This musical work was an outrage to audiences at the time.
26. This composer does not fit neatly into any style.
31. This composer is considered the first Great American Composer.