Select all the factors that contributed to composers' abandoning tonality in favor of the twelve-tone system immediately after World War II.Multiple select question.Composers could now explore the new style, which they had largely been denied access to during the war.The method allowed for and prompted unconventional approaches to harmony, form, and melody.The twelve-tone system was associated with Schoenberg's expressionist style, which had recently become popular.The end of the war left people, including composers, with a desire for new beginnings.

Why were many composers slow to adopt the twelve-tone system in the years immediately following World War II?Multiple choice question.It was much harder to use the twelve-tone system than to use a central tone.The system was associated with Schoenberg's out-of-fashion expressionist style.The twelve-tone system was strongly tied to the Communist Party, and few wanted that association.Very little music was composed in the years following the war, so there was no need for a new s

Throughout the nineteenth century, the so-called “common practice” of Western classical music—the prevalent musical style that had characterized the previous decades—underwent major stylistic changes. By the beginning of the new century, a ________ musical landscape had formed, including “extended” forms of tonality, musical impressionism and, eventually, atonality. These transformations were introduced as part of the stylistic experimentation of many individual composers, and it is a challenge for musicological research to trace such historical development in specific features of their compositions.1Mark for ReviewMCQABCWhich choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?AmanufacturedBreinstatedCrediscoveredDmetamorphosed

Inspired by Anton Webern, what style of music did Stravinsky adopt in the 1950s?Multiple choice question.The twelve-tone systemThe fugal systemThe modal systemThe minor system

Select all the statements that illustrate how classical composers created expression of mood in their music.Multiple select question.The composers emphasized balance through unity and logic in music with a wide emotional range.The composers were unable to control moods in their music, so unity and logic suffered.The composers sought to convey specific moods by devoting each theme to a single mood.The composers firmly controlled changes of mood in their music, however abrupt or extreme the change might be.

What does it mean when a composer uses polystylism?Multiple choice question.The composer quotes another composer's music in a composition.The composer alternates between using the twelve-tone system and the tonal system.The composer writes in a different style for each instrument in the piece.The composer fuses different styles or techniques in a composition.