Activity 1.1: I FILL IN LOVE WITH MUSIC!

Directions: Fill in the table below to complete the 20th Century Composer’s Timeline.

Name of Year Noted Accomplishment

Composer
Claude  1862 - His creative style was characterized by his unique approach
Debussy 1918  to the various musical elements.

Maurice 1875 – The harmonic progressions and modulations of his works

Ravel 1937 are musically satisfying, pleasantly dissonant, and elegantly
sophisticated.

Arnold 1874 -  His contribution to music includes atonality, meaning the

Schoenberg 1951 absence of key evolved from an emphasis on chromatic
harmony in the liberal use of the twelve tones in a chromatic
scale.
Igor  1882 - His works featured shifting rhythms and polytonality, also
Stravinsky 1971 has a new level of dissonance was reached a sense of
tonality was abandoned.

 Bela Bartok 1881 – He utilized changing meters and strong syncopations in his
1945 compositions and have rich melodies and lively rhythms

Sergei 1891 –  He combined the movements of music like neoclassicism,

Prokofieff 1953 nationalism, and avant garde composition. With his
progressive technique, pulsating rhythms, melodic
directness, and a resolving dissonance, he was uniquely
recognized.
Francis 1899 – His compositions had a cooly elegant modernity, tempered
Poulenc 1963 by a classical sense of proportion. 

George 1898 - He is a cross-over artist because his serious compositions

Gershwin 1937  remain highly popular in the classical repertoire.

Leonard 1918 – He displays a tuneful, off-beat, and highly atonal approach to

Bernstein 1990 his songs.
Philip Glass  1937- He explored the territories of ballet, opera, theater, film and
Present television jingles.
 Activity 1.2: MATCH ME!
Directions: Match column A with column B. Write the letter of the correct answer on the blank

provided before each number.

A B

_A_ 1. Claire de Lune ` A.Claude Debusa

_C_ 2. Tonight from Westside Story B. Igor Stravinsky
_G_ 3. Verklarte Nacht C. Leonard Bernstein
_E_ 4. AN American in Paris D. Sergei Prokofieff
_B_ 5. The Rite of Spring E. George Gershwin
_F_ 6. Allegro F. Bela Bartok
_D_ 7. Romeo and Juliet G. Arnold Shoenberg
_B_8. Petrouchka H. Joseph Maurice Ravel
_A_9. La Mer I. Francis Poulenc
_H_10. Mirroirs (mirrors) J. Philip Glass