The best-known modernist movement, _______________________, dates from the 1870s, when people were astonished by the flickering network of color paintings used by painters like Edouard Manet and Claude Monet, to render simple scenes from everyday life.

A ________________________ is a group of songs associated by a common poetic theme or an actual story.

As melody grew more complex and harmony grew more dissonant, tonality grew more indistinct. Finally, some music reached a point at which no tonal center could be detected at all. This is __________music.

Also highly original was the notion of having a single theme recur in all the movements as a representative of the musician’s beloved – his _______________________, or obsession.

As people all over Europe became more conscious of their national characters, they also came to prize their distinctive artistic heritages more and more. The characteristic musical feature of __________________________ is simply the incorporation of national folk music into concert pieces, songs, and operas.

In 1913, the first performance of ________________________ by Igor Stravinsky caused a riot. The audience was shocked and infuriated by the violent, dissonant sounds in the pit and the provocative choreography on the stage, suggesting rape and ritual murder.

The term _________________ music covers a great variety of music in which certain elements are specified by the composer in more conventional music. In this music, a composer might work out a way of throwing dice so as to determine which instruments, which pitches, and so on were to be used.

Romantic composers pursued __________________________ to a greater extent than Baroque and Classical ones, to expand the expressive range of both their melodies and their harmonies. It refers to music that liberally employs all twelve notes of the chromatic scale.

The general Romantic tendency to blur all sharp edges found its musical counterpart in the practice of tempo ____________________, which means that in performance, the rhythm is handled flexibly, the meter itself may waver, or else the beat is maintained strictly in the accompaniment while the melody is played or sung slightly out of place with it.

The carbon skeleton in an organic molecules can vary by _____________.