Test Your Knowledge of Impressionist Music with This Quiz on Painted Soundscapes

Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel

Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt

Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel (correct)

A scale that is sounded when the black keys of the piano are struck (correct)

A scale that gives the impression of having escaped to another tonality

A scale that emphasizes primary intervals; octaves, fourths, and fifths in parallel motion

A scale that divides the octave into equal major/minor system

It is a set of piano pieces that use escaped chords to give the impression of having escaped to another tonality

It is a set of compositions that use hazy melodies and inventive chords and progressions that lead to slight dissonances

It is a set of three orchestral 'symphonic sketches' that capture the play of light on the water and the sea's place in the natural world (correct)

It is a set of compositions that emphasize primary intervals; octaves, fourths, and fifths in parallel motion