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1
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The term referring to the overall shape of a melody is

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Contour

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The distance between two pitches is called

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Interval

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3
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A phrase and cadence in music can be likened to a

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Sentence and period

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**True or False: **Simple meters are meters in which the beats are divided into three

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False

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In plainchant from the Middle Ages, if there are many notes per syllable, the style is called

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Melismatic

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Which of the following topics might be found in Secular music by the Troubadours and Trouveres?

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War and the Crusades
Politics
Unrequitted Love

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The number if beats in a measure determines the

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Meter

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is the principle of organization around a central tone

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Tonality

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strophic form

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The same melody is repeated with each stanza of text

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Which composer wrote two stage works Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea, now considered the first operas to be staged?

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Claudio Montiverdi

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True or False:In through-composed songs, music from previous stanzas is repeated.

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FALSE

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A short, repeated musical pattern used as a structural device is known as a(n)

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Ostinato

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_____ can give the “Forward Drive” feeling in a composition

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Syncopation

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14
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Where did Plainchant originate?

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Rome

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What used original chants (Cantus Firmus) while a separate melody formed over it?

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Polyphony

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16
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The word “oratorio” is derived from which?

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an Italian word meaning “place of prayer”

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17
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The Protestant Reformation was started by

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Martin Luther

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18
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How is the oratorio similar to opera?

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They both feature arias, recitatives, and choruses

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Which term means an instrumental refrain?

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Ritornello

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20
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The term “Baroque” comes from

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The Portuguese word “Borocco”

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True or False: There was an interest in both the regularity and complexity of musical patterns during the Ars nova

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TRUE

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Alessandro Scarlatti formed the Italian Overture which consists of which 3 sections?

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Allegro-Adagio-Allegro

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23
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Tchaikovsky was a famous ______ composer.

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Russian

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24
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True or False: Castrati were pre-pubescent boys that were castrated in order to keep their range high.

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TRUE

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25
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A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called

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A Requiem

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26
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In either binary or ternary form, the A part usually moves from the home key (tonic) to a contrasting key (dominant), while the B section

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makes the corresponding move back from the dominant to the tonic

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27
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The Baroque dance inspired by the music of Spain is the

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Sarabande

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28
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There are _____ movements in Brahms’s Requiem.

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Seven

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29
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The concerto

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was a new instrumental genre of the Baroque era.

30
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What did Wagner call his operas?

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Music Dramas

31
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Jean-Baptiste Lully gained notoriety by establishing this genre of Opera

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Tragedie Lyrique

32
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Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called

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Singspiel

33
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All of the following are generally regarded as antecedents to jazz except

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Parlor Songs

34
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The _____ style is characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility and purity of tone.

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Bel Canto

35
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Big-band jazz was performed

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For black and white audiences in clubs and ballrooms across the country.

36
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True or False: Latin American percussion instruments and dance rhythms had an influence on jazz.

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TRUE

37
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Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called _____ music.

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Program

38
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Duke Ellington is best remembered for ?

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His work as a pianist, bandleader, and big-band arranger

39
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Term refers to Italian comic opera

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Opera Buffa

40
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Who were Tin Pan Alley song pluggers?

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musicians who demonstrated and sold sheet music

41
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In “Noche de jaranas,” Revueltas incorporated elements that suggest

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  • the popular dance genre called son.
  • a mariachi ensemble.
  • revelers wandering away from their celebration
42
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The _____ movement of a string quartet is often in minuet-and-trio form.

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Third

43
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A theme can be fragmented by dividing it into small units called

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Motives

44
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Which is most likely the slow movement in the multi movement cycle?

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Second

45
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What was Aaron Copland’s compositional aim?

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compositions designed for wide appeal

46
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The version of Rhapsody in Blue most commonly performed today is scored for

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piano and full orchestra

47
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The melody, “Simple Gifts,” heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the ______ tradition

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Shaker

48
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In La noche de los Mayas, how does the orchestra emulate the sound of a Mexican mariachi group?

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violins in thirds answered by brass

49
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**True or False: **The expansion of a melodic idea is known as thematic development.

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TRUE

50
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Which two composers influenced John Cage?

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Henry Cowell and Harry Partch

51
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What was the American stage genre from which American musical theater drew inspiration ?

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Vaudeville

52
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**True or False: **Artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance were more interested in fostering musical traditions that they understood as more thoroughly African American–blues, jazz, and spirituals–than in encouraging the development of modernist art music.

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TRUE

53
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In what language is George Crumb’s Caballito negro sung?

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Spanish

54
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Avant-garde music _____.

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utilizes unusual styles and techniques

55
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7 Different Musical Eras

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Medieval
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Modernism
Post-Modernsim

56
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In what way is John Cage’s 4’33” unusual?

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The whole piece is silence

57
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The minuet, gavotte, bourrée, passepied, and hornpipe are

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optional movements often included in a Baroque dance suite

58
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The Afro-Cuban dance with a fast, syncopated beat, heard in “The Dance at the Gym,” is the

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Mambo

59
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Eighteenth-century slaves from Africa’s west coast brought the _______ style to America.

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Call and Response

60
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What were the effects of minstrelsy on American culture?

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It shaped stereotyping of African American culture well into the twentieth century and beyond.

61
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The ______ art song, or Lied, is performed by solo voice and piano.

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German

62
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What happened to composer/musician
Federico García Lorca

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was killed by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.

63
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______ became the figurehead for an intense debate about the definition of American music.

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Antonín Dvorák

64
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Source music is music that

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functions as part of the drama itself

65
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True or False: European immigrants who populated the United States in the nineteenth century did not maintain their native languages.

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FALSE

66
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What are some of the Functions of music in Film?

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  • help establish the characters
  • set the mood
  • Establish a sense of place and time
67
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During the nineteenth century, where did composers often gather to perform and discuss their music?

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Salons

68
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Some Characteristics of the Blues are:

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  • Standard chord changes
  • Twelve- or Sixteen-bar harmonic progressions
  • Melodic pitch bending
69
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From which older genre did the symphony develop?

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The Italian opera overture

70
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Johannes Brahms is revered for his mastery in composing what type of music?

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Absolute Music

71
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Gradually getting softer in music is indicated by which term in the score?

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Decrescendo

72
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What are some Musical Forms that are discussed throughout this course?

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  • Ternany
  • Rondo
  • Binary
  • Strophic
  • Sonata

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