Final Exam Flashcards
The term referring to the overall shape of a melody is
Contour
The distance between two pitches is called
Interval
A phrase and cadence in music can be likened to a
Sentence and period
**True or False: **Simple meters are meters in which the beats are divided into three
False
In plainchant from the Middle Ages, if there are many notes per syllable, the style is called
Melismatic
Which of the following topics might be found in Secular music by the Troubadours and Trouveres?
War and the Crusades
Politics
Unrequitted Love
The number if beats in a measure determines the
Meter
is the principle of organization around a central tone
Tonality
strophic form
The same melody is repeated with each stanza of text
Which composer wrote two stage works Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea, now considered the first operas to be staged?
Claudio Montiverdi
True or False:In through-composed songs, music from previous stanzas is repeated.
FALSE
A short, repeated musical pattern used as a structural device is known as a(n)
Ostinato
_____ can give the “Forward Drive” feeling in a composition
Syncopation
Where did Plainchant originate?
Rome
What used original chants (Cantus Firmus) while a separate melody formed over it?
Polyphony
The word “oratorio” is derived from which?
an Italian word meaning “place of prayer”
The Protestant Reformation was started by
Martin Luther
How is the oratorio similar to opera?
They both feature arias, recitatives, and choruses
Which term means an instrumental refrain?
Ritornello
The term “Baroque” comes from
The Portuguese word “Borocco”
True or False: There was an interest in both the regularity and complexity of musical patterns during the Ars nova
TRUE
Alessandro Scarlatti formed the Italian Overture which consists of which 3 sections?
Allegro-Adagio-Allegro
Tchaikovsky was a famous ______ composer.
Russian
True or False: Castrati were pre-pubescent boys that were castrated in order to keep their range high.
TRUE
A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called
A Requiem
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
makes the corresponding move back from the dominant to the tonic
The Baroque dance inspired by the music of Spain is the
Sarabande
There are _____ movements in Brahms’s Requiem.
Seven
The concerto
was a new instrumental genre of the Baroque era.
What did Wagner call his operas?
Music Dramas
Jean-Baptiste Lully gained notoriety by establishing this genre of Opera
Tragedie Lyrique
Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called
Singspiel
All of the following are generally regarded as antecedents to jazz except
Parlor Songs
The _____ style is characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility and purity of tone.
Bel Canto
Big-band jazz was performed
For black and white audiences in clubs and ballrooms across the country.
True or False: Latin American percussion instruments and dance rhythms had an influence on jazz.
TRUE
Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called _____ music.
Program
Duke Ellington is best remembered for ?
His work as a pianist, bandleader, and big-band arranger
Term refers to Italian comic opera
Opera Buffa
Who were Tin Pan Alley song pluggers?
musicians who demonstrated and sold sheet music
In “Noche de jaranas,” Revueltas incorporated elements that suggest
- the popular dance genre called son.
- a mariachi ensemble.
- revelers wandering away from their celebration
The _____ movement of a string quartet is often in minuet-and-trio form.
Third
A theme can be fragmented by dividing it into small units called
Motives
Which is most likely the slow movement in the multi movement cycle?
Second
What was Aaron Copland’s compositional aim?
compositions designed for wide appeal
The version of Rhapsody in Blue most commonly performed today is scored for
piano and full orchestra
The melody, “Simple Gifts,” heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the ______ tradition
Shaker
In La noche de los Mayas, how does the orchestra emulate the sound of a Mexican mariachi group?
violins in thirds answered by brass
**True or False: **The expansion of a melodic idea is known as thematic development.
TRUE
Which two composers influenced John Cage?
Henry Cowell and Harry Partch
What was the American stage genre from which American musical theater drew inspiration ?
Vaudeville
**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.
TRUE
In what language is George Crumb’s Caballito negro sung?
Spanish
Avant-garde music _____.
utilizes unusual styles and techniques
7 Different Musical Eras
Medieval
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Modernism
Post-Modernsim
In what way is John Cage’s 4’33” unusual?
The whole piece is silence
The minuet, gavotte, bourrée, passepied, and hornpipe are
optional movements often included in a Baroque dance suite
The Afro-Cuban dance with a fast, syncopated beat, heard in “The Dance at the Gym,” is the
Mambo
Eighteenth-century slaves from Africa’s west coast brought the _______ style to America.
Call and Response
What were the effects of minstrelsy on American culture?
It shaped stereotyping of African American culture well into the twentieth century and beyond.
The ______ art song, or Lied, is performed by solo voice and piano.
German
What happened to composer/musician
Federico García Lorca
was killed by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.
______ became the figurehead for an intense debate about the definition of American music.
Antonín Dvorák
Source music is music that
functions as part of the drama itself
True or False: European immigrants who populated the United States in the nineteenth century did not maintain their native languages.
FALSE
What are some of the Functions of music in Film?
- help establish the characters
- set the mood
- Establish a sense of place and time
During the nineteenth century, where did composers often gather to perform and discuss their music?
Salons
Some Characteristics of the Blues are:
- Standard chord changes
- Twelve- or Sixteen-bar harmonic progressions
- Melodic pitch bending
From which older genre did the symphony develop?
The Italian opera overture
Johannes Brahms is revered for his mastery in composing what type of music?
Absolute Music
Gradually getting softer in music is indicated by which term in the score?
Decrescendo
What are some Musical Forms that are discussed throughout this course?
- Ternany
- Rondo
- Binary
- Strophic
- Sonata
