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Final Exam Flashcards

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What composers are from the Middle Ages?

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  • Hildegard of Bingen
  • Pope Gregory
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What composers are from the Renaissance?

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  • Palestrina
  • Josquin de Prez
  • Teleman Susato
  • John Farmer
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What composers are from the Baroque Period?

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  • Henry Purcell
  • J.S. Bach
  • Frederick Handel
  • Antonio Vivaldi
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What composers are from the Classical Period?

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  • Joseph Haydn
  • Wolfgang Mozart
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
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What composers are from the Romantic Period?

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  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Franz Schubert
  • Robert Schumann
  • Frederick Chopin
  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hansel
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Hector Berlioz
  • Richard Wagner
  • Scott Joplin
  • Stephen Foster
  • Gustav Mahler
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What composers are from the Modernist Era?

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  • Bela Bartok
  • Aaron Copland
  • Florence Price
  • George Gershwin
  • Charles Ives
  • Aaron Schoenberg
  • William Grant Still
  • Igor Stravinsky
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What composers are from the Post-Modernist Era?

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  • John Cage
  • Steve Reich
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What composers are from the 20th century?

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Duke Ellington

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Messiah

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  • Frederick Handel
  • Oratorio
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The Art of the Fugue

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  • J.S. Bach
  • Fugue
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The Four Seasons

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  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Concerto
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Symphony No. 5 in C minor

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  • Beethoven
  • Symphony
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Symphonie Fantastique

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  • Berlioz
  • Symphony
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Die Walkure

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  • Wagner
  • Opera
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Maple Leaf Rag

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  • Joplin
  • Ragtime
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

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  • Trad / Anonymous
  • Spiritual
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American String Quartet

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  • Dvorak
  • String Quartet
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The Rite of Spring

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  • Stravinsky
  • Ballet
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Country Band March

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  • Ives
  • March
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Stars and Stripes Forever

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  • Sousa
  • March
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Rhapsody in Blue

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  • Gershwin
  • Concerto-like, one-movement
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Appalachian Spring

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  • Copland
  • Ballet
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4’33”

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  • Cage
  • Experimental
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Electric Counterpoint

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  • Reich
  • Chamber work for guitar and tape
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What are the characteristics of the Middle Ages?

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  • Plainchant and Gregorian chant (primary music of the Catholic Church)
  • Monophonic texture
  • Later, organum develops
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What are the characteristics of the Renaissance?

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  • “Rebirth”
  • Printing press invented
  • Interest shifted to more secular concerns
  • Polyphonic
  • Mass was an important genre
  • Secular music emerged
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What are the characteristics of the Baroque Period?

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  • Shift away from polyphony toward homophony
  • “New style” of composition employed basso continuo
  • Major-minor key system established
  • Equal temperament tuning system adopted
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What are the characteristics of the Classical Period?

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  • Lyrical melodies
  • Phase symmetry
  • Diatonic harmonies
  • Clear-cut cadences
  • Frequent use of sequencing
  • Generally homophonic textures
  • Form was very important !
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What are the characteristics of the Romantic Period?

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  • Orchestra increased in size
  • New instruments added to the orchestra
  • Dynamic range expanded
  • Conductor appeared as the central figure
  • Nationalism exhibited through inclusion of folk songs
  • Instrumental forms expanded
  • Harmony was more chromatic and dissonant
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What are the characteristics of the Modernist Era?

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  • Meter shifts constantly
  • Polyrhythm
  • Atonality
  • Smaller orchestras
  • Emphasis on winds and percussion
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What are the characteristics of the Post-Modernist Era?

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  • Difficult to define
  • Some composers leaned more on intuition, change, and improvisation
  • Recording and playback technology heralded electronic music
32
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What are the musical genres of the Middle Ages?

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Plainchant

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What are the musical genres of the Renaissance?

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  • Mass (musical settings of the mass)
  • Motet
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What are the musical genres of the Baroque Period?

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  • Dance suites
  • Fugue
  • Concerto
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What are the musical genres of the Classical Period?

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  • String quartet
  • Symphony
36
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What are the musical genres of the Romantic Period?

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  • African American spirituals
  • American parlor songs
  • Characterpiece
  • Lieder
37
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What are the musical genres of the 20th Century?

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Jazz

38
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What are the musical genres of the Modernist Era?

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  • 12-tone or serialism
  • Atonal
  • Musical Theatre
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What are the musical genres of the Post-Modernist Era?

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  • Experimentalist
  • Electronic
40
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What composer wrote fugues?

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J.S. Bach

41
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Which composers wrote plainchant?

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  • Hildegard of Bingen
  • Leonin
42
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What composer wrote organum?

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Leonin

43
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Which composers wrote symphonies?

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  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Hector Berlioz
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Joseph Haydn
  • Gustav Mahler
  • William Grant Still
44
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Which composers wrote characterpiece?

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  • Frederick Chopin
  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hansel
45
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What composer wrote ragtime?

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Scott Joplin

46
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Which composers wrote opera?

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  • Wolfgang A. Mozart
  • Giacomo Puccini
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Richard Wagner
47
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Which composers wrote lieder?

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  • Franz Schubert
  • Robert Schumann
48
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Which composers wrote ballet?

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  • Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Aaron Copland
  • Igor Stravinsky
49
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Which composers wrote jazz?

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  • Louis Armstrong
  • Duke Ellington
  • Charlie Parker
  • Bessie Smith
50
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Which composers wrote atonal?

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  • Alban Berg
  • Arnold Schoenberg
51
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What composer wrote musical theatre?

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Leonard Bernstein

52
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Which composers wrote experimental?

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  • John Cage
  • Charles Ives
  • Steve Reich
53
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Which composers wrote the blues?

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  • Robert Johnson
  • Charlie Patton
  • Ma Rainey
  • Bessie Smith
54
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What composer wrote marches?

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John Phillip Sousa

55
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Are oratorios cultivated or vernacular?

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Cultivated

56
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Are motets cultivated or vernacular?

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Cultivated

57
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Are concertos cultivated or vernacular?

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Cultivated

58
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Is the mass cultivated or vernacular?

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Cultivated

59
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Are symphonies cultivated or vernacular?

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Cultivated

60
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Is ragtime cultivated or vernacular?

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Both

61
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Is opera cultivated or vernacular?

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Cultivated

62
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Are work songs cultivated or vernacular?

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Vernacular

63
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Is the string quartet cultivated or vernacular?

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Cultivated

64
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Are parlor songs cultivated or vernacular?

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Both

65
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Is the gamelan cultivated or vernacular?

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Vernacular

66
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Are the blues cultivated or vernacular?

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Vernacular

67
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Is musical theatre cultivated or vernacular?

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Both

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