Handout 1&2

Question 1

“The many who hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov’d with the sweet concord of sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils.”

Answer 1

Shakespeare

Question 2

Sophisticated, refined concert music rooted in the traditions of art or the ecclesiastical.

Answer 2

Western Classical Music

Question 3

Form in which a basic musical idea (the theme/melody) is repeated over and over and is changed each time in melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamic, or tone color. Used in independent piece or as one movement. Mozart’s “Variations on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

Answer 3

Theme and Variations Form

Question 4

The quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts to mind or spirit.

Answer 4

Beauty

Question 5

The creation of works of beauty. Human skill and work as opposed to nature

Answer 5

Art

Question 6

An orchestra composition usually in 4 movements exploiting the tone color and dynamics of an orchestra.

Answer 6

Symphony

Question 7

A complete work of music.

Answer 7

Composition

Question 8

A piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is or can be part of a larger composition.

Answer 8

Movement

Question 9

TXT a series of single notes that add up to a recognizable whole. The horizontal aspect of music. A coherent succession of musical pitches.

Answer 9

Melody

Question 10

Instrumental music having no intended association with a story, poem, idea or scene: non-programatic music (pure music)

Answer 10

Absolute Music

Question 11

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, often found in the romantic period. Rossini’s “Wilhelm Tell Overture”

Answer 11

Program Music

Question 12

Music that includes folk songs, dances, legends or other national material in a composition to associate it with the composer’s homeland

Answer 12

Nationalism

Question 13

Brief melodies appealing to the masses and distinct form of western classical music.

Answer 13

Pop Music

Question 14

Drama that is sung to orchestral accompaniment, usually a large-scale composition employing vocal soloist, chorus, orchestra, costumes, and scenery. (sung drama)

Answer 14

Opera

Question 15

Music rooted in improvisation and characterized by syncopated rhythm, a steady beat, and distinctive tone colors and performance techniques.

Answer 15

Jazz

Question 16

“Image Writing”

Answer 16

Iconography

Question 17

Earliest Musical Instruments Outside of The Human Voice

Answer 17

Flute: “Mankind’s Melodic Musical Instrument”

Found in China & Slovenia

Question 18

Celebrated the rebirth of crops at their temples with music and singing; marked this as the beginning of their year.

Answer 18

The Sumerians

Question 19

A horn, traditionally that of a ram, used for Jewish religious purposes.

Answer 19

A Shofar

in the Bible

Question 20

The “power of God” is represented by

Answer 20

The Trumpet

in the Bible

Question 21

First Music Therapy

Answer 21

King David cures Saul’s melancholy by playing the harp.

In the Bible

Question 22

Adhan is sung. The Islamic call to prayer announced five times a day.

Answer 22

Islamic Call to Worship

in Islam

Question 23

Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music: Pythagoras discovers the mathematical relationship of music sounds to numbers.

Answer 23

The Mathematical Quadrivium

in Greek Antiquities

Question 24

(In Greek Antiquities)

Answer 24

Greek armies sang before and after battles.

Question 25

(In Greek Antiquities)

Answer 25

Alexander the Great, the Greek king of Macedon had trumpets played to disturb the enemy forces.

Question 26

An art based on the organization of sounds in time.

Answer 26

Music

Question 27

Plato stresses importance of education including music

Answer 27

Music and the State

Music, Scientific Thought & Education

Question 28

Effect of music on the soul and behavior could purify the mind

Answer 28

Doctrine of Ethos

Music, Scientific Thought & Education

Question 29

Greeks borrowed concept from the Egyptians. Inaudible to human ears.
Paul McCartney credits his gifts to this.

Answer 29

Music of the Spheres

Music and the Cosmos

Question 30

Clarify of form, purify & objectivity of expression. Instrument: lyre/harp

Answer 30

Apollonian Cult

Greek Cults

Question 31

Ecstasy, passion, sensuality & subjectivity.

Instrument: aulos (woodwind oboe-like)

Answer 31

Dionysian Cult

Greek Cults

Question 32

Oldest complete piece of music. Written on a tombstone.

Answer 32

Document (Epitaph) of Seikilos

Question 33

Nero played the Kithara (Lyre) while Rome burned. Died in AD 69 saying “What an artist the world in losing!” Roman battlefield music function: battlefield signals and deception

Answer 33

Roman Music