Music 101: Exam #1

Question 1

Three Part System

Answer 1

• Name of Movement
• Name of the Larger Piece
• Composer

Question 2

Concert Etiquette

Answer 2

• No noise
• Physically still
• Appropriate Applause

Question 3

Historical Style

Answer 3

• Style is the characteristic manner of presenting music
  - Mediaeval Era
  - Renaissance Period
  - Baroque Era
  - Classical Period
  - Romantic Era
  - Twentieth Century and beyond

Question 4

Mediaeval Era

Answer 4

• about 475-1450
• all art is 2 dimensional
  - the music is reflective of that
• the culture
  
  • a

Question 5

Christiandom

Answer 5

• at the time Europe was considered Christiandom
  
  • England forced conversion of religion
  • state strong but often dominated by the church
    
    • specifically education
    • you could only learn how to read and write
      through the church

Question 6

Patronage

Answer 6

• much musical sponsorship by the church
  
  • it left the church in control of the arts
  • tavern songs were never written down, only church music

Question 7

Plainchant

Answer 7

• could be called plain song, plain chant or Gregorian chant
• foundation for Western Music (not considered western though)
• Latin Test
• For worship
• [word rhythm]
• [monophony]

Question 8

Hildegard of Bingen

Answer 8

• Abbess
  
  • one of the first women to lead an independent group of
    nuns
• Mystic
  
  • 3 collections of prophecies and visions
• Composer, Poet and Playwright
  
  • worship music and morality play
• Healer and Herbologist

Question 9

Musical Sound

Answer 9

• sound is the name we give to vibrations in the air perceived by the ear
• music is sound organized in time

Question 10

Tone

Answer 10

• tone is a sound with a consistent rate of vibration

Question 11

Noise

Answer 11

• noise is a sound that does not have a consistent rate of vibration

Question 12

Pitch

Answer 12

• has to have a component of comparison

Question 13

Duration

Answer 13

• it is the length of a tone

- talked about in amount of beats or fractions of a beat

Question 14

Notation

Answer 14

• complex set of symbols used to indicate pitch and duration of musical sound

Question 15

Melody

Answer 15

• Linear or Horizontal aspect of music

- recognizable series or sequence of pitches

Question 16

Range

Answer 16

• the distance between the lowest pitch and the highest pitch used in a song

Question 17

Conjunct

Answer 17

• melody built primarily by steps that moves smoothly up and down the scale

Question 18

Disjunct

Answer 18

• melody built primarily by leaps that move around the scale

Question 19

Phrase

Answer 19

• are the components that make up a melody

Question 20

Cadence

Answer 20

• a melodic, rhythmic, and/or harmonic formula that marks the end of a phrase
  ex: breaths in music

Question 21

Counter-Melody

Answer 21

• it is a second melody layered on top of an initial melody

Question 22

Scale

Answer 22

• is all of the pitches used in a melody arranged from lowest to highest
• use numbers of syllables to describe the notes in a scale

Question 23

Melodic Interval

Answer 23

• the distance between two pitches sounded one after the other

Question 24

Octave

Answer 24

• musical interval of an eighth