Music 1091 Test 2 Review

Question 1

What are the three sacred forms of music in the correct order?

Answer 1

gregordian chants, motets, and masses

Question 2

When was the Gutenberg Bible published?

Answer 2

1455

Question 3

Machaut, “Missa Notre Dame”-“Kyrie”

Answer 3

mass- Special piece written to celebrate the completion of the Notre Dame. (1350)

Question 4

Josquin Desprez, “Ave Maria”

Answer 4

Motet (A capella)

1485

Question 5

Hildegard of Bingen-“O Greenest Branch”

Answer 5

Gregordian chant (1150)

Question 6

Weelkes, “As Vesta was from Latmos Hill”

Answer 6

Madrigal (1599)

Question 7

Strozzi- Aria, “I Want to Die”

Answer 7

Has Basso Continuo (Aria) —-(Voglio Morire) (1650). Opera

Question 8

Purcell, “Thy Hand, Belinda/When I am laid in Earth” from Dido and Aeneas c.

Answer 8

First opera in English (1689)

Question 9

Dido

Answer 9

Queen of Carthage

Question 10

Aeneas c.

Answer 10

Escapee from Troy

Question 11

Vivaldi, Violin concerto in E major, “Spring” from The Four Seasons

Answer 11

A pioneer in program music

Question 12

What did Vivaldi write?

Answer 12

concertos

Question 13

What is program music?

Answer 13

music that has a story

Question 14

Handel lived from?

Answer 14

(1685-1759)

Question 15

Handel, “Hallelujah” chorus from Messiah (oratorio)

Answer 15

written in English. It is duple and major. It is from the very end of the Baroque era.

Question 16

Who wrote the “Organ fugue in G minor”

Answer 16

Bach

Question 17

Chorale (German); Hymn (English)

Answer 17

People could sing along

Question 18

Who wrote Gregordian chants?

Answer 18

mostly don’t know who wrote them. One exception is Hildegard.

Question 19

Pope Gregory (this type of music named after him)

Answer 19

He didn’t write Gregordian Chants. He organized them for the churches use. they were named after him. Also had latin texts that either had to be read or sung when receiving communion. Around 650 he created the liturgy.

Question 20

What are the parts of the mass (Catholic Liturgy)?

Answer 20

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Santus, Angus Dei

Question 21

The secular form of music was sung by who in the middle ages?

Answer 21

Troubadours (in French and German speaking countries)- mostly wrote love songs

Question 22

What did Handel write?

Answer 22

Oratorios in english

Question 23

When was the fall of the Roman Empire?

Answer 23

476 A.D.

Question 24

Date of the Middle Ages

Answer 24

(800 A.D. - 1450)

Question 25

What led to the beginning of the Renaissance?

Answer 25

The invention of the Movable type (Printing Press or Gutenberg Bible)

Question 26

Date of the Renaissance?

Answer 26

(1450-1600)

Question 27

What was the huge religious movement that occurred in mostly in northern Europe during the Renaissance?

Answer 27

The Reformation (Protestant)

Question 28

What did Martin Luther do?

Answer 28

Wrote 95 thesis and started his own religion (Lutheran)

Question 29

What is an a cappella?

Answer 29

Music that is unaccompanied- made only from voices.

Question 30

What is a madrigal?

Answer 30

A through-composed song set for four to six unaccompanied voices. Music that was printed for people to sing at home. It is also a secular form of music.

Question 31

The details in an opera?

Answer 31

Recitative

Question 32

The main story line in an opera?

Answer 32

Aria

Question 33

A composite vocal/instrumental form (recitative/aria)?

Answer 33

opera

Question 34

The imitative form of the Baroque period frequently coupled with a prelude or toccata was what? (repeats)(one theme)

Answer 34

Fugue

Question 35

Reinforcement of the bass line by harpsichord and cello? Required a bass and usually had a harpsichord playing with it.

Answer 35

Basso Continuo

Question 36

Descending chromatic line in Dido and Aeneas?

Answer 36

Basso Ostinato

Question 37

Gothic Architecture-Medieval-Notre Dame are all part of what?

Answer 37

The Middle Ages

Question 38

Using words from Greek Mythology?

Answer 38

Classical Mythology

Question 39

Classical Mythology and text painting/word painting were used in what?

Answer 39

Madrigals

Question 40

Date of the Baroque Period

Answer 40

(1600-1750)

Question 41

What did Bach use in writing his cantatas?

Answer 41

Lutheran Chorales so that people could sing.

Question 42

How many concertos did Vivaldi write?

Answer 42

Over 400

Question 43

How many works did Bach write? How many cantatas?

Answer 43

Over 1000 works. 250 of the 1000

Question 44

Terrace Dynamics?

Answer 44

Loud and soft (Vivaldi)

Question 45

Date for Bach's life? What religion was he?

Answer 45

(1685-1750) Lutheran

Question 46

Similar to a small scale oratorio. It contains the same elements but is shorter and less grand than the oratorio.

Answer 46

Cantata

Question 47

Music for the church.

Answer 47

Sacred music

Question 48

Music that is not associated with the church.

Answer 48

Secular music

Question 49

The keyboard of the Baroque era?

Answer 49

The Harpsichord

Question 50

Who was referred to as the "Red Priest"?

Answer 50

Vivaldi

Question 51

A person that has an outstanding technical ability in performing with a violin?

Answer 51

Violin Virtuoso

Question 52

One sound playing at a time. (Gregordian Chants)

Answer 52

Monophonic

Question 53

When a melody is accompanied by other parts.(**)

Answer 53

Homophonic

Question 54

When two or more melodies are sounding at the same time.

Answer 54

Polyphonic

Question 55

The texture of the Renaissance was mostly what?

Answer 55

Polyphonic

Question 56

Where was Vivaldi employed?

Answer 56

In a Venice Orphanage for girls.

Question 57

First setting of Mass was performed by who?

Answer 57

Machaut

Question 58

Composition that involved more than one part in the church.

Answer 58

Motet (Sacred)

Question 59

Who was Cosmopolitan (big city)?

Answer 59

Handel

Question 60

Who was Provincial (small town)?

Answer 60

Bach

Question 61

What is the group of guys that kicked off the baroque period with the start of opera?

Answer 61

Florentine Camarata

Question 62

Date of the Classical period

Answer 62

(1750-1820)

Question 63

Classical Ideals?

Answer 63

Public Concerts, Advent of the Piano

Question 64

What was the Center of Music?

Answer 64

Vienna

Question 65

Date of Hayden

Answer 65

(1732-1809)

Question 66

Date of Mozart

Answer 66

(1756-1791)

Question 67

Political developments during the Classical Period?

Answer 67

French Revolution (1789), American Revolution, US Constitution was ratified (1788)

Question 68

Classical Forms (Multi-Movement Forms):

Answer 68

Sonata Allegro form, Theme and Variation form, Rondo form

Question 69

Rondo Form:

Answer 69

(ABACABA CODA)

Question 70

Symphony consists of what form?

Answer 70

Sonata Allegro

Question 71

Sonata Allegro form:

Answer 71

Exposition, Development, Recapitulation, and sometimes a Coda

Question 72

Classical Genres:

Answer 72

The Symphony, The New Classical Orchestra with new instruments (the clarinet especially), the String Quartet, the Sonata, the Concerto, and the Opera

Question 73

Don Giovanni Story:

Answer 73

Giovanni wanted the Commendatore's daughter. Giovanni kills the Commendatore in a duel. A statue was built over his grave and the statue comes to life as the Comendatore and meets Giovanni at his house and condemns him to hell.

Question 74

Father of the symphony and started the string quartet. Over 100 symphonies and many string quartets. Wrote the "Emperor" Quartet which was adopted as the National Anthem of Austria.

Answer 74

Hayden

Question 75

Worked under the patronage system employed by Prince Esterhazy. Stable personality.

Answer 75

Hayden

Question 76

Child Prodigy, over 600 works, 41 symphonies, numerous operas and concertos, difficult personality, broke away from the patronage system with only partial success, died young.

Answer 76

Mozart

Question 77

Date of Ludwig Van Beethoven

Answer 77

(1770-1827)

Question 78

Became deaf in his 20's, transitional composer to Romanticism, studied with Haydn, 9 symphonies, successfully established himself as a fee-lance musician living off performances and publication of his works.

Answer 78

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Question 79

Who was the prince that Haydn worked for?

Answer 79

Nicholas Esterhazy

Question 80

The string quartet is what kind of music?

Answer 80

Chamber music

Question 81

Who adopted the string quartet for the national anthem of Austria?

Answer 81

Emperor Joseph II

Question 82

What replaces the Harpsichord?

Answer 82

The Piano

Question 83

When did the Storming of Bastille happen?

Answer 83

1789

Question 84

When musicians and/or composers would work as servants to powerful noblemen?

Answer 84

Patronage System

Question 85

When musicians composed music on their own and sold it to interested parties?

Answer 85

Free-lance musician

Question 86

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Movement one was played on what?

Answer 86

A Piano

Question 87

what does the string quartet consists of?

Answer 87

2 violins, a viola, and a cello

Question 88

Texts based on Greek Drama--

Answer 88

used in early operas. They wanted to recreate greek dramas.

Question 89

Viderunt Omnes by Anon

Answer 89

Gregordian chant (800)

Question 90

Who wrote Awake a Voice is Calling?

Answer 90

Bach

Question 91

What is the liturgy?

Answer 91

Different types of music would be used throughout the church year.

Question 92

Who was Hildegard?

Answer 92

A nun that lived in a convent. She became the mother superior of her order.

Question 93

What song had text painting in it?

Answer 93

As Vesta was from Latmos Hill