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Music Ap Flashcards

1
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Music can be defined as

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An art based on the organization of sounds in time

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2
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the 4 main properties of musical sounds are pitch, dynamics, tone color, and

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Rhythm

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the relative highness or lowness of a sound is called

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Pitch

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4
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In general, the smaller the vibrating element, the ____ its pitch

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Higher

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5
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The distance in pitch between any two tomes is called

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An interval

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6
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If a pitch vibrates at 880 cycles the octave below would vibrate at ___ cycles

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440

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7
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The interval that occurs when 2 diffrent tones blend so well when sounded together that they seem to merge into one tone is called

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Octave

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8
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the distance between the lowest and highest tones a voice or instrument can produce is called

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Pitch range

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9
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Timbre is synonymous with

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Tone color

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10
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When music is created at the same time as it is performed, it is said to be

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Improvised

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11
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The bow that string players usually use to produce sounds on their instruments is a slightly curved stick strung tightly with

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Horse hair

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12
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The strings of a violin are tuned

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By tightly or loosening the pegs

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13
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Plucking the string with the finger instead of using a bow is called

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Pizzicato

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14
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woodwind instruments are so named because they

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Were originally made of wood

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15
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which of the following is not a double reed instrument

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Clarinet

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16
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The vibrations of brass instruments come from

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The musician’s lips

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17
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A _____ is an apparatus that produces ticking or flashes of light at any desired musical speed

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Metronome

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18
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A ___ sign is used in musical notation to cancel a previous sharp or flat sign

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Natural

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19
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Western music uses ____ letters of the alphabet to indicate pitch

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The first 7

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20
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In musical notation, pitches are written on a set of 5 horizontal lines called a

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Staff

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21
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In musical notation, silence is indicated by

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Rests

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22
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A cadence is

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A resting place at the end of a phrase

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23
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A chord is a

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combination of 3 or more tones sounded at once

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24
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The simplest, most basic chord used in western music is the

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Triad

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25
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If a flute player were to play a solo without any other accompaniment, the texture would be

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Monophonic

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26
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When 2 or more melodic lines of equal interest are performed simultaneously, the texture is

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Polyphonic

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27
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In music ____ refers to a characteristic way of using melody, rhythm, tone color, dynamics, harmony, texture, and form

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Style

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28
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The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except

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Naturalistic

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29
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Baroque style flourished in music during the period

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1600 - 1750

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30
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the 2 giants of baroque compositions were george frederic Handel and

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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31
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Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ____ period

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Late baroque

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32
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Affections in baroque usage refers to

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Emotional states or moods of music

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33
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A baroque musical composition usually expresses ___ within the same movement

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One basic mood

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34
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the compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by

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repeated rhythmic patterns

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35
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baroque melodies often are

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elaborate and ornamented

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36
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melodic sequences refers to

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The successive repetition of a musical idea at higher or lower pitches

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37
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terraced dynamics refers to

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the sudden alteration from one dynamic level to another

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38
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The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the

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Harpsichord

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39
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A popular keyboard instrument in which sound was produced by means of brass blades striking the string was the

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Clavichord

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40
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The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of

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Basso continuo

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41
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A bass part together with numbers that specify the chords to be played above it is called

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Figured bass

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42
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the orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the ___ family

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Violin

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43
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The musical director of a baroque court was usually not responsible for

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Publicity in reaching an audience

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44
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The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of

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a higher class servant with few personal rights

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45
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During the baroque period _____ were not allowed to be employed as musical directors

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Women

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46
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Bach’s brandenburg concerto No.5 is unusual in that

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It gives a solo role to the harpsichord

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47
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the main theme of a fugue is called the

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Subject

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48
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when the subject of the fugue is present in the dominant scale, it is called the

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Answer

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49
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An _____ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes and action

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Opera

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50
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The text or book of a musical dramatic work is called the

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Libretto

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51
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A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called

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Aria

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52
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An _____ is a musical number for 2 solo voices voices with orchestral accompaniment

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Duet

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53
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An _____ is an operatic number involving 3 or more leading singers

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Ensemble

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54
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The ____ is the person who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among instruments and voices

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Conductor

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55
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An _____ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a

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Overture

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56
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The First opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in

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Venice

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57
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The earliest opera that has been preserved in Jacopo Peri’s

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Euridice

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58
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Castrati

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Received the highest fees of any musicians, Combined lung power of man with vocal range of women, were all male singers who had been castrated before puberty

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59
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In the myth of Orpheus, Orpheus goes to hades in the hope of bringing _____ back to life

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Eurydice

60
Q

The respect given to Henry Purcell by his fellow Englishmen is evidence by his burial in

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Westminster Abbey

61
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Vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in

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Venice

62
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Which of the following about Vivaldi’s La Primavera (spring) from the 4 seasons is true

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The price is an example of program music

63
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While at leipzig, Bach

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Taught organ and composition, gave recitals, and was often asked to judge the constitution of organs

64
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Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____ of his day

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Organist

65
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Bach’s personal musical style was draw from

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Italian Concertos, French dance pieces, German church music

66
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Sets of dance inspired instrumental movements are called

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Suites

67
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A large scale composition for chorus, vocal soloist, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text is called

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Oratorio

68
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Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no

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Acting, scenery, or costumes

69
Q

George frideric haydn was born in 1685 the same year as

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Johann sebastian bach

70
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Handle spent the majority portion of his life in

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England

71
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Handel’s Messiah is an example of

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An oratorio

72
Q

The middle ages refers to

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450 - 1450

73
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The Renaissance may be described as an age of

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Curiosity and individualism, Exploration and adventure, and the rebirth of human creativity

74
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In the Middle ages, most important musicians were

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Priest

75
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A virtual monopoly on learning during the middle ages was held by

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Monks in monasteries

76
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During the middle ages what institution was the center of musical life

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The church

77
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Church officials expected monks to sing

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With proper pronunciation and tone quality

78
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The church frowned on instruments because of their

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Earlier role in pagan rites

79
Q

The use of organs in church

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Bothered the clergy because they distracted the listener from worship

80
Q

What we know about instruments in church comes mainly from

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The pictures and literary descriptions of the day

81
Q

Most medieval music was

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Vocal

82
Q

We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the middle ages that

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Instruments were used

83
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During the late middle ages, the church believed that music during religious services should be

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Used only as a discreet accompaniment

84
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Gregorian chant

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Is monophonic in texture

85
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Gregorian chant melodies tend to move

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Stepwise within a narrow range of pitches

86
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Gregorian chant is named after pope Gregory I, who

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Was credited by medieval legends with having created it

87
Q

The two types of services at which monks and nuns sang were

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The office and the mass

88
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The highlight of the day for monks and nuns was

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The mass

89
Q

The earlier surviving chant manuscript date from above the ____ century

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9th century

90
Q

The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed

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The 12 and 13 centuries

91
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French secular songs of the Middle ages dealt with all of the following subjects except

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Religion

92
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One function of secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for

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Dancing

93
Q

The First steps in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began sometime between 700 and 900 while the

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Addition of a second melodic line to Gregorian Chant

94
Q

The Center of polyphonic music in europe after 1150 was

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Paris

95
Q

A new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by the

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Early 14th century

96
Q

One of the major characteristics of ars nova music is its use of

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Syncopation

97
Q

Guillaume de Machaut’s compositions consisted mainly of

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Love songs with instrumental accompaniment

98
Q

The Renaissance in music occurred between

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1450 - 1600

99
Q

Classicism, as a stylistic period in western music roughly encompassed the year

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1750 - 1820

100
Q

Which of the following statements is not true of the classical period

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Philosophers and writers in the classical period believed that custom and tradition rather than reason were the best guides to human conduct.

101
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which of the following characteristics is not typical of the music of the classical period

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Classical music is basically polyphonic

102
Q

Which of the following statements is not true

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Composters in the classical period continued to use terraced dynamics in their composition

103
Q

The typical orchestra is the classical period consisted of

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Strings, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani

104
Q

Which of the following instruments were not normally included in the classical orchestra

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Trombones

105
Q

Political and economic power shifted to the middle class from the aristocratic and the

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Church

106
Q

The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as

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Theater, Literature, and Music

107
Q

Which of the following statements is not true

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Political and economic power shifted during the classical period from the middle class to the aristocracy and the church

108
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Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life

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Serving a wealthy aristocratic family

109
Q

Haydn’s contract of employment shows that he was considered

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a skilled servant

110
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Composers in the classical period took middle class tastes into account by

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FLavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music, writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy, and by writing dance music for public balls

111
Q

In the classical period, comic operas sometimes

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Ridiculed the aristocracy

112
Q

In Vienna, haydn and mozart

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Became close friends

113
Q

Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are

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Motives

114
Q

The Character of the minuet is best described as

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Stately and dignified

115
Q

In many of beethoven’s works there is a ____ movement instead of the minuet

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Scherzo

116
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In many of beethoven’s works there is a ____ movement instead of the minuet

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Scherzo

117
Q

The Scherzo differs from the minuet in that it

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Moves more quickly

118
Q

Symphony may be defined as

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Has 4 movements, 20 - 45 min, exploiting the expanded range of tone color and dynamics of the classical orchestra.

119
Q

The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is

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Fast, Slow, Dance Related, Fast

120
Q

Which of the following is not true of the symphony

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It is a musical composition for solo instruments and orchestra

121
Q

The lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the

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2nd

122
Q

A Concerto is a large scale work in several movements for

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An instrument soloist and orchestra

123
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The classical Concerto differs from the symphony in that it does not have a ____ Movement

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Minuet or scherzo

124
Q

A classical concerto greatly relies on a soloist

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Virtuosity

125
Q

A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performers virtuosity is called

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A Cadenza

126
Q

Classical chamber music is designed

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For the intimate setting of a small room

127
Q

The most important form of classical chamber music is the

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String Quartet

128
Q

The string Quartet

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Consist of 4 movements, most important in chamber music, written for 2 violins a viola and a cello

129
Q

A major factor that distinguishes chamber music from the symphony or concerto is that chamber music

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Is performed by one player per part

130
Q

Hayden was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable, relationship with the noble hungarian family of

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Esterhazy

131
Q

Which of the following was not one of haydn’s duties

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Writing a cadenza each week for sunday service

132
Q

ALthough Haydn spent most of his time in hungry, he often traveled to

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London

133
Q

Along with his symphonies, Haydn’s ____ are considers his most important works

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String Quartets

134
Q

Which of the following statements is not true

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In his later years, Mozart was continually on tour in england and europe

135
Q

Between the age of 6 and 15 Mozart

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was continuously on tour

136
Q

Mozart tried to find fame and fortune by moving to

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Vienna

137
Q

Mozart composed his requiem

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On the commision from a stranger

138
Q

Don Giovanni is

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The legendary spanish lover

139
Q

Mozart Symphony No. 40

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Featured an emotional intensity

140
Q

The 3rd symphony of beethoven was originally composed to commemorate the deeds of _____

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Napoleon

141
Q

Beethoven

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was a brilliant pianist, Self educated and had read widely but was weak in elementary arithmetic, Felt symptoms of deafness

142
Q

Which of the following statements is not true

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Like haydn and many other composers of the classical period Beethoven depended on the aristocracy for his financial well being

143
Q

We have a record to beethoven’s struggle with his musical material because he

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Showed his workflow in musical sketchbooks

144
Q

Beethoven’s 16 _____ are generally considered among the greatest music ever composed

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String Quartets

145
Q

Beethoven is often credited as being

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The bridge between classical and romantic periods

146
Q

The opening motive of Beethoven’s symphony No. 5 has a _____ Rhythm

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Short, Short, Short, Long

147
Q

Beethoven’s only opera was called

A

Fidelio

First Semester Finals 2016 (4 decks)

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