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Music Appreciation 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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The four main properties of musical sounds are pitch, dynamics, tone color, and

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Rhythm

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3
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The relative highness or lowness of a sound is called

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Dynamics

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

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Lower

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5
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The distance in pitch between any two tines 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 could vibrate at _____ cycles.

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440

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7
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The interval that occurs when two different tones blend so well when sounded together that they seem to merge into one tone, is called an

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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 sound on their instruments is a slightly curved stick strung tightly with

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Horsehair

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12
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The strings of a violin are tuned

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By tightening or loosening the pegs

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13
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Plucking the string with the finger instead of using the 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 sounds or flashes of light at bay 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 seven

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20
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In musical notation, pitches are written on a set of five 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 three 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 two 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 two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric 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 ornamental

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36
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Melodic sequence 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 alternation 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 strings 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 if

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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 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 music director of a baroque court 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 high-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 music 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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has a harpsichord as a solo instrument

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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 a fugue is presented 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 a/an

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Aria

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52
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A(n) _____ is a musical number of two solo voices with orchestral accompaniment

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Duet

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53
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A(n) ____ is an operatic number involving three 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 dramatic work

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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 is Jacopo Peri’s

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Euridice

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58
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Castrati

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All answers are correct

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

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Westminster Abbey

61
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Vivaldi spent most of his life working at na 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 Four Seasons is true?

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The piece is an example of program music

63
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While at Leipzig, Bach

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Taught organ and compositions, gave recitals, and was often asked to judge the constructions 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 drawn from

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All answers are correct

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 soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text, is called a(n)

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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
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George frideric Handel was born in 1685, the same year as

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Johann Sebastian Bach

70
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Handel spent the major portion of his life in

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England

71
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Handel’s Messiah is an example

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An oratorio

72
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The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning

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450-1450

73
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The Renaissance may be described as an age of

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All answers are correct

74
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In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were

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Priests

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
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The use of organs in church

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Bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners 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 discrete 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 legend with having created it

87
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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 earliest surviving chant manuscripts date about the _____ century

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Ninth

90
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The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed

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During the twelfth and thirteenth 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
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An estampie is a medieval

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Dance

94
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The first steps in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began sometime between 700 and 900 with the

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Addition of a second melodic line to Gregorian Chant

95
Q

The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was

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Paris

96
Q

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

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Syncopation

97
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 fourteenth century

98
Q

Guillaume de Machaut was a ______ as well as a musician

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all answers are correct

99
Q

The Renaissance in music occurred between

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1450 and 1600

100
Q

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

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1750-1820

101
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 contact

102
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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

103
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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Composers in the classical period continued to use terraced dynamics in their compositions

104
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The typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of

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Strings, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani

105
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Which of the following instruments were not normally included in the classical orchestra?

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Trombones

106
Q

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

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Church

107
Q

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

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All answers are correct

108
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

109
Q

Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life

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Serving a wealthy aristocratic family

110
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Haydn’s contract of employment shows that he was considered

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A skilled servant

111
Q

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

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All answers are correct

112
Q

In the classical period, comic operas sometimes

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Ridiculed the aristocracy

113
Q

In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart

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Became close friends

114
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Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are called

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Motives

115
Q

The character of the minuet is best described as

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Stately and dignified

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
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The scherzo differs from the minuet in that it

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Moves more quickly

118
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Symphony may be defined as

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All answers are correct

119
Q

The unusual 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 instrument and orchestra

121
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The lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the

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Second

122
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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 form the symphony in that it does not have a ______ movement

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Minuet or scherzo

124
Q

A classical concerto greatly relies in a soloist’s

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Virtuosity

125
Q

A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performer’s 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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All answers are correct

129
Q

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

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Is performed by one player per part

130
Q

Haydn 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
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Which of the following was not one of Haydn’s duties while in the service of the Esterhazys?

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Writing a cantat each week for Sunday services

132
Q

Although Haydn spent most of his time in Hungary, he often traveled to _____, where his music was performed often and greatly admired

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London

133
Q

Along with his symphonies, Haydn’s _____ are considered 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 financially well off, widely acclaimed, and sought after by an adoring public

135
Q

Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart

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Was continually on tour in England and Europe

136
Q

Mozart tried to find fame and fortune by moving to ____, at the age of twenty-five

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Vienna

137
Q

Mozart composed his Requiem

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On commission from a stranger

138
Q

Don Giovanni, in Mozart’s opera pf that name, is

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The legendary Spanish lover

139
Q

Mozart’s Symphony No. 40

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features and emotional intensity uncommon for the time

140
Q

The Third Symphony of Beethoven was originally composed to commemorate the deeds of ____ as the embodiment of heroism and democratic ideal

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Napoleon Bonaparte

141
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Beethoven

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All answers are correct

142
Q

Which of the following statements is not true

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Like Haydn and ,any other composers of the classical period, Beethoven depended on the aristocracy for his financial well-being

143
Q

We have a record of Beethoven’s struggle with his musical material because he

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Showed his workflow in musical sketchbooks

144
Q

Beethoven’s sixteen ______ 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 the 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 is entitled

A

Fidelio

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