Music & Art Flashcards
These words are from what song? Dormez-vous, dormez-vous?
Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines, Ding, dang, dong. Ding, dang, dong.
Frère Jacques
President Ford awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to what composer of songs that include “This Is the Army” and “God Bless America”?
Irving Berlin
These words are from a verse in what song?
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
How many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry
Blowing in the Wind (Bob Dylan 1962)
The background music for a soloist is called the what?
accompaniment
Who wrote the Moonlight Sonata?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Place these in order from highest to lowest:
Tenor, Soprano, Alto, Bass, Baritone
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass
What famous painting is referred to as “La Gioconda”?
Mona Lisa
Gioconda is the Italian name for it
In what work of classical music were movements consisting of a piano duet created for each of the planets, except for Neptune which was originally scored for an organ?
The Planets by Gustav Holst
What is the original name of the piano?
fortepiano
Who created these pieces of work?
Fancy Free (1944, ballet)
West Side Story (1957, musical)
Symphony No. 3, Kaddish (1963)
Leonard Bernstein
Name the composition that contains these characters which are represented by these instruments. Bird-Flute Cat- Clarinets Duck- Oboe Grandfather- Bassoon Hunters- timpani and bass drum Peter- strings (including violin, viola, cello, + bass) Wolf- french horns
Peter and The Wolf
composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936, originally in Russian as Petya i volk
What is syncopation?
When the beat is displaced so that the strong beat becomes weak and so the weak beat becomes strong
What instruments are included in a string quartet?
two violins, one viola, and a cello
What does “arco” mean when it is seen in a violin score?
To begin playing with a bow
Used chiefly as a direction to indicate the resumption of bowing after a pizzicato passage.
What is an octatonic scale?
a scale in which the notes ascend by alternating between whole and half steps
What is the subdominant?
the fourth scale degree (sub=below + the dominant is the fifth note of the scale)
What does the word “andante” mean in music?
at a walking pace, moderately paced
What is the word for the quality of a sound that distinguishes it from another - also known as tone color?
timbre
How many half steps are contained with in an octave?
12
When seen in music, “8vb” means what?
The section of music is to be played an octave lower.
What musical form includes three sections and a coda?
a sonata
To what musical family does the timpani belong?
membranophone
What is the term for a short, light peice of music, which is usually written for the piano?
bagatelle
What is the term to describe a comedic opera?
buffa (which means funny in Italian)
Who sculpted “Hermes and the Infant Dionysus”?
Praxiteles - Found in the ruins of the Temple of Hera at Olympia, Hermes and the Infant Dionysus dates back to the 4th century BC.
Who wrote the Oboe Concerto in 1945?
Richard Stauss
Where was Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, from?
Belgium
The musician-poet Amir Khusro is said to have created what instrument by splitting the pakhavaj into two?
Tabla
What is the name of the stripes on the fingerboard of a guitar?
frets
What instrument’s name is Latin for “horn”?
Tuba
What does a luthier do?
Repair a violin
What was the 1886 art movement founded by George Seurat that focused on landscapes called?
Neoimpressionism
