music final exam

Question 1

Modernism

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A spirit that took hold in all the arts, in the early 20th century, representing a quest for novelty that far exceeded any such drive past.

Question 2

Neoclassicism

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a style of composition in the years after world war I that, although distinctly modern, drew on older uses of melody, harmony, rhythm and form

Question 3

Postmodernism

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A style in music and the other arts, beginning in he mid-twentieth century in which modern and traditional elements are combined

Question 4

Whole-tone scale

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A scale with only whole steps, no half steps: this eliminates any sense of a tonal center

Question 5

Whole step

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two half steps on the piano a whole step skips exactly one key, white or black

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Tonality

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a system of organizing pitches (both melodies and harmonies)around a central note

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Diatonic scale

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A scale consisting of whole and half steps

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Impressionism

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An artistic movement focused more on sensations, perceptions, and light than on the direct representation of objects. In music, the term was used by critics of early 20th century to describe harmonies, melodies, and forms they considered indistinct

Question 9

half-step

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the smallest distance between 2 adjacent notes on a piano (white or black)

Question 10

Tonic

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The note that establishes a key, based on its distinctive relationship with a particular set or harmonies or other notes in the underlying scale, also the chord based on the first scale degree

Question 11

The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a

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a tremendous growth in amateur music making @ home

Question 12

Haydn

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worked for a royal family (the Esterhszys)

Question 13

Which term refers to the use of a work to serve something other than its original purpose

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musical appropriation

Question 14

What is the most famous new text for the melody from the second movement of Haydn’s String Quartet, op. 76, no 3

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“God save the King”

Question 15

what is the form of the second movement of Haydn’s string quartet, op. 76, no 3

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Sonata Form

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what is a name for a 5 tone mode

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pentatonic

Question 17

“Da capo” means

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“from the head,” “from the top”

Question 18

Concert manners in Haydn’s time

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established a sacred, church like atmosphere

Question 19

A rondo form features an

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opening A section that returns repeatedly

Question 20

The second theme of the exposition

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tends to use the dotted rhythms of the French overture

Question 21

The most important new structural innovation of the Classical Era (used in Mozart’s Symphony no 40) was the development of

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Sonata Form

Question 22

which of the following is one possible reason that that Mozart’s sister stopped touring and composed very little

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Professional outlets for women composers were virtually nonexistent during the Classical Era

Question 23

Which of the following is one possible reason that Mozart’s sister stopped touring and composed very little

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professional outlets for women composers were virtually nonexistent during the Classical Era

Question 24

Mozart’s sister was

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an accomplished pianist at a young age

Question 25

What is the texture in the opening measures of Mozart’s Piano Concert in A Major, K 488

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orchestra alone

Question 26

How many themes occur in the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Conerto in A Major K 48

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4

Question 27

Concert halls in Mozart’s time

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were much smaller than modern concert halls

Question 28

In “Cosa Sento,” whose melody is whiny and hesitant, showing the character’s state of embarrassment?

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Basilio

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In “Cosa Sento,” the Count’s recurring musical theme is heard

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after he discovers Cherubin hiding under a dress

Question 30

Billings demonstrated the ideals of Yankee Independence in that he

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was a tanner by trade who taught himself to write music

Question 31

What is the melodic contour of the first phrase of “Chester”

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upward

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In Billing’s original version “Chester” was written for

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soprano, alto, tenor and bass

Question 33

“Chester” is different than many other songs of the American Revolution in that

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its words and music were written by an American-born composer

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For the romantic artist

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dreams were as important as the intellect

Question 35

How did the Industrial Revolution influence the production and spread of pianos?

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They were produced in mass quantities, allowing middle-class households to purchase them

Question 36

In the first movement of Symphony no 5, Beethoven transforms the opening motif by

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changing the instruments and placing the motif in polyphonic texture

Question 37

The text of Schubert’s “Erlkonig” is a poem written in the 1780s by

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Goethe

Question 38

Schubert was _____years old when he died

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31

Question 39

In addition to art songs, Schubert also wrote

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symphonies, piano sonatas, and dozen of works for chamber ensembles

Question 40

Which type of composition became more important in the nineteenth century as composers sought to integrate purely instrumental music w/outside ideas

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program music

Question 41

Which instruments are used in the opening measures of Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream to draw the listener into the realm of the enchanted forest

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winds

Question 42

Felix Mendelssohn was perhaps the most cosmopolitan composer, and he

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spoke fluent English, French, and Italian, as well as his native German

Question 43

The Symphonie fantastique captures Romanticism’s fascination with

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gothic, grotesque subject matter

Question 44

Berlioz’s creative use of the brass and percussion in the fourth movement of Symphonie fantastique demonstrates his mastery of

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orchestration

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How do we know that he oud crash in the forth movement of Symphonie fantastique represents the fall of the guillotine

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Berlioz wrote it in the progrm

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As Handel’s father wanted him to be a lawyer and Vivaldi’s father trained him for the priesthood, Berlioz’s father wanted his son to follow in his footsteps and become a

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doctor

Question 47

Which sound has approximately the same decibel level as a large orchestra at full volume

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a noisy kitchen

Question 48

Augusta Holmes’s Triumphant Ode was commissioned as the musical centerpiece of the

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1889 World’s Fair, which gave us the Eiffel tower

Question 49

Why did Robert Schumann compose almost 150 Lieder in 1840

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He was inspired after he finally married Clara Wieck

Question 50

What compositional technique did Schumann use at the end of the first section of text to create a new mood

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modulation

Question 51

How does the music of section A of “Dedication” illustrate the text

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the piano rhythms suggest a heart skipping a beat

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Why was Schumann such a profile song composer

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He was an avid reader of poetry and literature

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What id Schumann create in 1834

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a music criticism journal

Question 54

What was a chief goal of revolutionaries who fought in the streets in Germany in 1848 and 1849

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unification of Germany

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An “a capella” chorus

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can have a mixed voices of men and women

Question 56

The sections of Chopin’s Mazurka in B-Flat Major, p 7 no 1 are restated without signicant variation to create a

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rondo like pattern

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What is the texture of Chopin’s Mazurka in
no B-flat Major, op no1

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homophony w/n occasional drone bass

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Chopin ha a decade-long liaison w/ a female novelist whose pen name was

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George Sand

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Chopin suffered from

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tuberculosis

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Chopin

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was Polish, but spent most of his life in France

Question 61

Gottschalk’s Union contains the following patriotic tunes

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“The Star Spangled Banner,” “Hail Columbia,” and “Yankee Doodle”

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The texture of Union moves generally from

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homophonic to polyphonic