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0
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All voices and musical instruments need three basic components to function: list them

A
  1. Energy source
  2. Vibrating element
  3. Resonating chamber
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________ bring music to life

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Performers

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List the six categories of instruments

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  1. Brass
  2. Strings
  3. Woodwind
  4. Percussion
  5. Keyboard
  6. Electronics
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Classical music concerts by ________ __________ are by far the most popular and well-attended

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Symphony orchestra

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4
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The ________ section is the foundation of the orchestra

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String

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The ________ make up the second most important section of the orchestra

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Woodwind

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6
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The _______ sounds the “A” for the orchestra to tune by

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Oboe

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The _______ section produces the loudest sounds in the orchestra

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Brass

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The ________ or kettledrums were the first percussion instruments to join the symphony orchestra.

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Timpani

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9
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________ are solo performers with exceptional technical ability.

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Virtuosos

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Between 1650 and 1700, in the northern Italian town of ___________ produced nearly-perfect stringed instruments which are still played today.

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Cremona

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11
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The ________ is called the king of instruments

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Organ

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A drawback to the harpsichord is that all tones have ______ ________

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Equal volume

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The _______ emerged as the preferred keyboard instrument of the 19th century

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Piano

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The general classification for female voices are _________ _________ and _________. For male voices they are _______, _________, and ________.

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Soprano, mezzo soprano, and alto

Bass, tenor, and baritone

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The largest body if music that has survived from before the year 1000 is ____________ ____________

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Gregorian chant

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16
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Polyphony means ________ _________

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Many sounds

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17
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Beginning in the tenth century, small groups of traveling poet-musicians were called _________

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Minstrels

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When people turned away from the church in favor of the secular world of art and science around 1450, their quest for strength to cope with life led to a rebirth – the _______________

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Renaissance

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The renaissance was an age of ____________

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Humanism

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Perhaps the genius of ________________ epitomizes the renaissance

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Leonardo de Vinci

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21
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___________, still preformed today by small groups of singers, were composers expressly for court entertainment

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Madrigals

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The note-against-note or melody-against-melody technique is referred to as _____________

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Counterpoint

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23
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What two changes did Martin Luther make to make church service more accessible to his congregation?

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Language change and congregational singing

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24
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The first music printed in________ by Ottaviano petrucci of Venice

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1501

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25
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__________ is derived from Portuguese word describing pearls

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Baroque

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26
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________ was one of the most important innovations of the early baroque era

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Operas

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The _________ is the story or okay upon which opera is based

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Libretto

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28
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The first opera house was built in__________ in 1637

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Venice

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29
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Bel canto means _________ ___________

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Beautiful singing

30
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The ______ is the solo song of an opera

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Aria

31
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_______ wrote a stirring “Gloria” to give thanks for the passing of the plague

A

Monteverdi

32
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“Messiah” was written by _______ in 1742. It was first performed in New York in _______

A

Handel

1770

33
Q

The form of the concerto has ______ movements

A

3

34
Q

Vivaldi’s most famous work is ___ ______ ________

A

The four seasons

35
Q

The two nosy famous barque composers are:

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Handel and Bach

36
Q

The three most famous composers of the classical period are:

A

Haydn
Mozart and
young Beethoven

37
Q

Which composer was considered the greatest child prodigy?

A

Mozart

38
Q

Who wrote the “surprise” symphony?

A

Haydn

39
Q

The term classical has it’s emphasis on _______ of sound and symmetry of _________

A

Clarity and form

40
Q

Which classical symphony ends with fewer players onstage than it begins with?

A

Farewell symphony

41
Q

Beethoven began to lose his ______ at age of 26

A

Hearing

42
Q

In 1802, at age 32, Beethoven contemplated _______because his increasing deafness

A

Suicide

43
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Beethoven ____ symphony takes about one hour and ten minutes to perform

A

9th

44
Q

Beethoven is called the bridge to ______________

A

Romanticism

45
Q

Beethoven succeeded as a _________ musician

A

Freelance

46
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After 1820 and throughout the 19th century, romanticism became the predominant style, not only in music, but in all the ______

A

Arts

47
Q

An ____ _____ is a central theme in an musical composition

A

Idee five

48
Q

Performance of _____ _____ became a foci rite entertainment during the romantic period

A

Art song

49
Q

_________ wrote the song “Erlking”

A

Schubert

50
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Which two romantic composers were married to each other

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Robert and Clara Schumann

51
Q

Which composers heart was buried in Poland and his body in Paris?

A

Chopin

52
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Which composer was considered the greatest piano virtuoso of the 19th century?

A

Liszt

53
Q

Which composers musical talents were often compared to Mozart’s?

A

Mendelssohn

54
Q

Which composer had written six symphonies by age of 12?

A

Mendelssohn

55
Q

The first major opera company in North America was begun in ____ in _______

A

1883

New York city

56
Q

What Broadway musical is based on Puccini opera la Boheme?

A

Rent

57
Q

Why opera by Bizet, not well received when first performed, has become a staple of the contemporary opera company?

A

Carmen

58
Q

Which composer was believed to have influenced hitler?

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Wagner

59
Q

Which composer labored over his first symphony for 20 years?

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Brahms

60
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Which Jewish composer has to convert to Christianity in order to secure a post at the Vienna state opera?

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Mahler

61
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Middle Ages

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450-1450

62
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Renaissance

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1450-1600

63
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Baroque

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1600-1750

64
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Classical

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1750-1820

65
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Romantic

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1820-1900

66
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Modernism

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1900-1970

67
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Post-modernism

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1970- today

68
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Five Russian composers band together to create Russian nationalist music

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The mighty five

69
Q

Who was homosexual and almost committed suicide

A

Tchaikovsky

70
Q

New inventions that influenced art

A

The camera as painttube

71
Q

Who became the main developer of impressionistic music

A

Debussy

72
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Who wrote rite of spring?

A

Stravinsky

73
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Many of which composer works are atonal?

A

Schoenberg

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