Test 1 Flashcards
You may earn ___ points of extra credit in this class.
a.) 10
Tests are worth ___% of grade.
d.) 75
Course contract must be turned in by 1st test…true or false?
a.) true
The ___ turned in w/ concert paper…
c.) stamped concert program
One of properties of sound controlled by a musician is…
a.) how loud sound is, or dynamics
Duration refers to how long sound lasts…true or false?
a.) true
The highness or lowness of sound refers to its _____.
d.) pitch
The distinctiveness of sound, or what makes each voice or instrument sound different is ____.
c.) timbre
60 db of volume is the level of:
b.) an ordinary conversation
Only a(n) ____ is likely larger than modern orchestra.
d.) university marching band
Panissimo is _____.
d.) very soft
Forte is ____.
a.) very loud
Mezzo-forte is _____.
b.) medium loud
Piano is ____.
e.) soft
Mezzo-piano is _____.
c.) medium soft
Musical instruments are usually in _____.
d.) Italian
Crescendo means to grow softer…true or false?
b.) false
Decrescendo means to grow softer…true or false?
a.) true
What 4 instruments does the woodwind family contain?
a.) flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons
The ______ family is perhaps most versatile & largest instrument family.
c.) percussion
Trumpets & trombones=definite pitch; Woodblocks & cowbells=indefinite pitch…true or false?
a.) true
Oldest playable instruments are _____ dating back over 3,000 years.
b.) Chinese bone flutes
Rhythm can be simple or complex, fast or slow, measured or unmeasured…true or false?
a.) true
Accents & syncopation can establish a steady beat…true or false
a.) true
Rhythm can also conflict w/ beat, creating regular, intermittent patterns totally random…true or false?
a.) true
Tempo greatly affects the _____ of a composition.
b.) mood
Lento means ______.
d.) very slow
Vivace means ______.
e.) fast & lively
Meter is the organization of beats into ______.
a.) groupings
Bar lines divide beats into groupings in a musical score…true or false?
a.) true
A ____ is the smallest movement to an adjacent pitch.
c.) step
A _____ is any movement larger than a step.
b.) leap
Scales are the “raw materials” for melodies…true or false?
a.) true
Scales begin or end on a _____ keynote.
e.) tonic
Notated pitches range from _____.
d.) a to g
The piano has ____ keys.
e.) 88
A phrase is a substantial, but incomplete ____ that is separated from adjacent phrases w/ clear musical punctuation.
c.) idea
A ____ is a group of 3 or more pitches sounded together.
b.) chord
The ____ chord= “home chord”
d.) tonic
A chord progression is a series of chords that progresses towards a ____.
e.) goal
A progression that ends decisively on the tonic chord functions like a ____.
c.) red light
Cadences that do not end on the tonic function like a _____.
a.) yellow light
_____ is described as thick or thin, dense or transparent.
c.) texture
_____ is “one voice” in unison, no harmony.
c.) monophony
_____ is many voices, texturally complicated, contrapuntal.
a.) polyphony
_____ means “same or similar voice” melody & accompaniment moving together (between extremes).
b.) homophony
In ____ form, the 1st and 2nd part ends w/ repetition of 1st part.
b.) binary
_____ form, 2nd part ends w/ repetition of 1st part.
b.) rounded binary
____ form is also known as theme & variations.
d.) variation
In ___ form, music stays same for each verse.
b.) strophic
Punk, soul, and grunge are ___.
a.) style labels
Style labels include:
a.) Instrumentation, harmony, rhythm, texture, and form
Style becomes a ____ between the creator and the audience.
a.) link
Early manuscripts came from _____ scattered throughout Europe.
a.) Monasteries
Opera is a fusion of music and ______.
c.) drama
Music evolved from compositions almost exclusively for ________ to a broad array of styles and genres.
d.) the church
New technologies made it possible to create a variety of _____ and to print musical compositions.
c.) instruments
During medieval times musical texts were primarily in ______.
e.) latin
Chansons are French __________ songs.
b.) secular
Madrigals often featured contrapuntal textures and expressive text settings of highly regarded ______.
a.) poems
____________ reintroduced congregational singing into worship services.
a.) Martin Luther
The church songs of the Protestant Reformation were inspired by the ____________ songs of the day.
b.) secular and popular
________ is monophonic, liturgical music.
c.) chant
By the 15th century magnificent sacred works were being composed with four or more melodic parts woven together ______________.
d.) contrapuntally
Songs with more than one part often had voices moving in similar or identical rhythm have ___________ texture.
e.) homophonic
Heterotrophy is the musical texture in which two or more instruments play different versions of the melody. This is common in folk tradition…true or false?
a.) true
Composers favored vocal music through the 16th century…true or false?
a.) true
A concerto is a multi-movement work composed for an orchestra of mainly strings and keyboard…true or false?
a.) true
Earliest composers were __________ and composing was part of their work.
a.) servants
Musicians guilds had standards for members, attached to a church or court were still servants…true or false?
a.) true
Musical life by the end of the 17th century resembled modern world…true or false?
a.) true
Two major technological advances before the 17th century were relevant to music printing and instrument making…true or false?
a.) true
A central fact of life during the Middle Ages was the ____.
b.) afterlife
Clergy had social standing comparable to _________.
e.) nobility
Periods of daily prayer that start at sunrise and end at sunset are ________.
a.) divine office
Scribes worked in scriptoriums and monastery libraries and have been our main source of chant and medieval sacred _____.
c.) chant
________________ was promised to the church by her parents then became the prioress.
d.) Hildegard of Bingen
________ chant text settings have one note per syllable.
a.) syllabic
_________ chant generally has two or four notes per syllable.
b.) neumatic
___________ chant is the most elaborate from of text setting with singly syllable sustained over many notes.
c.) melismatic
Ionian and Aeolian modes developed into modern ________ and minor scales.
a.) major
A vast gulf separated the sacred and secular in the Middle Ages…true or false?
a.) true
Guillaume de Machaut was the first singer songwriter during the 14th century…true or false?
a.) true
______________ was a code of behavior exceptive of the noble class.
b.) chivalry
Marriages among the __________ were arranged and had more to do with power than love.
a.) nobility
___________ were musicians most responsible for new secular song and dance.
c.) minstrels
___________ were poets who sang about idealized love.
b.) troubadours
______________ notation was developed in the mid 13th century that indicated specific rhythmic relationships.
a.) mensural
Earliest records show that the ____________ was first dance popular in france and Italy.
d.) estampie
Video of perpetuum jazz elite “Rain in Africa”
timbre of human voice
Michael Jackson video “Thriller”
example of good beat
Video of Danny boy
example of lasting melody (enduring)
Cadences
musical punctuations, some conclusive, others not
Amazing Grace by Celtic Woman
c.) strophic form
