Test 2

Question 1

Basso continuo

Answer 1

porposeful chord structure, requires 2 instrumentalists, organ and cello or basson

Question 2

Monody

Answer 2

solo singer with accompaniment

Question 3

Recitative

Answer 3

communicates the plot, heightened speach

Question 4

aria

Answer 4

expresses the character’s emotions, passionate, tuneful

Question 5

Orfeo (Monterardi)

Answer 5

The first important opera, uses recitative and aria

Question 6

chamber music vs orchestral music

Answer 6

small chamber, large orchestra

Question 7

baroque orchestra

Answer 7

violin family, no more renesance instruments,

Question 8

baroque “concertino”

Answer 8

soloists in boraque orchestra

Question 9

baroque “tutti”

Answer 9

orchestra in the orchestra

Question 10

Antonio Vivaldi

Answer 10

baroque composer and violinist, made orphanage famous through orchestra

Question 11

concerto grosso

Answer 11

two or more people

Question 12

Counterpoint

Answer 12

multiple independent melodic lines

Question 13

Jahaan Bach

Answer 13

famous for cantatas

Question 14

fugue

Answer 14

low note sustained under different harmonies

Question 15

Georg Handel

Answer 15

famous for his oratorios “messiah”

Question 16

significance of classical era

Answer 16

age of elightenment, industrial revolution

Question 17

composers in classical era

Answer 17

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

Question 18

galante

Answer 18

emphasized graceful melody

Question 19

animated homophony

Answer 19

to make one instrument stand out

Question 20

periodic phrasing

Answer 20

melodies structured like a question and answer

Question 21

Mozart

Answer 21

had lots of operas and sonatas, compositions display diversity and expression

Question 22

sonata

Answer 22

structured in 3 parts that work with the tonic

Question 23

Haydn

Answer 23

“father of the symphony”, conducted Prince E’s personal orchestra

Question 24

subject (fugue)

Answer 24

primary musical idea

Question 25

exposition (fugue)

Answer 25

opening section of fugue

Question 26

episode (fugue)

Answer 26

free section

Question 27

pedal point (fugue)

Answer 27

low note sustained under several different harmonies

Question 28

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Answer 28

Mix of opera seria and opera buffa

Question 29

Haydn's string quartet

Answer 29

based on a hymn written by Haydn, anthem of Austria and now Germany, Single theme repeated in various ways

Question 30

Beethoven's symphony #5 C major

Answer 30

Four note motive

Question 31

Difference between Romantic and Classical

Answer 31

Romantic more chill than classical

Question 32

Art Song

Answer 32

composition for solo voice and piano accompaniment

Question 33

strophic

Answer 33

same music for each stanza of the poem

Question 34

modified strophic

Answer 34

alters the music at the some point

Question 35

through composed

Answer 35

each stanza set to new music

Question 36

Franz Schubert

Answer 36

composed Erlok Lied, composed more than 600 lieder

Question 37

Clara Wieck Schumann

Answer 37

Piano prodigy, composed "If you loved for beauty"

Question 38

Frederic Chopin

Answer 38

piano music based on polish folk dances, taught and published in paris

Question 39

Franz Liszt

Answer 39

flamboyant personality, established the modern piano recital

Question 40

Absolute music

Answer 40

Pure music without external reference

Question 41

programmatic music

Answer 41

depicts events and emotions external to the music

Question 42

Hector Berlioz

Answer 42

first composer to earn a livelihood as a music critic, obsessive and stuck in his ways, symphonic fantastique

Question 43

Johannes Brahms

Answer 43

absolute music, proclaimed a "musical messiah"

Question 44

absolute music

Answer 44

followed format of classical symphony, longer movements

Question 45

Realistic Opera

Answer 45

Vulgar with aesthetic value

Question 46

Social realism

Answer 46

characters from poorer social stratum (Bizet's Carmen)

Question 47

Richard Wagner (German Opera)

Answer 47

controversial, wrote musical dramas

Question 48

Leitmotif (leading motive)

Answer 48

brief unit of music that represents a character, object, or idea Multiple leitmotifs can happen at the same time

Question 49

Atonality

Answer 49

music with no tonal center (Schoenberg)

Question 50

Serialism

Answer 50

Pitches arranged according to tone values to equalize all 12 pitches

Question 51

Expressionism

Answer 51

expresses the dark side of the mind, life, and experiences (Germany)

Question 52

Primitivism

Answer 52

quest to get back to the origins inspired by pre historic sources (Stravinsky)

Question 53

Traditionalism

Answer 53

composers maintain strong ties to tonality/ audience friendly (Copeland)

Question 54

Avant Garde ism

Answer 54

development of new music, ditching European methods of music making

Question 55

John Cage

Answer 55

chance music, favored sounds not music

Question 56

Minimalism

Answer 56

Uses tonal centers, but structured by cycles of repetition