Unit 2 test Flashcards
A conclusion of a musical phrase, consisting of the V - I chord progression, is known as:
authentic cadence
In a major key, which diatonic triads are major?
I, IV, and V
A conclusion of a musical phrase on the dominant chord (V) is known as:
half cadence
Triads are composed of successive intervals of which numeric size?
3rd
Scales are composed of successive intervals of which numeric size?
2nd
T/F: An interval of a Major 2nd (M2) is a whole step
True
T/F: An interval of a minor 3rd (m3) is one-and-one-half steps.
True
T/F: The interval of a 3rd is a consonance, whether the interval is Major or minor.
True
T/F: A m6 inverts to a m3.
False
T/F: The interval between the root and fifth is a Perfect 5th (P5) in both the major triad and the minor triad.
True
A recurring bass line in a musical composition is known as:
basso ostinato
Who is the composer of Dido and Aeneas?
Henry Purcell
What is an aria?
a song
In the 1590s a group of artists and intellectuals in Florence, Italy, seeking to revive the glories of ancient Greek music drama, invented which genre?
opera
A bass line starting on G, descending to F-sharp, then to F, to E, to E-flat, and then to D, is a chromatic descent from tonic to dominant in which key?
G minor
T/F: Major and minor triads in root position and second inversion (“6-4” chords) provide all the essential consonant harmonies in tonality.
False
T/F: The interval of a 3rd can be Perfect, but it can never be Major or minor.
False
T/F: There are four qualities of 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 7th intervals: diminished, minor, Major, and Augmented.
True
T/F: One of the important textural changes in the Baroque style was to move away from the essential equality among multiple voices exhibited in the Renaissance style of imitative polyphony, and to place the emphasis on the outer voices.
True
In a Baroque concerto, the first movement form was characterized by a recurring refrain, known as the:
ritornello
The term for a four-note chord consisting of root, third, fifth, and seventh:
seventh chord
Who is the composer of The Four Seasons?
Antonio Vivaldi
The most frequently encountered sequence in tonal music:
falling fifths sequence
A broken-chord figuration, sounding the notes of a chord one at a time in a repeated pattern:
arpeggio
Repetitions of the same note with a rapid back-and-forth motion of down-bow and up-bow strokes is a technique known as:
tremolo
The second scale degree; also, used to refer to the diatonic harmony built on the second scale degree:
supertonic
The fifth scale degree; also, used to refer to the diatonic harmony built on the fifth scale degree:
dominant
A dynamic mark indicating soft:
piano
The most enigmatic interval; a dissonance so extreme that in the Middle Ages it was referred to as, “diabolus in musica.”
tritone
A sustained or repeated bass note on either the tonic or the dominant pitch that effectively asserts the bass note’s fundamental harmony, regardless of the activity above the bass:
pedal point
Which list of the four principal string instruments orders them from highest to lowest?
violin, viola, cello, double bass
The first keyboard instrument that responded to the force of the performer’s touch on the keys:
piano
The musicians playing cello and double bass, along with a keyboardist, constitute the part of a Baroque ensemble known as:
basso continuo
A dynamic mark indicating loud; literally, “strong”:
forte
A musical line moving from G# to A, to A#, to B, to B#, to C#, can be referred to as:
chromatic ascent
A note that fills in a diatonic whole step, creating chromatic stepwise motion between two scale degrees:
chromatic passing tone
The repetition of a melodic motive or harmonic progression at successive levels of transposition, using the notes of the diatonic scale:
sequence
The fourth scale degree; also, used to refer to the diatonic harmony built on the fourth scale degree:
subdominant
The process of changing the tonal center, so that the listener hears a different pitch as tonic, is known as:
modulation
T/F: Although we normally think of chamber music as music for a small group of performers, with one musician assigned to each part, works for chamber orchestra can also be referred to as chamber music.
False
The Courante originated in which country?
France
A type of continuous variation popular during the Baroque, similar to the basso ostinato, based on a short harmonic progression, is which of the following?
chaconne
ACSOG is an acronym we associate with which musical genre:
suite
The technique of shifting registers (usually, high and low) to suggest two melodic lines, sometimes more, and essentially “alternating” between the implied lines, is described by which term?
compound melody
Which Baroque ornamentation calls on the performer to sound the note written in the score in rapid alternation with the note a step above the written one?
trill
What term is used to describe the sounding of two adjacent strings at the same time with the bow?
double stop
Which motivic derivative is akin to turning the motive upside down?
melodic inversion
