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Which of the following dances are included in a standard Baroque suite?

Correct: -gavotte -courante -sarabande -allemande Incorrect: -macarena -tango

During the Ars nova, which elements of music were developed?

Correct: -harmony -counterpoint -meter -rhythm Incorrect: -monophony

What were the two main keyboard instruments of the Baroque era?

Correct: -harpsichord -organ Incorrect: -synthesizer -piano

Maria Anna Mozart was which of the following?

Correct: -known as Nannerl -an accomplished pianist Incorrect: -not related to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -a violinist

Which of the following components is found in No. 4 of J. S. Bach's cantata Wachet auf?

Correct: -tenors sing chorale melody -German language -strings play countermelody Incorrect: -Latin language -ternary form (A-B-A)

Which of the following took place during the Baroque period?

Correct: -the Florentine Camerata cultivated a "new style," that emphasized homophonic textures in music -the establishment of major-minor tonality Incorrect: -emphasis was placed on monophonic textures in music -the establishment of pentatonic tonality

Which of the following instruments were categorized as haut (loud, outdoor) in the Renaissance?

Correct: shawm sackbut cornetto Incorrect: rebec lute

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass met the requirements set for by the:

Council of Trent

The music of the fourth variation of the third movement in Haydn's Op. 76, No. 3 string quartet is said to have been based on a folk song from which country?

Croatia

The Baroque era was characterized by peaceful relations between Protestants and Catholics. True/False

False

The ------ Revolution brought with it the means to create more ------ and responsive musical instruments as well as technical ------ that influenced the sound of Romantic music.

Industrial affordable improvements

Mass Proper in order.

Introit Gradual Alleluia (or Tract) Offertory Communion

Which of the following is a tradition in live Western "classical" music performances?

Is a tradition in live Western classical performances: -knowing when to clap -the formal attire the performers wear Is NOT a tradition in live Western classical performances: -audience participation on the stage

Who is the inventor of the "prepared piano"?

John Cage

The developers of the video games Guitar Hero and Rock Band were students of - at MIT.

Machover

Which of the following is a piece of music dedicated to the Virgin Mary?

Magnificat

In the Catholic Mass, the parts that change according to the day belong to the:

Proper

Mozart died while writing which piece?

Requiem Mass

What is the literary basis for West Side Story?

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Match each trait to the piece that it describes.

Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God -smooth phrases Adams: "At the sight of this," from Doctor Atomic -choppy phrases

Which of the following are terms that can be used to label a piece of music that is composed and which are not?

Term for composed music: -work -piece Not a term for composed music: -orchestra -conductor

The libretto for Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas is based on _______.

The Aeneid

What is J. S. Bach's most comprehensive example of contrapuntal writing?

The Art of Fugue

These two pieces are from what eras? Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, I1:05 Haydn: Emperor Quartet, II1:19

The Brandenburg Concerto is from the Baroque era and the Emperor Quartet is from the Classical era.

Which of the following is an opera by John Adams?

The Death of Klinghoffer

Which of the following movies includes a famous scene in which the film music runs counter to the action?

The Godfather

Listen to the example and match each musical element to description that best describes its use in the example. Grieg: Åse's Death, from Peer Gynt0:45

Tonality: -minor key Performing Forces: -strings only

Which novelist wrote Beloved?

Toni Morrison

The Pope Marcellus Mass was written for six voice parts. True/False

True

The development of harmony is central in Western art music. True/False

True

The focus of the melody in Arcadelt's madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno is on the top vocal line (the soprano). True/False

True

The lower voice in organum sings the fixed melody in extremely long notes. True/False

True

The members of the esteemed Antwerp city band were expert improvisers. True/False

True

Trade flourished in the later Middle Ages when a merchant class arose outside of feudal society. True/False

True

The Catalogue Aria in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni catalogs what, exactly?

a list of women in several countries whom Don Giovanni has seduced

What is "Thy hand, Belinda," as sung by Dido in Purcell's opera?

a recitative

The music of Tan Dun was - by the - government, who called it "spiritual pollution." Because of this, Tan Dun left China and moved to New York, where he studied - at Columbia University.

banned Chinese composition

Which of the following is NOT true about Gregorian chant (plainchant) melodies? a. the composer for most of them is unknown b. they are descended from Middle Eastern sacred music traditions c. they are in Hebrew and Syrian d. they are in Latin

c (they are in Hebrew and Syrian)

In some Asian cultures, harmony consists of a single sustained pitch called a:

drone

What meter does Haydn use in the second movement of his Symphony No. 100 to emulate a march?

duple

Artists such as Bernini and Peter Paul Rubens created works that demonstrate the absence of dramatic gestures in the Baroque era. True/False

false

Baroque concertos tended to have only one movement. True/False

false

Composers of historical operas strive for documentary-style accuracy.

false

What is the structural basis for Dido's Lament in Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas?

ground bass

Trumpets of the Baroque era were still "natural," meaning that they ________.

had no valves

Melody and ________ do not function ________ of one another. On the contrary, each ________ influences the other.

harmony independently constantly

What instruments does Puccini use to evoke the timbres of the Japanese gagaku orchestra?

harp, flute, piccolo, bells

The _________ differs from the piano in two main ways: the strings are plucked by _______, and its tone cannot be _________.

harpsichord quills sustained

Which of the following does not describe Henry Purcell's life and career? He was an organist. He was a composer. He was born in Venice. He was a singer.

he was born in Venice

Which of the following was Hildegard not known for?

her architectural plans for new churches

When many people are singing the same melody at the same time, but each singer is modifying the tune slightly, the resulting texture is known as:

heterophony

Which of the following best describes the harmony in this excerpt? Haydn, Symphony No. 94 Surprise, II5:32

mostly consonant

It was for the middle classes that the comic opera and the __________, both genres filled with keen and witty observations on life, came into being during the Baroque era.

novel

Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned French ----.

novelist

Frequency

number of vibrations per second

Whose conscience serves as the focus of John Adams's Doctor Atomic?

physicist Robert Oppenheimer

Classical sonatas were often written for one solo instrument, usually the _______.

piano

Vivaldi's nickname was "the red _______."

priest

Vivaldi wrote instrumental music that depicts a scene without the use of sung words. What is this style called?

program music

Which term describes a collection of pitches arranged in ascending and descending order?

scale

In the second movement of his Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven uses a variant of the minuet called what?

scherzo

The most important function of music in film is to -.

set the mood

Female musicians, particularly ___________, experienced expanded roles in Baroque music life. Two singers, Francesca _______________ and Barbara Strozzi, were among the earliest female composers to publish their works.

singers Caccini

Musical instruments in medieval and Renaissance Europe were categorized as ______ (bas) or _______ (haut) according to their purpose.

soft loud

Corigliano first wrote his song cycle Mr. Tambourine Man for which?

solo voice and piano

First-movement concerto form is sometimes described as a ________ form with a _________ exposition.

sonata-allegro double

What is the term for a group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme?

song cycle

Bob Dylan first made a name for himself as a - and singer of -songs.

songwriter protest

Handel's aria "Rejoice greatly" from Messiah was composed for ______________ voice.

soprano

Which genre best describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

symphonic poem

What special technique is used at the end of the first verse in the song "In the Lovely Month of May"?

text painting

During the Renaissance, which lands did the Europeans explore that were new to them?

the Americas

The French Revolution signaled the transfer of power from the hereditary landholding aristocracy to whom?

the middle class

Which of Beethoven's symphonies includes a chorus?

the ninth

Which of Beethoven's symphonies was originally dedicated to Napoleon?

the third

The most common type of chord in Western music is the:

triad

Foster was sympathetic toward the Abolitionist cause.

true

Lining-out involves call-and-response singing. True/False

true

Program music is music that has a literary link of some kind. True/False

true

Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly focuses on the heroine, a former geisha.

true

Romantic Lied texts are written in German.

true

The works of both John Cage and George Crumb rely on the creativity of others for their works to be successful.

true

Theme and variations was a typical form for the second movement of a symphony. True/False

true

Though Mozart wrote many of his piano concertos as display pieces for his own public performances, he wrote the G major piano concerto K. 453 for another person to perform. True/False

true

Though born in the same year and country, Handel and Bach never met.

true

Polyrhythm

"many rhythms"

** chords

**What are the circled sections?

What was Tin Pan Alley?

28th Street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses

Other than Mr. Tambourine Man, which is another Bob Dylan song that appears in Corigliano's song cycle?

All Along the Watchtower

The text of the Magnificat focuses upon the moment when the Virgin Mary was told that she would bear a son, a moment that is known in the Catholic Church as the _______________ .

Annunciation

Match the character with the vocal type as heard in Don Giovanni.

Baritone: -Don Giovanni Soprano: -Donna Anna -Donna Elvira Bass: -Leporello -the Commendatore

Triple Meter

Basic pattern. Has three beats to a measure- One strong beat and two weak ones. ONE two three. Traditionally associated with dances such as the waltz and the minuet.

Who was the Countess Giuletta Guicciardi?

Beethoven's student

Match the musical techniques to the image from the poem that Vivaldi was depicting.

Birds: staccato notes, trills, and running scales Thunder, lightning: agitated repeated notes, ascending minor-key scales

Corigliano's Prelude from Mr. Tambourine Man is a song cycle set to the texts of which artist?

Bob Dylan

In blue cathedral, Higdon incorporates -, effectively evoking an Asian soundscape.

Chinese reflex balls

Sextuple Meter

Compound duple. Six beats to the measure. Two main beats that divides into three. ONE-and-a, TWO-and-a. Marked by a gently flowing effect. Often found in lullabies and nursery rhymes.

Conjunct vs. Disjunct

Conjunct: a melody that moves in small, connected intervals Disjunct: a melody that moves by leaps, many wide leaps

Quadruple Meter

Contains four beats to the measure. Primary accent on the first beat and a secondary accent on the third. Usually has a broader feeling than duple meter.

For which of the following events was Mozart's Requiem chosen because of its expressive power?

Correct: -JFK's funeral -September 11 attack anniversary Incorrect: -the funeral of Princess Diana

How many preludes and fugues make up J. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier?

48

How many string quartets did Haydn write?

68

The Lutheran chorale Wachet auf is in bar form, which is best described as ___________.

A-A-B

The form of both Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Trepak from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker is best outlined as which?

A-B-A

Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is in - form.

A-B-A'

Match each trait to the piece that it describes.

Adams: "At the sight of this," from Doctor Atomic -sung in English Orff: O fortuna, from Carmina burana -sung in Latin

Why does Dido sing a lament at the end of Purcell's opera?

Aeneas left her

Match each definition to the appropriate compositional term that it describes.

Augmentation: the subject is presented in longer time values Diminution: the subject is presented in shorter time values Inversion: the pitches of the subject are stated upside down Retrograde: the pitches of the subject are stated backwards

The B section of Handel's Alla hornpipe from Water Music is in which key?

B minor

For which soloist did Mozart write his G Major Piano Concerto, K. 453?

Babette von Ployer

Match the characteristics to the movement of the cantata Wachet auf (Sleepers, Awake) that they describe.

Bach: Wachet auf, No. 4 -tenors sing chorale melody -sung by tenors only (with orchestra) Bach: Wachet auf, No. 1 -sopranos sing chorale melody -parts are sung by full SATB chorus (with orchestra)

During which holiday season is Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker performed every year?

Christmas

Where does Act I of The Nutcracker take place?

Christmas party

From 1847 on, Stephen Foster was under contract with the -----.

Christy Minstrels

What happens in the second act of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker?

Clara visits the land of sweets with the Prince.

Match the Broadway musical to the composer or lyricist/composer team who wrote it.

Claude-Michel Schonberg: Les Misérables Stephen Sondheim: Into the Woods Andrew Lloyd Webber: Cats Elton John: Billy Elliot Rodgers and Hammerstein: The King and I

Japan's two hundred years of isolation ended when the US Navy arrived in 1854, lead by ___________.

Commodore Perry

Compound Meter vs. Simple Meter

Compound Meter: ONE-and-a, TWO-and-a Simple Meter: ONE-and, two-and

Consider the setting of Bob Dylan's text Mr. Tambourine Man by Corigliano and the original version by Bob Dylan. Match the description to the version of the song.

Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man: -orchestral accompaniment -syncopated with shifting meters Bob Dylan's original Mr. Tambourine Man: -acoustic guitar accompaniment -straightforward duple meter

Match the musical characteristic to the piece it best describes.

Corigliano's Prelude, from Mr. Tambourine Man: -many tempo and mood changes -features a tambourine Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man: -four text verses -the voice begins with the chorus

Consider the careers of Bob Dylan and John Corigliano. Match the description to the composer it best represents.

Corigliano: -known for his classical/art music -commissioned by singer Sylvia McNair Bob Dylan -considered by some to be one of the greatest twentieth-century American poets -know for his unique nasal singing voice

Which of these Romantic-era works is considered to have an "exotic" narrative?

Correct Answer(s) -Aida -Madame Butterfly Incorrect Answer(s) -Brahms's Symphony No. 2

Which of the following songs were written by Stephen Foster?

Correct Answer(s) -Camptown Races -Old Folks at Home Incorrect Answer(s) -September: At the River Elfking

Which of the following are Romantic-era composers?

Correct Answer(s) -Clara Wieck Schumann -Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Incorrect Answer(s) -Nedezhda von Meck -George Sand

Who of the following composers wrote short lyric piano pieces in the Romantic era and who did not?

Correct Answer(s) -Franz Liszt -Felix Mendelssohn -Clara Wieck Schumann Incorrect Answer(s) -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -George Frideric Handel

Who of the following were prominent composers of Romantic-era Lieder?

Correct Answer(s) -Franz Schubert -Clara Schumann Incorrect Answer(s) -Wolfgang Mozart -Ludwig van Beethoven

Which of the following correctly describe a part of Franz Schubert's career?

Correct Answer(s) -He wrote more than 600 Lieder. -He sang in a prestigious choir in Vienna. -His music shows both Classical and Romantic traits. Incorrect Answer(s) -He did not write chamber music.

Which of the following is a characteristic of Robert Schumann's In the Lovely Month of May?

Correct Answer(s) -It is in a strophic form. -The poetry was written by Heine. -It is for solo voice and piano. Incorrect Answer(s) -It is in through-composed form. -It is sung in French.

Which of the following describes Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love)?

Correct Answer(s) -The poems follow a psychological progression. -It is a song cycle. -It is comprised of sixteen songs. Incorrect Answer(s) -There is a clear story being told.

Which of these authors wrote during the Romantic era?

Correct Answer(s) -Victor Hugo -Walter Scott Incorrect Answer(s) -William Shakespeare

Which of the following describes Chopin's Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op. 24, No. 4?

Correct Answer(s) -chromatic melody -triple meter Incorrect Answer(s) -conjunct melody -minor tonality throughout

Robert Schumann was noted for which of the following in his day?

Correct Answer(s) -composition -music criticism Incorrect Answer(s) -opera singer -violin virtuoso

Which of the following were new instruments added to the Romantic orchestra?

Correct Answer(s) -piccolo -contrabassoon -English horn Incorrect Answer(s) -viola -French horn

Which of the following correctly describes Stephen Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair?

Correct Answer(s) -syllabic -major key -moderate tempo Incorrect Answer(s) -minor key -allegro tempo

Which of the following are pieces that Chopin wrote and which are not?

Correct Answer(s) -études -polonaises -nocturnes Incorrect Answer(s) motets organum

Which film scores from the 1970s and 1980s featured the then-new Moog synthesizer?

Correct Answer(s) A Clockwork Orange The Shining Incorrect Answer(s) Apocalypse Now Chinatown

Which of the following describes Libera me from Fauré's Requiem?

Correct Answer(s) A-B-A′ form minor tonality features a baritone solo Incorrect Answer(s) an extremely large orchestra a Cappella

Who of the following composers were students of Arnold Schoenberg?

Correct Answer(s) Anton Webern Alban Berg Incorrect Answer(s) Alban Elfed Anton Bruckner

Which of the following composers were students of Arnold Schoenberg?

Correct Answer(s) Anton Webern Alban Berg Incorrect Answer(s) Leonard Bernstein Steven Spielberg

Which of the following are considered Symbolist poets?

Correct Answer(s) Baudelaire Mallarmé Verlaine Incorrect Answer(s) Whitman Thoreau

Which of these orchestras did Nadia Boulanger conduct during her career?

Correct Answer(s) Boston Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic New York Philharmonic Incorrect Answer(s) Los Angeles Philharmonic Seattle Symphony

Which cultural influences have been identified in the African country of Uganda?

Correct Answer(s) British Indonesian Arabic Incorrect Answer(s) Spanish Greek

Which of the following influences are heard in the music of Arvo Pärt?

Correct Answer(s) Eastern European folk music Gregorian chant Russian Orthodox music Incorrect Answer(s) French courante

In which countries was nineteenth-century ballet favored as an independent dramatic form?

Correct Answer(s) France Russia Incorrect Answer(s) Sweden Ireland

Which of the following is a post-Romantic composer?

Correct Answer(s) Giacomo Puccini Richard Strauss Gustav Mahler Incorrect Answer(s) Claude Debussy Gustav Holst

What are the prominent languages used in the Eastern Christian church?

Correct Answer(s) Greek Russian Incorrect Answer(s) English Latin

Which of the following statements describe George Gershwin's career?

Correct Answer(s) He wrote film scores. He won international acclaim with Rhapsody in Blue. His first big hit was with the song Swanee in 1920. Incorrect Answer(s) He lived to old age.

Which are true about John Williams and his career?

Correct Answer(s) He wrote the music for Home Alone. He wrote Barack Obama's inauguration music. He began composing for television in the 1950s. Incorrect Answer(s) He has never written music for television.

Which of the following composers won the Prix de Rome?

Correct Answer(s) Hector Berlioz Claude Debussy Georges Bizet Incorrect Answer(s) Fanny Mendelssohn

Which of the following is true of Impressionism?

Correct Answer(s) It developed in parallel with the Symbolist movement in poetry. It was initially a term denoting scorn of the new style. It was rebuffed by the academic salons of Paris. Incorrect Answer(s) It is mainly an Italian art form.

Which are true of Billie's Blues?

Correct Answer(s) It features clarinet improvisations. It features trumpet playing. Incorrect Answer(s) It was written by Duke Ellington. Holiday sings without embellishments.

Which of the following describe John Tavener's work The Veil of the Temple?

Correct Answer(s) It is written for four choirs. It is written for several orchestras. It has a duration of at least seven hours. Incorrect Answer(s) It excludes soloists.

Which of the following describe Copland's Appalachian Spring?

Correct Answer(s) It was originally a ballet. It contains an early American song associated with the Shakers. Incorrect Answer(s) It was originally an orchestral suite. It is about the Civil War.

Puccini makes reference to the music of which nations in Madame Butterfly?

Correct Answer(s) Japanese the United States Incorrect Answer(s) Germanic Russian

Which of the following composers have contributed to the spiritual minimalist movement?

Correct Answer(s) John Tavener Arvo Pärt Henryk Górecki Incorrect Answer(s) John Williams John Cage

Which of the following artists is associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s?

Correct Answer(s) Langston Hughes Richmond Barthé Augusta Savage Incorrect Answer(s) Alice Walker

Which of the following describe process music?

Correct Answer(s) Musical ideas repeat many times with gradual changes. It deals with stable harmonies. Incorrect Answer(s) It is derivative of twelve-tone music. It promotes the emancipation of dissonance.

Who of the following were associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?

Correct Answer(s) Nijinsky Karsavina Picasso Incorrect Answer(s) Dostoyevsky

Who of the following artists are famous for their Cubist-style works?

Correct Answer(s) Picasso Gris Braque Incorrect Answer(s) Dalí

Which of the following operas is considered part of the verismo tradition?

Correct Answer(s) Puccini's La bohème Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci Puccini's Tosca Incorrect Answer(s) Wagner's Die Walküre Verdi's Aida

William Grant Still based the movements of his Suite for Violin and Piano on works of which of the following artists?

Correct Answer(s) Richmond Barthé Sargent Johnson Augusta Savage Incorrect Answer(s) Alain Locke

Who of the following are abstract expressionist painters?

Correct Answer(s) Robert Motherwell Jackson Pollock Incorrect Answer(s) Aaron Copland Silvestre Revueltas

Which of the following are true about Jennifer Higdon?

Correct Answer(s) She won a Pulitzer Prize. She has taught music composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Incorrect Answer(s) Her music tends to have a narrow dynamic range. She was born and educated on the West Coast.

Which types of tunes did Charles Ives incorporate in his Country Band March?

Correct Answer(s) Sousa marches patriotic tunes children's songs hymns Incorrect Answer(s) big band jazz New Orleans jazz

At which prestigious Parisian churches did Fauré work?

Correct Answer(s) St. Sulpice La Madeleine Incorrect Answer(s) Saint-Denis Sainte-Chapelle Notre Dame

Which of the following composers were part of the development of process music in the 1960s?

Correct Answer(s) Terry Riley La Monte Young Steve Reich Incorrect Answer(s) Arnold Schoenberg

Which of the following were famous ballets written by Tchaikovsky?

Correct Answer(s) The Nutcracker Sleeping Beauty Swan Lake Incorrect Answer(s) Romeo and Juliet 1812 Overture

Which of the following characterize the premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in 1924?

Correct Answer(s) The concert was billed as "An Experiment in Modern Music." The work was conducted by Paul Whiteman. Incorrect Answer(s) It was poorly attended. Gershwin's work was not well-received.

Which of the following are characteristics of big-band jazz?

Correct Answer(s) The music is arranged and composed. Duke Ellington played a major role in its development. Incorrect Answer(s) It wasn't very popular in the 1930s and 40s. The performances are entirely improvised.

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

Correct Answer(s) University of California at Los Angeles University of Southern California Incorrect Answer(s) Princeton University Leipzig Conservatory

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" features which of the following?

Correct Answer(s) antique cymbals homophonic texture "blue" chords chromaticism Incorrect Answer(s) accented rhythmic drive

Which of the following percussion instruments are heard in Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral?

Correct Answer(s) bell tree crotales tuned glasses Incorrect Answer(s) cloud chamber bowl boo II

Which of the following were popular during the Great Depression in the United States?

Correct Answer(s) big-band jazz Broadway musical theater film music Incorrect Answer(s) organum

Which of the following forms did Fauré favor in his own compositions?

Correct Answer(s) chamber music songs piano miniatures Incorrect Answer(s) only secular music large-scale dramatic orchestral tone poems

Listen to this excerpt from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which was written in the early twentieth century: Stravinsky: Rite of Spring0:54 Keeping in mind the changes in rhythm, melody, harmony, and orchestration that occured during the early twentieth century, choose the musical traits that best describe this piece.

Correct Answer(s) changing meters with strong, uneven accents harsh, dissonant block chords Incorrect Answer(s) steady meter with evenly placed accents consonant, lyrical melody

Which of the following describe John Tavener's early career?

Correct Answer(s) church organist piano prodigy studied music in London at the Royal Academy Incorrect Answer(s) rejected modernism in his music

Which of the following is a characteristic of Japanese kabuki?

Correct Answer(s) costumes makeup dance drama Incorrect Answer(s) rich supporting harmony

Which of the following describes Corigliano's Prelude from Mr. Tambourine Man?

Correct Answer(s) disjunct melodic lines asymmetrical phrasing Incorrect Answer(s) sonata-allegro form uniformly consonant

Which of the following describe Revueltas's Homage to Federico García Lorca?

Correct Answer(s) dissonant harmony polyphonic syncopated rhythm Incorrect Answer(s) evokes a flamenco ensemble homophonic

Which of the following describes the harmony and melody in William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano?

Correct Answer(s) flatted (lowered) sevenths flatted (lowered) thirds modal Incorrect Answer(s) atonal

Which instruments did Puccini use in Madame Butterfly to evoke the Japanese gagaku orchestra?

Correct Answer(s) flute harp piccolo bells Incorrect Answer(s) piano trombone

Which of the following describes Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?

Correct Answer(s) homophonic texture triple meter Incorrect Answer(s) monophonic texture duple meter

Bob Dylan's overall style includes which of the following characteristics?

Correct Answer(s) irregular and surprising forms nasal, raspy vocal timbre Incorrect Answer(s) lyrics contain regular metric patterns predictable formal models

Which styles are incorporated in the music of early twentieth-century modernist composers from the United States?

Correct Answer(s) jazz blues folk Incorrect Answer(s) Indian raga

Which of the following characterize neo-Romanticism?

Correct Answer(s) lush harmonic language innovative timbres mostly tonal Incorrect Answer(s) mostly atonal

Which of the following are characteristics of George Gershwin's Summertime from Porgy and Bess and which are not?

Correct Answer(s) minor key homophonic Incorrect Answer(s) major key polyphonic

Which best describe the musical characteristics of the opening theme of John Williams's Imperial March from Star Wars?

Correct Answer(s) minor tonality repeated rhythmic ostinati disjunct melody Incorrect Answer(s) major tonality conjunct melody

Which two trends in the 1940s and 1950s focused on electronically-produced sounds?

Correct Answer(s) musique concrète elektronische Musik Incorrect Answer(s) protest songs Broadway musicals

Which of the following are subcategories of postmodernist art?

Correct Answer(s) new classicism earthworks minimalism Incorrect Answer(s) impressionism

From which stage genres did American musical theater develop?

Correct Answer(s) operetta vaudeville/variety show Incorrect Answer(s) grand opera oratorio

Which two scale types did Puccini use in Madame Butterfly to evoke Japanese culture?

Correct Answer(s) pentatonic whole-tone Incorrect Answer(s) major minor

Which of the following describe John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes?

Correct Answer(s) piano produces percussive effects irregular phrases Incorrect Answer(s) consistently conjunct melody regular duple meter

What instruments accompany the voice in Crumb's Caballito negro?

Correct Answer(s) piccolo metallic percussion Incorrect Answer(s) clarinet violin

Which of the following is a characteristic of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

Correct Answer(s) polytonality large orchestra dissonance Incorrect Answer(s) use of chamber orchestra regularly accented meter

Which of the following are characteristics of Impressionist music?

Correct Answer(s) rich orchestral color unresolved dissonances modal scales Incorrect Answer(s) strict rhythms

Which serve as the basis for the libretto of Doctor Atomic?

Correct Answer(s) sacred Hindu scripture the memoirs of the scientists involved government documents Baudelaire poetry from John Donne Incorrect Answer(s) the memoirs of Harry S. Truman Counter-Reformation texts

Which of the following describe mariachi music?

Correct Answer(s) shifting meters verse/chorus structure strong accents Incorrect Answer(s) nonmetric repertory of mostly marches

Which of the following describe George Crumb's Caballito negro?

Correct Answer(s) sung in Spanish atonal harmony disjunct melody Incorrect Answer(s) regular duple meter

Which of the following are characteristics of mariachi music?

Correct Answer(s) syncopated rhythms trumpets and violins, playing in thirds Incorrect Answer(s) flute and clarinets dominating the melody lines quarter tones

What are the two main types of film music?

Correct Answer(s) underscoring source music Incorrect Answer(s) organum muzak

Listen to this excerpt from Webern's Variations for Orchestra, which was written in the early twentieth century: Webern: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 300:45 Keeping in mind the changes in rhythm, melody, harmony, and orchestration that occured during the early twentieth century, choose the musical traits that best describe this piece.

Correct Answer(s) unpredictable melodic lines sparse, thin orchestral texture Incorrect Answer(s) lyrical, consonant melody lush, strings-focused orchestral accompaniment

Listen to this excerpt from Berg's Wozzeck, which was written in the early twentieth century: Berg: Wozzeck1:00 Keeping in mind the changes in rhythm, melody, harmony, and orchestration that occured during the early twentieth century, choose the musical traits that best describe this piece.

Correct Answer(s) unpredictable orchestral accompaniment disjunct, speech-like melodic line Incorrect Answer(s) lyrical, consonant melody lush, strings-focused orchestral accompaniment

Which instruments did Lili Boulanger learn to play as a child?

Correct Answer(s) violin harp piano Incorrect Answer(s) marimba trombone

Which of the following were common forms of musical expression amongst African American communities in the nineteenth century?

Correct Answer(s) work songs ring shouts spirituals Incorrect Answer(s) 16-bar blues

Which of the following are true of harmony?

Correct Answer(s): -The most common chord in Western music is the triad -Harmony is derived from scales -Chords occur when three or more notes are sounded simultaneously Incorrect Answer(s): -Harmonic practices are identical today to what they were a millennium ago

Which of the following create rhythmic complexity in music?

Correct Answer(s): -accented offbeats -polyrythm -syncopation Incorrect Answer(s): -a strong regular pulse

Which of the following goals are attributed to Charlemagne?

Correct Answer(s): -centralized government -encouragement of education -government control of law and order Incorrect Answer(s): -the rise of merchant class

Which of the following were noted makers of string instruments in the Baroque era?

Correct: -Amati -Stradivarius -Guarneri Incorrect: -Steinway -Yamaha -Fender

Which of the following describes first-movement concerto form of the Classical era?

Correct: -Combines elements of ritornello procedure with sonata-allegro form. -It is the most complex of the three movements. -It is the longest of the three movements. Incorrect: -It is the shortest and simplest of the three movements.

** 1 (twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle star)

**In the following image, click the example that is in duple meter. Remember, the numbers below the text refer to the beats in the measure.

** 4 (My coin-try 'tis ofthee, Sweet land of li- - ber-ty.)

**In the following image, click the example that is in triple meter. Remember, the numbers below the text refer to the beats in the measure.

** 2 (a-las my love, you do me wrong, to cast me off dis-cour-teous-ly,)

**In the following image, click the line that is in sextuple meter. Remember, the numbers below the text refer to the beats in the measure.

Which of the following took place at the convent of St. Radegonda when Cozzolani was there?

Correct: -Cozzolani was the director of one of the convent's two choirs -Cozzolani joined family members already in the convent -Cozzolani wrote and published her own music Incorrect: -the sisters adhered to the church ban on singing polyphony

Which of the following dramatic works were composed Henry Purcell?

Correct: -Dido and Aeneas -The Fairy Queen Incorrect: -The Magic Flute -Orfeo

Which of the following verses are found in the Dies irae from Mozart's Requiem? (Only the first two words are included for each verse.)

Correct: -Dies irae -Tuba mirum -Rex tremendae Incorrect: -Stabat mater -Ave Maria

Who of the following characters did Don Giovanni desire?

Correct: -Donna Elvira -Zerlina -Donna Anna Incorrect: -the Commendatore -Leporello

Which of the following belong to the Mass Ordinary?

Correct: -Gloria -Agnus Dei -Sanctus Incorrect: -Alleluia -Gradual

In the Lutheran tradition, the cantata was performed in the service along with what other events?

Correct: -Gospel readings -the sermon -prayers Incorrect: -opera performances

Which composers are considered part of the Viennese School?

Correct: -Haydn -Mozart -Beethoven Incorrect: -J.S. Bach

Which of the following is true of Mozart at the time just before his death?

Correct: -He was working on his Requiem. Incorrect: -He was seventy-one years old. -He was complete

Fauré's Requiem was premiered at an architect's __________________.

funeral

In order to marry her American love, Cio-Cio-San, in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, renounces her role as a ________________.

geisha

Which of the following describes the form of the second movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata?

gentle scherzo

Minimalist musical works rely on consonant musical elements that are repeated and - changed over - time frames.

gradually extended

Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is primarily composed in what texture?

homophonic

In comparison to the Renaissance, Baroque music is characterized by a texture wherein a single melody stands out known as ___________.

homophony

What is the texture of the last line of Fair Phyllis?

homorhythmic

The fugue is based on the principle of ________.

imitation

The fugue is based on what principle?

imitation

What is the predominant texture in Josquin's motet Ave Maria . . . virgo serena?

imitative polyphony

How do performers of "classical" music ensembles typically dress?

in black formal wear

The eighteenth century saw the rise of ballet as an - art form. French ballet was preeminent in the early nineteenth century then - ballet flourished.

independent Russian

A Baroque concerto is a(n) __________ genre that is based on the __________ between two dissimilar bodies of sound.

instrumental opposition

One of the most important ___________ genres in the Baroque era was the ____________, which was a group of ___________ dances.

instrumental suite short

The melodic element of twentieth-century music can be described as which?

instrumentally conceived

At a concert, there is usually a break when you can move around. What is this break called?

intermission

Bernstein's union of - and musical theatre resulted in West Side Story.

jazz

When did Haydn write his Opus 76 quartets?

late 1790s

In order to associate the music with a character, John Williams utilizes -in his film music.

leitmotifs

What specific musical technique did Puccini borrow from Wagner in his Madame Butterfly?

leitmotifs

What is the name of the seventeenth-century system in New England in which church leaders sang each line of a psalm and the congregation repeated the lines back?

lining-out

Which best describes the text setting on the word "rejoice" in the aria "Rejoice greatly" from Handel's Messiah?

long melisma

Romantic-era melodies are best described as ------.

lyrical and singable

Which best describes the melody of the aria "Rejoice greatly" from Handel's Messiah?

lyrical lines

The chordal harmony in Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral is largely -.

major

Listen to the example and match each musical element to description that best describes its use in the example. Mozart: Symphony No. 35, II0:46

major scale: -harmony graceful, courtly: -melody expressive, mournful: - minor scale: -

The fast-paced Afro-Cuban dance with a syncopated beat heard in The Dance at the Gym in Bernstein's West Side Story is called -.

mambo

The lively triple-meter dance with an accent on the second or third beat in the measure that originated in Mazovia is known as the ----.

mazurka

Chopin paid homage to his Eastern European ancestry by composing which?

mazurkas and polonaises

Meter, marked in ___________ (or bars), organizes the ___________ in music.

measures beats

Byzantine and Greek scales and modes differ from Western scales and modes in that Byzantine and Greek scales and modes include which of the following?

microtones

John Adams's eclectic approach combines elements of the - style with traits of neo-Romanticism, forging a post-minimalist style in his -Doctor Atomic.

minimalist opera

Which of the following was a type of racially-charged theatrical variety show in the United States in the nineteenth century?

minstrel show

In what form is the third movement of a typical Classical multimovement cycle?

minuet and trio

The third movement of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik is in what form?

minuet and trio

The pre-tonal scale patterns utilized in Gregorian chant are referred to as:

modes

Farmer "paints" the first line of the text, "Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone," through the musical use of:

monophony

Duple Meter

most basic pattern. alternates a strong downbeat with a weak beat. ONE two, ONE two or LEFT right, LEFT, right.

In the Renaissance, what was one of the most popular sacred genres with a Latin text?

motet

All four of the movements in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony are based on one _________.

motive

What are the sections of a symphony known as?

movements

Underscoring in film music refers to which?

music coming from an unseen source

The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns which?

mythological faun in a dream-like state

The French song genre that paralleled the German Lied in the nineteenth century was the:

mélodie

How many symphonies did Beethoven write?

nine

In the ---- century technical improvements were made to the piano, which satisfied ----- composers' quest for greater dynamic range.

nineteenth Romantic

Neo-Romantic composers embraced aspects of which?

nineteenth-century orchestral sound

Some music is __________, with an obscured pulse.

nonmetric

Which term is used to describe music that moves without a strong sense of beat?

nonmetric

Harmony is defined as the simultaneous combination of ________, which results in intervals and ________.

notes chords

During the Middle Ages, which Arabic import allowed for pattern-related disciplines to flourish in the West?

numerals

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, a Benedictine ____________ who was also a musician and composer, is noted for having her works ____________ and circulated beyond the convent.

nun published

Rhythmic complexities occur with:

offbeats syncopation polyrhythm

In a concert in which a symphony is performed, when is the audience generally expected to clap?

only at the end of the final movement

The most notable Baroque innovation was the "drama through music," which we now call __________.

opera

The type of Classical opera that continued a tradition of idealized characters and plots was called _______.

opera seria

Late Romantic ideals were carried into the post-Romantic era both through the Italian - tradition as witnessed in Puccini and by - composers Strauss and -, both of whom were noted for their orchestral writing.

operatic German Mahler

In traditional Ugandan music practice, technique and repertory are learned through _________.

oral transmission

Put the parts of the first movement of Mozart's G major piano concerto in order.

orchestral exposition solo exposition development recapitulation

Cozzolani composed her Magnificat for soloists, double choirs, strings, and which instrument?

organ

In late Baroque Venice, four religious institutions for orphaned girls gained fame; these institutions were called:

ospedali

George M. Cohan was a composer of - songs.

patriotic

Nedezhda von Meck's relationship with Tchaikovsky was which?

patron

Japanese folk melodies are often built on a five-note, or _____________, scale.

pentatonic

The drums in the royal drum (entenga) ensemble are tuned to a ________________ scale.

pentatonic

The early twentieth-century emphasis on rhythm brought the -group into greater prominence, and the piano found a place in the - ensemble.

percussion orchestral

Polish composer Frédéric Chopin dedicated his entire compositional output to the -.

piano

The German art song was a genre that was generally performed by a solo voice and ------.

piano

Which of the soloists in these three examples features the widest range? Mozart: Horn Concerto, K. 447, III0:37 Mozart: Piano Concerto, K. 467, II0:56 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, K. 662, II2:14

piano

Vivaldi's Spring from The Four Seasons is paired with a ________ as its literary source.

poem

The text of Schiller's __________ "Ode to Joy" is an expression of universal brotherhood and was inspired by the contemporary ___________.

poem French Revolution

Robert Schumann praised the level of expression in Chopin's work, calling Chopin a(n) -----.

poet

Some Puritan leaders considered ___________ singing to be scandalous.

polyphonic

The books in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling are considered works of -.

postmodernism

In the 1940s and 1950s, the twelve-tone music of Schoenberg and his students was perceived as scientific, and was considered _______________ in European and American institutions.

prestigous

Which best describes the tempo of the third movement of the Moonlight Sonata?

presto agitato

At the time of Monteverdi's opera The Coronation of Poppea, what type of opera houses were beginning to open in Venice?

public

For which setting did Mozart write Eine kleine Nachtmusik?

public outdoor entertainment

Which best describes the tempo heard in the Alla hornpipe from Handel's Water Music?

quick

Which best describes the expression in Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker?

quiet and mysterious

What is the last section of sonata-allegro form in which the opening thematic material is restated?

recapitulation

Clarity in the Classical era was provided by ________ and the frequent use of _________ (a pattern repeated at a higher or lower pitch). These devices created balanced structures that were easily accessible to the listener.

repetition sequence

What is the term that describes a melody that is stated backwards?

retrograde

The rhythmic pattern of long-short repeated throughout the piece defines the:

rhythmic mode

What is the unifying formal structure that Vivaldi used in the first movement of the Spring concerto?

ritornello

In the fourth movement of Wachet auf, Bach separates the sung sections with instrumental passages known as ________.

ritornellos

Which is the best definition of tempo rubato?

robbed time

What is the name for a Classical theme that quickly ascends from a low register to a high register?

rocket theme

Interest in the bizarre and morbid characterizes which era?

romantic

The Susato dances are examples of which kind of instrumental dance?

ronde

In his music Chopin called for "robbed" time, a technique formally known as ----.

rubato

Which movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is in theme-and-variations form?

second

In eighteenth-century New England, a new type of notation called ______________ evolved to help improve solfège instruction.

shape-note notation

*Which term best describes the meter of the song Tonight, from Bernstein's West Side Story? (Hint: The beat is divided into twos.) Simple/Compound?

simple

By the 1720s many New England congregations sponsored "_________ schools" that were designed to teach the basics of _________ notation and _________.

singing music theory

The overall structure of Cage's Sonatas and Interludes comprises -sonatas in groups of -, with each groups separated by an -.

sixteen four interlude

Bob Dylan played an important role in the - movement of the 1960s.

social protest

In Mozart's comic operas, he held ________ up to a mirror and emphasized the problems of separating people based on ________ and gender.

society class

The system in which syllables are used to memorize intervals between notes in a standard scale pattern is called:

soflege

During the Classical era, composers wrote concertos for orchestra and an instrumental:

soloist

In the Classical-era concerto, composers balanced the virtuosic display of the ________ with the collaborative efforts of the _________.

soloist orchestra

The first movement of a Classical multimovement cycle is often in _____________ form.

sonata-allegro

What is the form of the first movement of a typical Classical string quartet?

sonata-allegro

Which voices usually sing the melody in a typical Lutheran chorale as sung by the congregation on Sundays?

soprano

In fugues, overlapping statements of a subject (melody) is referred to as:

stretto

The heart of the Classical-era orchestra was the ______ section.

string

Which genre is NOT a part of Chopin's compositional output?

string quartets

The form of Stephen Foster's song Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is -----.

strophic

The two main Romantic-era song structures include ------ and through-composed. An intermediate type, which is a combination of these two, is called ------ strophic.

strophic modified

Which of the following genres is a group of dance movements, usually in the same key?

suite

The text setting of Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is -.

syllabic

What kind of melodies did composers favor in the Classical era? Haydn: Emperor Quartet, II0:00

symmetrical in balanced phrases

In a comparison of the Classical and Romantic styles, Classical melodies were characterized by _________, while Romantic melodies were characterized by ________.

symmetry chromaticism

Which best describes the rhythm in the Act II, Scene 3, chorus "At the sight of this" from Doctor Atomic?

syncopated

What is created when the accent is shifted to a weak beat or an offbeat?

syncopation

Some of Steve Reich's early phase music works were created entirely on magnetic -, but he later experimented with having - musicians replicate the process of moving "in and out of phase."

tape live

Billings often wrote the melody to his pieces in the __________ line rather than the soprano.

tenor

The Allegro movement from the Water Music Suite in D major is in which form?

ternary (three-part)

The form of George Crumb's Caballito negro is -.

ternary (three-part)

The Baroque marks the introduction of solo song with instrumental accompaniment, called ____________ in Florence.

the "new style"

Listen to the Baroque Rondeau by the French court composer Jean-Joseph Mouret: Jean-Joseph Mouret: Baroque Rondeau2:05 Given that the A section begins the piece, and the B section begins at 0:28, what do you hear at 0:42?

the A section

Listen to the Baroque Rondeau by the French court composer Jean-Joseph Mouret: Jean-Joseph Mouret: Baroque Rondeau2:05 Given that the A section begins the piece, and the B section begins at 0:28, what do you hear at 1:32?

the A section

The first book published in North America (1628) was:

the Bay Psalm Book

Some contemporary musicals look back to - for their source of narrative material.

the Classics

Which character ultimately brings Don Giovanni to his justly deserved fate?

the Commendatore

From which older genre did the symphony evolve?

the Italian opera overture

During the Middle Ages, which religious organization wielded the most power in regions formerly under the rule of the Roman Empire?

the Roman Catholic Church

Many women composers in the Baroque era felt a particularly strong affinity with which biblical character?

the Virgin Mary

What is a unique feature of the solo concerto that sets it apart from other instrumental genres?

the cadenza

The cadenza that is typically performed today in Mozart's G Major Piano Concerto, K. 453 is:

the cadenza written by Mozart

Music-making in the Classical era centered upon ___________.

the court of the patron

Interval

the distance between any two pitches

For which religious occasion was the cantata Wachet auf (Sleepers Awake) written?

the end of the church year

Which period of European art and literature most captivated eighteenth-century thinkers?

the era of ancient Greek and Roman civilization

What marked the beginning of the middle ages?

the fall of the roman empire

Downbeat

the first accented beat of each pattern. referring to the downward stroke of a conductor's hand.

Who was Lorenzo da Ponte?

the librettist who adapted the Don Juan legend into Mozart's opera

Which of the following determines the tonality of a piece?

the scale chosen by the composer

What is the text of Wachet auf urging Lutherans to prepare themselves for?

the second coming of Christ

Which movement is the Libera me in Fauré's Requiem (the 1887-1889 version)?

the sixth

Phrases

the units that make up a melody. phrases end in resting places called cadences.

The expansion of a melodic idea is known as:

thematic development

Varying a theme's melodic outline, rhythm, or harmony is known as _________. A _________ is a theme's smallest melodic or rhythmic unit.

thematic development motive

The second movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is in what form?

theme and variations

The second movement of Haydn's Op. 76, No. 3 String Quartet is composed in what form?

theme and variations form

Which movement of a string quartet is often in minuet-and-trio form? True/False

third

The Classical orchestra typically included how many players?

thirty to forty

How many collections of music did Cozzolani publish in her lifetime?

three

How many movements does a typical Classical-era concerto have?

three

In simple meters the beat is divided into two, and in compound meters the beat is divided into how many?

three

The Classical-era concerto has how many movements?

three

The Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint has ___________ movement(s).

three

The form of the second movement in Haydn's Symphony No. 100 is in _______ parts.

three

A song that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is in which form?

through-composed form

Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral opens with bell-like timbres, a style known as what?

tintinnabulation

In the major-minor tonal system, what is the most important note?

tonic

The ________ is the first and central note of a scale. The principle of organization around a central note is called ________.

tonic tonality

An accented beat followed by two weak beats indicates a ___________ meter.

triple

Which meter was especially attractive in medieval music because it symbolized the perfection of the Trinity?

triple

The "Tuba mirum" verse of the Dies irae mentions a trumpet, but to which instrument did Mozart give the solo?

trombone

"Running counter to the action" is a technique that composers use to supply irony in film music.

true

A Baroque concerto is characterized by an ensemble featuring one or more solo instruments and orchestra. True/False

true

A Baroque suite is usually a group of dances. True/False

true

A scherzo is a quick-paced dance. True/False

true

Absolute monarchy, exemplified by Louis XIV of France, was the main form of European government during the Baroque. True/False

true

According to legend, anyone touched by the Elfking must die.

true

After a short intro, Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man begins with the song's refrain.

true

Although he is known today as a composer, in his own day Antonio Vivaldi was better known as a performer. True/False

true

As musical instruments developed technically, the level of virtuosity rose in the Baroque. True/False

true

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, serious opera was the most prevalent style of opera. True/False

true

Avant-garde musical styles called for a new arsenal of unusual techniques to cope with the music's performance demands.

true

Beethoven admired Napoleon until the latter declared himself emperor. True/False

true

Beethoven dedicated his Moonlight Sonata to one of his students. True/False

true

Beethoven's music is rooted in the Classical tradition but pushes the limits of that tradition. True/False

true

Beethoven's solo piano sonatas are some of his most important works. True/False

true

Bernstein explored his Jewish background in his music.

true

Bernstein's work shows a real feeling for the New York urban scene.

true

Colonists in New England participated in congregational hymn singing. True/False

true

Cozzoliani's Magnificat was written in honor of the Virgin Mary. True/False

true

Dadaists rejected the thought that art was something to be revered.

true

Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man reached its greatest success as a cover version recorded by the Byrds.

true

Elaborating on an earlier composer's idea is considered an homage.

true

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was a prominent composer of Lieder.

true

Fauré's Requiem has seven movements.

true

First-movement concerto form is based on principles from Baroque ritornello form and sonata-allegro form. True/False

true

Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair draws on the tradition of Anglo-Irish folk song.

true

Handel's Messiah is one of the English-speaking world's best-loved works. True/False

true

Henry Cowell is known for combining Asian instruments with traditional Western ensembles.

true

Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.

true

Impressionist composers explored the whole-tone scale.

true

Impressionist composers used various non-Western scale patterns in their works.

true

Improvisation occurs in a Classical concerto. True/False

true

In New Spain, some pieces were written using the indigenous Nahua language called Nahuatl. True/False

true

In early times, when women had few choices in their lives, entering a convent was the only honorable alternative to marriage. True/False

true

In music, a "hook" is a musical characteristic that attracts the listener's attention.

true

In the Baroque era, convents were one of the few institutions that fostered musical creativity in women. True/False

true

In the Classical era, both serious opera and comic opera were popular. True/False

true

In the eighteenth century, a new economic power was growing as a result of the Industrial Revolution. True/False

true

In the movie Jaws, the shark is represented by a two-note oscillating motive.

true

J. S. Bach wrote over 200 church cantatas. True/False

true

Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral was inspired by the grief over her brother's death.

true

John Adams is considered a post-minimalist composer.

true

John Adams's Doctor Atomic is the result of collaboration with a playwright/director.

true

Keyboard players in the Baroque era often improvised in their performances. True/False

true

Leonard Bernstein achieved fame with the New York Philharmonic when he filled in for a guest conductor who was taken ill.

true

Many of J. S. Bach's cantatas are based on Lutheran chorale or hymn tunes. True/False

true

Monteverdi was one of the first great composers of opera. True/False

true

Mozart famously began to write music at a very young age. True/False

true

Mozart most likely wrote Eine kleine Nachtmusik for string quartet with support from a double bass. True/False

true

Mozart wrote twenty-seven concertos for the piano, for which he himself was most often the soloist. True/False

true

Mozart's Requiem is a sacred piece of music. True/False

true

Mozart's Requiem was left unfinished at his death. True/False

true

Music has often served as a means for marginalized people to voice their perspective. True/False

true

Musicians and composers achieved a higher social status during the Romantic era than they had in the Classical era.

true

Nationalistic feelings inspired Romantic composers to incorporate folk songs and dances from their native lands into their works.

true

Nineteenth-century parlor music in the United States was written to be accessible to amateurs.

true

One definition of the term "popular" means belonging to "the people."

true

One of the most prominent exponents of Romantic ideals in twentieth-century music was Samuel Barber.

true

Opera seria in the eighteenth century often featured stories drawn from classical antiquity. True/False

true

Organs have more than one keyboard. True/False

true

Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is considered exotic due to its setting and plot.

true

Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas is based on an episode in Virgil's Aeneid. Click or tap "True" or "False" to answer the question. True/False

true

Romantic era piano character pieces often had fanciful titles.

true

Salvador Dalí was a part of the surrealist movement.

true

Some postmodernist architecture can be described as neo-eclectic.

true

Sondheim lifted the genre of musical theater to new levels of sophistication.

true

Source music refers to music that functions as part of the drama itself, such as a character turning on a radio.

true

Stephen Foster is known for his minstrel show tunes and parlor songs.

true

Stephen Foster's songs exemplify the intersection between the American spirit and the European art tradition.

true

Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was choreographed by Marius Petipa.

true

Tchaikovsky's ballets are central to the repertory today.

true

Technology played a crucial role in the development of music in the Baroque era. True/False

true

The Baroque oratorio descended from the religious play-with-music of the the Counter-Reformation. True/False

true

The Baroque suite typically consisted of a group of dances. True/False

true

The Classical era has been called the Age of Enlightenment. True/False

true

The Classical sonata typically consists of three to four movements. True/False

true

The French Revolution fostered the rise of a middle-class society.

true

The French mélodie was inspired by the songs of Schubert.

true

The Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century saw a series of important inventions, which helped shape the modern world. True/False

true

The Nutcracker was based on a story written by E. T. A. Hoffmann.

true

The church cantatas of J. S. Bach were mostly written for the Lutheran church. True/False

true

The composer of the soundtrack for the end of E.T. uses music to establish a sorrowful mood.

true

The composers Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert all composed in large-scale forms. True/False

true

The favored chamber ensemble in the Classical era was the string quartet. True/False

true

The gamelan ensemble is made up of metallic percussion instruments.

true

The harpsichord is unable to sustain sound the way that modern pianos can. True/False

true

The heart of the Classical orchestra was the string family. True/False

true

The last part of the Requiem that Mozart wrote was the Lacrimosa. True/False

true

The later eighteenth century is known as the Enlightenment. True/False

true

The masque was an English form of entertainment that combined music, poetry, and dance. True/False

true

The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists.

true

The piano played a crucial role in nineteenth-century musical culture.

true

The polyrhythm of the Ewe drummers affected Steve Reich's compositions in the 1970s.

true

The practice of lining-out allowed everyone to learn the melody of a psalm, which was helpful for communities that couldn't afford to purchase psalm books for every church member. True/False

true

The short lyric piano work was the instrumental equivalent to the nineteenth-century song.

true

The term "Baroque" means misshapen, extravagant, or even distorted. True/False

true

The term "modernisms" describes a group of stylistic movements in the early twentieth century.

true

The various movements of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony are unified by the opening motive. True/False

true

Though the two are similar in that they consist in a solo voice accompanied by piano, the French Romantic mélodie was a tradition that was self-consciously separate from the German Lied tradition.

true

Two prominent German Romantic poets whose texts were often set to music were Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

true

Vivaldi is noted for writing instrumental music that depicts a scene without the use of sung words. True/False

true

Water Music is one of Handel's best-known orchestral suites. True/False

true

Haydn, Mozart, and their successors understood the term sonata as an instrumental work for one or ___________ instruments consisting of ____________ or four contrasting movements.

two three

When a melody does not begin on the first beat (or downbeat), it is said to begin on a(n):

upbeat

Immigrant composers were important in the history of -.

vaudeville

In the early twentieth century, throughout the United States, minstrel shows expanded into the tradition of -.

vaudeville

The nineteenth-century trend towards realism in opera was known as:

verisimo

Melody is the horizontal dimension in music, while harmony adds ________ perspective.

vertical

What solo instrument is featured in Vivaldi's Spring concerto?

violin

What is the instrumentation of Haydn's Emperor Quartet?

violin, violin, viola, cello

Match the artist to the style that each practice(d).

visual collage: Godfrey Reggio chance music: John Cage abstract expressionism: Robert Motherwell postmodern literature: Maya Angelou

At the time Vivaldi was composing, instrumental music was newly freed from an earlier dependence on ________ music.

vocal

Rhythm

what moves music forward in time

In Caballito negro, Crumb instructs the soprano to sing without vibrato, with a - tone.

white

Which of the following are true about Mozart's concerto compositions?

Correct: -He wrote 27 piano concertos. -His concertos exhibited brilliant flourishes. -He mostly wrote them for himself to perform, but sometimes he wrote them for others. Incorrect: -He did not play a crucial role in the development of the genre.

Which of the following describes Haydn's role in the development of the Classical-era symphony?

Correct: -He wrote over 100 symphonies. -He was nicknamed "father of the symphony." -He composed 12 symphonies for a London audience. Incorrect: -He avoided dramatic syncopation and dynamic contrasts

Which statements best describe the life and career of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

Correct: -His own instrument was the piano. -By the age of thirteen, he had written several operas. -He was born into a musical family. Incorrect: -He embraced the patronage system.

Which of the following statements best describes the second movement of Haydn's Op. 76, No. 3 string quartet?

Correct: -It contains symmetrical, lyrical phrases. -It is mostly in major. Incorrect: -It has a quick tempo. -It is composed in triple meter.

Which of the following describe the Dies irae from Mozart's Requiem?

Correct: -It is in Latin. -It begins with a chorus. -It is in a strong duple meter. Incorrect: -It features several verses in German.

Which of the following statements describe the third movement (Scherzo, Allegro) of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?

Correct: -It is in scherzo-trio-scherzo form. -It is in triple meter. Incorrect: -It is in D major. -The texture is monophonic.

Which of the following statements accurately describe the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?

Correct: -It is in sonata-allegro form. -It has bold dynamic contrasts. -The opening motive is featured throughout the first movement. Incorrect: -Overall, it has a slow, dirge-like feel to the tempo.

Which statements best describe the third movement of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik?

Correct: -It is in triple meter. -The texture is homophonic. -The harmony is consonant. Incorrect: -It is in sonata-allegro form.

Which of the following describe the first movement of Mozart's G Major Piano Concerto, K. 453?

Correct: -It is written in first-movement concerto form. -It is mostly homophonic. -It is in a major key. Incorrect: -It is written for piano and brass band.

Which statements best describe Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik?

Correct: -It was written as social music. -The version we know today has four movements. -The name translates to "a little night music." Incorrect: -It was written for full orchestra.

Which of the following is true about sacred colonial music in New Spain?

Correct: -Jesuits use music for teaching indigenous people -devotional songs performed outside of the church often were in mixed languages -sacred music was written for the Catholic Church Incorrect: -Latin was not used in the Catholic Church -instrumental parts were written down in manuscripts

Which of the following were church reformers in the sixteenth century?

Correct: -John Calvin -Martin Luther Incorrect: -L. Ron Hubbard -Pope Gregory -Joseph Smith

Which of the following are operas by Handel?

Correct: -Julius Caesar -Rinaldo Incorrect: -Dido and Aeneas -Don Giovanni

Which composers are associated with polyphonic composition at Notre Dame in the Middle Ages?

Correct: -Leonin -Perotin Incorrect: -Pope Gregory -Hildegard of Bingen

Listen to the following examples and select the musical traits that were present and those that weren't. Mozart: Confutatis, from Requiem0:57

Correct: -Mood can be expressed as alternating dramatic (male voices) and serene (female voices). -The performing forces begin with men's voices and orchestra, followed by women's voices and orchestra. Incorrect: -The performing forces begin with a huge orchestra and full soprano-alto-tenor-bass (SATB) choir. -Mood can be expressed as consistently dramatic.

Which of the following correctly describe the patronage system of the eighteenth century?

Correct: -Music was valued as a necessary adornment of life. -Patronage provided economic security for musicians. Incorrect: -Music was considered frivolous and unnecessary. -The center of musical life was the church.

What is the source of the text for Messiah?

Correct: -New Testament -Old Testament Incorrect: -Ovid's Metamorphoses -Dante's Inferno

Which of the following operas were composed by Claudio Monteverdi?

Correct: -Orfeo -The Coronation of Poppea Incorrect: -Dido and Aeneas -Fairy Queen -Abdelazar

Authors associated with the German Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) movement of the 1770s were:

Correct: -Schiller -Goethe Incorrect: -Jefferson -Rousseau

Which of the following correctly describe Maria Theresia von Paradis?

Correct: -She was an excellent pianist and organist. -She was blind. Incorrect: -She was deaf. -She was a violinist.

Which of the following are well-known keyboard works by J. S. Bach?

Correct: -The Art of Fugue -The Well-Tempered Clavier Incorrect: -Water Music

Analyze the way themes are developed in music from two different cultures, using In a Mountain Path (Chinese Song). Which of the following are found in this example? In a Mountain Path (Chinese Song)1:58

Correct: -The main melodic idea is heard starting on the same pitch each time. -The melodic idea is expanded as the work progresses. -It begins with a brief introduction. Incorrect: -This example is based on a 7-note major scale.

Analyze the way themes are developed in music from two different cultures, using Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, I. Which of the following are found in this example? Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, I0:48

Correct: -The motive is heard in sequence, starting on other pitches. -The excerpt begins with a short melodic idea or motive (short-short-short-long). Incorrect: -The same instruments play the main motive throughout. -The opening is not heard again after the piece progresses to a contrasting section. -The motive does not change or expand and never becomes any longer.

In which of the following cities did J. S. Bach work?

Correct: -Weimar -Leipzig -Anhalt-Cothen Incorrect: -Rome

Which of the following terms describes Josquin's Ave Maria. . .virgo serena?

Correct: -a cappella ensemble -consonant harmony -imitative polyphony Incorrect: -dissonant harmony -wind ensemble

Which of the following does Vivaldi portray in the first movement of his Spring concerto?

Correct: -birds -thunder -brooks Incorrect: -clouds -rabbits

Which of the following dances are included in the Suite in D Major from Handel's Water Music?

Correct: -bourree -minuet Incorrect: -courante -gavotte

Which of the following was a potential job for a musician in the Middle Ages and Renaissance?

Correct: -choirmaster -music printer -organist -composer Incorrect:

Which of the following describes Susato's "Three Dances"?

Correct: -comprised of binary form dances -performed by loud ensemble -duple meter Incorrect: -dissonant -monophonic

Which of the following accurately describe the harmony of Palestrina's Gloria from the Pope Marcellus Mass?

Correct: -consonant -full Incorrect: -dissonant -sparse

Which of the following describes Palestrina's Gloria from the Pope Marcellus Mass?

Correct: -consonant harmony -a cappella ensemble -duple meter Incorrect: -monophonic texture throughout -imitation obscures understanding of words

Which instruments stem from Turkish models?

Correct: -cymbals -bass drum -bells Incorrect: -bagpipes

Baroque composers often employed which of the following techniques in an attempt to create musical drama?

Correct: -dissonance -dramatic forte/ piano contrasts Incorrect: -static harmony

Which of the following are characteristics of the second movement of Haydn's Military Symphony?

Correct: -duple, marchlike meter -simple, graceful theme Incorrect: -performed by string quartet -polyphonic texture

Which of the following were critiques from the cardinals at the Council of Trent?

Correct: -embellishment of Gregorian melodies -use of popular music in the Mass -inappropriate attitude of church musicians Incorrect: -the restrictions of a cappella singing -the continued use of Latin texts

Which of the following elements are found in a fugue?

Correct: -episode -answer -exposition -subject Incorrect: -ritornello -minuet and trio

Composers combined dances into suites of solo instrumental music most notably for which instruments?

Correct: -harpsichord -violin Incorrect: -trumpet -bassoon

Which of the following characterize Vivaldi's career and which do not?

Correct: -he was music master at one of Venice's prestigious orphanages (ospedali) -his concerts at the girls' school in Venice brought visitors from all over Europe -he was a virtuoso violinist Incorrect: -he wrote only sacred music -he wrote only vocal music

Which of the following describes William Billings's career?

Correct: -his music had political references -he published musical songs -he taught in singing schools Incorrect: -he adhered strictly to the rules of the European tradition -he was a firm supporter of English rule

How does Josquin provide a contrast in the final two lines of the text, "O Mater Dei, Memento mei"?

Correct: -in a homorhythmic texture -in long note values Incorrect: -in a monophonic texture -in short note values

Which of the following was a hallmark of Baroque performance?

Correct: -increased virtuosity -increased improvisation Incorrect: -performing the work strictly as written -no variation in dynamics

Which of the following components is found in No. 1 of J. S. Bach's cantata Wachet auf?

Correct: -instrumental ritornello -chorale melody in soprano voices -major key Incorrect: -strict monophony -minor key

Which of the following describes William Billings's work, David's Lamentation?

Correct: -it is homorhythmic -it is consonant -it is in duple meter Incorrect: -it is part of the Catholic Mass -it is rhythmically complex, and intended for professional singers

Which statements are true of the Baroque oratorio?

Correct: -it was generally based on a biblical story -it featured arias, recitatives, ensemble numbers, choruses, and narration Incorrect: -it utilized scenery, acting, and costumes, just as in opera -the texts were often secular

Which best describes the history of the reception of Handel's Messiah?

Correct: -it was well received at the time it was composed -since its first performance it has been performed frequently Incorrect: -it was only heard in a few performances after it was first performed -it was not well received at the time of composition, or since then

Which of the following describe the opera Don Giovanni?

Correct: -libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte -premiered in 1787 Incorrect: -a tenor sings the title role -written by Beethoven

Which of the following describes life in a medieval monastery?

Correct: -members withdrew from secular society -members were devoted to prayer -religious life was quite disciplined Incorrect: -a typical day began at 8:00 a.m.

Which of the following was a result of the printing press?

Correct: -music books became affordable -music books became available -music literacy spread Incorrect: -music was banned from amateur performance

Which terms correctly describe Mozart's Don Giovanni?

Correct: -opera buffa -opera seria Incorrect: -oratorio -cantata

Machaut's chanson Ma fin est mon commencement contains which of the following?

Correct: -palindrome -religious references -enigmatic text Incorrect: -Latin text -monophonic texture

Which of the following are dance forms found in sixteenth-century publications?

Correct: -pavane -saltarello Incorrect: -merengue -quickstep

Which of the following describes musical aspects of Machaut's chanson Ma fin est mon commencement?

Correct: -polyphonic -duple meter Incorrect: -monophonic -written for full chorus

What is the texture of the final variation of the second movement of Haydn's Op. 76, No. 3 string quartet?

Correct: -polyphonic after the opening -homophonic at the beginning Incorrect: -heterophonic -monophonic

What musical occupation was available to women to in the Classical era?

Correct: -professional instrumentalist -music teacher -professional singer Incorrect: -orchestral conductor

In Donna Elvira's aria, in which she sings with Don Giovanni and Leporello ("Ah, chi mi dice mai") in Act I, scene 2, how does Mozart musically emphasize her anger?

Correct: -quick tempo -sudden dynamic shifts Incorrect: -slow tempo -consistently soft dynamics

Which of the following French Ars nova poetic forms are considered "fixed"?

Correct: -rondeau -ballade -virelai Incorrect: -trope -stanza

Which of the following is typical of the Renaissance motet?

Correct: -set to Latin texts, often in praise of the Virgin Mary -sacred work Incorrect: -secular work -sung in German

Which of the following is true about Cozzolani's musical output?

Correct: -she wrote a collection of Vespers -she wrote motets -she was one of the leading composers of her day Incorrect: -she only wrote secular music

Which of the following are purely instrumental sections that can be included in an opera?

Correct: -sinfonia -overture Incorrect: -recitative -aria -chorus

What roles did women play in music during the Baroque era?

Correct: -singers -composers of sacred music -composers of secular music Incorrect:

Which of the following best describe the sonata in the Classical era?

Correct: -sometimes used by composer-performers as show pieces -considered the most significant in the keyboard literature -sometimes designed for amateur performance Incorrect: -intended for performance by a large ensemble

For which instruments did Mozart write Eine kleine Nachtmusik?

Correct: -string quartet -double bass Incorrect: -piano -harp

Composers of the Classical era fully explored which forms?

Correct: -symphony -solo sonata -string quartet Incorrect: -cantata

Which of the following were historical events of the Baroque era?

Correct: -the investigation of how the blood circulates by William Harvey -the formulation of the theory of gravitation by Sir Isaac Newton Incorrect: -the initiation of the Protestant Reformation by Martin Luther -the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg

Which of the following statements are true of Josquin's motet Ave Maria . . . virgo serena?

Correct: -the meter changes within the piece, moving from duple to triple and back to duple -the text is rhymed Incorrect: -the texture is monophonic -the harmony is dissonant

Which of the following correctly describes Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas?

Correct: -the opera ends tragically -it is based on Virgil's Aeneid -it was first performed at a girl's school in London Incorrect: -the work is sung in Italian -Did and Aeneas live happily ever after

Which concert venues were available to composers of the Classical era?

Correct: -the public concert hall -the royal palace Incorrect: -university amphitheaters -the local discotheque

Which of the following musical elements did the German Classical symphonists contribute to the symphony genre?

Correct: -the use of a "rocket theme" -the use of a "steamroller" crescendo Incorrect: -the use of melodies

Which of the following are found in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?

Correct: -theme and variations -the unification of all the movements with a single motivic idea Incorrect: -five movements -use of a string orchestra without brass, woodwinds, or percussion

In the Renaissance, aesthetics changed with regard to consonances and dissonances, with which intervals being preferred?

Correct: -thirds -sixths Incorrect: -open fifths -octaves -open fourths

Which of the following characterize the Renaissance madrigal?

Correct: -use of Italian poetry -expressive text-setting -word-painting Incorrect: -use of French poetry

Which of the following instruments are found in a typical string quartet?

Correct: -violin -cello -viola Incorrect: -double bass

How does Purcell musically depict Dido's grief in the aria "When I am laid in earth"?

Correct: -with a descending, chromatic bass line -with a slow tempo Incorrect: -with an ascending bass line -with a frenetic rhythmic pulse

How does Vivaldi musically evoke the image of birds in the first movement of the Spring concerto?

Correct: -with high trills -with running scales Incorrect: -with an aggressive rhythmic pattern -with an unusual amount of silence -with a harmonic drone

Which of the following describe the Dies irae from Mozart's Requiem?

Correct: -written for soloists, chorus, and orchestra -text depicts a vision of Judgment Day Incorrect: -text is in German -written for string quartet

Which of the following describes the musical characteristics of Cozzolani's Magnificat?

Correct: -written for soprano soloists and two choirs -repetition in the text Incorrect: -meant to be performed a cappella -completely monophonic

Musical life and activities in Baroque-era convents included:

Correct: -evening performances of Vespers -public concerts held outside of the convent -new compositions by women in the convent Incorrect: -mixed choirs of men and women

Which of the following describe plainchant of the Middle Ages and which do not?

Describes: -monophonic -Latin text -organized according to liturgy Does not describe: -polyphonic -favored wide leaps

Which genre is Handel said to have invented?

English oratorio

Which of the following correctly describes strophic song form?

Every stanza is set to same melody

All music has a strong, discernable beat. True/False

False

Consonance creates a sense of suspense that is only resolved with dissonance. True/False

False

During the Renaissance, the Mass was recited and sung in the vernacular (the language of the people). True/False

False

Gregorian chant features regularly phrased melodic lines supported by instrumental accompaniment. True/False

False

Historically, harmony and melody developed simultaneously. True/False

False

Instrumental music in the Renaissance was performed strictly with no embellishment of the notated music. True/False

False

Melody constitutes the vertical aspect of music, and harmony constitutes the horizontal aspect. True/False

False

Musical ideas from the Middle Eastern cultures were not a part of medieval cultural exchange. True/False

False

Polyphony was universally accepted in medieval religious communities. True/False

False

Renaissance painters continued medieval norms in their preference for symbolism in painting. True/False

False

Renaissance sacred music was generally performed with instruments. True/False

False

Several rhythmic patterns that conflict with the underlying beat occurring simultaneously is called polyphony. True/False

False

The Council of Trent had no criticisms of church music. True/False

False

The English madrigal preceded the development of the Italian madrigal by some twenty years. True/False

False

The Roman Catholic church had very little power in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. True/False

False

The first accented beat of each metric pattern is known as the offbeat. True/False

False

The first type of polyphony was Gregorian chant. True/False

False

The literature of ancient Greece and Rome was of little interest to artists and writers in the Renaissance. True/False

False

The text setting in Alleluia, O virga mediatrix is mostly syllabic. True/False

False

Sacred music played an important role in nineteenth-century France, and the music of Gabriel - was grounded in playing and creating music for the - Church.

Fauré Catholic

Whose poetry did George Crumb set in his second book of madrigals?

Federico García Lorca

Match the style characteristic with the correct phase in madrigal development.

Final Phases Madrigal (1580-1620): written to harmonic and virtuosic extremes Middle Madrigal (1550-1580): texture expanded to 5 or 6 voices Early Madrigal (c. 1525-50): chiefly composed for amateurs

After his conservatory studies, Frédéric Chopin spent most of his productive career in ----.

France

Match each Baroque suite dance form to the country with which it is most often associated.

France: courante Germany: allemande Spain: sarabande

Who completed the unfinished portions of Mozart's Requiem?

Franz Xaver Süssmayr

Novelist George Sand (pseudonym of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) played a key role in which composer's career?

Frédéric Chopin

A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in ------.

German

____________ organ builders in the Baroque era created various sets of _________, each with distinct ________ color.

German pipes tone

In the 1970s, Steve Reich spent a month playing with and listening to drummers in:

Ghana

John Tavener's sacred music draws not just on - Orthodox chant but also on the patterns of - that Orthodox ritual implies, aiming towards a mystical effect of timelessness.

Greek repetition

Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks are the best-known suites by which composer?

Handel

The climax of ___________'s Messiah comes at the end of the ___________ part, the Easter section, with the "Hallelujah _____________."

Handel second Chorus

Match each piece to the correct genre and era to which it belongs.

Handel: Alla hornpipe, from Water Music: -Baroque era -suite Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, II: -Classical era -solo concerto

Foster's My Old Kentucky Home was inspired by which?

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Match the instruments to their corresponding instrument groups.

Haut (Loud): -shawm -sackbut -tabor -nakers -cornetto Bas (Soft): -recorder -lute -rebec

Which composer worked well under the patronage system?

Haydn

Neo-Romantic composers like Jennifer - seek to incorporate nineteenth-century characteristics including program music while at the same time aiming to "modernize" the nineteenth-century - tradition.

Higdon orchestral

Which traits does early Christian chant have in common with the Islamic Adhan and which does it not?

In common with Adhan: -parts can be melismatic -monophonic Not in common with Adhan: -sung in Latin -sung by a four-part chorus

Listen to the third movement from Mozart's Symphony No. 40, which is in minuet and trio form: Mozart, Symphony No. 40, III1:26 Given its form, what meter is this movement in?

It is in triple meter.

While serious opera was almost invariably in the _______ language, comic opera was generally in the local language of the audience (this type of language is also known as the _______).

Italian vernacular

Match the terms to the piece that they best describe.

J. S. Bach: "Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch," from Cantata No. 56 -accompanied by Baroque woodwinds -German language Handel: "O thou that tellest good tidings," from Messiah -English language -orchestral accompaniment Monteverdi: Lament of the Nymph -Italian language -accompanied keyboard alone

The opera Madame Butterfly is set in:

Japan

The prepared piano required in Sonatas and Interludes simulates a -

Javanese gamelan

Who wrote the dramatic poem (based on a Danish legend) which provides the text for Schubert's Elfking?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Which composer wrote the scores to the first three Harry Potter films?

John Williams

Which is the contemporary rock opera inspired by Puccini's La bohème?

Jonathan Larson's Rent

Who was the composer of the London Symphonies?

Joseph Haydn

To whom is the nuclear weapon compared to in the Act II, Scene 3 chorus "At the sight of this" from Doctor Atomic?

Krishna

Which part of the Mass Ordinary is not in Latin?

Kyrie

Put the parts of the Mass Ordinary into the correct order.

Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus Agnus Dei

Listen to the three excerpts, from the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. Drag the matching performing forces over to the excerpt.

Lassus: Bon jour mon coeur- mixed men's and women's voices a cappella Hildegard: Kyrie- women's voices a cappella Handel: "Hallelujah Chorus"- mixed men's and women's voices with orchestra

In which language is the Dies irae from Mozart's Requiem written?

Latin

In which language is the text of Josquin's motet Ave Maria . . . virgo serena written?

Latin

What language did Fauré choose for the text of his Requiem?

Latin

Haydn's Symphony No. 100 was first presented in ___________. Its nickname comes from the use of percussion instruments associated with __________ military music.

London Turkish

John Lennon's collage style in Revolution 9 is similar to the compositional technique of which composer?

Lukas Foss

For which church did Bach write his cantatas?

Lutheran

Who of the following was an artist in the Dada group?

Marcel Duchamp

Who started the Protestant Reformation with his Ninety-Five Theses?

Martin Luther

In the middle ages, the status of women was raised by the universal cult of who?

Mary, mother of Christ

In the Classical era, the main genres of sacred choral music were the __________ and the oratorio. A _________ is a musical setting of the Mass for the Dead.

Mass Requiem

Melody= Harmony=

Melody= horizontal dimension Harmony= vertical perspective

Which French painter is credited with starting the Impressionistic movement with his painting Impression: Sunrise?

Monet

Listen to the example and match each musical element to description that best describes its use in the example. Verdi: Dies irae, from Requiem0:59

Mood: -dramatic Performing Forces: -begin with a huge orchestra and full soprano-alto-tenor-bass (SATB) choir

Where did Tchaikovsky receive his first teaching post thanks to the recommendation of Anton Rubinstein?

Moscow Conservatory

Match the pieces to the primary instrument heard AND to the era to which they belong.

Mozart: Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman: -Classical era -piano Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring: -Baroque era -organ

Match to the musical traits to the piece of music by Mozart that it best describes:

Mozart: Piano Concerto... -andante (walking) tempo -pizzicato strings Mozart: Horn Concerto... -allegro (fast) tempo -melody contains many repeated notes

Nonmetric

Music that moves without any strong sense of beat or meter.

The vocal music in the 2009 film Avatar is sung in which language?

Na'vi

The Church of La Madeleine was originally conceived for the army of __________?

Napoleon

The Calvinist-inspired Pilgrims and Puritans in seventeenth-century ___________ used a system called _____________ for their psalm singing in church.

New England lining-out

The last movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 features a choral setting of a poem called "__________."

Ode to Joy

Match the parts of the Mass to the ordinary or proper category.

Ordinary: Kyrie Gloria Agnus Dei Credo Proper: Introit Gradual Offertory

Match each trait to the piece that it describes.

Orff: O fortuna, from Carmina burana -dramatic Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God -intensity alternating between subdued and dramatic

Match each definition to the genre it best describes.

Overture: an orchestral introduction Recitative: a kind of musical declamation or speech Aria: a song, usually of a highly emotional nature Libretto: the text/script of an opera

Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint was premiered by:

Pat Metheny

Who wrote the chorale text and tune on which J. S. Bach based his Wachet auf cantata?

Philipp Nicolai

Who of the following played a key role in Franz Liszt's career?

Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein

At the concert, what information does a program provide and what does it not provide?

Provided in concert program: -the pieces on the concert -the names of the performers Not provided in concert program: -the music notation for the night's concert

These two examples are by composers who heard world and traditional music at the Exhibition and were influenced by these new sounds. Match the Debussy and Ravel work with the traits that fit each.

Ravel: Boléro: snare drum evokes Spanish dancer's castanets regular triple meter Debussy: Jeux de vagues, from La mer: floating movement with vague meter evocative of waves in the sea

The movie - is an example of a soundtrack that uses only source music.

Rear Window

- and Hammerstein wrote the famous musicals Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

Rodgers

The Moonlight Sonata evokes what new expressive style?

Romantic

Match the characteristics to the musical style.

Romantic: -chromatic harmonies -expansive, wide ranging melodies Classical: -diatonic harmonies -balanced, symmetrical melodies

The music of those who upheld key elements of - were dismissed as regressive and antiquated by those who considered - the only legitimate artistic pathway in the twentieth century.

Romanticism modernism

Tchaikovsky was a famous composer from -.

Russia

Which composer is credited with abandoning music that has a tonal center and establishing a new system?

Schoenberg

Match the musical elements to the art song in which they are found.

Schubert: Elfking -through-composed form -set to a Goethe poem Schumann: "In the Lovely Month of May" -set to a Heine poem -strophic form

- was a popular Jerome Kern musical from the 1920s.

Show Boat

Which of the following is NOT true of Beethoven's symphonies?

Since they were written, they have rarely been performed.

Which of John Tavener's works was heard at the funeral service for Princess Diana?

Song for Athene

The famous American tunes Oh, Susanna!, Beautiful Dreamer, and Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair were all composed by who?

Stephen Foster

Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?

Stephen Sondheim

French Romantic-era song composers were drawn to the poets of which movement?

Symbolist

Match each trait to the piece that it describes.

Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God -a cappella Orff: O fortuna, from Carmina burana -accompanied by full orchestra

Why is Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 nicknamed Emperor?

The theme in the second movement is based on a hymn written for the Austrian emperor.

Listen to the example and match each musical element to description that best describes its use in the example. Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 (Pathétique), II0:43

Tonality: -major key Expression: -gentle mood, middle range Harmony: -consonant Melody: -lyrical, long phrases

Listen to the example and match each musical element to description that best describes its use in the example. Chopin: Prelude, Op. 28, No. 21:53

Tonality: -minor key Expression: -dark mood, in low range

Accents on the weak beats create syncopation. True/False

True

Arcadelt emphasizes the last line of the poem in the madrigal by repeating it. True/False

True

Arcadelt uses word-painting to portray the images in the poetry of this madrigal. True/False

True

Because instruments were not yet specified in the musical scores for Renaissance dance music, there was much flexibility in performance. True/False

True

Composers in the Ars nova wrote both sacred and secular songs. True/False

True

Farmer's madrigal is written for a four-voice SATB ensemble. True/False

True

In Western music two scales—major and minor—have been predominant. True/False

True

In triple meter, the accent is typically on the first beat. True/False

True

Musical instruments in the Renaissance were categorized by the amount of sound (soft or loud) they produced. True/False

True

Our understanding of the musical culture of ancient civilizations is limited by the few fragments of music that have survived. True/False

True

Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass is a setting of the Mass Ordinary. True/False

True

Polyphonic music required specialized singers as compared to the more simple communal singing of plainchant. True/False

True

Prior to the medieval era, instrumental music was largely an oral tradition. True/False

True

Pythagoras was renowned for his musical experiments. True/False

True

Religious belief remained at the core of Renaissance identity. True/False

True

Religious wars and medieval explorations enhanced cultural exchange. True/False

True

Renaissance music generally featured consonant harmonies. True/False

True

The most common chord in Western music is a triad, which consists of three pitches built on alternate notes of the scale. True/False

True

The musical style known as Ars nova first appeared in the early 1300s. True/False

True

There was a shift towards a more secular society during the European Renaissance. True/False

True

Which of the following are true of dissonance?

True About Dissonance: -Dissonance adds a sense of drama and tension in music -The combination of dissonant tones sounds unstable NOT True About Dissonance: -The combination of dissonant tones sounds stable -Dissonance adds a sense of relaxation in music

Which of the following are true about scales?

True About Scales: -The distance between the first and last notes of a scale is called an octave -Most Western music is based on major or minor scales NOT True About Scales: -Melody and harmony are derived independently of scales -The tonic (or, do) is the least important note of the scale

What nationality are Janissary bands?

Turkish

Stephen Foster helped to build a powerful musical industry in the ----- in the nineteenth century, even though he earned very little from sales of his ----- music.

United States sheet

Which of the following was the main European port for cultural exchange of Eastern luxuries?

Venice

Debussy was influenced by the non- - scales and instruments he encountered at the - World Exhibition of 1889.

Western Paris

Additive Rhythms

Where larger patterns are built from combinations like 2+3+3(=8), rather than recurring patterns of two or three. Typical of Indian classical music.

Bob Dylan's musical idol was which folk singer?

Woody Guthrie

The dramatic Dies irae section of Mozart's Requiem provides a vision of the Day of ________.

Wrath

Which statement about the Notre Dame School is NOT true? a. it was based in Florence b. Perotin and Leonin were leaders of the school c. composers there wrote some of the earliest examples of polyphony, called organum d. the first book containing compositions by composers of this school is called the Magnus liber organi

a (it was based in Flornce)

Which is a characteristic of consonance? a. stability b. introduction of conflict c. creates suspense d. instability

a (stability)

Syncopation

a deliberate upsetting of the normal patterns of accents

Melody

a line, or the tune, in music

Listen to the Baroque Rondeau by the French court composer Jean-Joseph Mouret: Jean-Joseph Mouret: Baroque Rondeau2:05 Given that the A section begins the piece, and the B section begins at 0:28, what do you hear at 0:56?

a new section

Fauré's original ensemble plan for his Requiem was:

a small chamber orchestra

Instrumental music that does not have any specific meaning beyond the notes is called ___________ music.

absolute

A trend away from objective representation in painting led to -expressionism.

abstract

Video games have long employed source music to help give more satisfying feedback to a player's - and underscoring to add intensity and meaning to a flow of action in a --playing game.

actions role

Music in which the composer leaves musical decisions to the performer is known as chance, or - music.

aleatoric

How many instrument families were present in the Classical-era orchestra?

all four (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion)

The texture in the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah ____________ ____________.

alternates between homorhythmic and polyphonic

In which order do the voices present the subject in J. S. Bach's Contrapunctus I from The Art of Fugue? Note that simply clicking on the card will select it as an answer.

alto soprano bass tenor

William Billings's David's Lamentation is ___________ and was designed for sacred congregational singing.

an anthem

Which societal norm of the eighteenth century enabled the reign of Louis XV and Frederick the Great?

aristocracy

Nineteenth-century songwriters in the United States combined elements of European ----- and opera with other traditions such as nostalgic "folk songs" to create commercially successful ------ music.

art song popular

When is the best time to arrive at a "classical" concert?

at least twenty minutes before the performance is scheduled to begin

There are certain traditions surrounding concerts and concert-going: these include the performers' _________, the appropriate time to _________, and time to move from your _________.

attire applaud seat

Which voice part sings the role of Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera?

baritone

Which voice type did Mozart NOT select as one of the soloists in his Requiem?

baritone

Renaissance instruments that were appropriate for indoor performances were categorized as:

bas

Which voice part sings the role of Don Giovanni's servant, Leporello, in Mozart's opera?

bass

Which best describes the tempo in Tchaikovsky's Trepak from The Nutcracker?

begins at a lively tempo then is marked by an accelerando

During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?

big-band jazz

Match each characteristic to the blues or jazz style that it describes.

big-band jazz: arranged and composed music cool jazz: laid-back with dense harmonies blues: three-line stanzas set to a repeating harmonic pattern New Orleans jazz: small ensemble improvising simultaneously bebop: two-note trademark phrase

The form of John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes is -.

binary with each section repeated

Opera ________ presented lively, down-to-earth ________ rather than the remote concerns of gods and _________ heroes.

buffa plots mythological

Which of the following meters can only be classified as compound? a. duple b. quadruple c. sextuple d. triple

c (sextuple)

A brilliant solo passage in the manner of an improvisation within a concerto is called a:

cadenza

The rise of opera popularized virtuosic male soprano roles in Baroque dramas; these roles were sung by singers known by what name?

castrato

Which new instrument did Tchaikovsky introduce to ballet?

celesta

Many early twentieth-century composers explored - meters.

changing

Able to exhibit melodious and dramatic moods despite its compact form, the short lyric piano piece, also known as the ------ piece, was the instrumental equivalent to the ------.

character song

The performing forces of Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God are twelve voices in two -.

choirs

Singing a specific ____________ together with the congregation was a critical part of weekly Lutheran religious services.

chorale

Three or more tones sounded together produce a(n):

chord

In the West Side Story collaboration, - Jerome Robbins was eager to depict the setting's "gritty realism," and encouraged the composer, Bernstein, to incorporate jazz, rock-and-roll, and - music like the mambo.

choreographer Latino

Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

chromatic and with a free rhythm

In terms of expression, emotional balance and restraint is typical of which style?

classical

The musical West Side Story is the result of collaboration between -Leonard Bernstein, - Stephen Sondheim, and - Jerome Robbins.

composer lyricist choreographer

Sextuple meter is also known as ___________ meter.

compound duple

What term is usually used to refer to the first-chair violinist in an orchestra?

concertmaster

Vivaldi is known for having written 500 __________, about 230 of which were written for solo _________.

concertos violin

The large size of the Romantic orchestra resulted in the need for a -----.

conductor

Lutheran musical worship is structured around __________ hymns known as _____________, which are specific to a particular service.

congregational chorales

Each melody is unique in _____________ (how it moves up and down) and in ____________ (span of pitches).

contour range

Which instrument heard in Susato's Three Dances is a cross between a woodwind instrument with finger holes and a brass instrument with a mouthpiece?

cornetto

A melody may be accompanied by a secondary melody, or a _______________.

countermelody (literally "against a melody")

In the last section of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" antique - are introduced.

cymbals

Which of the following is NOT true of tonality? a. The first note of the scale is the tonic b. In Western music between the late seventeenth and early twentieth centuries, the main types of tonality were major and minor c. It is a principle of musical organization d. Each scale sounds identical to the other scales

d (each scale sounds identical to the other scales)

What is the Italian phrase found at the end of the trio section in a minuet-and-trio movement that means "from the beginning?"

da capo

Which best describes the overall form of the aria "Rejoice greatly" from Handel's Messiah?

da capo form

Instrumental music first flourished in conjunction with?

dance

What best describes the character of the Chopin's Mazurka?

dancelike

Some of the ___________ in the Baroque suite were of peasant origin, bringing a bit of earthiness to the more ____________ surroundings.

dances formal

The harmony of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint is:

diatonic

Which term best describes a combination of tones that sounds discordant or in need of resolution?

dissonance

Range

distance between the lowest and highest notes. This span can be very narrow, as in an easy children's song, or very wide, as in some melodies played on an instrument.

Tone Color (or timbre)

distinguishes voices from instruments, a trumpet from a clarinet, etc.

Compound Meters

divide each beat into three (rather than two)

Syllables in the order they appear in a major scale:

do re me fa sol la ti do

In most Western music, each measure contains a fixed number of beats, and the __________ beat gets the strongest accent.

down

In most Western music, each measure contains a fixed number of beats, and the _________________ beat gets the strongest accent.

down

Measures often begin with a strong _________

downbeat

Cozzolani's Magnificat closes with a particular prayer of praise to God called the:

doxology

An opera is a large-scale _________ that is __________.

drama sung

The members of the Florentine Camerata realized that the new style was applicable to entire ____________ as well as to short poems, leading to "drama through music," or what we now call ______________.

dramas opera

Characteristic of Tavener's choral works is the presence of - (continuous pitches held while other musical lines interweave) and harmonies based on Greek Orthodox - that avoid the progressions of major or minor harmony and create an almost static effect.

drones modes

Simple Meters

duple, triple, and quadruple--are the most common. each beat is divided into two.

Tod Machover is known for combining improvisation with which?

electronic devices

The music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert is characterized by ____________ melodies.

elegant and lyrical

In Vivaldi's Spring, the orchestral ritornellos alternate with the mostly solo violin ________.

episodes

The sections in a fugue that do not contain the subject are the __________.

episodes

Which of the following is NOT a style trait of Romantic music? -profound meditations on life and death -expanded instrumental forms -eschewal of chromatic and dissonant pitches -lyricism

eschewal of chromatic and dissonant pitches

Which of the following is not incorporated in Corigliano's cycle Mr. Tambourine Man?

exact quotations of Bob Dylan's melodies

Artists and writers in the nineteenth century turned to Italy and Spain as well as Asia and the Far East for inspiration. These locales were considered ------.

exotic

The nineteenth-century trend towards evoking a culture outside the composer's in opera was known as:

exoticism

What is first section of a fugue called?

exposition

Put the sections of sonata-allegro form in their typical order.

exposition development recapitulation

The melody in this example is: Grieg: Åse's Death, from Peer Gynt0:45

expressive and mournful

Beethoven completely abandoned formal considerations in his music. True/False

false

Beethoven gave the nickname Moonlight to his own piano sonata. True/False

false

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony opens and closes in the key of C minor. True/False

false

Beethoven, in his Moonlight Sonata, follows typical formal molds in all of the movements. True/False

false

Chamber music generally implies a large ensemble, with more than one player to a part. True/False

false

Early opera was originally designed to reflect the manner in which seventeenth-century aristocrats sung their conversations to each other on a daily basis. True/False

false

Fauré composed his Requiem over the span of a single summer.

false

Film music always matches the mood of the action on the screen.

false

Handel and J. S. Bach met often and collaborated on works. True/False

false

Handel composed in all genres except opera. True/False

false

Handel's career was solely based on positions held in Germany. True/False

false

Harpsichord strings are struck with hammers to generate sound. True/False

false

Haydn wrote his Emperor Quartet based on a hymn composed by the Austrian emperor. True/False

false

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

false

In the Baroque era, women's roles in the Catholic Church were not limited. True/False

false

In the Catalogue Aria, Leporello assures Donna Elvira that indeed she is Don Giovanni's one true love. True/False

false

In the cadenza of a Classical-era concerto, the orchestra improvises freely. True/False

false

In the nineteenth century, sacred music was not an important genre in France.

false

J. S. Bach was raised as a Catholic. True/False

false

J. S. Bach's church cantatas are single-movement works. True/False

false

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair was the most famous of Foster's songs during his lifetime.

false

Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral is written for a small orchestra.

false

John Adams's Doctor Atomic is based on a comic book hero.

false

John Corigliano sought to reproduce the melody of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man in his work Prelude from Mr. Tambourine Man.

false

John Williams wrote the Oscar-winning soundtrack for the film The Red Violin.

false

Mozart worked successfully under the patronage system for his entire life. True/False

false

Mozart worked under the patronage of the Esterházy court. True/False

false

Mozart wrote the text for the Dies irae . True/False

false

Mozart's Don Giovanni does not have any comic opera elements. True/False

false

Mozart's Requiem is an example of a Classical-era oratorio. True/False

false

Music has not been a part of convent life for nuns. True/False

false

Music in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America was wildly divergent from European traditions.

false

One of Henry Cowell's inventions was the "prepared piano."

false

One of the attributes of Classicism is a longing for strangeness, ecstasy, and wonder. True/False

false

Pilgrims and Puritans in seventeenth-century New England were mostly Catholic. True/False

false

Postmodernism is not found in film.

false

Priests and monks were brought in to convents to sing the lower parts in polyphonic music. True/False

false

Process music embraces the intellectual style of Schoenberg and Webern.

false

Puccini found his inspiration for Madame Butterfly after visiting Tokyo and viewing a traditional play there.

false

Romantic composers rarely used dynamic markings and other expressive comments in their scores to communicate their intentions to musicians.

false

Singing schools were not developed in North America until the twentieth century. True/False

false

Sonata-allegro form is made up of one main section. True/False

false

Tavener was a prominent exponent of serialism.

false

The Bohemian artist adhered to the social norms of the establishment.

false

The Classical-era concerto has four movements. True/False

false

The Italian opera was embraced in all western European countries. True/False

false

The artist-duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude are known for their elaborate paintings.

false

The big band phenomenon ended prior to World War II.

false

The characteristics of post-Romanticism were not found in works from Italy.

false

The divertimento and the serenade are opera genres. True/False

false

The divertimento and the serenade are opera genres. Click or tap "True" or "False" to answer the question. True/False

false

The focus of Classical chamber music is soloistic virtuosity. True/False

false

The gamelan is a traditional orchestra from China.

false

The movement of verismo focused on the imaginative/fantastic.

false

The piano experienced minor technical improvements during the nineteenth century.

false

The piano was the main keyboard instrument in the Baroque era. True/False

false

The second movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 100 is composed in triple meter. True/False

false

The second movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 100 was composed in a two-part form. True/False

false

The string section remained the heart of the orchestra in the early twentieth century.

false

The strings of Baroque violins were made out of wrapped steel. True/False

false

The text setting of the melody in Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is highly melismatic.

false

Beethoven called the Moonlight Sonata a:

fantasy-like sonata

The tempo scheme of the movements in Vivaldi's Spring concerto is best described as _________-______-fast.

fast slow

First movement: __________; second movement: _________; third movement: ___________

fast slow fast

The notation system in which the composer puts a numeral above or below the bass note indicating the chord required is referred to as what?

figured base

The Baroque system of figured bass allowed the performer to:

fill in the harmonies

The longest movement in a Classical multimovement cycle is most often the ______________ movement. This movement is typically in a fast tempo and is in __________ form.

first sonata-allegro

*Drag the parts of the exposition section in a sonata-allegro form movement to their correct position on the chart below.

first theme bridge second theme closing theme exposition repeated

Staff

five parallel lines where notes (the symbol for each pitch) are placed

Which instrument is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

flute

For what event was Handel's Water Music performed on July 17, 1717?

for a royal party on the Thames River

Farmer's Fair Phyllis is written for _________ voices.

four

George Crumb composed - books of madrigals.

four

In addition to the _________ being performed, the program may include short notes about each composition and _________ sketches about the soloist and _________.

works biographical conductor

Match the description to the part in Handel's Messiah that it best describes.

"Hallelujah Chorus" -climax of entire oratorio -chorus -written for SATB voices "Rejoice Greatly" -da capo aria -A-B-A' form -soprano solo

At which point in the text of Fair Phyllis do the voices imitate each other in rapid succession?

"Up and down he wandered"

In nineteenth-century minstrel shows, white performers acted out ----- in blackface.

"scenes from the plantation"