Mus 121 4-11
CH_26 MC Question What do we call a note in which the singer (or instrumentalist) bends the note slightly lower or higher?
A blue note
CH_6 MC Question What is J.S. Bach's Coffee Cantata about?
A young girl who is addicted to coffee and her father who desperately tries to free her of this addiction.
Absolute music tells a story or seeks to portray a tangible picture.
false
Beethoven's career can be divided into 3 periods, with the first period consisting of his time as a Romantic composer.
false
CH_19 TF Question Despite the popularity of Ludwig van Beethoven in the classical period, his influence was hardly felt in the romantic period (as musicians began to forget who he was).
false
CH_9 TF Question Comic opera is often called opera seria.
false
Church doctrine during the Middle Ages encouraged celebrating life on earth and living it to its fullest.
false
In the story of Symphonie fantastique, the Artist character sees his Beloved at places like the local tavern, recalls the feeling of fear he has when near the Beloved, avoids the Beloved's murderous attacks, and, in a massive turn of events, marries the Beloved and they live happily ever after.
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Medieval motets used sacred language rather than secular.
false
The Ordinary of the Mass is the part that varies with each day.
false
The Strophic song form uses new music for each verse of a song.
false
The exposition in a fugue includes the first statement of the subject only.
false
The story of Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) involves a faun who awakens from sleep and, because of too much wine consumption, is confused about his earlier activities. Perhaps he brought two nymphs home, perhaps not. But figuring it out is too hard, so he goes back to sleep.
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When Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered in Paris in 1913, the Parisian audience loved it because it contained the smooth, elegant, and graceful dancing that was traditionally found in ballet at the time.
false
A Salon during the Romantic period entailed a private gathering of citizens to discuss and present artistic works.
true
Amy Beach was the first prominent female composer of American music.
true
CH_19 TF Question The third movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony quotes the children's tune Frère Jacques (Brother John).
true
CH_20 TF Question In twelve tone music, a tone row could be played forward (as written), in retrograde (backwards), in an inversion, or in an inverted retrograde.
true
CH_4 TF Question Music that is sung with no instrument accompaniment is called a capella.
true
CH_6 TF Question Cantatas can be sacred or secular.
true
CH_9 TF Question Comic opera is often called opera buff
true
CH_9 TF Question Mozart was a master of all music genres in existence during his time.
true
CH_9 TF Question Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is a comic opera.
true
Lining out was a musical practice used in early American religious services.
true
Soon after the premiere of Symphonie fantastique (in which the Artist ultimately kills the Beloved), Harriet Smithson and Hector Berlioz get married.
true
The sections of the Mass that contains texts that vary with the day of the church year are called the Proper.
true
The story of Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) involves a young girl who, as part of pre-historic Russian pagan culture, has to dance herself to death in order to convince the gods to end winter and bring on spring.
true
CH_4 MC Question The term madrigalism was often synonymous with what other term?
word painting
CH_6 MC Question What is a cantata?
An often dramatic musical work for solo voice or choir with instrumental accompaniment (like a small orchestra). Similar to an opera but shorter and has no costumes, stage props, or acting.
CH_9 MC Question What is a trouser or pants role?
An operatic role in which a grown woman plays the character of a pre-pubescent boy.
CH_26 MC Question One of the non-European musical concepts observed among imported slaves was ____ in which one person sings or plays a short musical melody while the rest of the group responds in a similar manner.
Call and response
The invention of what modern device compelled painters to begin experimenting with Impressionism in the mid-1800's?
Camera
CH_15 MC Question During the romantic period, who was given the title Queen of the Piano?
Clara Schumann
CH_9 MC Question Franz Joseph Haydn belonged to which musical period?
Classical
CH_9 MC Question Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart belonged to which musical period?
Classical
Who composed Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)?
Claude Debussy
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire is a song cycle about a _____.
Clown
CH_9 MC Question What is opera buffa?
Comic opera
During the fifth movement of Symphonie fantastique, loud funeral bells are heard, followed by brass instruments that boldly play a parody of the _____ melody from the Catholic Requiem (Mass for the Dead).
Dies Irae
CH_16 MC Question Symphonie fantastique was like an autobiography of Hector Berlioz's feelings for ____.
Harriet Smithson
What did Denis Diderot, with the help of other French philosophers, contribute to the belief in enlightenment and reason?
He compiled and wrote the first encyclopedia.
CH_20 MC Question Though his total compositional output included works beyond the style, which composer was the main composer of music of the primitivism style?
Igor Stravinsky
CH_20 MC Question _____ was an art style in which painters sought to capture an impression of a scene or subject rather than depicting it literally with crisp detail. Composers sought to mimic the style in music by emphasizing atmosphere and mood, avoiding pomp, and drifting melodies in and out smoothly.
Impressionism
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) is best described with which musical style?
Impressionism
CH_27 MC Question What kind of jazz attempted to merge rock and jazz?
Fusion
Check all musical characteristics that correctly define early Gregorian Chant?
Monophonic texture Modal ambiguity rather than major/minor Melody is determined by inflection of the text
CH_15 MC Question What do we call a piece of music for solo piano that reflects the peace and quiet of night time?
Nocturne
CH_4 MC Question When a second melodic line was added to Gregorian chant, the song was then referred to as _____.
Organum
CH_4 MC Question In the medieval period, it was common to hear secular music from troubadours, trouvères, and minnesingers. Who were these people?
Poet-musicians of France and Germany who created the first secular songs of which we have record. They're like the singer-songwriters of the medieval period.
CH_15 MC Question Frederic Chopin was from _____. He loved his country and was incredibly nationalistic.
Poland
The motet uses what kind of texture?
Polyphonic
CH_26 MC Question _____ was a precursor to jazz. It contained much syncopation that reflected the non-European music of the slaves while following a very organized structure (an idea imported from European music). It was most popular among black piano players and involved no improvisation.
Ragtime
Arnold Bocklin's painting, Self Portrait with Death Playing the Violin, corresponds with the aesthetic of which musical period?
Romanticism
CH_20 MC Question Igor Stravinsky was a composer from what country?
Russia
What is the form of the first movement of a classical symphony?
Sonata form
CH_7 MC Question What do we call a multi-movement work where each movement is based on a particular popular dance? It is composed for a solo instrument and commonly found in the baroque period.
Suite
Which of the following best exemplifies the classical period's emphasis on clear and balanced artistic style?
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David
What is an idée fixe?
The concept of associating a melody with a person, object, or idea (similar to the leitmotifs found in Richard Wagner's music dramas).
CH_12 MC Question The opening rhythmic motif of Beethoven's 5th Symphony is often nicknamed what?
The fate motif
CH_6 MC Question Handel's Messiah focuses on what subject?
The life of Jesus from the Bible
CH_4 MC Question Who was Hildegard of Bingen?
The main documented female composer of the medieval period.
CH_26 MC Question Who was Scott Joplin?
The most popular and successful composer and performer of ragtime music.
What does the term a capella mean?
The music features singing with no instrumental accompaniment.
Which events (2) of the classical era best reflect its leanings toward reason and enlightenment?
The writing of the first encyclopedia The growing belief in human control over a rational universe
CH_27 MC Question The bebop style was particularly popular among which jazz artists?
Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker
Ballad is most similar to which art song form?
Through-Composed
Later in the baroque, royals and other wealthy families hired orchestras to provide music.
True
CH_9 MC Question The title of Mozart's works are often followed by the letter "K" and a number (like K. 273). What does this number represent?
Where in Köchel's chronological listing the Mozart piece can be found.
The French Revolution, a political upheaval with massive and long reaching consequences, began in what year?
1789
According to our lecture on the Classical period, what is the respective number of movements within a String Quartet, Solo Concerto, and Sonata
4, 3, 3-4
Beethoven wrote how many symphonies?
9
CH_13 MC Question Schubert's Der Erlkönig (The Elf King) follows which of the following plots?
A father and son ride on horseback through the woods. The boy screams that the Elf King is after him (though the father dismisses it as a shadow or the wind). The Elf King comes into contact with the boy and when they arrive home, the boy is dead.
CH_4 MC Question What is word painting?
A musical concept in which melodies depict specific words that are sung (like notes going higher in pitch on the word "ascend").
What is sprechstimme?
A singing technique where the notes are half-sung, half-spoken.
CH_26 MC Question What is scat singing?
A type of singing where the singer sings sounds and non-sense syllables rather than actual words.
"Hoedown" from Rodeo was composed by which American composer?
Aaron Copland
Which choice does not correspond to the aesthetics of Romanticism?
Absolute Music
CH_20 MC Question The serialism and twelve tone system was primarily created by what composer?
Arnold Schoenberg
The 2nd Viennese School was comprised of which three composers?
Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern
CH_13 MC Question Franz Schubert's greatest compositional output was in the genre of the _____.
Art Song
CH_13 MC Question What do we call a song in which a poem is set to music and is designed to be performed by one singer and one pianist? These songs were most popular during the romantic period.
Art song
CH_7 MC Question Johann Sebastian Bach lived during what musical period?
Baroque
CH_19 MC Question Few romantic composers could escape the influence of ______ symphonies.
Beethoven's
Bebop jazz was a NYC reaction to what Jazz style from what city?
Big Band jazz from Chicago
In the exposition of the sonata form, what serves the function of modulating to a new key?
Bridge
Which of these statements is true?
By the end of the baroque era, instrumental music had gradually equaled or surpassed vocal music in popularity.
CH_12 MC Question With what impairment did Beethoven struggle for much of his life?
Deafness
What section follows the exposition?
Development
What section of a fugue begins immediately after the exposition?
Episode
CH_15 MC Question _____ are study pieces that are designed to help musicians get better at a specific technique related to their instrument.
Etudes
New York Free Jazz shared elements with what previously discussed European art movement?
Expressionism
The Classical Era refers to all music that we, in modern day, refer to as "classical music."
False
The countersubject of a fugue appears only at the very end of the piece.
False
Which of the following is NOT one of the dances commonly present in a baroque suite?
Fantasia
Which element of Jazz does NOT come from African traditions?
Formal structure
The organic "spinning out" of a musical work based on the first few notes played is called what?
Fortspinnung
CH_7 MC Question A _____ is a musical work where the main melody (the subject) is developed polyphonically. After the initial melody is heard, that same melody enters a few seconds later but at a different note-level. This process continues until all layers of melodies have entered and a complicated web of sound has been created.
Fugue
CH_20 MC Question Claude Debussy was born in what country?
France
CH_20 MC Question Impressionism was heard around the world, but it most thrived in _____.
France
CH_15 MC Question Who started the trend of turning the piano sideways in concerts to allow the audience to better see the hands of the pianist while also hearing the intricate sounds produced by the instrument?
Franz Liszt
Stephen Foster's American parlor music for amateur musicians was most similar to the Salon music of what European composer of the same period?
Franz Schubert
CH_19 MC Question In response to his time in the United States, what did Antonín Dvořák nickname his ninth symphony?
From the New World
CH_4 MC Question This medieval period composer was an advocate of the ars nova (which brought great change to music). He was a well-educated poet-musician. Because of his preservation of music manuscripts (mainly by gifting them to patrons), his music was preserved. This helped push the music scene forward into the next musical period. Who was this composer?
Guillaume de Machaut
CH_9 MC Question What famous work influenced Franz Joseph Haydn so much that it led to his creating the oratorio The Creation?
Handel's Messiah (specifically, the "Hallelujah" Chorus)
CH_12 MC Question In 1802, Beethoven wrote a letter in which he poured out his heart and revealed his struggles, inner turmoil, and thoughts of suicide. This letter, though, also included his drive to fight through his struggles and succeed. Which letter is this?
Heiligenstadt Testament
CH_13 MC Question The text to Schubert's Der Erlkönig (The Elf King) was based on a poem by whom?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Which philosopher does not belong to the Age of Enlightenment and its emphasis on human truth as being rational?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
CH_21 MC Question Who was the most successful marching band leader of America?
John Philip Sousa
Who composed The Stars and Stripes Forever?
John Philip Sousa
Which characteristics correctly define the "Ars Antiqua" style of music
Leonin and Perotin were critical composers of it Occurred during the 12th-14th century Compelled the creation of mensural notation
CH_13 MC Question In German, art songs are referred to as _____.
Lieder
CH_9 MC Question Who created the libretto for three of Mozart's most famous operas: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Don Giovanni (Don Juan), and Cosi fan tutte (All Women Are Like That)?
Lorenzo da Ponte
CH_26 MC Question _____ became one of the most powerful trumpet players and most popular jazz musicians of all time.
Louis Armstrong
CH_12 MC Question To which composer do we often look as helping move the musical world from the classical period into the romantic period?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Which factor in early 20th century society did not contribute to Expressionism?
McCarthyism
CH_4 MC Question Which musical period took place from 450-1450?
Medieval
CH_20 MC Question What answer below best fits with the musical style of primitivism?
Melodies do not flow smoothly (they are harsh and angular) and contain many unexpected accents.
Steve Reich and John Adams often compose music using a basic rhythmic motive on repeat for the entire piece. This serves to strip off nonessential elements and isolate a fundamental concept, subscribing to the mid-20th century artistic style called
Minimalism
CH_7 MC Question What is improvisation as it relates to music?
Music that is created by the performer during the moment of performance.
CH_20 MC Question What is atonal music?
Music that rejects tonality.
CH_16 MC Question What is program music?
Music that uses the sounds of the instruments to recreate an image, scene, or event in the listener's mind.
CH_26 MC Question Jazz was born in _____.
New Orleans
CH_6 MC Question George Frederic Handel's Messiah is a/an_____.
Oratorio
CH_4 MC Question 1450-1600 marks the years of which musical period?
Renaissance
CH_19 MC Question What does Gustav Mahler musically quote throughout his first symphony?
Songs
CH_20 MC Question What do we call a singing technique where the notes are half-spoken, half sung?
Sprechstimme
The greatest pop songwriter of early America was _____. He composed songs like Camptown Races, My Old Kentucky Home, and Oh! Susanna.
Stephen Foster
The main melody of a fugue is called the
Subject
Which description correctly describes the contrast between an "A" theme and "B" theme in the exposition of Sonata Form?
The "A" theme is generally more energetic, the "B" theme is more lyric.
CH_21 MC Question Based on his work with the US Marine Band, his compositions, and tours with his band, John Philip Sousa earned what nickname?
The March King
King Louis XVI banned the play-version of what Mozart opera before his execution by Guillotine?
The Marriage of Figaro
Which painting best represents the Baroque era aesthetic?
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula by Caravaggio
The most solemn service of the Catholic church, commemorating and reenacting the Last Supper, is called
The Mass
P.I. Tchaikovsky is most famous for what work that he ironically also despised?
The Nutcracker
Which statement regarding the movements of J.S. Bach's Baroque dance suite is incorrect?
The Sarabande, a slow dance in three, was sexual in nature and originated in France
What piece of art best exemplifies the aesthetic of Expressionism?
The Scream by Edward Munch
George Bizet's operas, especially Carmen, present life as indifferent to human emotion, the term that best describes this artistic tradition toward realism is called
Verismo
Imagine you are listening to a choir perform renaissance music (don't ask why, just imagine it). When the choir sings "climb," the notes rise in pitch. When the choir sings "falls down the stairs," the notes descend in pitch. What musical concept have you just heard?
Word painting
CH_4 MC Question A secular vocal genre containing a short poem set in the vernacular, this type of music was for multiple voices, found during the renaissance period, and used word painting so frequently that the genre's title became synonymous with the word painting technique. What is this describing?
madrigal
A toccata keyboard piece is characterized by
many scale passages, rapid runs and trills, and massive chords.
