Music Appreciation Final
what is placed at the beginning of a staff to show the exact pitch of each line and space?
clef
a polyphonic composition based on one main theme is the
fugue
tonality is another term for
key
instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ______________ period
late baroque
the text, or book of a musical dramatic work is called the
libretto
what is an apparatus that produces ticking sounds or flashes of light at any desired musical speed?
metronome
the texture of a single melodic line without accompaniment is ?
monophonic
when two or more melodic lines of equal interest are performed simultaneously, the texture is ?
polyphonic
the two giants of baroque composition were George Frederic Handel and
Johann Sebastian Bach
the first opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in
Venice
melody may be defined as
a series of single notes which add up to a recognizable whole
the renaissance, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years,
1450-1600
the baroque period in western music is usually given as
1600-1750
classicism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years
1750-1820
romanticism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years
1820-1900
the piano has how many keys
88
George Frederic Handel was born in 1685, the same year as
Bach
oratorio differs from opera in that it has no
acting, scenery, or costumes
music can be defined as?
an art based on the organization of sounds in time
the first, or stressed, beat of a measure is known as the?
downbeat
the four main properties of musical sounds are pitch, dynamics, tone color, and?
duration
the organization of musical ideas in time is called
form
the main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the
harpsichord
when there is one main melody accompanied by chords, the texture is
homo phonic
musical texture refers to
how many different layers of sound are heard at the same time. what kind of layers of sound are heard (melody or harmony). how layers of sound are related to each other
an ________ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action
opera
Handel's Messiah is an example of
oratorio
Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life
serving a wealthy aristocratic family
in musical notation, pitches are written on a set of a five horizontal lines called?
staff
harmony refers to
the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other
composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by
writing dance music for music balls, writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed aristocracy, flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music