music appreciation final exam

false

(t/f) In the first movement of Glass's Symphony No. 4, whole sections of David Bowie's Heroes can be heard.

true

(t/f) In the movie Jaws, the shark is represented by a two-note oscillating motive.

false

(t/f) Laws concerning copyright and unauthorized use of music have become more lenient in the last century.

true

(t/f) Leonard Bernstein achieved fame as the first American-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

true

(t/f) Minimalism is a more developed style that is influenced by process music.

true

(t/f) Polyrhythm is associated with the Ewe people of Togo, Benin, and Ghana.

true

(t/f) Rent is a rock musical based on Puccini's La bohème.

false

(t/f) Some composers developed minimalism and a style eventually called process music.

true

(t/f) Sondheim's musicals represent a new sophistication in the genre.

true set the mood. help establish the characters. help establish a sense of place and time

(t/f) Source music refers to music which functions as part of the drama itself, such as a character turning on a radio.

false

(t/f) Steve Reich's early phase works were meant to be performed by live musicians.

false

(t/f) The Imperial March theme is only heard in one of the Star Wars films.

false

(t/f) Theatrical productions were a central part of life in the earliest North American colonies.

Through repeated listening we gain...

Skills to transfer to new repertories, musical memory, familiarity and understanding.

________ form became a favorite resource for instrumental composers since the musical story it can tell is significantly more dynamic than other forms.

Sonata-allegro

prepared piano

Sonatas and Interludes is written for

Which of the following is NOT a true statement?

Songs in English translation fit the musical line as well as the original words.

Which describes camp meetings?

Special gatherings popular in nineteenth-century America where songs of worship were sung.

Chuck Berry was from

St. Louis missouri

pat metheny

Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint was premiered by

Strain 3 sounds different from strains 1 and 2. Which best describes the difference between strain 3 and the other strains in Maple Leaf Rag? Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag, strain 30:22

Strain 3 changes to a new major key.

Tavener's earliest works show the influence of

Stravinsky

Which instrument family is providing the accompaniment to the main melody in this excerpt?

Strings

In which cover of Roll Over, Beethoven are Beethoven's musical ideas combined with Berry's stanzas?

The Electric Light Orchestra

The addition of instruments to the Romantic orchestra meant new drama in music through

All possible answers.

The conductor

All possible answers.

The form of Sleepyhead, Cupid! is

All possible answers.

The libretto of Bach's cantata Wachet auf

All possible answers.

The multimovement cycle of the Classical composers can be found in their

All possible answers.

The poems of the troubadour and trouvère repertory include

All possible answers.

The rising tide of nationalism in the Romantic era was expressed through

All possible answers.

The second section of Alla hornpipe differs from the first in that

All possible answers.

Twentieth and twenty-first century technologies have affected musicians in which of the following ways?

All possible answers.

Which describes harmony in Renaissance music?

All possible answers.

Which describes the element of rhythm in the Classical style?

All possible answers.

Which describes the opening motive of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?

All possible answers.

Which musical element(s) contribute to the majestic quality of Handel's Alla hornpipe?

All possible answers.

Which of the following applies to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?

All possible answers.

Which of the following applies to the definition of a cantata?

All possible answers.

Which of the following are William Billings's contributions to American music history?

All possible answers.

Which of the following are part of the performing forces of the Dies irae?

All possible answers.

Which of the following defines the characteristics of style?

All possible answers.

Which of the following factors influence timbre?

All possible answers.

Which of the following is a contribution to the symphony made by the German school of composers?

All possible answers.

Which of the following is/are poetic forms used in medieval chansons?

All possible answers.

Which of the following topics might be found in medieval lyrics?

All possible answers.

Who was Chiara Margarita Cozzolani?

All possible answers.

Which is a true statement about the Mendelssohn family?

All statements are true

In regards to typical English madrigals, which statement is true?

All statements are true.

Which is a true statement about the Baroque suite?

All statements are true.

Which is an accurate statement?

All statements are true.

Which is true of Classical-era concert life?

All statements are true.

Which of the following statements regarding form is true?

All statements are true.

The distance between two pitches is called....

An interval

copland's American style is primarily rooted in

Anglo-American folk melodies.

Brian Eno

David Bowie created ground-breaking albums with

downtown music

David Bowie reinvented his artistic persona in the mid-1970s resulting in contact with experimental musicians in New York City who were part of the ______ phenomenon.

What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?

They were influenced by movements in painting

Which does not describe early-twentieth century nationalist composers?

They were unable to preserve folk melodies without modern recording technologies.

In regards to the troubadours and trouvères, which of the following statements is NOT true?

They wrote sacred music.

Criteria that shape a performer's interpretation include variation in tempo and dynamics.

True

During the Baroque era the development of instruments was encouraged by wealthy patrons.

True

During the Baroque era, instrumental music rose to a position equal with vocal music, eventually becoming the central feature of Western concert music in the following century.

True

During the later Middle Ages, polyphonic developments in sacred music carried over to the secular realm.

True

European immigrants imported cultivated repertoires to the Americas True False

True

Even when a performer improvises, the basic elements of repetition, contrast, and variation can be heard.

True

First-movement concerto form is based on principles from the Baroque ritornello and the Classical sonata-allegro form.

True

Four sons of Bach's nineteen children were leading composers of the next generation.

True

Giuseppe Verdi is viewed as an Italian nationalist composer.

True

Heterophony is common in non-Western music.

True

Hildegard's chant Alleluia, O virga mediatrix was intended for performance on a feast day of the Virgin Mary.

True

Humanism was inspired by ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

True

In Western music, two scales have been predominant: major and minor.

True

In earlier eras, young boys and occasionally men with voices in the soprano or alto range sang female parts in church music and on the stage.

True

In notation, regular groupings of beats are marked off in measures.

True

Instrument builders have often sought to emulate the human voice.

True

Interpretation is at the root of musical expressiveness.

True

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are considered postmodern.

True

Leporello's Catalogue Aria conveys a serious message through lighthearted music.

True

Machaut was the first composer self-consciously to attempt a compositional legacy.

True

Minuet-and-trio form found its origins in Baroque court dance.

True

Which is true of Debussy's career and compositional output?

Debussy helped establish the French song (mélodie) as a national art form., Debussy won the Prix de Rome at age 22.,Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande brought him public recognition.

The contour of the opening phrase of Joy to the World is...

Descending

Which of the following is an important skill?

Developing musical memory.

At which point in the Libera me does the choir sing fortissimo?

Dies irae text

The type of melodic movement in The Star-Spangled Banner is.....

Disjunct

Which statement does NOT describe dissonance in early-twentieth century music?

Dissonance was viewed as a temporary disturbance, resolving to consonance.

Which composer's music does Bartók quote in the fourth movement of Concerto for Orchestra?

Dmitri Shostakovich

Which describes the musical elements of Mozart's Don Giovanni?

Don Giovanni combines elements of serious and comic opera.

At what point in Don Giovanni do the characters Don Giovanni and Zerlina sing the duet, "Là ci darem la mano"?

Don Giovanni is seducing Zerlina.

Which of the following is not part of the Don Giovanni storyline?

Don Giovanni makes amends with Donna Anna and Donna Elvira.

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

Don Giovanni's international amorous conquests

Don Giovanni recounts the tale of ______, the aristocratic, amoral womanizer.

Don Juan

Handel's Messiah was premiered in

Dublin, Ireland.

Monteverdi uses word-painting to portray the images found in the poetry for his madrigal Si ch'io vorrei morire.

True

Most cultures employ sacred music for religious functions.

True

Movements in a large-scale musical work can be compared to chapters in a novel.

True

Mozart played a crucial role in the development of the piano concerto.

True

Mozart wrote many of his piano concertos to showcase his own performance skills.

True

Mozart's Requiem was the composer's last work and was left incomplete.

True

Music can hold our attention over long spans of time.

True

Music has often been a means for marginalized people to voice their perspective.

True

Music that is made up spontaneously in performance is called improvised.

True

Music was not a part of the life of nuns in convents in the Baroque era.

True

Musical notation of polyphony allowed for more detail and control over the musical texture.

True

Musical sound is characterized by perceivable and measureable pitch.

True

Musical works studied in the textbooks are accompanied by Listening Guides that Outline "What to Listen For" at the top.

True

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

True

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

True

organizing the famous family Sunday concerts

During her later years, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was responsible for

A composition must use one texture throughout.

False

A ground bass is heard only at the beginning of Dido's aria.

False

A melodic line that moves by small intervals is called consonant.

False

A symphony orchestra is an example of a chamber ensemble.

False

All music has a strong, discernable beat.

False

Antonio Vivaldi, in his own day, was better known as a composer than a performer.

False

Beethoven gave the nickname Moonlight to his piano sonata making it a programmatic work.

False

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony progresses from a victorious opening to conflict and struggle.

False

Billings adhered strictly to European compositional methods.

False

Billings's David's Lamentation is complex and challenging to sing.

False

Censors did not concern themselves with political representation in nineteenth-century operas

False

Chamber music generally implies a large ensemble, with more than one player to a part.

False

Chopin taught his students to play rubato by keeping the right hand steady, while the music in the left hand hesitated and hurried forward True False

False

Composers have indicated specific instruments since early times.

False

Composers indicate tempo and mood to the performers so that there is no leeway for interpretation.

False

Composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries used even fewer expression marks than their predecessors.

False

Despite being composed in England, Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas has an Italian text.

False

Dido and Aeneas is one of the earliest, and most famous, Italian operas.

False

During the Baroque era, the Catholic Church offered a wide variety of options for women to express their spirituality.

False

Frank Gehry's design for the Walt Disney Concert Hall is a statement against postmodernism.

False

Genre describes a musical form.

False

Handel and J. S. Bach met often and collaborated on musical works.

False

Handel composed in all genres except opera.

False

Handel spent his entire career in Germany.

False

Handel's best-known orchestral suites are his Water Music and Messiah.

False

Hildegard's Alleluia, O virgo mediatrix is a Gregorian chant.

False

One of the most popular subjects of the sacred Renaissance motet was the Virgin Mary.

True

If a major or minor scale is transposed to a different starting pitch, the pattern of half steps and whole steps changes.

False

In a cadenza during a concerto from the Classical period, the orchestra improvises freely.

False

In the Catalogue Aria, Leporello assures Donna Elvira that indeed she is Don Giovanni's one true love.

False

In the Middle Ages, it was assumed that women were worthy of connection with the divine.

False

In the Western tradition, music historically has not been linked to mathematics and geometry.

False

In through-composed songs, music from previous stanzas is repeated.

False

It has recently been proven that Mozart was poisoned while writing his Requiem Mass.

False

Listening to music while exercising is an example of active listening.

False

Martin Luther and fellow reformer John Calvin believed only priests who were trained singers should participate in church music-making.

False

Monteverdi emphasizes the last line of the poem in the madrigal Si ch'io vorrei morire by not repeating it.

False

Most musical cultures in the world use written notation to preserve and transmit their music.

False

Mozart did not write for solo singers in his Requiem.

False

Mozart only collaborated with Lorenzo da Ponte on Don Giovanni.

False

Mozart's comic operas are only relevant to the time in which they were written.

False

Mozart's use of low wind and brass instruments in his Requiem was standard practice in his day.

False

Multimovement instrumental works in the Classical era typically started with a slow movement.

False

Polyphony occurs when several meters are played simultaneously.

False

Polyphony was universally accepted in medieval religious communities.

False

Pope Gregory the Great composed all of the Gregorian chant melodies.

False

Postmodern art is often anti-feminist and racist.

False

Postmodernism is not found in film.

False

Priests and monks were brought in to convents to sing the lower parts in polyphonic music.

False

Renaissance sacred music was generally performed with instruments.

False

Simple meters are meters in which the beats are divided into three.

False

Since the Classical era, Mozart's Requiem has rarely been performed.

False

Some of Felix Mendelssohn's works were published under his sister's name.

False

Stephen Foster gained public recognition as a singer True False

False

Oral transmission is the process of preserving music without written notation.

True

Oratorios are based on biblical stories.

True

Taking notes while listening to music is a bad idea.

False

The Ars nova began in Italy around the early 1400s.

False

The Baroque concerto could be written for a solo group or a solo instrument and orchestra, however Classical-era concertos were typically only written for a solo group and orchestra.

False

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

False

The Baroque suite typically consists of a group of dances in contrasting keys.

False

The English madrigal preceded the development of the Italian madrigal by some one hundred years.

False

The Middle East had no influence on European musical styles.

False

The Renaissance marks the passing of European society from a predominately secular society to a more sacred one.

False

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

False

The category "chordophones" applies only to Western instruments.

False

The concerto was a new genre of the Classical era.

False

The downbeat coincides with the upward stroke of a conductor's hand.

False

The first type of polyphony was Gregorian chant.

False

The focus of Classical chamber music is soloistic virtuosity.

False

The lines that distinguish art music from other kinds are clearly delineated.

False

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

False

The new Italian opera was embraced in all Western European countries.

False

The octave is divided the same way in the musical systems of all cultures.

False

The second movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 94 was composed in sonata-allegro form.

False

The text of Mozart's Requiem was written by Lorenzo da Ponte.

False

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

False

The word "song" refers to any piece of music.

False

There was a clear split between classical and popular music in the early nineteenth century True False

False

Vocal music with instrumental accompaniment is called a cappella.

False

Which of the following statements correctly describe strain 1 of Maple Leaf Rag?

It is performed by solo piano. It features one melody with accompaniment. Incorrect Answer(s) It features one melody without accompaniment. It is performed by piano and violin. It features several melodies played simultaneously.

Ostinato is particularly prevalent in blues, rock, and rap.

True

Our understanding of the musical culture of ancient civilizations is limited by the small number of fragments of music that have survived.

True

Percussion instruments are divided into two categories: definite or indefinite pitch.

True

Playing music in two simultaneous rhythms is known as polyrhythm.

True

Italy

From a year-long trip to which country did Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel draw inspiration for her work The Year?

Polyphony was utilized to enhance worship on the most significant feast days in the church year.

True

Which statement does NOT apply to Impressionist composers?

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

Postmodern art embraces a pluralistic attitude toward gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.

True

Postmodern thought welcomes both highbrow and lowbrow artistic influences.

True

Recently, Baroque performing ensembles have sought to perform Baroque music authentically on Baroque-style instruments.

True

Renaissance music generally featured consonant harmonies.

True

Singing polyphony required specialized singers.

True

Some Baroque musical works were created for specific occasions and immediate use.

True

Some postmodernist architecture can be described as neo-eclectic.

True

Sometimes Billings's songs mixed sacred texts and political references.

True

Sometimes humorous madrigals would have a refrain of syllables such as "fa la la."

True

Starting in the Middle Ages, monasteries fostered the development of worship music.

True

Symbolism was the literary equivalent of Impressionism.

True

The Baroque era offered few musical possibilities for creative women.

True

The Baroque oratorio evolved out of events that took place during the Counter-Reformation.

True

The Dies irae section of Mozart's Requiem is a rhymed Latin poem.

True

The Fisk arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is strophic

True

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

True

The Royal Academy of Music was founded for the purpose of producing Italian opera.

True

The arts were considered to be a necessary adornment of aristocratic life.

True

The chief concern of the early madrigalists was to give pleasure to the amateur performer.

True

The development of harmony is central to Western music.

True

The expansion of a melodic idea is known as thematic development.

True

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

True

Which is not true of the 1969 Woodstock Festival?

It relied on corporate sponsorship.

Which is NOT true of the Baroque oratorio?

It used scenery, acting, and costumes, just like opera.

Which statement does NOT apply to the last section of sonata-allegro form?

It wanders through a series of foreign keys.

Which statement about late seventeenth-century Baroque music is NOT true?

It was generally accepted that music should not arouse the emotions.

Which is a true statement regarding the saxophone?

It was invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax.

Which of the following is NOT true of the Moonlight sonata?

It was not well-received at the time of its premiere.

Which is NOT true of Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 453?

It was written for, and dedicated to, Haydn.

Don Giovanni is sung in which language?

Italian

In what language is this opera sung?

Italian

Monteverdi's Si ch'io vorrei morire is sung in

Italian

Sleepyhead, Cupid! is sung in which language?

Italian

Tempo and dynamic markings are usually given in

Italian

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Italian dance rhythms and Germany's choral song tradition blended to make a new French style.

Despite being of northern European birth, Josquin spent most of his career in

Italy

In which country did Monteverdi live and work?

Italy

Which character sings the aria, "Batter my heart"?

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Mendelssohn was responsible for spurring a revival of which composer's music?

J. S. Bach

Which composer was NOT considered part of the Viennese School?

J. S. Bach

The fourth movement of Bach's Cantata No. 140 features the tenor section singing in unison.

True

The intent of the process of lining-out was to create unison congregational singing.

True

The libretto for Handel's Messiah features biblical verses from both the Old and New Testaments.

True

The merchant class was critical to the rising success of the lighter opera buffa style in the Classical era.

True

The music of the Classical style continues to form the core of the Western concert tradition to this day.

True

The practice of lining-out allowed singers who did not read music notation to participate in congregational music-making.

True

The term "Impressionism" was originally one of derision in academic circles.

True

The use of a fixed melody in one voice was a compositional technique found in sacred Renaissance motets.

True

The various movements of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony are unified by the opening motive in the first movement.

True

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

True

Themes are comprised of smaller units known as motives.

True

There was an interest in both the regularity and complexity of musical patterns during the Ars nova.

True

Those who sang Gregorian plainchant during the Middle Ages believed it had been composed by the divine and not the human mind.

True

Triads in Western music are made up of a combination of alternating notes from a scale.

True

William Billings taught at singing schools.

True

Why were Berg's works banned in Germany during WWII?

Twelve-tone works were alien to the spirit of the Third Reich.

Revueltas studied for a time in

USA

Where did Stravinsky live in the last years of his life?

USA

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

University of California, Los Angeles

Which does not describe a humanist outlook?

Unquestioning faith and mysticism.

BLUE CATHEDRAL Which of the following is NOT true of Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral?

It is an aleatoric work

What makes The Four Seasons a programmatic work?

It is based on a set of poems, one for each season.

Why is this chorus typical of the genre?

It is built upon a repeated harmonic progression The first line of text is repeated The text is about everyday struggles in life

Which of the following does NOT describe Bartók's Interrupted Intermezzo from his Concerto for Orchestra?

It is entirely in a major key

Which is NOT true of an overture?

It is generally played as an introduction and again between scenes.

Which is a true statement regarding the movements in Eine kleine Nachtmusik?

It is in four movements.

Which is NOT true of the third movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?

It is in theme and variations form.

Which best describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag0:22 It

It is new music I haven't yet heard in this work.

Which best describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag0:26

It is new music I haven't yet heard in this work.

_______ means a few notes set to each syllable of text.

Neumatic

_____ designed the experimental stage design for The Rite of Spring.

Nicholas Roerich

Grieg is from which country?

Norway

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Notated polyphony emerged at the end of the Renaissance.

The Climax of The Star-Spangled Banner falls on what text?

O'er the land of the free....

The Fisk Jubilee Singers were introduced to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by

Reverend Alexander Reid

Which work did Gershwin perform at a 1924 concert entitled "An Experiment in Modern Music"?

Rhapsody in Blue

Which historical style period lasted less than 100 years?

Romantic

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Romantic symphony?

Romantic composers often shortened and lightened up the last movement of a symphony to balance the first movement.

Some of Stravinsky's melodies quote

Russian folk tunes

W. A. Mozart was born in

Salzburg, Austria.

Adagio for Strings was written by ______, a precursor of neo-Romanticism.

Samuel Barber

Which is a true statement?

Samuel Barber was a prominent exponent of neo-Romantic music.

Edvard Grieg represents the _____ nationalist school.

Scandinavian

Grieg's Peer Gynt is a work that suggests _________ nationalism.

Scandinavian

What is the subtitle of The Rite of Spring?

Scenes of Pagan Russia"

Which does NOT apply to Beethoven's use of form in the second movement of his Fifth Symphony?

Scherzo-and-trio form.

Which is NOT true of the text of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry.

"Everything he touched turned to song" refers to which composer?

Schubert

Schubert's newest works could be heard at

Schubertiads.

Dichterliebe was written in 1840,

Schumann's "year of song."

Which composer is often referred to as the "King of Ragtime"?

Scott Joplin

Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern are known as the

Second Viennese School

A phrase and cadence is music can likened to a....

Sentence and period.

a bare-footed woman by the stream

September: At the River is accompanied by a drawing of

Which does not describe the character Cio-Cio-San?

She is Butterfly's maid

Which describes Barbara Strozzi's performing opportunities?

She performed in the exclusive male academies of Venice.

Which describes Lili Boulanger's instrumental training? Correct!

She was a precocious child and learned to sing and play violin, cello, harp, and piano.

In regards to Hildegard of Bingen, which statement is NOT true?

She was the first to notate plainchant.

Which does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's compositional output?

She wrote only sacred music

Which describes the premiere of The Rite of Spring?

Shouts from the audience disrupted the dancers, which temporarily interrupted the show.

Which Russian dancer choreographed the ballet version of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

Vaslav Nijinksy

extended acts from plays

Vaudeville productions featured all of the following EXCEPT

Which is NOT true of Verdi?

Verdi died suddenly at a young age and was unable to fulfill his artistic genius.

Mozart spent the last ten years of his life in which city?

Vienna

Where was Alban Berg born?

Vienna

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

Virgil's Aeneid.

flutter-tonguing

Which extended technique does Caballito negro require of the piccolo player?

Jerome Robbins

Which famous choreographer is responsible for the electrifying dance sequences in West Side Story?

metallic percussion and flute or piccolo

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

Ellington and Strayhorn

Which is NOT a creative team that ushered in the golden age of the American musical?

use of serial technique

Which is NOT a musical characteristic of minimalism? - consonant harmonies - gradual changes in patterns - patterns repeated over and over - use of serial technique

triple meter

Which is NOT a musical element at the beginning of Imperial March? - powerful brass melody - minor tonality - triple meter - rhythmic ostinato

melodic pitch bending

Which is NOT associated with the music of Leonard Bernstein?

She formally studied music theory and composition with a well-known composer

Which is a true statement regarding Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's musical studies?

true

Women increasingly became teachers because it was scandalous for a man to be in close proximity with an unrelated woman.

What instrument group is heard in this excerpt?

Woodwinds

Which is NOT part of the storyline in Wagner's Ring cycle?

Wotan puts a curse on a gold ring

Which does not occur in the Wozzeck story line?

Wozzeck and Marie get married.

Twyla Tharpe

Writing his Symphony No. 4, Glass expanded his collaboration to further include

Process music

_______ is a technique in which a composer chooses a very simple and harmonically clear musical idea—one or two chords, or a few notes forming a consonant snippet—and repeats it over and over again, gradually changing or elaborating it.

New York

________ was the cultural center of the U.S. by the mid 1800s.

The use of a quick, aggressively rhythmic theme rising from the low to the high register came to be known as

a "rocket theme."

The "Batter my heart" text comes from

a John Donne sonnet

Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, is based on

a Norwegian folktale.

What is the historical setting for Rigoletto?

a Renaissance-era Italian court

In the first movement of the Spring concerto, all of the following musical images are depicted by Vivaldi except

a barking dog.

The oratorio was generally based on

a biblical story.

Composers in the Renaissance often used ________ in one voice as a basis for elaborate ornamentation in other voices.

a cantus firmus

Singing without instrumental accompaniment, as heard in this example, is called:

a cappella

Gaude Maria virgo is performed

a cappella.

Which of the following musical elements is NOT present in Bartók's Interrupted Intermezzo?

a complex meshing of three folk themes in an extended fugue

Rigoletto, the title character in Verdi's opera, is

a court jester

The plot in Rigoletto centers around

a curse put on the character Rigoletto

The second movement of Vivaldi's Spring concerto depicts the sound of

a dog barking.

1961

a film adaptation of West Side Story premiered in what year

In the Finale of The Valkyrie, Wotan's evocation of Loge (the god of Fire), is preceded by

a forceful trombone passage

Scott Joplin's father was

a former slave

Dido and Aeneas was first presented by

a group of girls at a boarding school.

This is the final section of the polonaise, labeled -. It features a -form of its own, with a(n) '-' theme followed by a(n) '-' theme, and then finally a restatement of the 'a' theme.

a' ternary a b

Music that belongs to the "people" and that has brought great financial profit is considered a. "popular" b. "classical" c. "high brow" d. all possible answers

a. "popular"

"Tempo rubato" translates as a. "robbed time" b. "rhythmic tempo" c. "in strict time" d. "quick tempo"

a. "robbed time"

Which describes Chopin's compositional output? a. He wrote almost exclusively for the piano b. He wrote sacred and secular works c. He composed in most genres except opera d. He composed piano music and string quartets

a. He wrote almost exclusively for the piano

Who was the first great proponent of musical Romanticism in France? Select one: a. Hector Berlioz b. Felix Mendelssohn c. Franz Liszt d. Clara Schumann

a. Hector Berlioz

Which city was the center of the new Romanticism of the 1830s? a. Paris b. Vienna c. Warsaw d. New York

a. Paris

The polonaise represents musical nationalism because it is a a. Polish lullaby b. Polish dance c. French song d. Russian lullaby

a. Polish dance

Which statement about the nineteenth-century piano is NOT true? a. There were few technological improvements made to the piano during the nineteenth century b. The piano was the most central instrument in nineteenth-century musical culture c. The piano was the most expensive, technologically versatile instrument available d. The piano became a popular instrument for amateur musicians in the nineteenth century

a. There were few technological improvements made to the piano during the nineteenth century

Music lacking any literary or pictorial association is called Select one: a. absolute music. b. program music. c. incidental music. d. chamber music.

a. absolute music.

The most valued aspect(s) of the nineteenth-century piano a. is its suitability for polyphonic and homophonic textures b. is its ability to play melodies c. are the sets of pipes that create contrasting tone colors d. is the unique sound production by plucking of quills

a. is its suitability for polyphonic and homophonic textures

What were the effects of minstrelsy on American culture? a. it shaped stereotyping of African American culture well into the twentieth century b. it constantly reminded audiences of the greatness of African American culture c. it allowed slaves to get paid for their work d. there was no effect

a. it shaped stereotyping of African American culture well into the twentieth century

Which of the following was a type of racially-charged theatrical variety show in the United States in the nineteenth century? a. minstrel show b. Victorian burlesque c. circus exhibition d. Museum of Oddities

a. minstrel show

Which describes the genre of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique? Select one: a. program symphony b. symphonic poem c. concert overture d. incidental music

a. program symphony

Which is NOT a characteristic of a polonaise? a. slow tempo b. ternary form c. Polish dance origin d. stately triple meter

a. slow tempo

Which genre is NOT a part of Chopin's compositional output? a. string quartets b. piano concertos c. nocturnes d. piano sonatas

a. string quartets

A religious choral composition in English designed for congregational singing, though it could also be sung in the home or among friends, is called

an anthem.

The music to Morning Mood represents

an atmospheric depiction of a sunrise

Berg's Wozzeck was inspired by

an early Romantic play by Georg Büchner.

Which of the following does NOT pertain to modernism of the early twentieth century?

an embracing and continuation of nineteenth-century models

After the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, ______ writings were brought to Europe in increasing numbers.

ancient Greek and Roman

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

ancient Greek and Roman civilizations

Brahms moved to Vienna

and became enormously successful

What is the genre of Billings's David's Lamentation?

anthem

Verdi's compositional style is marked by

appealing melodies and intense dramatic situations

Wagner's operas are considered nationalistic because they

are inspired by medieval german epics, glorify german land and people

The modern music traditions of Mexico

are rich and varied. embrace Hispanic cultures. embrace Amerindian cultures.

In 1961, José Ives Limantour

arranged La noche de los Mayas into a four-movement suite

Twelve-tone technique

arranges twelve chromatic pitches, each carrying equal weight.

How was dissonance viewed by Impressionist composers?

as a goal in itself, freed from the need to resolve

Butterfly sings the famous aria, "Un bel dì" ("One beautiful day")

as she dreams of Pinkerton's return

Ives viewed dissonance

as the norm of American musical lif

In the Classical orchestra, the woodwinds

assisted and often doubled the strings.

Returning patterns or memorable moments in music is...

at the root of Western musical practice.

Music that rejects the framework of key is called

atonal

_____ music gives equal importance to the twelve tones of the chromatic scale.

atonal

Neo-Classical composers did NOT

attempt to bring music closer to poetry and painting

Robert Schumann suffered from

auditory hallucinations.

What was Chopin's native land? a. France b. Poland c. Germany d. Italy

b. Poland

Which American piano maker took the top award at the Paris Exhibition of 1887? a. Yamaha b. Steinway c. Baldwin d. Chickering

b. Steinway

Which important events occur in the FIRST movement of Symphonie fantastique? Select one: a. The artist dreams that he has killed his beloved; he hears the idée fixe for an instant. b. The artist meets the beloved and is inspired at once; the idée fixe is introduced. c. On a summer evening, the artist sees the beloved from afar; a shepherd plays the idée fixe. d. The artist meets the beloved at a ball; the idée fixe is in waltz time.

b. The artist meets the beloved and is inspired at once; the idée fixe is introduced.

Which describes the character of the fourth movement of Symphonie fantastique? Select one: a. a pastoral scene b. a diabolical march c. a witches' orgy d. a ball

b. a diabolical march

Works with fanciful titles are _______ pieces a. chamber b. character c. nationalistic d. concert

b. character

The instrumental equivalent to the song was the a. Lied b. character piece c. concerto d. sonata

b. character piece

The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, is called the Select one: a. subject. b. idée fixe. c. Dies irae. d. "fate motive."

b. idée fixe.

What describes the character of Chopin's Military Polonaise? a. dancelike b. marchlike c. dreamy d. melancholic

b. marchlike

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is a(n) a. lied b. parlor song c. plantation song d. Italian air

b. parlor song

Berlioz's father expected him to follow in his footsteps as a Select one: a. composer. b. physician. c. baker. d. music critic.

b. physician.

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called _____ music. Select one: a. absolute b. program c. chamber d. pure

b. program

In the fourth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantasique, what does the loud chord immediately after the solo clarinet's statement of the idée fixe represent? Select one: a. the last image of his beloved b. the falling of the guillotine's blade c. the witches at the composer's funeral d. his awakening from the dream

b. the falling of the guillotine's blade

What do Camptown Races and Old Folks at Home have in common a. they were written by George Christy b. they were written for or incorporated into minstrel shows c. they weren't popular with audiences until the twentieth century d. they were idealized visions of the North

b. they were written for or incorporated into minstrel shows

In quadruple meter, an emphasis on the second and fourth beats of the measure is called the

backbeat

Which genre describes The Rite of Spring?

ballet

Which of the following ensembles relies mainly on winds and percussion?

band

What is the vocal range of the person singing in this excerpt?

baritone

John Adams's operas, Doctor Atomic, Nixon in China, and The Death of Klinghoffer, are all

based on historical events

Which woodwind instrument is playing the countermelody?

bass clarinet

In Baroque music, the instruments that provided accompaniment were referred to as

basso continuo.

Which instrument, playing in its highest register, begins The Rite of Spring? Correct!

bassoon

The basic unit of rhythm is the

beat

If a composer wants to indicate tempo precisely, a ________ indication is given in the score.

beats per minute (bpm)

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk were figureheads of what jazz style?

bebop

In an orchestra, brass instruments are placed near the back of the group

because they are loud.

The _____ style is characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility and purity of tone.

bel canto

Conservative Puritan leaders

believed polyphonic singing was scandalous.

Which of the following describes the celesta?

bell like timbre

Who of the following was a French Romantic composer encountered in an earlier chapter?

berlioz

How many instrumentalists would you expect to find in a chamber group?

between two and twelve

Duke Ellington is associated with

big-band jazz

During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?

big-band jazz

Which singer is also known as "Lady Day"?

billie holiday

the classically trained pianist who served as an arranger and composer for the Ellington band was:

billy strayhorn

Which form features a statement followed by a departure that ends the piece?

binary

Each piece in the Baroque dance suite was set in _______ form.

binary or ternary

How did Berg die?

blood poisoning from an infected insect bite

Melodic "pitch bending" is also known as

blue notes

Which describes the music of Silvestre Revueltas?

both modernist and nationalis

Typical forms for the second movement of a symphony included

both ternary form and theme and variations.

The string family includes which types of instruments?

bowed and plucked

In the Finale of The Valkyrie, which instrument family is playing the "Siegfried" leitmotif?

brass

What instrument group is heard in this excerpt?

brass

Which of the following does NOT occur in the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?

brief recurrence of the scherzo

Which of the following occurs in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?

brief recurrence of the scherzo

William Grant Still

broke racial barriers was a representative of the Harlem Renaissance looked to Harlem Renaissance artists and writers for inspiration.

The key of a piece is determined

by the composer

How do specialists classify instruments?

by the way they generate their sound

Who was George Sand? a. Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant b. Chopin's lover c. All possible answers d. renowned French Novelist

c. All possible answers

Which composer is credited with originating the modern piano style? a. Beethoven b. Liszt c. Chopin d. Mozart

c. Chopin

Who wrote the text for Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair? a. Goethe b. Hugo c. Foster d. Heine

c. Foster

Foster's My Old Kentucky Home was inspired by a. his family's property in Kentucky b. his extensive visits to the American South c. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin d. the Kentucky Derby

c. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

After his conservatory studies, Chopin spent most of his productive career in a. Vienna, Austria b. London, England c. Paris, France d. Warsaw, Poland

c. Paris, France

___________ praised Chopin as a "poet" of the piano a. Schubert b. Liszt c. Schumann d. George Sand

c. Schumann

Why did Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair become a hit in 1941? a. Broadway revival helped audiences to hear Foster's music b. it was the centennial anniversary of Foster's birth c. a dispute broke out over licensing fees charged by companies, and some radio broadcasters chose to air older music that would cost them less to play d. scholars discovered a recording of the song by Foster

c. a dispute broke out over licensing fees charged by companies, and some radio broadcasters chose to air older music that would cost them less to play

Factory production of the nineteenth-century piano meant a. it became a fixture in middle class homes b. all possible answers c. it became a fixture in upper class homes d. reduced cost

c. all possible answers

"Popular" and "classical" music traditions in the nineteenth century were a. performed for separate audiences b. encountered in the same spaces, but performed separately c. encountered in the same spaces and performed by the same ensembles

c. encountered in the same spaces and performed by the same ensembles

Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is primarily composed in what texture a. heterophonic b. monophonic c. homophonic d. polyphonic

c. homophonic

Which best describes the ensemble performing the Chorale fantasia?

chorus with orchestra

The principal components of opera include arias, recitatives, overtures, and

choruses

During what time of year is The Nutcracker usually performed?

christmas

A scale comprised entirely of half steps is called a _________ scale.

chromatic

What describes Wagner's harmonic language?

chromatic

Which best describes the scale on which this opening melody is built?

chromatic

Which describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

chromatic and languorous

What is the solo instrument heard in this selection?

clarinet

Which instrument introduces the main melody in this more animated section?

clarinet

Which wind instrument provides countermelodies to the vocal part in this chorus?

clarinet

We often label art music as

classical

Which of the following does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?

clearly in a major key

What did spirituals include that made them politically subversive?

coded messages promises of heavenly deliverance messages of earthly escape

Bartók and fellow composer Zoltán Kodály are known for

collecting the folk music of Hungary

Underscoring is music that

comes from an unseen source, often an invisible orchestra.

Which genres, filled with keen and witty observations on life, are associated with the middle classes?

comic opera and the novel

All of the following reflect Dadaism EXCEPT:

complexities of Western art embraced

Which describes Copland's compositional aim?

compositions designed for wide appeal

Which of the following is NOT a simple meter?

compound

The violin plays all of the following special effects in the last movement of Still's Suite for Violin EXCEPT

con legno

Which category of program music describes Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream?

concert overture

Which term describes a one-movement work possibly written to introduce a larger work but also played independently?

concert overture

The larger size of the Romantic orchestra resulted in the need for a

conductor

Dissonance resolves in

consonance

Which of the following is NOT a prominent musical element heard in "At the sight of this"?

consonance

A chord that sounds stable or restful is called

consonant

The Mass Proper

contains prayer texts that vary from day to day throughout the church year.

The Mass Ordinary

contains the texts that remain the same in every Mass.

Quartet (second part): "Bella figlia" This quartet features two male voices as well as two female voices: a soprano and a

contraalto

In musical forms ________ stimulates our interest and feeds our desire for change.

contrast

From the 1800s, composers of sacred music have

conveyed their own spiritual convictions

Which composer believed music should "serve the American people"?

copland

Which of the following statements describe this excerpt from Chopin's Military Polonaise and which do not?

correct It features trills. It features the characteristic rhythm of a polonaise. It is the d theme found in the middle section of the piece. incorrect It is the a theme found in the first section of the piece. It is the only theme of the trio section.

Which of the following statements describe this excerpt from Chopin's Polonaise and which do not?

correct -this is the trio section -the key is d major incorrect -the is the a section of the piece -the key is in a major

Music-making in the Classical era centered around the

court of the patron.

International exchanges have caused composers to

create an overlapping of styles.

Which dynamic marking indicates to the performer to play gradually louder?

crescendo

Which of the following does not indicate a change of tempo?

crescendo

The idée fixe Select one: a. is a recurring motive that appears in every movement. b. represents the beloved. c. represents Harriet Smithson. d. All possible answers.

d. All possible answers.

Which of the following is an element of program music? Select one: a. literary or pictorial associations b. title or explanatory note c. suggests specific characters and events d. All possible answers.

d. All possible answers.

Which statement is NOT true? a. Anglo-American immigrants were nostalgic for the Old Country b. Anglo-American immigrants fantasized about the ideal Old Country of their grandparents c. Anglo-American immigrants helped popularize "folk songs" d. Anglo-American immigrants listened mostly to Italian opera

d. Anglo-American immigrants listened mostly to Italian opera

Who was Foster under contract with the 1847 onward? a. Jefferson College b. Fisk University c. Warner Chappell d. Christy Minstrels

d. Christy Minstrels

Which statement is NOT true? a. Stephen Foster wrote some of his famous songs for the Christy Minstrels b. Stephen Foster died unexpectedly as a penniless alcoholic c. Stephen Foster is known for his ballads, minstrel show tunes, and plantation songs d. Stephen Foster earned a huge profit from the sales of his sheet music

d. Stephen Foster earned a huge profit from the sales of his sheet music

Which statement is NOT true? Select one: a. Berlioz was a devoted fan of Beethoven. b. Berlioz looked to the writings of Shakespeare as the basis for both operas and symphonic works. c. Berlioz wrote for the largest orchestra that had ever been used up to that point. d. Symphonie fantastique was Berlioz's only programmatic work.

d. Symphonie fantastique was Berlioz's only programmatic work.

Who was Harriet Smithson? Select one: a. a leading composer of program music b. a touring concert pianist c. Berlioz's patron d. a Shakespearean actress

d. a Shakespearean actress

Which are technical advances made to the piano during the nineteenth century a. metal frame, increased string tension b. improved mechanical action c. extended range d. all possible answers

d. all possible answers

Which statement regarding the piano in nineteenth-century culture is NOT true? a. families gathered around the piano to make and hear music b. the nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists c. playing the piano was part of a refined education d. few families were able to afford household instruments

d. few families were able to afford household instruments

In which movement does Berlioz use the Dies irae ("Day of Wrath")? Select one: a. first b. second c. fourth d. fifth

d. fifth

Symphonie fantastique is comprised of how many movements? Select one: a. one b. three c. four d. five

d. five

Like many of Foster's songs, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is a. in sonata-allegro form b. through-composed c. in modified strophic form d. in strophic form

d. in strophic form

Chopin paid homage to his Eastern European ancestry by composing a. etudes and scherzos b. preludes and nocturnes c. sonatas and concertos d. mazurkas and polonaises

d. mazurkas and polonaises

Which describes the character of Chopin's nocturnes? a. noble and expansive b. stately and patriotic c. marchlike and virtuosic d. melancholic and meditative

d. melancholic and meditative

Musical sound is performed at varying volumes, also known as the music's

dynamics

Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which

each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.

The following statements are true about Josquin's motet EXCEPT which one?

each voice sings a different text in praise of the Virgin Mary.

William Billings lived during the

early years of the American Republic.

Both Puccini and Mahler had a strong fascination with which culture?

eastern

Music, mathematics, geometry, and astronomy were the four topics considered essential to medieval

education

How many notes are in an octave?

eight

Classical melodies are considered to be

elegant, lyrical.

During the early years of the twentieth century, French composers

embraced both Impressionism and innovative harmonic language.

In his music, Bartók

embraced the clarity of neo-Classicism. created an entirely personal language. evoked the folk traditions of his homeland

The rhythm in rhythm and blues is characterized by

emphasis on back beats

The Dies irae text is designed to

emphasize the terrible power of divine intervention.

Doctor Atomic is sung in

english

In times such as the Baroque era, when women had few choices in their lives, what was the only honorable alternative to marriage?

entering a convent

In rondo form, the refrain theme is interspersed with contrasting

episodes

In the first movement of Vivaldi's Spring concerto, the solo instrument is often featured in sections called

episodes

The tuning system established in the Baroque that made it possible for instruments to play in any key is called

equal temperament.

Verse 6: Which describes the musical expression in verse 6 from Boulanger's Psalm 24?

ethereal, chant-like

The study of non-Western and traditional music within its unique cultural context is called

ethnomusicology

Art is sometimes designed to

evoke ideal beaut create a place of inspiration shine a light on social problems

Symbolist poets sought to

evoke images through suggestion.

Listen to the excerpts and then click on the corresponding cards in the order that they appear in Chopin's Military Polonaise. Excerpt X:

excerpt z excerpt y excerpt x

Which is NOT an element of Wagner's "leading motives"?

explanations of the motives are stated in a printed program provided by Wagner

Berg's Wozzeck is considered to be a(n) _____ work.

expressionist

Which of the following does NOT apply to the second movement of Beethoven's Moonlight sonata?

expressive, minor key

Which describes the ring shout?

extended call and response singing style that took place in camp meetings singing style developed from African traditions

Which of the following does NOT describe the musical style of Silvestre Revueltas?

extensive use of leitmotifs

Listening to recorded music...

facilitates repeated listening.

The beginning of the Middle Ages was marked by the

fall of the Roman Empire.

Alban Berg wrote only one opera, Wozzeck.

false

Appalachian Spring is never performed as a concert work.

false

Arnold Schoenberg was a student of Alban Berg.

false

Ballet was first featured in Russian opera in the Romantic era.

false

Berg's use of harmony in Wozzeck is strictly atonal

false

Brahms only wrote orchestral music.

false

Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F major uses none of the forms often found in late eighteenth-century symphonies.

false

Brahms's compositional focus was programmatic music.

false

Composers of historical operas strive for documentary-style accuracy.

false

Contemporary composers no longer write music for their religious communities.

false

Despite their shared border, the culture and history of the U.S. and Mexico have not been intertwined.

false

Fauré's intention in writing his Requiem was to show death as "a painful experience."

false

Features of early musical modernism included lyrical, conjunct melodic lines.

false

Germany is noted for its long-established opera traditions.

false

Higdon composed blue cathedral to commemorate the anniversary of Carnegie Hall.

false

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is absolute music. Select one: True False

false

Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral utilizes the instruments from a typical Baroque orchestra.

false

John Adams has not written any electronic music.

false

Lili Boulanger won the Prix de Rome for her setting of Psalm 24.

false

Puccini's brief reference to The Star-Spangled Banner during the opening of Act I of Madame Butterfly is an example of his nationalism.

false

Record producer Leonard Chess discouraged Chuck Berry from mixing country and blues styles.

false

Revueltas was not politically active.

false

Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.

false

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was originally composed in the first decade of the twentieth century.

false

Tavener was a prominent proponent of serialism.

false

Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is highly melismatic

false

Tchaikovsky lived and worked mostly in Paris.

false

The Nutcracker is based on a story originally written by the Romantic writer Victor Hugo and expanded by E. T. A. Hoffmann.

false

The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.

false

The rhythms in Chopin's Military Polonaise should be played in strict time.

false

The style and structure of African American spirituals were in strict imitation of European models.

false

The verismo movement focused on the imaginative and fantastic.

false

Timbre is not a major consideration in blue cathedral.

false

William Grant Still did not receive recognition for his orchestral works and operas until after his death.

false

William Grant Still made little contribution to the search for a modern American sound.

false

Winners of the Prix de Rome traveled from Rome to Paris to study for three years.

false

Beethoven called the Moonlight Sonata a

fantasy sonata.

Bartók's goal was to collect and categorize the music of the Swedish people.

fasle

Lili Boulanger rejected innovative harmonic language in her work

fasle

Which of the following multimovement tempo schemes corresponds to the typical Classical concerto?

fast-slow-fast

The tempo scheme of the movements in Vivaldi's Spring concerto is

fast-slow-fast.

Which describes the character of Wotan?

father of the gods

Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire?

female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments

In what century did the Renaissance begin?

fifteenth century

Tavener wrote all of the following EXCEPT

film scores

This is the final section of the polonaise which features the same themes as the first section, but without the same pattern of repetition.

final repetition.

In duple meter, the accent is typically on which beat?

first

In triple meter, the strongest accent is typically on which beat?

first

The tonic is a three-note chord, or triad, built on the ________ scale step.

first

The longest and most dramatic in the multimovement cycle was generally the

first movement.

The concertmaster is the

first-chair violinist.

The first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 453 is in______ form.

first-movement concerto

Higdon's own instrument is the

flute

What instrument first introduces this languid melody?

flute

The hazy, dreamy quality of Impressionism is captured in the opening of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" through the use of which instruments?

flute and harp

Which instruments are members of the woodwind family?

flute, oboe, bassoon, English horn, saxophone

Art song was a popular repertory

for both amateur and professional musicians.

Which is the most important element in absolute music?

form

Which of the following musical elements is NOT present in the first movement of the Moonlight sonata?

forte dynamic

Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 closes

fortissimo

Which term indicates that a work should be performed very loudly?

fortissimo

Farmer's Fair Phyllis is written for _____ voices.

four

How many music dramas make up Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung?

four

How many symphonies did Brahms write?

four

How many vocal soloists does the score of Mozart's Requiem call for?

four

Which is NOT true of Schubert's Elfking? text by Goethe four characters, four singers through-composed form written when Schubert was a teenager.

four characters, four singers

Which of the movements in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is in C major?

fourth

The Prix de Rome was a competition open to composers from which country?

france

Which best describes the overall rhythm of this work?

free-flowing

Ballet was featured in operas by _____ composers.

french

In which language is Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 sung?

french

Verse 5: What language is heard in this work?

french

Which of the following occurs in the development section of sonata-allegro form?

frequent modulations, wanders through series of foreign keys

Schumann's Dichterliebe follows a psychological progression

from the freshness of new love to complete despair.

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra closes with a(n) _______, a polyphonic form popular in the Baroque era (1600-1750).

fugue

The Dies irae from Mozart's Requiem opens with

full chorus and orchestra.

Which describes the music in this excerpt?

full chorus, brass, organ, and timpani

Source music is music that

functions as part of the drama itself

Which two influential arts movements arose surrounding World War I?

futurism and Dadaism

In Madame Butterfly, you can hear the orchestra evoking the timbres of which Japanese ensemble?

gagaku

Winners of the Prix de Rome

gained instant fame and recognition received a monetary award were granted three years of study in Rome

Women that were highly trained in the arts of classical music, poetry, and dancing, and were easily recognizable by their lacquered black hair, distinctive makeup, and ornate silk kimono are called

geishas

Which term refers to a category of music?

genre

With whom of the following did Jennifer Higdon study composition?

george crumb

FINALE What language is heard in this music drama

german

The Valkyrie is sung in which language?

german

Wozzeck is sung in which language?

german

On bowed string instruments, sliding the hand along the string while bowing it produces a ________ effect.

glissando

Which elements are present in Wagner's operas?

glorification of german land and people profound feeling for nature, supernatural as an element

Who of the following is NOT considered a Symbolist poet?

goethe

Which statement describes the mood and tempo of the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto in G major, K. 453?

graceful melodies, played Allegro

If a composer wants to indicate despair or sadness in a piece of music, which of the following tempos would be appropriate?

grave

Which of the following does NOT indicate a fast tempo?

grave

What was the language of worship throughout the Eastern church?

greek or russian

Tavener's style infuses elements of minimalism with a devout attention to ______ spirituality.

greek orthodox

The bass line that opens and unifies Dido's Lament is called a(n)

ground bass.

Why did Fauré resign in 1920 as the director of the Paris Conservatory?

growing deafness

During the Baroque era, the strings on stringed instruments were made of

gut

In Western music, the octave is divided into twelve equal

half steps

The third movement of Still's Suite for Violin and Piano is programmatic and is meant to evoke

harlem street urchins

The progression of ________ creates a feeling of order and unity in music.

harmony

The term arpeggio, meaning "broken chord," is derived from the name of what instrument?

harp

What instrument's glissandos serve to give this work a dreamlike effect?

harp

Which of the following is an example of a chordophone?

harp

Which keyboard instrument produces sound with quills that pluck metal strings?

harpsichord

How is the "interruption" in Bartók's Interrupted Intermezzo depicted musically?

harsh clarinet melody

In Berg's opera Wozzeck, the main character's final breakdown is the result of

having killed his lover

How did George Gershwin break into the music business?

he was a song plugger

Goethe and _____ were the two leading German poets whose poetry was often set to music.

heine

When several musicians sing or play the same musical line, each varying some element (like pitch or rhythm), they are creating a ______ texture.

heterophonic

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 does NOT describe Fauré's compositions?

highly influenced and inspired by Wagner

The text setting of Gaude Maria virgo is

highly melismatic.

Mozart wrote most of his piano concertos for ______ to perform in public.

himself

From which phase of Schoenberg's compositional output does Pierrot lunaire originate?

his second period, atonal-Expressionism

Which death was shattering to Felix Mendelssohn and brought on his own soon thereafter?

his sister, Fanny

The text of David's Lamentation recalls King David's grief upon losing

his son Absalom.

A knowledge of _______ styles helps put a musical work in the context of its creation.

historical

The Nutcracker is based on a fanciful story by

hoffman

A pianist playing a melody in the right hand while the left sounds chords produces a _____ texture.

homophonic

One person singing "Happy Birthday" with simple chords accompanying the melody produces a(n) _________ texture.

homophonic

What it the texture in this excerpt?

homophonic

Which describes the overall texture of Boulanger's Psalm 24?

homophonic

texture

homophonic with occasional countermelody

What is the predominant texture of Billings's David's Lamentation?

homophony

Which of the following became a more popular texture during the early Baroque?

homophony

A type of homophony in which all voices move together in the same rhythm is called

homorhythem

What is the overall texture of the final couplet of Josquin's Ave Maria virgo serena?

homorhythmic

Which element does NOT apply to rhythm and blues?

honkey tonk piano

The opening of Act II of Dido and Aeneas begins with a sprightly tune in the style of a

hornpipe

The "Ride" leitmotif (0:21 sec.) in the Ride of the Valkyries is first played by the

horns

Which elements apply to comic opera?

human emotions reflected more realistically

A round is based on the principle of _______ where each voice enters in succession with the same melody.

imitation

The best description of a melodic idea that is presented in one voice and then restated in another is

imitation

Which best describes the texture heard in the opening of Josquin's Ave Maria?

imitative polyphony

The predominant texture in Josquin's motet Ave Maria...virgo serena is

imitative polyphony.

The third movement of Still's Suite for Violin and Piano embraces blues and jazz resources utilizing all of the following except

improv

Which best describes the trumpet performance in this example?

improvised

Brahms is buried

in Vienna, near Beethoven and Schubert.

Which best describes the rhythmic treatment in Gaude Maria virgo?

in a rhythmic mode

In Doctor Atomic, the action takes place

in the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico

The Prix de Rome was open to women

in the early years of the twentieth century

Impressionism in music took place

in the late 1800s

Which category of program music describes Grieg's Peer Gynt?

incidental music

Which of the following is a type of program music written to accompany plays?

incidental music

Which of the following was NOT a direct result of congregations learning musical notation in Colonial America?

increased interest in European plainchant

Pérotin's organum

increased the number of voices to three and then to four.

Early in the twentieth century, musical Impressionism

influenced composers across Europe and the United States

Which of the following best describes the meter in the Choral fantasia?

insistent and marchlike

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapping of large architectural landmarks in fabric is an example of

installation art.

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

instrumentally conceived

Which of the following describes musical elements of Expressionism?

instruments in their extreme registers hyper-expressive harmonies extraordinarily wide leaps in melody

Which is true of Revueltas's use of percussion in La noche de los Mayas?

instruments used represent intersection of native, African, and European cultures

Romantic artists emphasized

intense emotional expression.

What was an Italian precursor to ballet?

intermedio

Which did not occur in the later Middle Ages?

introduction of printing

Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

is a 5 movement work

The orchestral interlude before the last scene in Wozzeck

is a passionate lament for the life and death of Wozzeck.

In music, a "cover"

is a reinterpretation of a hit song by another composer

Which of the following terms describes instruments made with stretched skins?

membranoophone

David Bowie's Heroes

met with critical and financial success

The number of beats in a measure determines the

meter

Match the descriptive words or phrases with the different elements of music found in Chopin's Military Polonaise.

meter Correct label: triple instrumentation Correct label: piano expression Correct label: rubato

Which of the following abbreviations indicates a moderate dynamic level?

mf

Byzantine and Greek scales and modes differ from Western scales and modes in that they include

microtones

Intervals even smaller than half steps, commonly used in some non-Western music are called

microtones

Intervals smaller than half steps are called

microtones

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

middle class.

Which of the following is NOT found in the first-movement concerto form of the Classical era?

minuet

________ is defined as the same melody repeated for two or three stanzas, with new material introduced when the poem requires it.

modified strophic form

Moving from one key center to another within a composition is called

modulation

If you are singing alone in the shower, you are creating a ______ texture.

monophonic

_________ describes a melody without any harmonic accompaniment or other melodic lines.

monophonic

Which of the following is NOT typical of the Renaissance motet?

monophonic texture and sung in the vernacular

The texture of African American spirituals is best described as

monophonic with some heterophonic elaboration.

A single-line texture is known as

monophony

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

monophony

Which describes Wagner's "endless melody"?

more melodious than traditional recitative, void of separate arias, duets,ensembles, and more flexible than traditional arias

Verse 4: Which describes the musical setting of verse 4 from Boulanger's Psalm 24?

more serene men's voices only organ accompaniment

Which of the following does NOT characterize neo-Romanticism?

mostly atonal

A fragment of a theme that forms a melodic-rhythmic unit is called a

motive

A theme can be fragmented by dividing it into small units called

motives

Which is true of nineteenth-century concert venues?

moved from palace and church to concert halls

Independent parts of a large-scale work (a symphony, for example) are called

movements

Which of the following does not apply to sonata-allegro form?

multiple variations

Tchaikovsky was the first Russian

music appealed to western tastes

Robert Schumann was a composer and

music critic

What did Wagner call his operas?

music dramas

In what ways is the music of La noche de los Mayas modernist?

music evokes a modern primitivism

Which describes the mood of Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God?

mystical

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

mélodie

In the Classical-era concerto, the cadenza usually appears _______ of a movement.

near the end

The Rite of Spring can be described as all of the following EXCEPT

neo classical

One recent trend by composers who embrace aspects of nineteenth-century orchestral sound is called

neo-Romanticism

The source of inspiration for Charles Ives's music was rooted in the traditions of which region of America?

new england

_____ is where the fusion of ragtime, blues, and other musics resulted in the development of jazz.

new orleans

How many symphonies did Beethoven write?

nine

Neo-Romantic composers embraced aspects of _____ orchestral sound.

nineteenth-century

What is one example of daring new tone combinations explored by Impressionist composers?

ninth chord

Which of the following does NOT describe the style of ragtime?

no repetition within a rag

Music that moves without a strong sense of beat is

nonmetric

Western art music refers to

notated and cultivated music of European and Euro-American society.

Which instrument has an unexpected solo cadenza in the recapitulation of the first movement in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?

oboe

Which of the following is a double-reed instrument?

oboe

Which of the following was NOT a new instrument added to the Romantic orchestra?

oboe

Which of the following innovations is NOT found in Haydn's Joke Quartet?

omission of the slow movement

In the Lutheran tradition, the cantata was performed along with the Gospel reading, sermon, and prayers

on most Sundays of the church year.

How many Psalm texts did Lili Boulanger set to music in Psalm 24?

one

In Schubert's Elfking, how many vocalists sing the poem's four characters?

one

Rhapsody in Blue is in _____ movement(s).

one

Which best describes the relationship between the voices (the texture) in the first strain of Maple Leaf Rag?

one melodic line with accompaniment (homophonic)

Josquin's Ave Maria...virgo serena incorporates an older Gregorian chant

only briefly at the beginning.

Act III, scene 4: By the pond What is the genre of this work?

opera

Bach composed in all genres except

opera

The most important new genre of the Baroque era was

opera

Which genre describes Berg's Wozzeck?

opera

Which is NOT a genre in which Brahms composed?

opera

Which of the following is NOT categorized as a comic opera?

opera seria

William Grant Still wrote in which of the following genres?

operas film and television scores symphonies

The minuet, gavotte, bourrée, passepied, and hornpipe are

optional movements often included in a Baroque dance suite.

Musical compositions are often identified through a cataloguing system described by

opus numbers.

Listen to the following music excerpts and drag them to the correct location on the music chart, below. main melody0:23 contrasting theme0:25 D-flat major0:22

orange green yellow

Which vocal form took its name from the Italian word for "place of prayer"?

oratorio

Which describes the performing forces in Revueltas's La noche de los Mayas?

orchestra, piano, extended Latin percussion section

Fauré's career included all of the following positions except:

orchestral conductor

What musical occupation was NOT available to women in the Classical era?

orchestral conductor

Bach wrote many of his most important works for which instrument?

organ

Which keyboard instrument is also a wind instrument?

organ

At the age of eleven, Beethoven supported his mother and two brothers as a(n)

organist and harpsichordist.

The earliest polyphonic music is called

organum

Barbara Strozzi was

probably the illegitimate daughter of the Venetian poet Giulo Strozzi.

Higdon's blue cathedral extends what nineteenth-century musical tradition?

program music

Vivaldi wrote instrumental music that depicts a scene without the use of sung words, a genre called

program music.

What powerful cultural phenomenon did modern musicians often grapple with?

prominence of sound recordings of vernacular traditions

The mood in the opening of Act III, Scene 5 of Berg's Wozzeck is created through the use of which instruments?

prominent flutes and celesta, pizzicato strings

At the time Monteverdi wrote the opera The Coronation of Poppea, what type of opera houses were opening in Venice?

public

Which is an example of the intellectual life of the Classical era?

publication of encyclopedias

The music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani was

published during her lifetime and circulated beyond the convent.

Which does NOT contribute to the exoticism in Puccini's Madame Butterfly?

puccini is japanese

What did Ives win in 1947, at the age of seventy-three?

pulitzer prize

Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire?

pushed boundaries of convention avant-garde experiments with sound

Which best describes the meter of this excerpt?

quadruple

Which best describes the mood of this section?

quiet and mysterious

Which does NOT describe Gershwin's Tin Pan Alley songs?

racially charged, reminiscent of minstrel songs

As a young person, William Grant Still was hired to write arrangements for

radio and musical theater

In the nineteenth century, opera excerpts were NOT marketed to domestic consumers through

radio broadcasts

From where does "Harlem stride piano" originate?

ragtime

Sousa is credited with bringing _____ to European audiences during his first European tour in 1900.

ragtime

Which does NOT apply to Irving Berlin's legacy?

received the Congressional Medal of Honor

What is the musical style of the opening line "Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me"?

recitative

In Doctor Atomic, the librettist drew on texts from the scientists involved, government documents, poetry from John Donne, Bauedelaire and

sacred Hindu scripture

The Renaissance marks the passing of European society from a predominantly ______ to a more ______ one.

sacred; secular

The Baroque dance inspired by the music of Spain is the

sarabande.

A collection of pitches arranged sequentially in ascending and descending order constitutes a

scale

The tonality of a piece is determined by the ________ chosen by the composer.

scale

In a Classical symphony, which of the four movements is typically the slow movement?

second

The movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony that makes the most extensive use of variation procedure is the

second

Which is most likely the slow movement in the multimovement cycle?

second

Much of Western sacred music is in Latin, while ________ music is often in the vernacular.

secular

How did Charles Ives make a living?

selling insurance

What is another name for a half step?

semitone

Eine kleine Nachtmusik is a

serenade

The Libera me movement of Fauré's Requiem closes

serenely

The word "seria" means

serious

How many movements are there in J. S. Bach's Cantata No. 140 Wachet auf?

seven

The sudden bursts of sound heard in this excerpt are best described as

sforzandos

The melody, "Simple Gifts," heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the ______ tradition.

shaker

What musical characteristic does Revueltas use in his La noche de los Mayas that resemble the son?

shifting meters

Which of the following is a distinguishing musical characteristic of a son?

shifting meters, 3/4 and 6/8

Which describes the melodic material in The Rite of Spring?

short fragments, limited ranges, extended repetition

Which of the following shows the correct order of vocal ranges from highest to lowest?

soprano, alto, tenor, bass

Which of the following shows the correct order of vocal ranges from highest to lowest for female voices?

soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto

Which voices sing the melody in a homorhythmic performance of a Lutheran chorale?

sopranos

Avant-garde composers

sought to break from social and artistic conventions. distinguished themselves from mass-market taste distinguished themselves from high culture

Early twentieth-century American composers

sought to define a unique tradition of American modernism.

Which describes instruments classified as aerophones?

sound produced by using air

Which describes instruments classified as idiophones?

sound produced from the substance itself

The German word Sprechstimme means

speechlike melody

Which genre describes Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

spiritual

Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki, and John Tavener are associated with a style called

spiritual minimalism

Which describes the singing style heard here?

sprechstimme

The opposite of legato is

staccato

Rags, like marches, are structured in regular, duple-meter sections known as _____, each of which is usually repeated.

strains

Which composer helped carry late-Romantic ideas into the twentieth century?

strauss, puccini, Mahler

Every town in Italy, no matter how small, has a

street bearing Verdi's name

MUSICAL MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES Tin Pan Alley was a

street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses.

Which of the following does NOT characterize postmodernism?

strict adherence to serial techniques

The insistent bass in the last movement of William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano resembles which jazz piano style?

stride

The "heart" of the orchestra is the _____ section.

string

The heart of the Classical orchestra was the ______ section.

string

The largest section of the Western orchestra is the _______ section.

string

Which type of chamber music is considered a conversation without words?

string quartet

Which describes the performing forces of Eine kleine Nachtmusik?

string quartet and double bass

Which does not apply to early-twentieth century orchestration?

strings continue to be the heart of the orchestra

The instruments of the Western orchestra are categorized into which groups?

strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion

What is another word for "stanza"?

strophe

Hymns, carols, as well as most folk and popular songs are written in _____ form.

strophic

Which of the following terms does NOT describe the number of notes given to each syllable of text?

strophic

A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as

strophic form

Neo-Classical composers

strove for purity of line and proportion. turned away from nineteenth-century models. focused on craftsmanship and balance

The music that Verdi wrote for the orchestra in this excerpt was designed to emulate

strumming of guitar

What were the themes of verismo operas?

subjects from everyday life

Symbolist poetry gave French song composers the opportunity to explore

subtlety and ambiguity

Lili Boulanger

suffered chronic illness most of her life and died at the young age of twenty-four.

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

suite

Which does NOT describe Brahms's musical style?

supernatural as an element

In the 1930s and 40s, early jazz gave way to

swing, or big-band

"Happy Birthday" is an example of a _______ text setting.

syllabic

A song in which each syllable receives one note is called

syllabic

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

symbolist

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

symphonic poem

Which of the following forms was NOT revered by neo-Classical composers?

symphonic poem

Which term describes a one-movement work for orchestra with a literary program?

symphonic poem

Beyond ballet, Tchaikovsky was also a noted composer of

symphonies, concertos, operas

genre

symphony

In the West, an ensemble of strings coupled with an assortment of woodwinds, brass, and percussion instruments is known as a

symphony orchestra.

The rhythm in "At the sight of this" from Doctor Atomic is

syncopated

Which describes the melodies in Maple Leaf Rag?

syncopated disjunct played by pianist in the right hand

Schubert died at a young age from

syphilis

Which percussion instrument is featured in this movement?

tambourine

Which of the following is NOT a standard dance in a Baroque suite?

tango

What vocal range is heard in this excerpt?

tenor

Which describes the performing forces of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?

tenor solo, SATB chorus, brass, harp, organ, timpani

Which of the following shows the correct order of vocal ranges from highest to lowest for male voices?

tenor, baritone, bass

What is the structure of the Alla hornpipe from Handel's Water Music?

ternary

Which form features a statement of an idea, a contrasting idea, then a repetition of the first idea?

ternary

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is

ternary (A-B-A').

Which of the following choices describes the large-scale form of Chopin's Polonaise, Op. 40, No. 1?

ternary form

The interweaving of melody and harmony produces ________ in music.

texture

Postmodernists broke away from the modernist stance

that mass media was incompatible with art.

In the aria "La donna è mobile" the Duke sings

that women are fickle

Upon receiving wider recognition of his music, Ives was proclaimed as the

the "grand old man" of American music

The Baroque era marks the introduction of solo song with instrumental accompaniment, which was referred to in Florence as

the "new style."

During the Renaissance, lands new to the Europeans were discovered, including

the Americas.

Composers from ________ were at the forefront of musical composition.

the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

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

the Commendatore

Copland wrote music about which part of the United States and its culture?

the Far West and rural life

William Grant Still was an important voice for:

the Harlem Renaissance

From which older genre did the symphony develop?

the Italian opera overture

Modal melodies of the early Christian church are similar to melodies and scales from

the Middle East.

Which of the following is NOT associated with the Classical era?

the Protestant Reformation

In 1880, Sousa became the director of

the U.S. Marine Band

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

the Virgin Mary

The most universally idealized woman in Western culture during the Middle Ages was

the Virgin Mary.

The text of Josquin's motet Ave Maria...virgo serena praises the virtues of

the Virgin Mary.

Ellington's first group was called

the Washingtonians

Which cover of Roll Over, Beethoven is structurally identical to Berry's

the beatles

ennifer Higdon credits the music of ___________ for her understanding of music's communicative powers.

the beatles

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

the cadenza written by Mozart.

The final scene of Wozzeck revolves around

the children's discovery of the murder

In the last movement of Bach's Cantata No. 140

the chorale melody is heard in the soprano line.

Who is responsible for systematizing bowing strokes for the string section in an orchestra?

the concertmaster

The Baroque genre that is characterized by one or more solo instruments and orchestra is

the concerto.

What character is singing at the beginning of "Bella figlia"?

the duke

When was the Harlem Renaissance?

the early part of the twentieth century

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

the end of the church year

In Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, the theme is first stated by

the entire orchestra.

Romantic poets and artists were drawn to

the fanciful, picturesque, and the passionate.

How does Puccini's score for Madame Butterfly evoke exoticism?

the use of pentatonic and whole tone passages, instrument combinations evoking the timbers of a gagaku orchestra, the use of traditional japanese melodies

While serious opera was almost invariably in Italian, comic opera was generally in

the vernacular.

The music to In the Hall of the Mountain King represents

the wild troll daughters chasing Peer

Varying the pitches, harmony, or rhythm of a theme is known as

thematic development.

A _____ can be a building block in the construction of a musical work.

theme

form

theme and variations with coda theme - A-B binary form 4 variations - variation 1: added countermelody - variation 2: dynamic change (ff) and minor key - variation 3: faster rhythm with shorter repeated notes, added countermelody in woodwinds - variation 4: full orchestra at a ff dynamic

A typical form of the second movement in a multimovement cycle is

theme and variations.

Which describes the type of unified cyclical form that Beethoven uses in his Fifth Symphony?

theme or musical idea dominates entire symphony

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and Barbara Strozzi are unique in that

they both published music in their lifetimes.

Which best describes the role of the drums and string bass?

they keep a steady rhythm

Nadezhda von Meck's arrangement with Tchaikovsky had one stipulation

they never met

In quadruple meter, the second-strongest accent is typically on which beat?

third

The _____ movement of a string quartet is often in minuet-and-trio form.

third

Which movement of the multimovement instrumental cycle is likely to be a dance?

third

There is no break between the _______ movements of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony because they are linked by a transition.

third and fourth

The Classical-era orchestra was typically composed of

thirty to forty players.

How many piano sonatas did Beethoven write?

thirty-two

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

three

In a compound meter, the beat divides into groups of

three

Still's Suite for Violin and Piano contains how many movements?

three

The Classical concerto form has ______ movements.

three

The Classical sonata typically consists of ________ movements.

three or four

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

three part, A-B-A

Which does not apply to rondo form?

three-part structure

In which of the following ways did Renaissance composers enhance the emotional content of madrigals?

through the use of madrigalisms

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

through-composed form

Which type of song structure follows the story line, changing according to the text?

through-composed form

The property of sound that gives instruments and voices their unique tone color is

timbre

In Baroque opera, what seemingly happens to the time during an aria?

time stops

In the Classical orchestra, which instrument was primarily responsible for supplying rhythmic energy?

timpani

What term describes the shimmering, bell-like timbre in the opening of Higdon's blue cathedral?

tintinnabulation

It was Schubert's dying wish

to be buried near Beethoven.

In the aria, Dido sings "Remember me, but ah! forget my fate." What was her fate?

to die

Harmonies built on the dominant (fifth scale degree) gravitate toward the

tonic

In the major-minor system, the most important note is the

tonic

The _____ serves as home base in most Western music.

tonic

The first and last note in a major or minor scale is called the

tonic

Which of the following is NOT an active chord?

tonic

The premiere of Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream

took place in Mendelssohn's Berlin home, conducted by Felix.

Which does NOT describe elements of the form of the first movement of the Moonlight sonata?

traditional opposition of themes and key areas

Which is NOT a trait associated with Haydn's symphonies?

traditional, unimaginative modulations

Which describes Brahms?

traditionalist composer

The multivoiced sacred music of the Renaissance was sung by

trained male singers.

Shifting an entire work so that it begins on a different pitch but retains the same pattern of intervals is called

transposition

The most common type of chord in Western music is the

triad

Impressionist painters

tried to capture the freshness of their first impressions on canvas

Mexican composers of the post-revolutionary period

tried to evoke, or suggest, the character of the native music

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

triple

What is the meter heard in this section of the work?

triple

What is the meter of this aria?

triple

Which describes the meter of this excerpt?

triple

Which meter did medieval musicians find especially attractive because it symbolized the perfection of the Trinity?

triple

Which instrument is featured in dialogue with the bass singer in the Tuba mirum section from Mozart's Requiem?

trombone

The poet-musicians who flourished in the south of France were known as

troubadours

Which secular medieval musicians entertained audiences at the higher social levels?

troubadours

In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n)

troubled clown

"Mestizo realism" was a nationalist modernist movement that drew on elements of Mexico's traditional cultures.

true

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

true

Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe provided fresh ideas of rhythm for some Western composers in the twentieth century.

true

After Puccini's death in 1924, opera gradually became displaced in the popular imagination by other musical-theatrical traditions.

true

Artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance were more interested in fostering musical traditions that they understood as more thoroughly African American—blues, jazz, and spirituals—than in encouraging the development of modernist art music.

true

At the turn of the 1800s camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.

true

Authors of essays in The New Negro wrote of racial equality and cultural pride in the black community.

true

Ballet has been a part of theatrical entertainments since the Renaissance.

true

Ballet was part of the court of Louis XIV.

true

Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra is a declaration of the composer's love for his homeland.

true

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is connected to the composer's personal life. Select one: True False

true

Brahms wrote all of his symphonies after he turned forty.

true

Brahms's Four Serious Songs were written in response to Clara Schumann's declining health.

true

Burleigh's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot calls upon jazz and blues traditions.

true

By the Romantic era, music performances had moved from the palace to public concert halls.

true

Chopin's Military Polonaise derives from a traditional Polish dance.

true

Contemporary film composer John Williams uses Wagner's musical foreshadowing devices in the Star Wars movies.

true

Copland's music continues to be widely heard at events (or even in commercials) that aim to emphasize national pride, as well as incorporated in movie scenes that illustrate the grandeur of the West.

true

Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.

true

During the Romantic era, there was an increasing interest in linking instrumental music and literature.

true

Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, was established as a college for freed slaves.

true

George Gershwin's social status allowed him opportunities as a white musician that black musicians could not enjoy in the 1920s.

true

Gershwin was criticized for "whitewashing" an African American tradition in his "cultivated jazz" compositions.

true

Gershwin's works reflect a merging of jazz elements and classical genres.

true

Higdon has composed separate concertos for oboe, percussion, and violin.

true

Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.

true

In Wozzeck, the title character has hallucinations and is the subject of experimentation by his superiors.

true

In a two-year period, Verdi lost his son, daughter, and wife.

true

In his Requiem, Fauré included nonstandard versions of traditional liturgical texts.

true

In his Symphony No. 3, Brahms incorporates a melodic motive from the first movement into the other movements.

true

In the late nineteenth century, France, Germany, and Italy developed distinct national styles.

true

In the third movement of his Suite for Violin and Piano, Still composed melodies featuring lowered thirds and sevenths, typical of the blues.

true

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

true

John Adams was influenced by rock albums such as Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon.

true

John Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for On the Transmigration of Souls, a work that sets the names of the victims of 9/11.

true

Late Romantic ideals carried into the twentieth century through Italian operatic tradition.

true

Latin American percussion instruments and dance rhythms had an influence on jazz.

true

Lili Boulanger was influenced by Impressionism.

true

Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat-singing.

true

Many Romantic composers looked to faraway lands or cultures for their opera plots.

true

Minimalist music is based on the repetition of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic patterns.

true

Neo-Romantic composers often included programmatic elements in their music.

true

One of Berlioz's key areas of innovation was orchestration. Select one: True False

true

Opera seria and opera buffa continued to be performed in Italy during the nineteenth century.

true

Publishers in the nineteenth century worked closely with composers on licensing and other commercial ventures.

true

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

true

Ragtime was originally a piano style that featured highly syncopated melodies.

true

Rhythm and blues was popular from the late 1940s to early 60s.

true

Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.

true

Scott Joplin is one of the first African American composers to receive widespread recognition.

true

Scott Joplin recorded some of his piano rags himself, which were preserved on punched-paper rolls made in 1910 on a Steinway player piano.

true

Some of the libretto for Doctor Atomic comes from declassified government documents.

true

Songwriter George M. Cohan received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his inspirational song Over There.

true

Sousa created, nearly single-handedly, a national music for America that continues to resonate in its concert halls, on its streets, in its sports stadiums, and in the hearts of its people.

true

Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.

true

Strong feelings of patriotism arose in Mexico after the Revolution in 1910.

true

Tavener was elevated to the British knighthood in 2000

true

Tchaikovsky struggled with attacks of depression.

true

The "interruption" in Bartók's Interrupted Intermezzo is a musical portrayal of the 1942 Nazi invasion of Russia.

true

The French Romantic mélodie parallels the German Lied tradition.

true

The French mélodie was inspired by the songs of Schubert.

true

The Greek Orthodox tradition has roots in Jewish practice.

true

The Rite of Spring can be performed as a concert work.

true

The Romantic symphony featured an orchestra larger than that of the Classical era.

true

The intensity of Verdi's compositions and the potential for some of the stories to be read as calls for liberation made him a figurehead of the Italian unification movement.

true

The pas de deux, or dance for two, was developed by the choreographer Marius Petipa.

true

The patterns of repetition and clear-cut sections in Joplin's rags are reminiscent of those heard in Sousa marches.

true

The play that inspired Berg to write Wozzeck is based on gruesome, real-life events.

true

The role of the Valkyries was to carry fallen heroes from the battlefield to Valhalla on their winged horses.

true

The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity.

true

The transformations of the fixed idea in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique take on literary as well as musical significance. Select one: True False

true

White rock-and-roll singers, such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, were influenced by rhythm and blues.

true

William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony was the first symphony by an African American composer to be performed by a major American orchestra.

true

blue cathedral shows the influence of non-Western culture

true

Which brass instrument dates back to ancient times and was used for religious ceremonies and military signals?

trumpet

Beethoven added new instruments in the fourth movement of his fifth symphony including all of the following except

tuba

The sousaphone is the marching-band adaptation of which instrument?

tuba

An aria is characterized by

tuneful and highly emotive melodies.

Which describes Arnold Schoenberg's approach to harmonic organization?

twelve-tone technique atonality serialism

How many piano concertos did Mozart compose?

twenty-seven

Which best describes the performing forces of Cozzolani's Magnificat?

two double choirs, soloists, and organ continuo

The makeup of a string quartet is

two violins, a viola, and a cello.

Which of the following describes a typical string quartet ensemble?

two violins, one viola, one cello

Which describes the performing forces of Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God?

two, six-voice choirs, each SAA-TBB

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the blues?

two-note trademark phrase

Which does NOT describe the goal of early twentieth-century modernists?

unity of expression, one modernism

The text of "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich von Schiller is an expression of

universal brotherhood.

When a melody begins before a downbeat, it is said to begin on a(n)

upbeat

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

use of chamber orchestra

Romantic composers

used expressive terms like dolce, cantabile, and dolente.

Stravinsky revitalized rhythm by

using polyrhythms using changing meters increasing its complexity

Which of the following was NOT a way that programmatic composers portrayed nationalistic sentiments in nineteenth-century music?

utilizing ritornello form

A principle of form that is based on repeated alterations of a given melody (which is still recognizable) is called

variation

Which of the following relates to Debussy's use of the orchestra in comparison with Romantic composers?

veiled sounds, flutes in the lower register, use of harp cleats glockenspiel, muted horns

Which musical element is NOT heard in Game of Abduction?

velvety flute solo in the lower register

______ is one of the most frequently performed operas in the repertoire.

verdi's rigoletto

The nineteenth-century trend toward realism in opera was known as

verismo

The word ________ means the language of the people.

vernacular

Mexican composers have realized their nationalist approach largely through reference to

vernacular traditions

Harmony describes the _____ aspect of music.

vertical

Instrument builders have sought to replicate the sound of the voice, including its characteristic throbbing called

vibrato

Schoenberg was born in

vienna

Guarneri, Stradivarius, and Amati were all noted Baroque makers of which instrument?

violin

The bowed string instrument with the highest range is the

violin

The solo instrument featured in Vivaldi's Spring concerto is the

violin

Vivaldi himself was a fine musician on which instrument?

violin

Vivaldi wrote roughly 230 solo concertos for what instrument?

violin

In La noche de los Mayas, how does the orchestra emulate the sound of a Mexican mariachi group?

violins in thirds answered by brass

In a Classical-era concerto, the _________ display of the soloist is balanced by the collaborative efforts of the orchestra.

virtuosic

Trepak (Russian Dance) Which term best describes the overall tempo of this dance?

vivace

Which of the following indicates a fast tempo?

vivace

Who were students at the Conservatorio dell'Ospedale della Pietà in Baroque Venice?

young orphaned girls

What is the translation of Dies irae?

"Day of Wrath"

false

(t/f) In phase music, loops are played unaltered.

The Baroque era spanned the years

1600-1750.

Singing schools in Colonial America began in the

1720s

The approximate dates of the Classical era in music are

1750-1825.

date

1792

Whom does Wotan put in a magic sleep in The Valkyrie?

Brünnhilde

Which brass instrument descended from the ancient hunting horn?

French horn

Scientifically, pitch is determined by its.....

Frequency

Which are not musical characteristics of rhythm and blues?

Harlem stride piano

Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire?

Impressionism

Which best describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag?

It is a repeat of strain 1.

To whom did Beethoven originally dedicate his Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)?

Napoleon

Most children's songs have a _______ range.

Narrow

What work was Mozart composing when he died?

Requiem

The word "oratorio" is derived from which?

an Italian word meaning "place of prayer"

What is another word for "refrain"?

chorus

"At the sight of this" is sung by

chorus and orchestra.

Ragtime is typically in _____ meter.

duple

meter

duple

Beethoven composed the Moonlight sonata

during his early years in Vienna.

Which of the following describes the setting of many notes to a syllable?

melismatic

What is the vocal range of the first voice that sings in this excerpt?

soprano

Which voice is singing a melody with longer notes in this excerpt?

soprano

A pizzicato effect is created on a string instrument when

the strings are plucked.

The themes of Barbara Strozzi's arias often focus on

the theme of love.

Electric Counterpoint follows

the three-movement structure of a Baroque concerto.

Trouvères, medieval poet-musicians from the northern region of France, were members of

the upper classes and the aristocracy.

Spirituals (devotional songs)

were sung by African Americans at camp meetings for freed slaves.

Baroque trumpets were still "natural," meaning they

were without valves.

Which instrument is NOT an example of a chordophone?

xylophone

Which is an example of pitched percussion?

xylophone

Where did Ives study composition?

yale

The post-revolutionary period in Mexico is sometimes called the

"Aztec Renaissance."

____ is a style of performance, particularly on a brass instrument, that displays an unrestrained, raspy quality of tone.

"Gutbucket" playing

What famous assertion by Louis XIV summed up a way of life in which all art and culture served the ruler?

"I am the State."

Which famous slogan is attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

"If I am not better, at least I am different."

At which point in the text of Fair Phyllis does the work change to an imitative texture?

"Up and down he wandered"

Years after Mendelssohn composed the overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, he wrote incidental music to the play that included which, now famous, music?

"Wedding March"

Which is a musical element found in rockabilly?

"boogie" triplet rhythms 12-bar blues progression country-music style guitar picking

Beethoven described the opening motive of his Fifth Symphony as

"fate knocking at the door."

The modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe believed that "less is more." Robert Venture, a leader in the postmodern movement in architecture, countered with

"less is a bore."

The term "baroque" derives from the Portuguese word for

"misshapen."

What describes the theme that opens the third movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?

"rocket theme"

true

(t/f) "Running counter to the action" is a technique used to supply irony in film music.

false

(t/f) "Underscoring" in film music refers to music being made on the screen by the characters.

true

(t/f) David Bowie's last album released shortly before his death was a jazz-rock-hip-hop fusion.

true

(t/f) Elaborating on an earlier composer's idea is considered an homage.

false

(t/f) Glass's Symphony No. 4 is considered "performance art" and cannot be performed without dancers.

true

(t/f) Henry Cowell is known for combining Asian instruments with traditional Western ensembles.

true

(t/f) Historically speaking, musicians often have referenced the work of other composers in their own pieces.

true

(t/f) In Caballito negro, the singer is asked to whinny like a horse.

true

(t/f) In music, a "hook" is a musical characteristic that attracts the listener's attention.

The function of music in film

- set the mood. - help establish the characters. - help establish a sense of place and time

Twelve-tone technique

-- became widespread in the 1940s and 50s. -- gained prestige because of its "scientific" nature. -- was valued by musicians for new expressive avenues.

Electric Counterpoint

-- is performed by one guitarist and up to fourteen prerecorded tracks. -- is often performed by guitar ensembles. -- is written for twelve guitars

Which musical element do Berry's Roll Over, Beethoven and Holiday's Billie's Blues share?

12-bar blues form

What is the length of this blues progression?

12 bars

What are the daily Offices?

A series of services celebrated in religious communities at various hours of the day.

the Harlem Renaissance took place in the

1920s-1930s

For what occasion or purpose did Revueltas compose La noche de los Mayas?

1939 film score

Two trends in electronic music, musique concrète and elektronische Musik, emerged in the

1940s and early 50s.

The emergence of rock took place in the

1950s

Abstract expressionism in the arts took place in the

1950s and 60s.

Ensembles grew during the _____ century.

19th

How long did Fauré work on his Requiem?

20+ years

A blues text typically consists of a _____ stanza whose first two lines are identical.

3 line

Which describes the performing forces of Monteverdi's Si ch'io vorrei morire?

5-voice a cappella group

What is the Second Great Awakening?

A Christian movement of the early 1800s

The literal translation of Eine kleine Nachtmusik is

A Little Night Music.

Which is a true statement?

A chord may be built on any note of the scale.

1989

A lost manuscript of music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, in her own handwriting, that contained September: At the River was discovered in

For what event was Handel's Water Music performed on July 17, 1717?

A royal party on the Thames River.

Why is Haydn's Symphony No. 94 nicknamed "Surprise"?

A sudden loud chord during the slow movement startled the dozing audience.

Regarding a symphony, which is NOT a true statement?

A symphony is a song written for an orchestra.

The Lutheran chorale Wachet auf is in "bar form," which is respresented as _____.

A-A-B

Listen to the three sections of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Which best describes the overall form?

A-B-A

The overall form of the third movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik is ________.

A-B-A

Which outlines rondo form?

A-B-A-C-A

What is the form of Billings's David's Lamentation?

A-B-B

Scientific advances during this era included

All possible answers.

Sonatas during the Classical era were

All possible answers.

The Ars nova ushered in developments in ______ that transformed the art of music.

All possible answers.

Which describes the tempo of the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight sonata?

Adagio

_______ is an example of melodic variation.

Adding or omitting notes to the theme

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

Aeneas has left her.

The eighteenth century has been called the

Age of Reason as well as the Enlightenment.

Schoenberg's most important students were

Alban Berg and Anton Webern.

_____ music left decisions determining the overall shape of a piece to the performer or to chance, rather than being strictly determined by the composer.

Aleatoric

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock's movie __________, is an example of a soundtrack that uses only source music.

careers as composers and conductors

All of the following musical opportunities were available to nineteenth-century women EXCEPT

How did nineteenth-century composers express musical nationalism?

All possible answers

Programmatic works in the nineteenth century might be based on

All possible answers

Which of the following characterizes the third movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 3?

All possible answers

A hornpipe is

All possible answers.

A symphony

All possible answers.

An increasingly democratic character was reflected in

All possible answers.

Artists and musicians of the Enlightenment stressed

All possible answers.

During the solo exposition in first-movement concerto form, the soloist

All possible answers.

Early oratorios

All possible answers.

Elements of opera buffa include

All possible answers.

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

All possible answers.

Handel's oratorios

All possible answers.

How did middle-class women find a place as musicians under the patronage system?

All possible answers.

How does Josquin create musical contrast in the final two lines of the text, "O Mater Dei, memento mei"?

All possible answers.

Medieval and Renaissance musicians could find employment in which of the following professions?

All possible answers.

Music as a commodity means that music

All possible answers.

Names for comic opera included

All possible answers.

Postmodernist art

All possible answers.

Which Baroque composer was known as "the red priest"?

Antonio Vivaldi

Who established a system to give all twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance?

Arnold Schoenberg

What was the period that immediately preceded the Ars nova called?

Ars antiqua

Which musical style appeared in the early 1300s in France and soon thereafter in Italy?

Ars nova

For what purpose did Lili Boulanger write Psalm 24?

As an expression of personal devotion.

From whose rule did Italy seek to liberate itself?

Austrian Hapsburgs

For whom did Mozart write his Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 453 to perform as soloist?

Babette von Ployer

Which is a true statement regarding the music of J. S. Bach?

Bach achieved unrivalled mastery of contrapuntal composition.

Which statement about Johann Sebastian Bach's career is NOT true?

Bach had an international career.

In regard to the cantatas by J. S. Bach, which statement is NOT true?

Bach's church cantatas are single-movement works.

Neo-Classical composers emulated the music of

Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi

Serge Diaghilev was impresario for which Paris-based dance company?

Ballets Russes

During the Romantic era, the following women were significant as patrons and friends to composers except

Barbara Strozzi

J. S. Bach's Minuet in D Minor is from what historical period?

Baroque

____ aria structures influenced Adams for the aria "Batter my heart."

Baroque

Which is NOT a true statement about Baroque opera?

Baroque opera aims to depict events realistically.

The form of Rhapsody in Blue resembles

Baroque ritornello form.

Which is a true statement about the July 17, 1717 performance of Handel's Water Music?

Because it was performed on a barge, there was no harpsichord.

Which composer lived successfully under a system of modified patronage that was supplemented by concert life and music publishing?

Beethoven

The Countess Giulietta Guicciardi was

Beethoven's student.

Which statement is NOT true?

Billie Holiday was the first African American to study at The Juilliard School of Music.

Where did William Billings live and work?

Boston

What is the Mass?

Both a reenactment of Christ's Last Supper with his disciples and the primary (and most solemn) ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.

Which statement is NOT true of Brahms's personal motto?

Brahms's personal motto was "Always a bachelor."

Where was Aaron Copland born?

Brooklyn, New York

A place in a melody where a musician will most likely pause for a breath is at the...

Candence

Who were two of the most decisive influences on Mexican musical culture?

Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas

In blue cathedral, Higdon incorporates_______, effectively evoking an Asian soundscape.

Chinese reflex balls

Which is NOT a true statement?

Choral groups are heterogeneous.

________ were weekly hymns created by Luther and his followers for their congregations to sing by composing (or sometimes recycling) simple and memorable melodies.

Chorales

The three voices singing together at the same time in this excerpt form vertical sonorities, called

Chords

Who wrote and originally recorded Roll Over, Beethoven?

Chuck Berry

Who of the following women was a successful composer?

Clara Wieck Schumann

The term "Impressionism" was taken from a work by the painter

Claude Monet

The high point of a melodic line is considered its....

Climax

_________ techniques enabled artists to take something familiar and make it unique.

Collage or quotation

Which statement is NOT true?

Comic opera was not available to the rising merchant class.

tone clusters and plucking of the piano strings

Composer Henry Cowell's innovations include

Noting style traits helps define.

Composer, era and type of work.

during WWII

Composers of phase music took advantage of magnetic tape recording technologies developed

serial

Composers of process music were dissatisfied with ______ music's lack of harmonic center.

minimalists

Composers who share a preference for mostly consonant harmonies and small musical ideas that are combined and recombined over long spans of time, with gradual changes to the patterns are called

The __________ is an online resource to consult before attending a live performance.

Concertgoer's Guide

Where did slaves meet in the pre-Civil War era to dance to the accompaniment of drums, gourds, mouth harps, and banjos?

Congo Square in New Orleans

A melodic line that moves by small intervals is called.

Conjunct

_______ refers to an agreeable-sounding combination of notes that provides a sense of relaxation and fulfillment.

Consonance

The term referring to the overall shape of a melody is ....

Contour

Wavelike describes melodic....

Contour

Which of the following terms is used to describe melody?

Contour

Which of the following statements correctly describes strain 1 of Maple Leaf Rag?

Correct Answer(s) The left hand (low pitches) plays in an even rhythm; the right hand (high pitches) plays uneven rhythms. It is in a major key. Incorrect Answer(s) The right hand (high pitches) plays in an even rhythm; the left hand (low pitches) plays in an uneven rhythm. It is in a minor key.

Match the theme letter with the different excerpts from Chopin's Military Polonaise.

Correct label: 'a' Chopin Polonaise0:19 Correct label: 'b' Chopin Polonaise0:17 Correct label: 'd' Chopin Polonaise0:16 Correct label: 'c'

To whom did Beethoven dedicate his Piano Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight)?

Countess Giulietta Guicciardi

Which of the following is a true statement?

During the Renaissance printed music became available and music literacy spread.

salons

During the nineteenth century, where did composers often gather to perform and discuss their music?

a poetic epigram and a painting

Each of the pieces in the manuscript of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's The Year was originally prefaced by

programmatic

Each piece in The Year is prefaced by a poetic epigram, making this a ______ work.

folk-rocker

Early in his career, David Bowie started as a

Which statement does NOT reflect early-twentieth century nationalism in music?

Early-twentieth century composers were not interested in nationalist expressions.

Bartók and Kodály collected 2,000 songs and dances representing various _____ cultures.

Eastern European

European contacts with _______ inspired new concepts of art.

Eastern cultures

Which American poet strongly influenced the poems of the French poets Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine?

Edgar Allan Poe

The art of _____, who is famous for his painting The Scream, influenced Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples.

Edvard Munch

emancipation of dissonance

Electric Counterpoint is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT: - layering of instrument in different ranges. - emancipation of dissonance. - small shifts in musical patterns. - polyphony

"endless" melody.

Elements of musical theater include all of the following EXCEPT

In what language is Billings's David's Lamentation sung?

English

In what language is Handel's Messiah sung?

English

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is sung in what language? a. English b. German c. Italian d. French

English

Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is set to a text in

English

Which genre is Handel said to have invented?

English oratorio

Which family of enormously wealthy Hungarian princes famous for their patronage of the arts did Haydn work for?

Esterházys

Which of the following is an opera by Tchaikovsky?

Eugene Onegin

polyrhythm

Ewe drummers developed a performance method called _______ in which each musician plays a unique rhythm pattern continuously.

Leonard Bernstein

Experimental composers of phase music include all of the following EXCEPT: - Steve Reich. - Philip Glass. - Terry Riley. - Leonard Bernstein.

renowned composer and conductor

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's brother, Felix, was a

Lieder

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's output was dominated by choral part songs, piano music and

J. S. Bach

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's piano music reflects a strong interest in the contrapuntal procedures of which composer?

false

Fanny was the wife of Felix Mendelssohn.

Which is NOT true of Fauré's use of text in his Requiem?

Fauré used only the specified texts and prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church for the Requiem Mass.

In what way was the creation of Rhapsody in Blue a collaborative effort?

Ferde Grofé took Gershwin's musical sketches and arranged them for Whiteman's band.

_______ is the theater dedicated to the performance of Wagner's operas.

Festival Theater at Bayreuth

_________, the shorthand notation that developed during the Baroque for basso continuo players, allowed the performer to fill in the harmonies.

Figured bass

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Opera had its origins in the experiments of a group known as the

Florentine Camerata.

Gilligan's Island

For which classic television series did John Williams write the theme music?

Where did musique concrète develop?

France

Which composer is generally credited with creating the symphonic poem?

Franz Liszt

Who completed the unfinished portions of Mozart's Requiem?

Franz Xaver Süssmayer

Which instruments in particular are featured in this excerpt?

French Horns

In addition to the Italian madrigal, what other genre arose from the union of poetry and music during the Renaissance?

French chanson

Who of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A composition in the key of G major uses harmonies formed from which scale?

G major

All of the following composers were winners of the Prix de Rome EXCEPT

Gabriel Fauré

The third movement of Still's Suite for Violin was inspired by

Gamin, a sculpture of a street-smart kid in Harlem, by Augusta Savage.

Which is NOT a true statement?

Genres are the same in every culture.

avant garde

George Crumb is considered to be a(n) ______ composer.

_____ worked as a song plugger on New York's Tin Pan Alley

George Gershwin

Which is statement is NOT true?

George Gershwin lived a long life.

The "Red scare" of communism in the 1950s and early 60s saw the blacklisting of all of the following except

George Gershwin.

Bach's Cantata No. 140 is sung in what language?

German

Hildegard of Bingen was born into a _____ noble family.

German

The ______ art song, or Lied, is performed by solo voice and piano.

German

Handel's oratorios combined elements of all of the following EXCEPT

German opera.

Brahms is from which country?

Germany

Where did elektronische Musik develop?

Germany

Which term refers to Wagner's concept of a total artwork, encompassing all the arts?

Gesamtkunstwerk

Which opera composer is associated with the verismo movement?

Giacomo Puccini

In Verdi's opera, who is Rigoletto's daughter?

Gilda

Which characters are singing in this excerpt from Rigoletto?

Gilda, Maddalena, the Duke, and Rigoletto

Which celebrated Italian singer married Giuseppe Verdi and helped to launch his career?

Giuseppina Strepponi

a modern dancer

Glass's Symphony No. 4 calls for

orchestra with expanded percussion

Glass's Symphony No. 4 is scored for

Heroes

Glass's Symphony No. 4 is subtitled______.

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

Goethe and Schiller.

The compilation of early polyphony is the

Great Book of Organum.

The text of the Kyrie is based on a _______ prayer.

Greek

Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is set to a

Greek Orthodox hymn text attributed to Saint John Damascene

Romantic themes include all of these EXCEPT

Greek mythology.

Where was Handel born?

Halle, Germany

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

Handel

Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?

Harlem Renaissance

Which composer played a central role in the development of the string quartet?

Haydn

Which composer worked for a good deal of his life under the patronage system?

Haydn

Who is referred to as the "father of the symphony"?

Haydn

composer

Haydn - father of the symphony

Which composers are from the so-called First Viennese School?

Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

What did Stravinsky achieve through his ballet scores?

He became a leader in the revitalization of rhythm in European art music.

Which is NOT something that Harry T. Burleigh accomplished?

He directed the Fisk Jubilee Singers for the last ten years of his life.

Why did Still favor the blues over spirituals as source material for his compositions?

He felt that the blues did not exhibit Caucasian influence.

Which is NOT true of William Grant Still?

He had little formal education

How did Joplin achieve financial security with the publication of Maple Leaf Rag?

He insisted on receiving royalties rather than a flat payment

single statement of a melodic-harmonic pattern

He is credited with the invention of scat-singing

What happens to Don Giovanni at the end of the opera?

He is dragged down to his death by the Commendatore.

Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933?

He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Where was Purcell employed when he wrote Dido and Aeneas?

He was a music teacher at a girls' school.

Which statement about Machaut is NOT true?

He was an influential composer of the Ars antiqua style.

Why did Revueltas return to Mexico in 1929?

He was invited by Carlos Chávez to be the assistant conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Mexico.

Which is NOT true of John Adams's music studies?

He was self-taught

Which is NOT true of James Reese Europe?

He was the most successful and profitable Tin Pan Alley composer.

Why did Bartók move to New York City in 1940?

He was troubled by the alliance between the Hungarian government and Nazi Germany on the eve of the Second World War.

Robert Schumann sets texts by _______ in his song cycle A Poet's Love.

Heine

German lyric poetry culminated in the art of _______, who was a favorite poet of Romantic composers.

Heinrich Heine

Grieg's Peer Gynt was the result of a collaboration with which playwright?

Henrik Ibsen

Which statement does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's family?

Her mother won the Prix de Rome in 1917

Regarding the second theme in sonata-allegro form, which statement is NOT true?

It is always in the home key.

Jennifer Higdon's title blue cathedral refers to

Higdon's younger brother's name

In regard to George Gershwin's career, which is an INCORRECT statement?

His music was not popular at the time he composed it.

phrases end in a downward melodic line

How does Crumb depict the images of death in Caballito negro?

Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály are two major representatives of ______ nationalism.

Hungarian

John Adams's Harmonielehre pays homage to

Igor Stravinsky

explored his Jewish background.

In Kaddish, Bernstein

patriotic songs and Protestant hymns.

In West Side Story, Bernstein incorporates elements of the following musical styles EXCEPT

President Barack Obama's inauguration

In addition to film scores, John Williams has written music for the Olympics and

the concept of Wagner's leitmotif

In dedicating a theme to Darth Vader in the Imperial March, Williams uses

Which of the following is a true statement?

In diatonic music, both the melody and the harmony are firmly rooted in the key.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

In his compositions Beethoven completely abandoned Classical formal traditions.

Sprechstimme "white" tone quarter tones

In his madrigals, George Crumb explores which of the following?

Which of the following statements describe this excerpt from Chopin's Military Polonaise and which do not?

It features a disjunct melody in the right hand. It features the characteristic rhythm of a polonaise. This is the c theme of the trio section. incorrect It is in duple meter. It is the d theme found in the middle section of the piece.

Each movement is based on a theme from the David Bowie album Heroes.

In regards to Glass's Symphony No. 4, which is a true statement? - Quotation of the title track of David Bowe's Heroes album unifies all of the movements. - Each movement is based on a theme from the David Bowie album Heroes. - There are no recognizable melodic elements of Bowie's songs in any of the movements. - Each movement is based on themes from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album.

Harry Partch

In the 1920s, which composer developed a scale of forty-three microtones to the octave?

Ghana

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

true

In the Romantic era, women made great strides in establishing careers as professional musicians and were public advocates for musical innovation.

are varied to suite the actions of the character or the mood of the scene.

In the Star Wars films, themes associated with characters

Broadway

In the mid-1800s, theaters in midtown Manhattan lined the wide street called

minimalist

In the mid-1970s, a significant shift in Bowie's music occurred as a result from contact with ____ musicians.

Goethe

In the recently discovered manuscript of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: At the River, poetry of which nineteenth-century poet was included?

Reich and Adams

In three of David Bowie's albums—Low, Heroes, and Lodger—the influence of which American composers is present?

Spanish

In what language is George Crumb's Caballito negro sung?

There is no musical content

In what way is John Cage's 4'33" unusual?

Berlin

In which city was Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel raised?

Which of the following was a hallmark of Baroque performance style?

Increased improvisation.

Which statement is NOT true regarding Baroque instrumental music?

Instrumental music became less prominent than it had been during the Renaissance.

Which did NOT occur as a result of the Industrial Revolution?

Instruments became too expensive for middle class musicians to purchase.

Who collaborated with George Gershwin in many musicals, including Lady, Be Good?

Ira Gershwin

Melody

Is a musical line, or the tune.

Which of the following does NOT describe Mozart's Dies irae from Requiem?

It features several verses in German.

Where was Tin Pan Alley?

NYC

Which French philosopher is sometimes called the "father of Romanticism"?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Which composer writes highly imaginative neo-Romantic scores that are rooted in the language of the past but at the same time redefine traditional genres like the symphony and the concerto?

Jennifer Higdon

Who of the following was NOT a friend of William Billings?

Johann Sebastian Bach

One of the major advancements in the Renaissance was the invention of printing, pioneered by

Johannes Gutenberg.

aleatoric

John Cage experimented with chance, or _______, music.

avant garde

John Cage is considered to be a(n) ______ composer.

the role of silence in music. the opposition between music and noise. non-Western scales.

John Cage's interests included

Mozart's Requiem was performed at the funeral of which U.S. president?

John F. Kennedy

Which composer is often referred to as the "March King"?

John Philip Sousa

Which statement is NOT true?

John Tavener composed only secular work

The Dies irae text in the Requiem Mass refers to

Judgment Day.

Handel created the English oratorio for all of the following reasons EXCEPT which one?

King George I commissioned him to write oratorios

In "At the sight of this" from Doctor Atomic, the nuclear weapon is compared to

Krishna

Early in his career, Verdi wrote for which opera house?

La Scala in Milan

Cozzolani's Magnificat is sung in which language?

Latin

Gaude Maria virgo is sung in

Latin

In what language are the words being sung in this work?

Latin

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

Latin

In which language is the text of Josquin's motet written?

Latin

_________ was the language of learning at medieval and Renaissance universities.

Latin

In La noche de los Mayas, Revueltas incorporated

Latin American instruments. a short dance sequence of the son instruments from the European orchestral tradition

fast, syncopated beats

Latin-American percussion instruments and ______ give the dance sequences from West Side Story a Latin-American character.

creating accessible compositions. far-reaching educational efforts. promoting concert music to the general public.

Leonard Bernstein dedicated his life to

In Mozart's Don Giovanni, who is the servant of the title character?

Leporello

Active listening does NOT mean.

Letting the music be teh background activity.

While in Paris during his early twenties, Copland studied with

Nadia Boulanger

Which is a true statement about Vivaldi's Four Seasons?

Lines of poetry are printed above passages in the music.

Haydn's masterworks in the symphonic genre are his last set of twelve, known as the

London Symphonies.

Handel found great success living and working in

London, England.

The libretto to Don Giovanni was written by

Lorenzo da Ponte.

________ commissioned Wagner to complete the Ring cycle and helped to finance a theater dedicated to the performance of Wagner's music.

Ludwig II of Bavaria

For which church did J. S. Bach write his cantatas?

Lutheran

Who was the first leader of the Notre Dame School?

Léonin

______ is credited with compiling the Magnus liber organi.

Léonin

Which of the following is a true statement?

Léonin is the first composer of polyphonic music whose name we know.

What is the protocol that allows computers and synthesizers to interface?

MIDI

Which is a true statement regarding Machaut's songs?

Machaut set his chansons to French courtly love poems.

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

Magnificat

Which is a true statement regarding early music performances of medieval and Renaissance music?

Many aspects of early music performance are open to speculation.

leitmotifs

Many modern film composers have incorporated _________ in their music, a technique found in concert works by Wagner.

_____ is perhaps the best-known rag ever composed.

Maple Leaf Rag

Tchaikovsky's three ballets were all choreographed by

Marius Petipa.

At its premiere, who danced the lead role in Appalachian Spring?

Martha Graham

Who was Copland's collaborator for Appalachian Spring?

Martha Graham

conducted the New York Philharmonic. attended Harvard University. was a television personality

Massachusetts-born composer Leonard Bernstein

What was Chuck Berry's first hit?

Maybelline

_______ influenced Tavener's choral writing

Medieval and Renaissance polyphony

Which is NOT a true statement?

Melody and harmony are not related.

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani was a nun at the convent of St. Radegonda in

Milan

Which of the following is a Baroque-era poetic epic?

Milton's Paradise Lost

Who of the following was an early composer of Italian opera?

Monteverdi

Which of the following is NOT true? Women composers wrote Lieder in the Romantic era. Common themes of Lieder were love and beauty of nature. The emergence of the piano as a household instrument influenced the popularity of Lieder. Most Lied composers wrote their own words for their songs.

Most Lied composers wrote their own words for their songs.

Which is NOT true of performers of the Romantic era?

Most performance opportunities took place in the palace or aristocratic salon.

Beethoven and _____ were both important composers of piano sonatas who performed their own works in concert.

Mozart

Which is a true statement about Mozart's career?

Mozart became a struggling freelance musician in Vienna when he was twenty-five.

false

Music composed for the home was associated with masculine character traits.

Which is true of trade during the Middle Ages?

Musicians and their works moved along trade routes.

Which is a true statement regarding the musician's place within the patronage system during the Classical era?

Musicians ranked little better than servants.

Which statement regarding opera in the beginning of the eighteenth century is true?

Opera buffa was popular throughout Europe.

ninety

Over the past four decades, John Williams has written over _______ film scores.

The American debut tour of international singing sensation Jenny Lind was managed by

PT Barnum

Which French palace influenced the courts of other European rulers?

Palace of Versailles

The Impressionist movement began in which city?

Paris

Listening to music as a background to another activity is.

Passive listening

______ organized the 1924 concert, "An Experiment in Modern Music."

Paul Whiteman

At its premiere, Rhapsody in Blue was performed by

Paul Whiteman's nine-member big band

Who is the librettist for Doctor Atomic?

Peter Sellars

all possible answers

Philip Glass closely studied the works of which composer(s)? - J. S. Bach - Mozart - Schubert - All possible answers.

minimalist

Philip Glass is often associated with the _______ movement.

a "symphonic ballet."

Philip Glass referred to his Symphony No. 4 as

"minimalist."

Philip Glass rejected the term

Nadia Boulanger

Philip Glass studied composition with

the Juilliard School of Music

Philip Glass was a student with Steve Reich at

Who of the following wrote the chorale text and tune for Wachet auf (Sleepers, Awake)?

Philipp Nicolai

Which describes Pierrot's actions in The Moonfleck?

Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket.

phase music

Playing several copies of a tape loop simultaneously while slowly changing the tape speeds in order to combine the loops in various ways is called

Which statement regarding polyphony in the Middle Ages is NOT true?

Polyphonic music was sung by the church congregation.

Which of George Gershwin's works is considered a "folk opera"?

Porgy and Bess

Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is a work based on a dance tune by which composer?

Purcell

Who of the following was NOT a medieval writer/poet?

Pythagoras

Two of the earliest named composers of organum from the Notre Dame Cathedral were Léonin and

Pérotin

Who was Léonin's successor?

Pérotin

The distance between the highest and lowest pitches in a melodic line is its....

Range

Where did Machaut work as a priest?

Reims Cathedral

A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called

Requiem

A pastoral poem by the Symbolist writer _______ inspired Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun."

Stéphane Mallarmé

Who were Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Verlaine?

Symbolist poet

Which of the following statements regarding symphonies is NOT true?

Symphonies were a popular genre during the Baroque era.

________ is created when the regular accent is shifted to a weak beat or an offbeat.

Syncopation

Which is a true statement regarding early music notation?

Tempo and dynamic markings were absent.

Music is a _______ art.

Temporal

Where was Scott Joplin born?

Texarkana, Texas

Listen to the opening of Ride of the Valkyries. Which of the following is NOT a true statement?

The "Ride" leitmotif is heard right at the beginning played by the strings.

mambo

The Afro-Cuban dance with a fast, syncopated beat, heard in "The Dance at the Gym," is the

vaudeville

The American stage genre from which American musical theater drew inspiration was

The text from "At the sight of this" comes from

The Bhagavad Gita

The famous school of Russian nationalist composers in the nineteenth century was called

The Mighty Handful.

Which of the following is a collection of music by William Billings?

The New England Psalm Singer

Which statement is NOT true?

The Nutcracker was Tchaikovsky's only ballet NOT choreographed by Marius Petipa.

Which of the following statements about religion during the Renaissance is NOT true?

The Renaissance was an age of unquestioning faith.

Which ballets did Diaghilev commission from the composer Igor Stravinsky?

The Rite of Spring Petrushka The Firebird

During the Middle Ages, all power came from which religious organization?

The Roman Catholic Church

Which of the following is NOT quoted in Ives's Country Band March?

The Star Spangled Banner

Which American patriotic song is referenced by Puccini in Madame Butterfly?

The Star-Spangled Banner

_____ is one of Sousa's most well-known marches.

The Stars and Stripes Forever

piano cycle

The Year is a

What was groundbreaking about Nijinsky's choreography for The Rite of Spring?

The dancers jumped up and down in place The dancers formed rotating geometric patterns onstage. The dancers made jerky and irregular movements with individual limbs.

Considering The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, which statement is NOT true?

The entire orchestra never plays all together.

Which statement applies to the Classical-era concerto?

The fast-slow-fast pattern of the three movements was established by Vivaldi during the Baroque era.

two-note motive

The first movement of Glass's Symphony No. 4 begins with a

Which statement about the Romantic-era symphony is true?

The first movement of a Romantic symphony is usually the most dramatic and features the use of sonata-allegro form.

Which of the following is a true statement?

The influence of European musical styles surpasses that of any of its languages or religions.

Which of the following was NOT an historical event from the Baroque era?

The invention of printing by Johannes Gutenberg.

Pitch is determined by....

The length or size of a vibration object.

Which statement does NOT apply to the texts for Handel's Messiah?

The libretto was written by religious leaders.

Composers use tempo and dynamic markings to communicate to the performer the music's intended expressive quality.

True

Orchestral interlude in D minor The final scene opens with an orchestral interlude. Which statement is true?

The music builds to a loud climax The main theme emerges in the low strings The music features lush, chromatic harmonies.

George Gershwin and Aaron Copland

The music of ________ deeply influenced Bernstein.

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

The music of which composer was overlooked until recently?

Which is NOT true of a typical blues progression?

The number of bars in each section varies

Which of the following did NOT take place at the convent of St. Radegonda when Cozzolani was there?

The nuns adhered to the church ban on singing polyphony.

Which of the following does NOT pertain to the 1924 New York concert, "An Experiment in Modern Music"?

The organizer was a critic of jazz and failed to advertise the concert.

sounds of the Javanese gamelan

The piano required in Sonatas and Interludes simulates

Verses 1-3: Which describes the melody in the opening section of this work?

The pitches in the melody are fairly close together, with no big leaps.

emulate the sound of a galloping horse.

The prevalent rhythm in Crumb's Caballito negro is meant to

Which is NOT true of the ring in Wagner's Ring cycle?

The ring is only symbolic and not a real object.

true

The rise of the piano as a favored instrument provided women performance outlets that were acceptable.

Which is true of strophic form?

The same melody is repeated with each stanza of text.

1940s and 50s

The scientific rigor of twelve-tone music lent it prestige in both European and American institutions in the

Which is a true statement?

The standard Baroque concerto has three movements.

Which describes the key areas of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?

The symphony begins in C minor and ends in C major.

Which describes the chorale melody as it is heard in the fourth movement of Bach's cantata Wachet Auf?

The tenors sing the chorale melody in unison.

Why would Psalm 24 have been incompatible with the rules governing the services of the Catholic Church until 1963?

The text is in French

Why is there a musical reference to The Star-Spangled Banner in Madame Butterfly?

The title character marries an American naval officer

Considering the title of Symphony No. 94 in G Major by Joseph Haydn, which is a TRUE statement?

The title indicates the genre and key.

Which of the following statements describe Chopin's Military Polonaise and which do not?

The trio is in D major. It is in triple meter. The rhythms are derived from a Polish dance. The rhythms are derived from a Spanish dance. The trio is in the same key as the A sections.

How was Rhapsody in Blue received at its premiere?

The work was hailed as a highlight of the concert

Which of the following describes the collaboration that took place between Ferde Grofé and George Gershwin?

There is extensive debate about how much Grofé added

Which is NOT true of Fauré's Requiem?

There is only one version of this work

How is the oratorio similar to opera?

They both feature arias, recitatives, and choruses.

Which statement describes the activities of the Fisk Jubilee Singers?

They formed as a group to raise funds for the Fisk University. They toured the U.S. and Europe in the 1870s They raised the staggering sum of $150,000 in the late nineteenth century.

conducting

Women could receive conservatory training in all of the following EXCEPT

_______ is the principle of organization around a central tone.

Tonality

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for

Treemonisha

Which movement of The Nutcracker is based on a Russian dance?

Trepak

________ mean(s) "finders" or "inventors."

Troubadours and trouvères both

A second melody played against the first is called a countermelody.

True

A symphony can last more than an hour.

True

Accents between the beats are called offbeats.

True

Artists in the mid-twentieth century strove to move beyond the principles of modernism.

True

Artists such as Bernini created works that demonstrate the Baroque love of the dramatic.

True

Barbara Strozzi published more arias than any other male singer-composer in her times.

True

Baroque composers were interested in the possibilities for intense emotional expression.

True

Becoming an informed listener takes practice.

True

Beethoven felt that the Moonlight sonata was not one of his best works.

True

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony generally follows the outline of the standard multimovement cycle.

True

Beethoven's Moonlight sonata evokes the emotional expressiveness of the Romantic era.

True

Beethoven's solo piano sonatas are some of the most important works in the literature.

True

Black keys on the piano can be either "flats" or "sharps" depending on the context of the music.

True

Both Italian and English madrigals often feature word-painting.

True

By the nineteenth century, Masses, oratorios, and Requiems were typically performed as concert works.

True

Characteristics of nineteenth-century Romanticism reveal a self-conscious break from the past.

True

Classical composers established the orchestra as we know it today.

True

Classical-era composers often incorporated folk elements in their music.

True

Classical-era composers, especially in the earlier years, were still working under aristocratic patronage.

True

Classical-era operas, especially comic operas, were written with the intent to portray events realistically.

True

Classical-era sonatas were written for either one or two instruments.

True

Colonists in New England participated in congregational hymn singing.

True

Which of the following is NOT included in Higdon's blue cathedral score?

a toy piano

How was the Ring cycle received by the nineteenth-century public?

Wagnerian gospel spread across Europe as new art-religion

The contour of Beethoven's Ode to Joy is.....

Wavelike

Listening Guides in this textbook focus primarily on

Western art music.

Where was Handel buried?

Westminster Abbey, London

underscoring and source music

What are the two types of music in a film?

They overcame social stereotypes to become successful composers

What did Clara Wieck Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel have in common?

the Pulitzer Prize

What did George Crumb win in 1968?

What general tendency can be observed about film music?

What general tendency can be observed about film music? - the incorporation of the principles established by Wagner's music dramas - the assimilation of ever-changing trends in popular music - the constant search for fresh new sounds, including resources from across the globe

theme and variations

What is the overall form of the Imperial March?

running counter to the action.

When the mood of the music contradicts what is being shown on the screen, it is called

canon

Which Baroque feature does Reich employ in Electric Counterpoint?

the Juilliard School of Music

Which New York conservatory did John Williams attend?

Romeo and Juliet

Which Shakespeare play is the literary basis for West Side Story?

Darth Vader

Which Star Wars character is associated with the Imperial March?

Harry Partch

Which composer adapted Indian and African instruments to fit a microtonal tuning system?

John williams

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

John Williams

Which current composer is credited as reviving the grand symphonic film score?

minimalist

Which describes Steve Reich's musical style?

rooted in tonality

Which describes the music of Leonard Bernstein?

Women in nineteenth-century Europe were expected to have refined musical skills

Which describes women and the piano in the Romantic era?

sentimental and contrived plots

Which does NOT apply to musicals of more recent decades?

microtonal tuning

Which does NOT describe the prepared piano?

He preferred not to write tonal music

Which of the following is NOT true about Steve Reich's career? - He played drums during his college years. - He studied modernist music at The Juilliard School and Mills College. - He preferred not to write tonal music. - He won a Classical Music Grammy.

The Godfather

Which of the following movies includes a famously gruesome musical/visual contradiction scene?

distinct rhythmic pattern from the song's refrain

Which recognizable element(s) from Bowie's Heroes can be heard in the first movement of Glass's Symphony No. 4? - distinct rhythmic pattern from the song's refrain - Bowie's instrumentation - an electronic sample of Bowie's voice - All possible answers.

conductor

Which role was NOT generally acceptable for women in Romantic society?

George Crumb's compositions are only based on folk music.

Which statement is NOT true?

Henry Cowell and Harry Partch

Which two composers influenced John Cage?

Gilbert and Sullivan

Who are the late nineteenth-century European operetta composers that influenced American early musical theater?

Steve Reich

Who is a pioneer of process music?

John Cage

Who is considered to be the inventor of the prepared piano?

John Cage

Who is most associated with chance music?

Stephen Sondheim

Who wrote the lyrics for West Side Story?

Federico García Lorca

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

The theme that carries specific meanings, suggesting in a few notes a character, an emotion, an idea, or an object is called

a leitmotif

What is the basis for the story of The Valkyrie? Correct!

a medieval german epic poem

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

a mythological creature in a dreamlike state

The performance of Gaude Maria virgo is typical of the genre in that it is sung antiphonally. What does antiphonal mean?

a performance style that alternates between two groups

The literary basis for Verdi's Rigoletto is

a play by victor hugo

Which does NOT describe a Renaissance motet?

a polyphonic secular work

Jazz bands usually include

a reed section, a brass section, and a rhythm section.

A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called

a requiem

What are the origins of the Dies irae text?

a rhymed Latin poem by a thirteenth-century friar

A fixed pattern of long and short notes that is repeated or varied is known as

a rhythmic mode

Row, Row, Row Your Boat is an example of

a round

When a melodic idea is immediately restated at a lower or higher pitch level, this is known as

a sequence

Homophony is best described as

a single melody with accompaniment

Returning to the original tempo after a change in the music is indicated by the marking _________ in the score.

a tempo

Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral is

a tone poem

The appearances of the recurring theme in Symphonie fantastique are varied in harmony, rhythm, meter, tempo, dynamics, register, and instrumental color. This is known as Select one: a. thematic transformation. b. character development. c. theme and variations form. d. All possible answers.

a. thematic transformation.

Parlor songs were written a. to be accessible to amateur performers in a middle-class home b. for the concert stage c. for minstrel shows d.for European concert tours

a. to be accessible to amateur performers in a middle-class home

What gave Hector Berlioz the opportunity to work in Italy? Select one: a. winning the Prix de Rome b. a rich patron c. becoming a canon of the Church d. commissions from La Scala

a. winning the Prix de Rome

The open string sonority of blue cathedral is reminiscent of what other American composer's orchestral music?

aaron copland

Which does NOT apply to Renaissance liturgical music?

abandonment of Gregorian chant

Elements in Beethoven's music that foreshadow the Romantic style include all of the following EXCEPT

abandonment of typical Classical forms.

Johannes Brahms is revered for his mastery in composing

absolute music

Music without a program, relying entirely on structures of sound for its expressive power, is called

absolute music

Music with no literary basis is referred to as

absolute music.

If the music is gradually speeding up, the term used to describe this is

accelerando

Which best describes the change in tempo in this excerpt?

accelerando

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" does NOT feature

accented rhythmic drive

Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the patronage system for the Classical-era musician?

access to public concert halls

In Western music, the dominant and subdominant are called _______ chords.

active

Organum grew out of the improvisatory custom of

adding a second voice to a Gregorian melody.

Which of the following does NOT describe modernism in Bartók's music?

adherence to Classical forms

Flutes, whistles, and bagpipes fall into what instrument classification?

aerophones

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects which of the following traditions?

african american , native american, european american

What was William Grant Still's source of inspiration for his Suite for Violin?

african american artwork

Puccini found his inspiration for Madame Butterfly

after attending a performance of David Belasco's play

Bartók wrote Concerto for Orchestra

after emigrating to the U.S., two years before he died

Who wrote the libretto to Wozzeck?

alban berg

During the Baroque era, the woodwind instruments were

all made of wood.

Which of the following describes the character Rigoletto?

all possible answers

OPENING How is the excited mood in Ride of the Valkyries represented in the music?

allego tempo, fortissimo dynamic, huge orchestra

Which term best describes the tempo of the Quartet section?

allegro

The Baroque dance inspired by the music of Germany is the

allemande

Which describes the texture of the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah?

alternating between homorhythmic and polyphonic textures

Charles Ives is best described as a(n) ______ composer.

american modernist

Which statement regarding Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is NOT true? a. a brief cadenza near the end of the songs allows for free interpretation by the performer b. the original title "Jennie" from Jane Denny McDowell's name c. it was the most famous of Foster's songs during his lifetime d. The music and lyrics reflect Foster's Anglo-Irish cultural heritage

c. it was the most famous of Foster's songs during his lifetime

The musical elements that contribute to the "military splendor" in Chopin's Polonaise include all of the following EXCEPT: a. unrelenting polonaise rhythms b. dotted martial theme c. modal harmonies d. bold rhythmic chords

c. modal harmonies

Stephen Foster blended vernacular American spirit and the European art tradition in his a. song cycles b. liturgical songs c. parlor songs d. early folk operas

c. parlor songs

From what type of songs did Foster earn the majority of his income? a. opera arias b. ballads and love songs c. plantation songs d. parlor songs

c. plantation songs

A ________ is a multimovement programmatic orchestral work. Select one: a. symphony b. symphonic poem c. program symphony d. concerto

c. program symphony

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is performed by a. barbershop quartet b. solo voice c. solo voice and piano d. a cappella choir

c. solo voice and piano

The inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was Select one: a. the composer Clara Schumann. b. the writer George Sand. c. the actress Harriet Smithson. d. the playwright Victor Hugo.

c. the actress Harriet Smithson.

The Dies irae heard in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is Select one: a. a recurring theme. b. a motive that represents the beloved. c. the well-known religious plainchant tune. d. the idée fixe.

c. the well-known religious plainchant tune

The phrase heard in this excerpt ends with a ________.

cadence

A virtuosic solo passage in the manner of an improvisation within a concerto is called a

cadenza

A performance practice based on the concept of a singing leader imitated by a chorus of followers is called

call and response

Eighteenth-century slaves from Africa's west coast brought the _______ style to America.

call-and-response singing

A work that is comprised of a strictly imitative musical texture is called a

canon

The Tin Pan Alley songwriters

capitalized on jazz styles. followed structural conventions of parlor songs. capitalized on ragtime

In which version of Roll Over, Beethoven is the honky-tonk piano prominent?

carl perkins

Tchaikovsky conducted at the inaugural concert of which famous concert hall?

carnegie hall new york

The ______ was a castrated adult male soprano popular in the Baroque era.

castrato

Which instrument introduces the main theme?

celesta

Which new instrument did Tchaikovsky introduce to ballet?

celesta

Which of the following instruments was NOT used by Fauré to create memorable "celestial" sounds?

celesta

The opening melody of the third movement in Brahms's Symphony No. 3 is given to which instrument?

cellos

An example of harmonic variation would be if a composer

changed the chords that accompany a melody.

Many early twentieth-century composers exploited _____ meters.

changing

Which is NOT a major sacred choral genre of the Classical era?

chanson

Which of the following does NOT reflect Expressionism in Wozzeck?

children play on hobbyhorses

All of the following are indefinite pitch percussion instruments EXCEPT the

chimes.

Which best describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag0:25

choiceIt is a repeat of strain 2.

Which best describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag0:22

choiceIt is repeat of strain 3 (the trio).

A small vocal ensemble is known as a(n)

choir

The first movement of Bach's Cantata No. 140 is a(n)

chorale fantasia.

Three or more tones sounded together produce a(n)

chord

An instrument that produces sound from a vibrating string is called a(n)

chordophone

The Indian sitar is considered a(n)

chordophone

Which does NOT apply to Chopin's compositional style? a. harmonies sustained by the pedal b. delicate ornaments in his melodies c. widely spaced chords in the left hand d. strict adherence to forms established by Classical composers

d. strict adherence to forms established by Classical composers

March to the Scaffold and Dream of a Witches' Sabbath embody the Romantic era's fascination with Select one: a. the Bohemian artist. b. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. c. Shakespeare. d. the grotesque and supernatural.

d. the grotesque and supernatural.

Foster's song Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair a. was a wedding gift for his new bride Jeanie b. was written for his daughter c. was written for his mistress d. was written after separating from his wife

d. was written after separating from his wife

What is the genre of "Rejoice greatly"?

da capo aria

In a multimovement cycle, which does NOT apply to the first movement?

dancelike character

Who were Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina?

dancers with the Ballets Russes

Which malady afflicted Beethoven and profoundly affected his work as a composer?

deafness

Tin Pan Alley song pluggers

demonstrated and sold sheet music.

What phrase describes the "magic sleep" leitmotif heard in this excerpt from the Finale?

descending chromatic lines in the woodwinds

Conflict and action characterize the _________ in sonata-allegro form.

development section

Classical harmony is

diatonic

Music of the Baroque and Classical eras is mostly

diatonic

At the end of the opera Gilda

dies in Rigolettos arms

Twentieth-century nationalism

differed from nineteenth-century nationalism in that they were interested in notating folk music precisely.

Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra was written specifically to demonstrate

different timbres in the orchestra.

Gradually getting softer in music is indicated by which term in the score?

diminuendo

What term describes the melodic movement in this excerpt?

disjunct

A combination of tones that sounds discordant or in need of resolution is called

dissonant

The emotions of the story are conveyed through the use of __________ harmonies.

dissonant

Act III, scene 5: Children playing in front of Marie's house The melody of the children's song is

distorted

During the Classical era, which lighter genres were performed in the evening or at social functions?

divertimento and serenade

The fifth scale step (sol) forms the chief active chord (V), which is called the

dominant

First-movement concerto form is similar to sonata-allegro form, but it usually has a

double exposition.

The first accented beat of each metric pattern is known as the

downbeat

Cozzolani's Magnificat closes with a particular prayer of praise to God called the

doxology

Which of the following does not apply to minuet-and-trio form?

drama between two contrasting keys

With regards to the second movement of Haydn's Surprise Symphony, which does NOT characterize the opening of the A section?

dramatic minor-key theme, played fortissimo

Which describes the mood of the opening section from Boulanger's Psalm 24?

dramatic, fanfare like

The expression of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 is

dramatic, with an ethereal middle section

Which describes the overall mood of the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight sonata?

dreamy, ethereal

In the third movement of his Spring concerto, Vivaldi suggests the sound of bagpipes by incorporating a

drone

Simple harmony can be created when a melody is accompanied by a long, sustained tone called a

drone

Continuous pitches held while other musical lines interweave are called

drones

Haydn's Surprise Symphony

is his best-known symphony.

A woodwind quintet is unusual in that

it includes a brass instrument.

Beethoven's ninth symphony is unique because

it includes soloists and a chorus.

The musical attributes of plainchant include all of the following except

it is in a major key.

Rhapsody in Blue resembles a concerto in the following ways EXCEPT:

it is in three movements

Which of the following is true of the chorus heard in this selection?

it is syncopated

Which is true of the Libera me movement from Fauré's Requiem?

it was composed years earlier, the second version is scored for baritone solo, chorus, and orchestra, it was originally written for baritone and organ

The middle section of minuet-and-trio form is called a "trio" because

it was originally arranged for three instruments.

Madame Butterfly is sung in what language?

italian

The opera Madame Butterfly is set in

japan

John Adams's music is infused with elements of all of following styles EXCEPT

jazz

Scat-singing is usually found in what style of music?

jazz

Which is NOT part of Copland's compositional output?

jazz concertos

When did the first wave of modernist attitudes take hold?

just before World War I

Which best describes the tempo of this excerpt?

laidback

Which best describes Billie Holiday's singing style?

laidback with rhythmic flexibility

Big-band jazz is a

large-ensemble style with sections of brass, reeds, and rhythm instruments.

Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element of Impressionist music?

large-scale forms

Which of the following describes the texture of Chopin's Polonaise?

largely homophonic

In which language is Fauré's Libera me from Requiem written?

latin

What was the language used in the Western church until the mid 1960s?

latin

After Pinkerton returns, Butterfly

learns that pinkerton has a new american wife, takes her own life, and learns that pinkerton will take their son back to america

The style of singing the text in each vocal part of the Gaude Maria virgo is:

melismatic

Playing a series of notes smoothly and with connection is called

legato

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

leitmotifs

The text of an opera is known as a

libretto

The mood of Farmer's madrigal Fair Phyllis is

light and pastoral.

Which of the following does NOT apply to the third movement of Beethoven's Moonlight sonata?

lighthearted rondo

______ was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome.

lili Boulanger

What system did the Puritans employ for singing psalms in church?

lining-out

The seventeenth-century system in which New England church leaders sang each line of a psalm and the congregation repeated it back is called

lining-out.

Where did William Grant Still grow up?

little rock arkansas

The set order of services and structure of each church service is known as

liturgy

Which describes the character of a last movement rondo?

lively and lighthearted

John Tavener was born in

london

Which recent movie was based on some of the same material as The Ring of the Nibelung?

lord of the rings

Which voice part in this organum is singing the older Gregorian chant (cantus firmus)?

lowest

Which elements are NOT associated with the music of Charles Ives?

lush, Romantic harmonies

Which of the following instruments was likely found in prosperous homes during the Renaissance?

lute

Which describes the children's singing style?

lyrical at first, then speechlike

Sometimes a composer will collaborate with a ________ who writes the words of the song.

lyricist

Which leitmotif is heard in this selection from the Finale? ( soft and light)

magic fire

Composers of the Classical era fully explored which harmonic system?

major-minor system

In either binary or ternary form, the A part usually moves from the home key (tonic) to a contrasting key (dominant), while the B section

makes the corresponding move back from the dominant to the tonic.

Which describes Romantic melodies?

marked lyricism, immediate appeal

Verse 7 and 8: The overall mood in the following verses is

martial and triumphant.

The _______ was an English entertainment that combined music and poetry.

masque

Machaut's own poetry often centers on the idea of

medieval chivalry

In plainchant from the Middle Ages, if there are many notes per syllable, the style is called

melismatic

A short, repeated musical pattern used as a structural device is known as a(n)

ostinato

Joseph Haydn wrote ______ symphonies in his lifetime.

over one hundred

How many Gregorian chants survive?

over three thousand

What is sometimes found at the beginning of a Baroque suite?

overture

Impressionism began as a movement in

painting

In which discipline of the arts did Expressionism originate?

painting

How does Machaut convey the medieval fascination for puzzles in Ma fin est mon commencement?

palindromic structure

In The Dance of Youths and Maidens, which musical elements do NOT contribute to the primeval sound of the orchestra?

parallel chords, floating harmonies

Which is NOT generally regarded as a primary antecedent to jazz?

parlor songs

What did the choreographer Marius Petipa invent?

pas de deux

Which musical element is present in Wozzeck

passionate lyricism Sprechstimme use of leitmotifs

Nadezhda von Meck's relationship with Tchaikovsky was that of his

patron

Which describes the character Zerlina?

peasant girl

Which of the following does Stravinsky use to minimize harmonic changes?

pedal points melodic repetition ostinatos

Which scale is used in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

pentatonic

Common scales used in African, Far Eastern, and Native American music are the _____ scales.

pentatonic and tritonic

La noche de los Mayas contains an extended ________ section.

percussion

Greater subtlety and expressive ambiguity in Impressionist music were achieved through all of the following EXCEPT:

percussive dissonance

Which of the following composers has NOT contributed to the spiritual minimalist movement?

philip glass

John Adams's Doctor Atomic focuses on the conscience of:

physicist Robert Oppenheimer

Bartók was a virtuoso _____ and was a master of composition for that instrument.

pianist

Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?

piano

What instrument did George Gershwin play?

piano

Which instrument derives its name from the Italian word meaning "loud-soft"?

piano

The music heard in Congo Square was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

piano accompaniment

The version of Rhapsody in Blue most commonly performed today is scored for

piano and full orchestra.

America's vernacular traditions include

piano music parlor ballads music for brass bands

What instrument in this excerpt has the highest range?

piccolo

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy What technique are the strings employing in this excerpt?

pizzicato

In his Country Band March, Ives simulates the realism of an amateur band by having the musicians

play wrong notes play out of tune make bad entrances

Before recorded music was widespread, music like the rags of Scott Joplin could be mechanically performed by

player pianos

In the original recording of Roll Over, Beethoven Berry

plays an electric guitar. is the featured improviser during instrumental sections. starts the song with a short riff

Stacked chords of six or seven notes eventually led to

polyharmony

Two or more streams of harmony against each other creates

polyharmony

A texture in which two or more different melodic lines are combined is called

polyphonic

The overall texture of this excerpt is:

polyphonic

The texture of a round is

polyphonic

Which of the following textures is based on counterpoint?

polyphonic

Which term best describes the texture of this organum?

polyphonic

What is the genre of Machaut's Ma fin est mon commencement?

polyphonic secular chanson

Imitation is a type of

polyphony

What was the single most important feature in the development of Western music?

polyphony

Which of the following best describes the texture of this excerpt?

polyphony

Which term describes the texture of two or more melodies performed at the same time?

polyphony

Simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns is referred to as

polyrhythm

Which artistic trend drew upon commercial photography and urban life for inspiration?

pop art

Ragtime was NOT

popular until mid-twentieth century

At the turn of the twentieth century, a movement called _____ reflected an expansion and intensification of late-Romantic trends.

post romanticism

Which description does not apply to Berg's Wozzeck?

post-Impressionist

What is NOT an example of an early twentieth-century modernism?

post-Romanticism

John Adams is associated with which style of music?

post-minimalism

Doctor Atomic is a

post-minimalist opera

Pianissimo is indicated by the abbreviation _____.

pp

Which does NOT apply to Romantic-era orchestral works?

predictability of musical form and procedure

Composers of organum based their pieces on

preexisting Gregorian chants.

What is a cantus firmus?

preexisting melody

Neo-Classical composers

preferred absolute to program music

Fauré's Requiem

premiered in Paris for the funeral of a well-known architect.

John Tavener was raised in which spiritual tradition?

presbyterian

Which of the following is NOT a musical modifier?

presto

The ideals of which movement describes the music of The Rite of Spring?

primitivism

Tavener's Song for Athene was heard at the funeral of

princess diana

Which does NOT describe the device that enables us to hear Scott Joplin's rendition of Maple Leaf Rag?

recorded on a wax cylinder

A leitmotif is a

recurring melodic theme that carries specific meaning

Beethoven's early symphonies

reflect the style of Haydn and Mozart.

Which of the following describes words and music that recur after every stanza?

refrain

Which of the following does NOT describe words without specific meanings in songs?

refrain

The word _________ describes a specific area in the range of an instrument or voice, such as low, middle, or high.

register

Which describes the Bohemian artist?

rejected dreamer

In musical forms ________ fixes the material in the listener's mind and satisfies the need for the familiar.

repetition

The basic elements of form are

repetition, contrast, and variation.

Music performed with exchanges between a soloist and chorus is called

responsorial

The _______ chord is counterposed against active chords.

rest

What is the translation of "requiem"?

rest

The element that propels music forward in time is

rhythm

Which predominantly vocal genre features a solo singer accompanied by a small group—often piano, guitar, acoustic bass, drums, and tenor saxophone?

rhythm and blues

Rock is the fusion of which two musical styles?

rhythm and blues, country-western

Altering the note durations of a theme is an example of

rhythmic variation.

Which of the following terms means "getting slower"?

ritardando

Aria: "La donna è mobile" (Duke) This aria features a recurring instrumental passage known as a(n):

ritornello

The first movement of Vivaldi's Spring concerto is in __________ form.

ritornello

The instrumental section that returns throughout this excerpt is called a(n):

ritornello

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

ritornello

Which term means an instrumental refrain?

ritornello

Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?

ritornello form

The energetic instrumental idea that recurs several times between the vocal statements in the first movement of J. S. Bach's Cantata No. 140 is a

ritornello.

Which composer nurtured Brahms's talents, going as far as taking him into his home?

robert schumann

What term was coined in the mid-1950s to describe a form of rhythm and blues that crossed racial lines?

rock and roll

The combination of "hillbilly" country music with the sounds of R&B is sometimes called

rockability

The opening of the first movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik begins with a marchlike theme that rapidly ascends to its peak, a "_______ theme," then turns downward at the same rate.

rocket

Which of the following was NOT a famous ballet written by Tchaikovsky?

romeo and juliet

In which poetic form is Machaut's chanson Ma fin est mon commencement set?

rondeau

The fourth movement of Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 33, No. 2 is composed in what form?

rondo

Which does NOT describe Berg's musical style?

rooted in French Impressionist traditions

Operas by which composer exhibited the high point of bel canto opera?

rossini

Where does Appalachian Spring take place?

rural PA

Where was Stravinsky born?

russia

Tchaikovsky was a famous ______ composer.

russian

Music composed for religious purposes is called

sacred

Which of the following terms describes religious or spiritual music?

sacred

Which leitmotif is heard in this selection from the Finale? (loud brass)

siegfried

Which musical trait does NOT apply to Monteverdi's madrigals?

simple vocal style

Between scenes of an opera the orchestra may play

sinfonias

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

singers and composers

Which of the following does NOT describe modernist composers' use of rhythm?

single meter prevailing for an entire movement

A jazz chorus is

single statement of a melodic-harmonic pattern

Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called

singspiel

Haydn often wrote his quartets in groups of

six

Schubert wrote approximately_____ songs.

six hundred

The ________ is regarded as the golden age of the a cappella style.

sixteenth century

A heterophonic effect is many people singing

slight variants of the same melody simultaneously.

Which leitmotif is heard in this selection from the Finale? (dreamy)

slumber

Fauré's original ensemble plan for his Requiem was a(n)

small chamber orchestra minus violins

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the nineteenth-century symphony?

small orchestra with limited winds

Composers of the Romantic era were interested in all of the following EXCEPT

smaller orchestras.

Berry's country-blues hit Maybelline

sold over one million copies to both African American and white audiences.

In Higdon's blue cathedral, which instrument represents her brother?

solo clarinet

The Baroque concerto that is characterized by a solo instrument and orchestra is the

solo concerto.

Which describes the performing forces heard in this verse?

solo tenor voice with harp, organ, and French horn

Which describes the performing forces of a cantata?

soloists, chorus and orchestra

Classical composers fully explored which large-scale form of instrumental music?

sonata form

The first movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik is in _______ form.

sonata-allegro

The first movement of a string quartet or symphony is most likely in ________ form.

sonata-allegro

Which of the following describes first-movement concerto form?

sonata-allegro with a double exposition

A group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme is known as a

song cycle

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is

song cycle

A Poet's Love is one of Schumann's best-known

song cycles

Which movement(s) in a Baroque concerto was/were set in a fast tempo?

the first and third movements

Impressionist painters were NOT interested in

the grandiosity of Romantic art.

La noche de los Mayas celebrates

the heritage of the Mayan empire.

The text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on a story from what source?

the holy bible

What was one of Martin Luther's most important and lasting contributions to Western culture?

the idea that musical worship belongs to the congregation

Doctor Atomic focuses on

the last days and hours before the first atomic test.

Which voice in organum carries the original chant in sustained notes?

the lower voice

Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 33, No. 2 is nicknamed "Joke" because

the main tune in the fourth movement is cut short by pauses.

The title "Moonlight" for Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 27, No. 2 refers to

the moonlit scenery of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.

The ideas from ______ are credited with sparking the so-called Harlem Renaissance.

the new negro

On whom did Augustinian priest Filippo Picinelli lavish praise in 1670?

the nuns of St. Radegonda of Milan

The lyrics to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot concern

the prophet Elijah taken up to heaven by a chariot of fire.

Tempo refers to

the rate of speed.

In Higdon's blue cathedral the image "blue" represents

the sky

Which is true regarding key areas in first-movement concerto form?

the solo exposition modulates to a contrasting key

The use of drawn-out crescendos, slowly gathering force as they build to a climax, is called

the steamroller effect.

A wordless melody on the vowel "ah" is an example of a technique called

vocalise

An individual part or line, even in instrumental music, is often referred to as a(n)

voice

The text of country or rural blues that arose in the Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

voiced the difficulties of everyday life was set to a repeating harmonic pattern typically consisted of a three-line stanza

Dynamics determine the ________ at which music is played.

volume

Who wrote the libretto to Wagner's The Valkyrie?

wagner

Mozart's Requiem

was Mozart's last large-scale composition.

In his early years, Silvestre Revueltas

was a child prodigy on the violin

It has been suggested that Barbara Strozzi

was a courtesan.

The Harlem Renaissance

was a cultural movement celebrating African American contributions.

The concerto

was a new instrumental genre of the Baroque era.

Berry's hit song, Roll Over, Beethoven

was about the new style of music replacing older ones.

The title "Moonlight" for Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 27, No. 2

was given by the German poet, Ludwig Rellstab.

Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?

webern schoenberg berg

Country Band March includes ______, an integral part of Ives's compositional technique.

well-known musical quotations from his Protestant New England upbringing

In madrigal poetry, references to death

were erotic.

How did Robert Schumann meet his wife Clara?

while studying with clara's father

Berry said that Roll Over, Beethoven was written as a complaint to his sister

who played classical music on the family piano when he wanted to play popular hits.

Country Band March is arranged for

wind band

Wozzeck ends (the end of Act III, Scene 5)

with Marie's child on a hobbyhorse with Marie's son singing, "Hop, hop! in a pianissimo dynamic

How is grief musically depicted in Dido's Lament?

with a descending, chromatic bass line

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

with high trills and running scales

How does Vivaldi evoke the image of a thunder and lightning storm in the first movement of the Spring concerto?

with repeated notes and fast ascending, minor-key scales

In the sixteenth century, which musicians became more prominent performers of secular music?

women singers

In Baroque instrumental music, ________ were used to suggest pastoral scenes.

woodwind instruments

An unexpected harsh dissonance coinciding with the word "death" is an example of

word-painting

Setting the word "falling" to a descending scale is an example of

word-painting

Which principle usually associated with vocal music did Vivaldi apply to instrumental music?

word-painting

Instrumental music meant to portray the action and emotion described by words is called

word-painting.

The text setting of Strozzi's Sleepyhead, Cupid! includes

word-painting.

When a melody pictorializes a word it is called

word-painting.

Opus is Latin for

work

Which of the following does NOT apply to Take the A Train?

written and performed by Louis Armstrong

Which best describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag0:21

√Correct choiceIt is a return of strain