Music October Midterm Exam

Choose all that apply. The South African song Shosholoza...

- is in a call-response style - originated with gold miners traveling back and forth to the mines on a train. - is multi-lingual

According to Bernstein, the note C vibrates at:

132 vibrations per second

According to Aaron Copland, how many ways/planes of listening are there?

3

According to the narrator, how many groups of the orchestra are there?

4

After each group plays their part, the final part of this piece, which features the whole orchestra, is :

A Fugue

Music notation is:

A graphical system that strives to represent duration, pitch, and other music elements.

Which one of these statements is not typical of jazz:

A jazz piece is notated in much detail

This song form grew out of musical theatre:

AABA

Yesterday by the Beatles is a good example of what type of form?

AABA

The following song is an example of strophic form:

Amazing Grace

Frederic Chopin's Prelude in E minor is an example of what type of classical form?

Binary Form

Which of the following is NOT a way to produce sound in string instruments?

Blowing

According to Titon and Slobin, when we study history of a music-culture, or some aspect of it, we want to know:

Both who tells and writes that history and what the historian's stake in it is

Match the instrument group with its appropriate action (as per the narrator).

Brass or woodwind - you can blow Strings - you can pluck or bow Percussion - You can bang or brush or tap

How does a violinist control dynamics?

By applying more or less bow pressure and speed on the strings

The name of the white key to the immediate left of the group of two black keys on the keyboard is : (look over module again)

C

Which of the following instruments does NOT belong in the definite pitch group:

Cymbals

The name of the white key in between the group of two black keys on the keyboard is: (look at pitch, duration, intervals module for pics of piano to study/review)

D

A note at the bottom of the staff has a higher pitch than a note at the top of the staff.

False

A piece of folk music typically remains unchanged throughout the years.

False

According to Titon & Slobin, all cultures have a word for "music." True or False?

False

Composers of Art Music create works that are passed on from generation to generation by listening, remembering, and imitating.

False

Context is irrelevant in the study of music. True or False?

False

Music does not interact with other traditions. True or False?

False

Music is a language understood by everyone. True or False?

False

Sound is humanly constructed. True or False?

False

The South African song Shosholoza is a folk song from the past that is no longer performed.

False

The musical practices of Non-Western societies are easy to categorize as they all employ musical notation and reject notions of individual authorship.

False

Usually, folk tunes, songs, spirituals, and hymns are not good examples of strophic form. True/false

False

Lullabies and work songs are typically part of which genre:

Folk Music

The piece that is being performed was originally composed by who?

Henry Purcell

During _________, the musical performers vary material by creating music in the moment, rather than relying upon fixed pitches and rhythms.

Improvisation

According to Titon and Slobin, John Cage's composition for typewriters makes us realize the following:

Music rests on an agreement among composer, performer, and listener

Music's "affect" refers to:

Music's power to move and place affective experience.

Which of the following is a true statement?

Octave is the name of a particular interval size

Vibration may be represented in terms of frequency. The basic unit of frequency is called the Hertz. What does one Hertz represent?

One cycle per second

Riffs refer to :

Short melodic and rhythmic patterns

On which plane are we listening when searching for meaning or associations?

The expressive plane

In musical notation, pitch is indicated exclusively by:

The position of notes on the lines and spaces of the staff

The simplest, most primitive way of listening takes place on which plane?

The sensuous plane

In this class, we will strive to listen with much more awareness of all the elements of music, which translates to which plane?

The sheerly musical plane

Listening to musical elements such as melody, rhythm, harmony, tone color, and form happens on which listening plane?

The sheerly musical plane

What form is this piece in? (Clue: the narrator tells you)

Theme and variation

The four most common brass instruments in the traditional symphony orchestra are:

Trombone, trumpet, horn, and tuba

According to Titon and Slobin, performance moves along the basis of agreed-on rules and procedures. True or False?

True

Copland concludes that in actual fact, we listen on all three planes at the same time.

True

Form can be defined as the constructive or organizing element in music. true/false

True

Form is a way of defining the organization of a piece of music. true/false

True

Just as there are quarter notes, there are quarter rests.

True

Music gets its meaning from culture. True or False?

True

Music is found in all societies. True or False?

True

Music is universal, but its meaning is not. True or False?

True

Structure is important because it helps our minds begin to develop expectations about what will happen next in a piece of music. True/false

True

The concept of 'music' means different things and involve different activities in various cultures and societies. True or False?

True

The letter name for white keys on the keyboard is fixed regardless of the musical context of a given composition.

True

What do you call a piece of music where a violin soloist plays with an orchestra?

Violin Concerto

When applied to music, the term "dynamics" refers to changes in:

Volume

A note's duration is indicated by:

Whether the note head is filled or not and the number of flags on the stem

Which of the following is not a decision about interpretation that a conductor makes?

Whether to use a modern or old-fashioned baton

The Harmonic Series is:

a built-in pre-ordained universal acoustical phenomenon

A rest symbol indicates:

a period of silence

According to Bernstein, all sounds are produced by vibrating bodies which send out waves. An example of a vibrating body is:

all of the above (a string, a column of air, and a stretched animal hide)

The fundamental tone and its first overtone are:

an octave apart

An acoustic guitar can be classified as a:

chordophone

In rondo form, the repeating themes are separated by:

contrasting episodes

According to Benjamin Zander, as a child learns to play the piano, the rate/number of impulses felt:

decreases

A long string, if plucked really hard, will vibrate faster and thereby produce a higher pitch than a shorter string. true/false

false

A string vibrates only in half.

false

A verse-chorus song is required to have a bridge section. true/false

false

According to Benjamin Zander, Chopin's Prelude in E minor is a piece that starts from 'home' and moves 'away'.

false

According to Benjamin Zander, classical music is only for a select few.

false

According to Zander, the words we say are not important.

false

Art Music composers are not influenced by other genres of music such as folk, popular, or jazz.

false

The higher the note, the more abundantly audible will be the harmonic series.

false (it is the lower note)

The distance between D and A (above that D) is a:

fifth

The black key to the right of the F on this keyboard can be called F sharp or G :

flat

A way of making connections between closely-related works and musical artists that share stylistic, formal, and cultural elements is to categorize the works by _____

genre

Time values in music are expressed in:

relative terms

Which of the following expressions is often used in reference to timbre?

tone color

According to Benjamin Zander, a deceptive cadence is a chord that deceives us as it is unexpected.

true

According to Benjamin Zander, nobody is tone deaf.

true

According to jazz singer and double-bassist Esperanza Spalding, Jazz is America's classical music.

true

Art music has traditionally been created by trained professional musicians.

true

Categorizing music is sometimes problematic

true

Folk music belongs to the community even though it may have been written by an individual.

true

From Zander's story about working with a boy who lost his sibling, he implies that music has a transformational power.

true

Historically, genre has been used to separate black and white performing artists whose music was stylistically identical.

true

In jazz, performers have wide, creative freedom, even when they are playing from a score.

true

Jazz incorporates elements of folk music.

true

Keyboard instruments are sometimes part of the orchestra.

true

The function of the song Shosholoza has changed over the years.

true

The harmonic series and overtone series are interchangeable terms.

true

The smaller a segment, the faster the vibration, the higher the note.

true

The term "fixed composition" refers to works in which the pitches and rhythms are identical between performances.

true

The term timbre refers to the different sound sources used in a composition.

true

The terms 'decrescendo' and 'diminuendo' are interchangeable.

true

Volume and dynamics are interchangeable terms. True False

true

When we hear a note, we are simultaneously hearing a whole series of higher tones that are sounding at the same time.

true

If you take any pitch on the keyboard, the next occurrence of the same letter name going towards the right (up) will vibrate:

twice as fast

Which of the following determines the precise pitch of a sound?

vibrations