Music Survey Practice Final

Primary composer of opera at the beginning of the Baroque was

Claudio Monteverdi

What two historical events were important during the baroque period?

Jamestown was established and the 30 years war took place

A prominent and very important composer of the string quartet lived

Josef Haydan

Billings is named by some texts as the

first great american song writer

Plainchant consists of

melody sung alone or by a group in unison

Music of this period reflected many different characteristics easily associated with composers homelands. this was the influence of

nationalism

What rhythmic approach was always used in performing plainchant in the Middle Ages?

no one knows exactly how it was preformed

One of Beethoven's abilities other than a composer was the skill he showed early in his life as a young and accomplished

pianist

concerto

piece featuring accomplished soloists

True or False: Music of Gottschalk was considered to be technically difficult and demanding upon anyone that preformed it

true

True or False: Unlike Haydn, Mozart was born during the classical period and died during the same period.

true

In the Middle Ages every musical document had to be

written by hand

Haydn's approach to writing symphonies was to incorporate Pranks in his music that his audience wasn't expecting, such as in the:

"Surprise" Symphony

Structure of Opera

1. overture- instramental; that introduces music 2. chorus- narrator 3. soloist- characters 4. recitative- reciting of action that takes place on stage

Renaissance Period

1400-1600

Baroque Period

1600-1750

The birth date of Haydn

1732

Classical Period

1750- 1800

The birth date of Mozart

1756

19th century date

1800- 1900

A string quartet always consisted of ____ musicians

4

The dates of the Middle ages

400-1400

A major war occurred on the American Continent during this period

American Civil War

A prominent composer of the 19th century was a victim early in his life of severe and chronic hearing loss. This composer's name was

Beethoven

perhaps the most bold and famous explorer that discovered the New World was:

Christopher Columbus

The composer of a rare patriotic tune from her pen called forward during this century was

Clara Wieck Schumann

Bach

Composer of cantatas

Two composers mentioned in chapters 6, 7 and 8 wrote in their native language of

English

two prominent female composers of the 19th century were both pianist and were both related by marriage or siblings. They were

Frannie Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Wieck Schumann

Figaro

French play scorned by Mozart's emperor

Bach wrote in a form in which one melody was played for a short time then the same melody would be played in a different key with it, this was known as a

Fugue

Two of the late Baroque composers were born in Germany, but one became a British citizen

George F. Handel

The subject matter of secular songs centered around

Greek Gods

The Pygmalion story has its origins in

Greek and Roman myth

A composer from New Orleans who was a Union sympathizer during the American Civil war

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

An important religious figure during the Renaissance was

Martin Luther

The priest who in effect started what we know as the Reformation in 1517 by posting 95 theses of protest on the church in Wittenburg Germany was

Martin Luther

The composer mentioned in the above question used a combination of different tunes in his work called "Union" that was to inspire loyalty to the Union during the Civil War. One of those tunes is

Star Spangled Banner

Handel wrote a piece called Hallelujah! It was only part of a larger piece called

The Messiah

Salieri

Villain of the movie "Amadeus"

Singing in several voices without accompaniment is called

a capella

aria

a song that expresses emotion

A major world event that took place during the Classical period

american revolution

Many composers in the Middle Ages

are now anonymous, were monks priests, or nuns, and were troubadours, trouveres, or minnesingers

John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" is an example of what medieval practice?

arranging a texted song for instruments alone

Another composer of the 19th century was Franz Schubert, known for setting music to poetry in a unique way in a genre called the

art song

Two-double reed instruments used today are the

bassoon and oboe

Many religious texts for anthems or church services would come from a Biblical source

book of Psalms

Handel

borrowed tunes for his pieces from "street" music of the day

music during the Renaissance was primarily written for

both sacred and secular uses, eventually more secular uses

__________ are to music as periods are to verbal expression, indicating the end of a unit of thought.

cadences

The music of Bach was important because of its use in

churches and cathedrals

Two single reed instruments used today are

clarinet and saxophone

The period of music that occurred directly after the baroque period was the

classical period

In the new world, the most important development was the establishment of what during the baroque period?

colonies

The art form mention in the previous question was written in a

comic

timbre was important during the Renaissance because of grouping instruments of like types known as

consorts

Secular music was frequently used as

dance music

in the music of the type mentioned in the previous question, a symphony orchestra plays a short musical idea in a piece called Midsummer Night's Dream reminiscent of the sound of a

donkey

The two subfamilies of reed instruments are

double and single

Words such as __________ and ____________ describe the rhythm of secular Renaissance music

duple/triple

with the more advance technology of piano construction in the 19th century the composers were able to make better use of contrasts between loud and soft called

dynamics

The repertory of secular songs in the Middle Ages is

enormous

In addition to her music, Hildgard

experienced visions and revelations and directed the life of a thriving convent, considered herself a channel through which the Holy Spirit spoke to human kind, was the first women to receive permission from a pope to write on theology in addition to writing on medicine, plants, and the lives of saints

True or False: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was perhaps the most stable personality of composers during the classical period

false

True or false: the secular song was completely different from the aria

false

true or false: Wagner's operas were short one-act productions

false

The characters in opera in the Baroque period were

fictitious people and events

Music was already the ____________ in the Middle Ages, long before Shakespeare coined the phrase.

food of love

symphony

four movement work "fathered" by Haydn

string quartet

four-part instrumental piece

Rhythm during the Renaissance contrasted from rhythm of the Middle Ages which, when signing plainchant was known for

free rhythms

Richard Wagner also composed in the same genre but was different from Verdi because

he wrote everything in a major key

With the advent of Protestantism came the advent of songs that could be sung by the average person in a church setting

hymns

The person who is being addressed by the singer of "I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady" is

ignoring the singer's pleas, much as a statue would ignore its sculpture's pleas

In the Middle Ages, polyphony was used for

sacred music, secular music and songs about courtly love

the development of opera during the baroque was

intentionally done through the camerata in Italy

Harpsichord

keyboard instrument of the baroque

One famous type of secular music during the late Renaissance often written to poetry was

madrigal

Gregorian Chant during the Middle Ages was chiefly

monophonic in texture

The texture in Hildegard's play was

monophonic, allowing preformers to project the text with great clarity

Contrasting the music of the Middle ages and Renaissance, the Middle Ages was more _____________, and the Renaissance more ______________.

monophonic/polyphonic

Bach was well known because of a muscial piece of sacred nature known as

motet

A technique of composition during the 19th century was using a few notes assembled in a unique way to describe something or identify an character a piece of music was about. This technique was called using a

motive

Vivaldi

music teacher at orphanages for girls

In polyphony, what is the relationship between the voices?

one in which each voice is melodious and retains its own identity

Music during the Middle Ages was primarily written with

one line of music deliberately set to the meaning of the words

Guiseppi Verdi was a note composer of a very popular genre of classical music in the 19th century called

opera

Mozart wrote works of music in an extremely popular music genre during the Classical period known as

opera

One type of music that Bach did not write during his life that others did

opera

George Fredrick Handel was known for a musical genre that was all about Bible stories known as the

oratorio

A twelfth-century cleric named Perotin, who worked at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, wrote long and detailed works with the harmonies known as

organum

The beginning musical piece in an opera played by the orchestra is the

overture

William Billings was a composer of a

patriotic songs

In addition to being a composer, Machaut was famous for his work as a

poet

In "I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady," cadences are identified in the music by a

point of arrival, coupled with a pause in the forward motion of the voices

Most of the secular music of the Renaissance was

polyphonic

What is the texture of "I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady"?

polyphonic

A certain type of music was composed early in the 19th century depicting a story or accompanying a play. This genre of 19th century music was much like today's movie music and is known as

program music

The word Renaissance means

rebirth

Architecture referred to as "classical" has many characteristics as music of this period because of its

reflect as sense of balance and symmetry in its presentation

A certain technique of composition used by the composer Frederic Chopin in some of his solo piano music in which the rhythm is not steady but sounds broken is called

rubato

Landini is believed to have written more that 150 __________ songs, which represent about one third of all Italian music that has survived from the fourteenth century.

secular

An instrument popular during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance

shawm

Which double reed instrument is heard in the recording of "He Who Gladly Serves"?

shawm

Which type of medieval instrument tends to have a "buzzy" sound?

shawm

In Hildegard's Play Of Virtues, Satan does not sing, but

shout his lines

Musics of the Baroque period can best be described as having

simple but highly ornamented melodies

Two notable traits of classical music were

simple melodies with balanced and logical harmonies

The earliest chant manuscripts show

simple symbols above the texts, indicating motion of the pitch up or down

The word "classical" often refers to

something that endures

Musicians were hired frequently for other reasons than their ability to play their instruments or sing. One of those reasons would be as

spies

Mozart's final work was a(n)

symphony

in texts of courtly love, a nobleman admires a woman especially if she

takes no interest in him

Melismatic refers to

text set to multiple notes per syllable

Syllabic setting

text set to one note per syllable

Guillaume de Machaut's "Messe de Nostre Dame" is

the first polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary by a single composer

The primary technological development during the renaissance was:

the printing press

Who is the probable composer of "He Who Gladly Serves"

the real composer is anonymous

For each four line unit of poetry in "Behold Spring," Landini inserts a cadence at the end of

the second and fourth lines

True or False: Josef Haydn always had access to good musicians when he was in the service of the Esterhazy family in Austria

true

What is the meter of Landini's "Behold Spring"?

triple

Billings song set to the theme of "Chester" is known as the

unofficial anthem of the American Revolution

Whether it was a singer or instrumentalists, composers wrote increasingly more music for those musicians who had special gifts and technical abilities. they were known as

virtuoso

Different composers during the late Baroque were known for different things. Antonio Vivaldi was different from others because he wrote music that

was about something

Gregorian Chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who

was said to have written the bulk of the standard chants, according to later legend

poetry set to music

william billings music

A technique that began to be used during the Renaissance as means of enhancing the words making them more descriptive

word painting