Music Appreciation Final

Schubert's songs number more than

600

The rise of the urban middle class led to the

All of the answers are correct.

Gustav Mahler's wife's name is

Alma

Choose the most accurate definition for music.

An art based on the organization of sounds in time

Which of the following is not a characteristic of romanticism?

An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures

How did Robert and Clara Schumann meet?

At his piano lessons

Which of the following statements about the Baroque era is false?

Audiences preferred old music and rejected anything new.

Gustav Mahler was from which country?

Austria

The Renaissance, as a stylistic period in music, encompassed the years _________________________

1450-1600

Baroque style flourished in music during the period

1600-1750

Classicism, as a stylistic period in western art, roughly encompasses the years

1750-1820

Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western art, encompassed the years

1820-1900

What was "word painting"?

Depicting the meaning of the song's words vividly with the music

andel spent the major portion of his life in

England

The earliest opera that has been preserved is Jacopo Peri's

Euridice

Which of these statements about Haydn is false?

Even though he was a servant, he was free to come and go as he pleased.

The classic bugs bunny opera character of the viking woman with blond braids is a reference to character from Puccini's opera.

False

The composer who developed the symphonic poem was

Franz Liszt

Of these composers, which one was happy to be employed by a royal court rather than be a freelance musician?

Hadyn

Choose the false statement about Guillaume de Machaut.

He devoted his music exclusively to the Catholic church.

Robert Schumann would have had a successful career as a concert pianist except that

He injured his right hand trying to extend its reach at the keyboard.

Liszt changed the way pianists performed publicly in all but one of these ways. Choose the answer that doesn't belong.

He removed his shoes to perform

Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text, was composed by

Henry Purcell

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Haydn's music?

His music is autobiographical, reflecting his unhappy marriage.

Which of the following statements is false?

In his later years, Mozart was widely acclaimed and financially secure

The leading musical center in the 16th century was...

Italy

The madrigal originated in what country?

Italy

George Frideric Handel was born in 1685, the same year as

Johann Bach

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and

Johann Bach

Schubert was eighteen years old when he composed the song Erlking, set to a poem by

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Clara Schumann frequently performed the works of her husband and of her close friend

Johannes Braums

A leading composer of lute songs was...

John Dowland

A composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was

Ludwig van Beethoven

Which statement is NOT true about lute songs?

Lute songs are usually light hearted in mood

Who is considered the most original of the Russian Five? He also wrote Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bald Mountain.

Modest Mussorgsk

Even though Smetana was deaf at the time, he composed a musical work depicting Bohemia's main river as it flows through the countryside. The name of this river, and the musical composition, is the

Moldau

All of the following were major baroque composers except

Mozart

One of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by private patrons was

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Which of the following statements about the Classical era is false?

Philosophers and writers in the classical period clung to superstition and tradition over scientific reason

Which of the following statements is not true?

Political and economic power shifted during the classical period from the middle class to the aristocracy and the church.

The famous aria La donna e mobile is taken from Verdi's opera

Rigoletto

The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer

Robert Schumann and Clara

Which of the following statements is not true?

Tchaikovsky was a happily married family man with a cheerful, self-confident outlook

Which statement about the fugue is false?

The fugue was a favorite vocal genre.

Which is NOT true about Puccini's operas?

Their plots are about mythology

Choose the false statement about the wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages.

They were highly educated nobles

What characteristic do English madrigals have that Italian madrigals do not?

Use of fa-la-la syllables.

Which city was the musical capital of Europe during Beethoven's lifetime?

Vienna

The librettos to the Ring of the Nibelung were written by

Wagner himself

During the Middle Ages, women ...

Were not permitted to sing in church

Which of the following composers is not associated with the romantic period?

Wolfgang Mozart

A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performer's virtuosity and skill is called

a cadenza

The position of the composer during the Baroque period was that of

a high-class servant with few personal rights

What percussive instrument did Gustav Mahler use in his 6th Symphony?

a large wooden mallet

The word movement in music normally refers to

a piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition

Melody may be defined as __________________________.

a series of single notes that add up to a recognizable whole.

Handel's Messiah is an example of

an oratorio

Most of Chopin's pieces

are exquisite miniatures

A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment during an opera is called a/an

aria

Chamber music can be defined as

music performed in a room smaller than a concert hall.

Mozart composed his Requiem

on commission from a stranger.

Thomas Weelke's "As Vesta Was Descending" is notable for its..

word painting

Theme-and-variations form may be schematically outlined as

A A' A'' A''' A''''

What is the story behind Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique?

A man has an opium-induced dream about a woman he loves. During the dream he commits murder, has his head removed by a guillotine, and then finds out that the woman he loved was really a witch.

A homophonic texture consists of ____________________.

A single melody with a simple accompaniment.

Three-part form can be represented as ________________.

ABA

The most common rondo pattern is

ABACA

Because of similar political views, Wagner was the favorite composer of which political figure?

Adolph Hitler

Hildegard of Bingen was...

All of the answers are correct.

Liszt typified the romantic movement because he

All of the answers are correct.

Symphony may be defined as a(n)

All of the answers are correct.

Which of the following statements is not true?

Beethoven, realizing where his financial support came from, always treated the nobility with respect.

What statement is NOT true about castrato singers?

Castrati were often married and had big families

Non-program music is also known as ____________________ music.

absolute

Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no

acting, scenery, or costumes

Which of the following is the slowest tempo indication?

adagio

Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by

all answers are correct

Gregorian chant was...

all answers are correct

Secular music in the 14th century...

all answers are correct

The Renaissance can be described as ______________________

all answers are correct

The citizen's sense of national identity and patriotic feeling feelings were intensified by

all answers are correct

The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as

all answers are correct

Which statement is true about concerto grosso?

all answers are correct

Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9

all of the above

Which of the following characteristics is not typical of the music of the classical period?

basically polyphonic

The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of

basso continuo

The ______________ is a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time

beat

A virtual monopoly on learning in the Middle Ages was held by _______________

monks in monasteries

chaikovsky's 1812 Overture features which unusual effect?

cannon blasts

In the Baroque period, the ordinary citizen's opportunities for hearing music usually came from the

church

In the Classical Period, the political and economic power shifted to the middle class from the aristocracy and the

church

If a flute player were to play a solo without any instrumental accompaniment, the musical texture would be ____________________________.

monophonic

______________________ is a term that is applied to religious music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodies.

motet

Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was composed for...

dancing

Once function of music during the Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for ..

dancing

The first, stressed beat of a measure is called the ______________________.

downbeat

The four main properties of musical sounds are pitch, tone color, dynamics and...

duration

Baroque melodies often are

elaborate; ornamental

Fascination with national identity led composers to draw on colorful materials from foreign lands, a trend known as musical

exoticism

The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is

fast, slow, dance-related, fast.

The intellectual movement called "humanism" ______________

focused on human life and accomplishments.

Most music from the Middle Ages was...

for use in Catholic church service

The restless rhythm in The Erlking suggests the

galloping horses

____________________ adds richness, support, and depth to a melody

harmony

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque were the organ and the

harpsichord

A tone in music is sound that

has a definite pitch

The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the

idee fixe

A classical concerto is a three-movement work for

instrumental soloist and orchestra

Consonance is a combination of tones that _______________

is considered stable and restful

A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called

leitmotif

Symphonie Fantastique (Fantastic Symphony) reflects Berlioz's

love for Harriet Smithson

A baroque musical composition usually expresses ___________within the same movement.

one basic mood

Which musical genre represents Mozart's finest work?

opera

Bach was recognized as the most eminent _______________________ of his day.

organist

An outstanding composer of the Notre Dame school who pioneered measured rhythm was...

perotin

The Italian dynamic markings traditionally used to mark very soft, soft, and very loud are...

pianissimo, piano, fortissimo

A very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period was the

piano

Chopin wrote primarily for which instrument?

piano

The highest woodwind instrument in the orchestra is...

piccolo

When two or more melodic lines of equal importance are performed simultaneously, the texture is ___________________

polyphonic

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called

program music

The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by

repeated rhythmic patterns

The orchestra in the romantic period

was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.

A gradual slowing of the tempo is indicated by the term ____________________.

ritardando

Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they

seemed to condone rape, suicide

Western music uses ________________ letters of the alphabet to indicate pitch.

seven

An art song is a musical composition for

solo voice and piano

The orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the _________________ family.

string

Beethoven's sixteen _____________ are considered the finest music ever composed.

string quartets

The typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of

strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani.

When the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem, the form is known as

strophic

A __________________is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

symphonic poem

When an accent occurs on an unexpected beat, the effect is known as ______________________.

syncopation

Which of the following is NOT a percussion instrument of definite pitch?

tambourine

The term ______________ refers to the rate of speed of the beat of the music.

tempo

Bedrich Smetana

was the founder of Czech national music

Terraced dynamics refers to

the sudden alternation from one dynamic level to another

The term "chromatic" comes from the Greek word for color--"chroma"-- and is used to music to refer to

the twelve tones of the octave

The minuet is generally the ___________ movement of a classical symphony

third

When a composer writes new music for each stanza of a poem, the form is known as

through-composed

The __________ are the only drums in the orchestra that have definite pitch.

timpani

A sense of relatedness to a central pitch is known as _____________________.

tonality

Timbre is synonymous with...

tone color

Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ___________never heard before

tone colors

Liszt was inspired by the virtuoso, Paganini.

true

The classical string quartet is a musical composition for

two violins, viola, cello

We know very little about the music of ancient cultures because ____________

very little notated music survived.