Quizzes-music
Coltrane's A Love Supreme is in four parts:
"Acknowledgement," "Resolution," "Pursuance," and "Psalm"
Bobbie Gentry described "Ode to Billie Joe" as a study in ______________.
"unconscious cruelty"
Mozart composed and premiered his first opera at the age of:
13
A complete recitation of the Sunjata story can take _________ hours.
6-8
When music is used in protest, it is likely to be:
A & B are both likely
The "Sacrificial Dance" is in rondo form, best represented by:
A B A' C A'' C A'''
Dock Boggs developed a unique playing style on the banjo, based upon his observation of:
African American banjo players at dances
"Happy Days Are Here Again" was composed by:
Ager and Yellen
Hildegard had a great creative and scholarly mind, and can be credited with the following accomplishments:
All of the above
In 1932, Stalin created the Union of Soviet Composers. This allowed him to control what music was heard because:
All of the above
The cantatas that Bach wrote had these characteristics:
All of the above
The father of the famous astronomer Galileo sought to develop a new approach to writing vocal music that imitated dramatic speech. This new musical style:
Allowed the performers to expressively declaim text from the stage Tied the rhythms of the music to the rhythms of speech Used harmonies to portray emotional content Avoided repetition because every note is tied to the word it illuminates All of the above None of the above all of the above
The raga is typically associated with a season, a time of day, and also which of these?
An emotion
Hildegard's "O Strength of Wisdom" is an example of a(n):
Antiphon
Jean Ritchie was an accomplished ballad singer, but she is best known for her role in popularizing the:
Appalachian dulcimer
Yo-yo ma Teamed up with celebrity fiddler mark O'Connor and bass player Edgar Meyer to record
Appalachian waltz and Appalachian journey
All are true about Aretha's Gospel singing background except for:
At the age of 18, she launched her career in Gospel music
As an example of allegory, Lin-Manuel Miranda uses the harpsichord in the musical score of Hamilton to represent:
British rule before the revolution
The Benedictine day was divided into eight prayer services known as:
Canonical Hours
Lesions is a chamber work for clarinet, horn, and cello commissioned for Ensemble Q of Queensland Conservatorium and written by which of these composers?
Catherine Likhuta
Musical notation was first developed because:
Catholic leaders needed to standardize worship
Singers of _____ opera strive to produce a piercing, nasal sound with a slow, controlled vibrato.
Chinese
A satirical cartoon mocking Berlioz's excessive instrumentation pictures him with which of these?
Countless low brass players and a cannon
In 19th-century Vienna, intimate concerts might be hosted by a wealthy family in their living room to advertise their:
Cultural and social standing
Just as ragtime was becoming passé, a new style called _____ burst onto the scene.
Dixieland jazz
In a strophic song:
Each stanza of the text is set to the same music
Music that was condemned as "formalist" by Stalin's regime had the following trait(s):
Focused on technical innovation
Ravi Shankar popularized North Indian music in Europe and the United States and worked with which famous musician?
George Harrison
Tom Petty issued cease-and-desist letters when these candidates used his songs at campaign events:
George W. Bush and Michele Bachman
Beginning in the 1570s, the Florentine Camerata believed that the arts had become corrupted and that artistic expression could only be revived by returning to the artistic principles of ancient ______.
Greece
The form of unaccompanied sacred song that developed in the medieval Catholic Church is called:
Gregorian chant
Which song was played at the 1932 Democratic National Convention?
Happy Days Are Here Again
Differences between the musical notation of Guido of Arezzo and modern day notation include all of the following except for:
He used only sharps, not flats
Which of the following is not a technique used by Berlioz to tell the story in "March to the Scaffold"?
He used quotation to remind the listener of beheadings during the French Revolution.
How do we know what Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony is about?
He wrote and published a lengthy description.
In Star Wars: A New Hope, when the droids R2D2 and C3PO land on Tatooine, Williams utilized the following elements popularized by Igor Stravinsky:
High sustained notes in the strings and chromatic interjections from the bassoon and clarinet Oscillating melodies in the winds No conclusive musical gestures (cadences) Music that is neither the major nor minor mode All of the above None of the above all of the above
Aaron Copland was originally ridiculed for incorporating jazz into his early works because
Highbrow Critics thought he was degrading his art by including jazz
The Catholic Church spread rapidly across Europe after the foundation of the:
Holy Roman Empire
Which of the following was Berlioz NOT known for?
Inventing new string techniques.
The composer who wrote the scores for the original Star Wars trilogy (among the best-known musical works created for the big screen) is _______.
John Williams
Some of the happiest and most tuneful music in the show Hamilton is sung by the British King George. This fact is noteworthy because:
King George was extremely unhappy with Miranda The text is sometimes disturbing and does not match the "happy" music The text is sad because the king is mourning the loss of Alexander Hamilton Miranda used the pop genre to communicate grief All of the above None of the above The text is sometimes disturbing and does not match the "happy" music
Which of the following artists did NOT adapt Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition?
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Simon and Garfunkel reunited to perform at a benefit concert for McGovern, which was held at:
Madison Square Garden
Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" became the campaign song for which candidate?
McGovern
Following its premiere, Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 was criticized on the grounds that:
Movement III was too sad and Movement IV was not happy enough
The representation of shepherds with a bagpipe-like drone is an example of what technique?
Musical topic
The 4th movement of Berlioz' Fantastical Symphony illustrates which of the following techniques?
Musical topic, quotation, and mimesis
Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs derives from ______ mythology.
Norse
Anoushka Shankar (b. 1981) is a renowned sitar player from which musical tradition?
North Indian
Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) created Euridice, an operatic portrayal of the _____ myth that consists almost entirely of recitative.
Orpheus
The oldest opera still to be regularly performed and enjoyed is Claudio Monteverdi's ______.
Orpheus
In response to the Rodney King riots, Petty wrote a politically charged song titled:
Peace in LA
Music therapy may be used for _____ rehabilitation
Physical cognitive emotional psychological all of the above none of the above all of the above
reich's compositions rely upon
Prerecorded synthesizer melodies solo horn lines voices performing off stage baroque fuge all of the above none of the above none of the above
The style of musical composition that more closely resembles dramatic recitation than typical singing is:
Recitative
The five movements of Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony include which of the following?
Reveries-Passions, A Ball, Scenes in the Fields, March to the Scaffold, Dream of a Witches' Sabbath
The theme that represents "Loge as fire" uses the following to represent fire:
Rising and falling dynamic levels and pitches to represent the unpredictable nature of fire spreading across the ground
Mussorgsky belonged to a progressive school of 19th-century composers of which of these nationalities?
Russian
Although the roots of Chinese opera extend back thousands of years, ______ is the most popular of the many forms.
Shanghai Tianjin Shenzhen Guangzhou All of the above None of the above none of the above
Which system of notation had developed in England and was intended to facilitate sight-reading?
Shaped notation
Differences between Hildegard's music and most Gregorian chants include all except for:
She adhered more strictly to rules regarding form and mode
All of the following are true about Hildegard of Bingen except:
She was pledged to marry a nobleman as a child
Yo-yo ma's Most significant and lasting foray outside of the European concert tradition
Silk Road project
Of the three genres of opera popular in Mozart's day, ______ was the least respectable and sophisticated.
Singspiel
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" was inspired by a line from a 1958 African American Gospel song by a group called the:
Swan Silvertones
Sleepers, Wake was first performed only once, on November 25, 1731, at Leipzig's St. Nicholas Church. For what reason was it not used again?
The 27th Sunday after Trinity does not occur every year
Although The Magic Flute is rich with comedy, it also has a serious message because:
The Queen of the Night represents forces that seek to suppress knowledge and clarity The Queen of the Night represents anti-Enlightenment forces Sarastro exemplifies the principle of rule by an Enlightened monarch Sarastro demands that his subjects hold themselves to high intellectual and moral standards All of the above None of the above all of the above
"Wotan's Farewell" features one of the most significant powers of the leitmotif:
The ability to foreshadow events yet to come
In a musical technique called underscoring:
The characters can hear the music The music is played by musicians in the scene The characters understand that the music is meant to warn them The music is there to change the scene All of the above None of the above none of the above
Which of the following is a theme addressed in Beyoncé's Lemonade?
The struggles of black Americans
The term libretto refers to:
The text of a sung drama
Which of the following is NOT true about a Sacred Harp "sing"?
There is a single designated conductor
Holst manipulated which characteristic of sound by utilizing women's voices in "Neptune":
Timbre
"Happy Days Are Here again" is an example of a:
Tin Pan Alley song
The popularity of this parody song was credited with winning Harrison the presidency:
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
"I Won't Back Down" was the lead single from Full Moon Fever, the first solo album by:
Tom Petty
Tom Petty's popularity grew after a string of albums that he recorded between 1976 and 1987 with this band:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
The famous and influential poet who wrote the text to Schubert's "Elf King" was:
Wolfgang von Goethe
In Leipzig, Bach had a variety of responsibilities, including all except for:
Writing operas and directing opera productions
Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934) was _____.
a British composer who wrote The Planets
In scene 7 of Appalachian spring Copland borrowed the melody the gift to be simple from
a collection of shaker melodies
"Music for music's sake" is referred to as:
absolute music
"Pretty Polly" is an example of a ballad that is difficult to discuss in specific terms because:
all of the above
A typical jali instrument is the:
all of the above
Contexts in which one might hear campaign music today include:
all of the above
Examples of musical topics include:
all of the above
Instrumental music can communicate meaning with which of the following techniques?
all of the above
Music can be used to support a(n)
all of the above
Which of the following candidates were musicians themselves and played during their campaigns?
all of the above
Which of the following styles had an influence on Lemonade?
all of the above
Lin-Manuel Miranda employed a technique that uses musical sounds to signify hidden meanings in a musical work. That technique is called ______.
allegory
The composer of the music for Star Wars was a session musician, so he:
already had a deep understanding of how music can shape the viewer's experience of drama
All humans are born with some level of music _____ which is the ease and speed with which your brain processes certain kinds of information
aptitude
The element of music that has to do with how pitches are begun, sustained and released is _________.
articulation
Hector Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony tells the story of a(n):
artist who falls in love, overdoses on drugs, and has hallucinations
The Rite of Spring was:
ballet
A multi-part work for voice(s) and instrumental accompaniment is termed a:
cantata
The _____ is the part of the brain that gives it a wrinkled appearance
cerebrum
Which of the following characteristics is never exhibited by Gregorian chant?
chromaticism
A modern concept very similar to a song cycle is a _________, in which a popular artist releases a collection of recordings that accomplish the same purpose as a song cycle.
concept album
In the 20th century, candidates have been most likely to:
coopt preexisting popular songs that support their message
In the European tradition, opera is a staged work of music theater that features:
costumes sets dramatic plots props All of the above None of the above all of the above
Program music is always accompanied by a(n):
descriptive text
The ________ is the first strong pulse in each meter.
downbeat
In 1965 the pulitzer jury concluded that none of the applications were worthy of the prize and instead recommended that a special citation be granted to
duke ellington
"Elf King" began as a ________ folk ballad and was then translated into German.
dutch
The Italian terms crescendo, decrescendo, forte, mezzo forte, and mezzo piano all refer to _________ in music.
dynamics
Both music and language aptitude are developmentally stable by about age
eight or nine
"Amazing Grace" was reinterpreted only by musicians in the Lutheran tradition.
false
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" spent six weeks as the top single in 1972, a fact that benefited the McGovern campaign.
false
"Ode to Billie Joe" is a ballad that uses a simple melody as a vehicle for a joyful story.
false
A certified music teacher can practice music therapy in the classroom
false
A pulse is the most complex form of rhythm.
false
A raga performance is entirely improvised.
false
Appalachian spring was the winner of the Pulitzer prize in music in 1967
false
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) was criticized and shunned for recording both Gospel and mainstream popular music.
false
Bach's cantatas are now performed by professional musicians, but only in the context of church services.
false
Bach's job with the city of Leipzig was prestigious, promised a good education for his children, and was one for which he was the city council's first choice.
false
Because Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 is an expression of protest, it is an example of program music.
false
Beginning in the 1950s, enthusiasm for Appalachian folk music swept Northern college campuses in what is known as the Appalachian Revival.
false
Berlioz won the top honor for French composers, the Rome Prize, years after his death.
false
Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony was entirely based upon his real-life relationship with Harriet Smithson.
false
Bobbie Gentry always wanted to be a performer, but she wrote "Ode to Billie Joe" to sing at an audition because no-one else would let her use one of their songs.
false
Compositions in the tradition of absolute music carry descriptive titles.
false
Copland's volume how to identify and appreciate quality music as an early classic of the music appreciation literature and is still in print
false
Emotional expression in music is not subjective, because every listener will perceive the same emotional content.
false
Even Adolph Hitler believed that Wagner's operas should not be produced.
false
For most of history, a ballad has been some variety of a lengthy song meant for dancing.
false
Franz Schubert wrote many great works for public concert halls, and is now known as one of the greatest 19th-century symphony composers.
false
Girolamo Mei (1519-1594) argued that all ancient Greek poetry and drama had been spoken, not sung. As a result, the Florentine Camerata felt compelled to develop the form of the modern musical.
false
Gregorian chants are based on the major and minor scales.
false
Hector Berlioz's obsession with Irish actress Harriet Smithson was unrequited for his entire life.
false
Hildegard of Bingen had numerous visions that inspired her chant texts, but were rejected as church doctrine by Pope Eugene III.
false
Holst became wealthy as a trombone performer in the middle part of his career.
false
Holst had a sincere interest in and passion for astrology, and this led to the creation of The Solar System Cycle.
false
In 1965 the Pulitzer board refused to recommend a citation to Duke Ellington and he was offended because the board had rejected him after he had composed such a monumental work
false
In Schubert's music, the piano is always relegated to the background and does not have a prominent role.
false
In polyphonic jazz all of the musicians play the same melody at the same time.
false
In the 19th century, most campaign songs were parodies in which old words were set to new tunes.
false
John Williams was only influenced by specific historical compositions, rather than by style more generally.
false
Learning disconnected information through music has little impact on memory and retention
false
Like the composer of the musical scores for Star Wars, Wagner randomly paired themes with objects and ideas.
false
Many compositions from the ancient world were preserved, which allowed members of the Florentine Camerata to imitate ancient music.
false
McGovern ran on promises of victory at war.
false
Minimalist composers share an interest in developing very small works from a large palete
false
Monteverdi had to worry about keeping his production within budget. For this reason, he wrote for a small orchestra and cast.
false
Most modern productions of opera from Monteverdi's time use period instruments, which are individual instruments that have survived from the Baroque era.
false
Mozart was an excellent court musician because he did not mind being subservient to an employer.
false
Mozart's The Magic Flute does not embody Enlightenment ideals because it celebrates the aristocracy as morally superior.
false
Music and language engage all areas of the brain at once
false
Mussorgsky and his colleagues were known as "the Mighty Few."
false
Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a four-movement piano suite in just twenty days.
false
Newton wrote hymns for his congregation that used simple language in the 3rd person.
false
On June 14, 1972, Simon and Garfunkel performed in a benefit concert for McGovern—their first ever public performance.
false
One way to evaluate the quality of music is to examine all major criteria: purpose originality skill of composer or performer the impact the music has on listeners and society and the fame of the composer or performer
false
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were two of the biggest stars in American popular music in 1969 and were at the forefront of heavy metal rock music.
false
Political actors never use preexisting music.
false
Pope Gregory I was instrumental in the development of chant.
false
Protest music that is covert broadcasts its message in a way that all listeners will understand. Question 8 options:
false
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) was a world-famous performer by the time he was 17 years old.
false
Schubert's "Elf King" is strophic, meaning that each stanza of text has the same melody.
false
Shostakovich was a leading Soviet composer, but his opera Lady Macbeth was a flop when it premiered in 1934.
false
The Rite of Spring debuted as the sole ballet on the program and audience members at the premier loved the dancing and costumes.
false
The barroom music in Star Wars relies heavily upon the unstable and irregular rhythms characteristic of ragtime music.
false
The composer of The Tale of the White Snake, Tian Han, was celebrated by Mao's government for writing a play that was believed to undermine Communist values.
false
The final song in Schubert's Lovely Maid of the Mill is "The Brook's Lullaby," which ends the cycle on a happy and upbeat note, as the Miller goes to sleep after all of his hard work.
false
The first chorales were developed by Martin Luther to facilitate virtuosic solo performances during church services.
false
The name "Tin Pan Alley" was derived from the fact that clanging metal pans were to be heard in the district where the music publishing firms had their headquarters.
false
The popularity of quartets established Southern gospel as music strictly for use in church services.
false
The text of the Sunjata story is maintained in writing by the jali caste, who are members of the nobility in West Africa.
false
There are about five hundreds ragas in use during a given era, and a musician can easily master them all with practice.
false
There are many recordings of the Sunjata story in existence, because it is important to preserve it.
false
When music is used by a political campaign, the campaign manager always commissions new works.
false
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote comic operas intended only for the aristocracy.
false
The way a musical work unfolds over time, or its ________, typically relies upon repetition, variation, and contrast.
form
The term ballad comes from the ________ word meaning "to dance."
french
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
Yo-yo ma Is unique as a classic cellist because
he has collaborated with non classical performers he has performed non classical genres he believes that good music can be found in all traditions he believes that quality is determined by the level of execution and creativity all of the above none of the above all of the above
The technique of mimesis can be defined as:
imitation of real-world sounds
During _________, the musical performers vary material by creating music in the moment, rather than relying upon fixed pitches and rhythms.
improvisation
The word _________ refers to the distance between to pitches.
interval
Ellington's the Far East suite is set apart from the classical tradition because
it was composed by two people
The Great Depression caused many composers of art music to adopt A more commercial style because
it was not practical to write elite music for small audiences it seemed unethical to compose for only highbrow an elite audiences young progressives in America were interested in folk music folk music was understood to represent common people and their struggles all of the above all of the above
Which themes present in Schubert's Lovely Maid of the Mill were especially prevalent in the Romantic era?
love and suicide
Stravinsky's introduction to The Rite of Spring made heavy use of:
major tonality duple meter conjunct melody lines predictable dynamic changes All of the above None of the above none of the above
Each of these keywords is associated with Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony except for:
malaise
Before enrolling in the Paris conservatory in 1826, Berlioz studied in which field?
medicine
The part of a musical work that you typically sing along with or that might get stuck in your head is called the ________.
melody
A raga is a type of:
mode
The clinical an evidence based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals with a therapeutic relationship is known as
music therapy
Around 1026, the Italian monk Guido of Arezzo became the first to ever record:
musical notation
The use of recognizable music to portray a typical scene, such as a storm scene or love scene, is referred to as the use of:
musical topics
When a composer uses familiar musical styles or clichés to communicate to a listener, it is referred to as the use of:
musical topics
Melodies are sometimes presented in sequence, which means that:
none of the above
Schubert's songs were taken seriously as cultural expression because:
none of the above
Aaron copland's Appalachian spring was originally conceived as a ballet but is most frequently performed in the version of
orchestra
Opera and other types of sung theater always began with an ______, which alerted the audience that the show was about to begin.
orchestral overture
The term that refers to the relative highness or lowness of sound is ________.
pitch
Like the Rite of Spring the first scene of Appalachian spring is
polytonal
The Benedictine monks and nuns withdrew from the world and dedicated themselves to:
prayer
The doctrine of Socialist Realism required composers to
produce works that were optimistic, uplifting, and accessible
In the European tradition, instrumental music that claims to tell a specific story or to otherwise communicate extramusical information is referred to as:
program music
When music is use to combat a dominant political force, it most often takes the form of a: Question 5 options:
protest song
Holst's "Mars" march was extremely unusual because it was in:
quintuple meter
In Berlioz's "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath," the incorporation of "Dies irae" is an example of:
quotation
The incorporation of a passage from another piece of music is regarded as:
quotation
Annette Henshaw was a popular singer whose career was driven by which type(s) of performances?
radio performances
The composer of Hamilton found that ______ music was very useful because he could fit more words into a shorter span of time.
rap
In 1929, Stalin sought to control the arts by:
reforming the conservatories
The element of music that constitutes the temporal aspect of sound is:
rhythm
One of the reasons that Appalachian spring is still significant today is because it has come to be accepted as the sound of
rural america
In the Vienna of Schubert's time, music lovers supported an economy of small, in-home concerts known as:
salons
A set of only seven pitches that forms the basis for most music is called a ________.
scale
How many pitches does Raga Madhuvanti contain?
seven
A raga can be performed on any melody instrument that is capable of producing slides between pitches, but is most commonly played on a:
sitar
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The term ______ refers to a form in which two or more verses of text are sung to the same melody.
strophic
Ragtime was a style of music popularized by pianists and featuring steady rhythm with the left hand and ______ with the right.
syncopated rhythms
Both language and music have _____ an orderly system of arrangement of sounds
syntax
When performed, a raga is paired with a pattern of beats this is called a:
tala
A song cycle consists of about 8-20 songs that work together to __________.
tell a story
The word that refers to how fast or how slow a pulse occurs is ________.
tempo
"Amazing Grace" appeared in Newton's collection of devotional poems, Olney Hymns (1779), published with the intent:
that they be sung to preexisting melodies
What name did Berlioz give to the melody that represents his protagonist's love interest?
the "obsession"
According to legend, Pope Gregory received the entire body of a chant from:
the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove
Miranda's use of ______ may be likened to Wagner's use of leitmotifs because he uses musical ideas that harken back to earlier points in the work.
the Ring Cycle cycled motives cyclical dynamics cycled form All of the above None of the above none of the above
A raga performance is divided into which of these parts?
the alap and the jhala
The final scene (Act III, Scene 3) of The Valkyrie contains ______.
the appearance of Logo, the demigod of fire Wotan's spear a ring of fire Brunnhilde's sleep All of the above None of the above all of the above
Many of ellington's compositions relied upon
the extended forms of classical music
Holst's work is an example of program music (instrumental music that tells a story or paints a picture), but he reversed the order of Mars and Mercury because:
the music he composed for Mars made a better opener for the work
Audiences of the Romantic Era (1815-1900) were fascinated by:
the personal lives of artists
Some of the musical characteristics of the "Main Theme" that tell us Luke Skywalker is a hero are:
the use of brass instruments, duple meter, steady tempo, major mode, and leaps to the upper tonic
The ability to recognize differences between voices (like your mother versus your sister) and between instruments even if they are playing the same pitch (like a flute versus a trombone) is due to variances in _________.
timbre
"Amazing Grace" was first paired with its current melody by William Walker.
true
"Mars" served as a model for John Williams's "Imperial March" theme in the Star Wars soundtrack.
true
12-bar blues provides the structure for most blues compositions.
true
A 1930 recording of "Happy Days Are Here Again" featured popular singer Annette Hanshaw with Ben Selvin and his orchestra.
true
A Love Supreme is an example of modal jazz, in which traditional chords are replaced with harmonies built on scales other than major and minor.
true
A chorale cantata is based on a Lutheran chorale or hymn.
true
A cyclical technique in music composition is one by which all parts of a large work are connected by shared material (e.g. the "obsession" melody that appears throughout Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony).
true
A parody, which was a common type of campaign song in the 19th century, sets new words to a familiar tune.
true
Aaron copland was one of the early champions of music appreciation as a subject of study
true
Alarm will sound focused attention on minimalist composer Steve reich
true
All three of the ballets that cemented copland's reputation as a composer used folk melodies to portray rural America
true
Although Hildegard only notated the melody, her music would likely have been performed with added parts.
true
As a campaign song, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was used to convey an anti-war message and promise peace to the nation.
true
At a singing school, participants were able to socialize and learn to read shape notes.
true
At its inception, opera was understood to be entertainment for the aristocracy.
true
Bach's cantatas, which were performed just before the sermon, reflected on the readings and prepared congregants to understand the day's message.
true
Before the rise of mass media, music was employed at in-person events such as rallies, parades, and whistle stops.
true
Ben Selvin recorded about 20,000 tunes, making him the most productive recording artist in American history.
true
Benedictines chant all 150 Psalms every week.
true
Berlioz wrote detailed narratives that described his Fantastical Symphony and made efforts to widely publicize this work.
true
Beyonce's album Lemonade is a good example of a modern work that accomplishes the same purpose as a song cycle.
true
Black and White Rag was a work that manipulated repetition and contrast by giving listeners familiar music each time the A section returned but preventing them from being bored by including contrasting material.
true
Black gospel emerged alongside Southern gospel and has its roots in Holiness churches.
true
By the 19th century, shape-note singing came to be viewed as outdated in New England as musicians sought to imitate European models.
true
Civilizations around the world have long used song as a vehicle for telling long stories, or epics.
true
Coltrane's recovery experience inspired the religious themes of his late work.
true
Congregants would have known the chorale "Sleepers, Wake" very well.
true
During the 19th century, there was new interest in rural folk culture, folk stories, folk poetry, folk dances, and folk songs.
true
During the early years of his employment in Leipzig, Bach produced a new Lutheran Church cantata every week that corresponded with the day's Biblical readings and sermon.
true
For many years, Gospel singers who recorded mainstream popular music were criticized and shunned.
true
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first presidential candidate to coopt a popular song.
true
Franklin's gospel album Amazing Grace(1972) was the top-selling album of her career.
true
From 1723 to 1750, Bach served as music director for the city of Leipzig.
true
Gregorian chant melodies are usually easy to sing due to their small ranges and conjunct motion.
true
Hector Berlioz was just 27 years old when he wrote his Fantastical Symphony.
true
In 19th-century Europe, a debate took place concerning the superiority of program music vs. absolute music.
true
In Dixieland style, it is difficult to tell which instrument has the "main" melody, because all seem of equal importance.
true
In Lemonade, Beyoncé uses both words and musical style to communicate her message.
true
In film, music that the characters can hear is called source musicbecause the source of the sound is usually visible on screen.
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Instead of setting all of Orpheus in recitative, Monteverdi and Striggio interspersed recitative with other types of vocal music, such as strophic songs, choral refrains, and arias.
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Lesions is divided into four sections that represent stages in the grief process: "Sadness," "Anxiety," "Denial," and "Acceptance."
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McGovern capitalized on the fact that he had reunited Simon and Garfunkel, but ultimately lost the election to Richard Nixon.
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Mimesis is the imitation of a real-world sound.
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Most Gregorian chants are not associated with a specific composer.
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Murder ballads were similar to true crime shows today, because they detailed the misdeeds of condemned criminals.
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Music as a means of rallying support has a long history in American politics.
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Music can be used for explicitly political purposes.
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Mussorgsky and his musical colleagues were dedicated to developing an authentically Russian means of musical expression.
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Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a solo piano suite because he was not a skilled orchestrator.
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Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition constitutes an imaginary tour of an art show, each painting captured in a movement.
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Mussorgsky's career was in military and civil service, not composing.
true
Of all animals human beings have the largest brains in relation to the size of their bodies
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One way to evaluate the quality of music is to consider whether it achieves the purpose for which it was written
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Opera buffa (comic opera) portrayed members of various social classes in humorous situations.
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Parodies first played a role in George Washington's 1792 reelection campaign.
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Paul Simon was the lead songwriter of Simon and Garfunkel.
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Protest music that is overt in its meaning might clearly identify the objectionable situation and desired action.
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Schubert became so involved in small and intimate concerts that a special term, Schubertiade, was developed to describe a performance that featured only his music.
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Schubert chose texts that imitated folk poetry and sometimes set them in a folk-like style.
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Schubert did not set "Elf King" in a folk-like style, instead going to great lengths to capture the characters and events in the text by manipulating musical elements.
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Sleepers, Wake includes love duets, the texts of which were written by an unknown poet and reference the Biblical Song of Solomon.
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Some critics of Wagner's operas argue that we should no longer produce or listen to his operas because the composer's ideology is so repugnant that his art should be erased.
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Symphony No. 5 was presented as an autobiographical piece portraying Shostakovich's personal suffering and rebirth. It served as a public apology and facilitated his formal rehabilitation.
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The 1599 chorale "Sleepers, Wake" comments on the parable of the wise and foolish virgins.
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The 1989 hit "I Won't Back Down" has been used in a number of campaigns.
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The Fantastical Symphonywas Berlioz's most influential work.
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The Rite of Spring depicted pagan rituals and caused consternation among members of its Parisian audience at the premier.
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The Rite of Spring does not tell a coherent story.
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The Russian composer Mussorgsky was inspired to compose Pictures at an Exhibition after his experience at an art show commemorating the death of a friend.
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The Southern gospel group The Inspirations was established in Bryson City, NC, in 1964.
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The chorale "Sleepers, Wake" has an A A B form, as do the movements of Bach's cantata that incorporate the chorale.
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The composer of Hamilton wrote music and created a visual presentation intended to represent America in the current age.
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The idea that Pope Gregory was visited regularly by the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove arose after the founding of the Holy Roman Empire in 800.
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The most influential shape-note hymnal, The Sacred Harp, was published in Georgia in 1844.
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The term "Tin Pan Alley" refers to the American song publishing industry between the 1890s and the 1940s.
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The term "basso continuo" refers to a style of accompaniment in which the composer writes out the bass line and harmonies but does not specify instruments or the exact pitches of each chord.
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The term "fixed composition" refers to works in which the pitches and rhythms are identical between performances.
true
The term ornamentation refers to the practice of having the singer add notes that are not actually notated in the musical score.
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The term through-composed indicates that each line of text has a unique melody and no music is repeated.
true
The text of "Amazing Grace" was written by an English clergyman named John Newton (1725-1807).
true
Traditionally, a raga was only performed during its allotted season and time.
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Two performance of the same raga can sound quite different.
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Unlike most chant composers, the Benedictine Abbess Hildegard of Bingen wrote original texts for her chants.
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Until the 1890s, all Chinese opera performers were male.
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Walker set the text "Amazing Grace" to the tune titled "New Britain" in his 1835 hymnal Southern Harmony.
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When the Sunjata story is performed, if a mistake is made in telling the story, the witness must correct it.
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When music is heard in the background of a television ad, the technique is termed:
underscoring
The element of music that has to do with loudness or softness is _________.
volume
Persons with damage to ______ area are unable to comprehend language or to construct meaningful sentences even though they do not experience difficulty producing articulate words
werniecke's
Music processing is more isolated than language processing (that is to say fewer brain regions are involved )
false
The chromatic pitch set includes most of the pitches used in Western music, but not all of them.
false
The theme that represents Darth Vader (the "Imperial March") shares many of the same characteristics as the main theme, but it is in the major mode and uses simple harmonies.
false
There is no correlation (relationship) between studying music and earning higher grades in other subject areas
false
Volume in music is indicated by numbers that represent the amplitude of the sound wave.
false
Wagner shrunk the size of the orchestra for The Ring of the Nibelungs in order to highlight characters with single instruments.
false
When he wrote Appalachian spring copland's primary purpose was to write music that perfectly captured the Appalachian mountains in music
false
Monophonic, polyphonic, heterophonic, and homophonic are all terms that refer to a musical work's _________.
texture
One of the characteristics of music is _________, which concerns the contents of and interactions between various layers or voices in a musical work.
texture
The structure is responsible for language production and comprehension (brocas and wernicks areas) are unique to humans
true
Wagner used leitmotifs to communicate information to an audience that is not included in the libretto or onstage action.
true
When someone engages with music there is activity all over the brain in both hemispheres in all four lobes in the cerebellum and in the brainstem
true
A session musician is a musician who:
participates in recording sessions for television and film
We know that humans were creating music long before history began to be recorded because of prehistoric _____ found across the world
bone flutes
Basic functions that don't involve voluntary thoughts such as heart rate breathing body temperature digestion swallowing coughing and vomiting are controlled by the
brain stem
Persons with damage to _____ area understand heard language and know what they wish to say but are unable to speak
broca's
The area that controls the physical production of speech is
broca's area
Higher functions such as receiving and analyzing sensory input touch sight and sound and the handling of reasoning emotion memory and fine motor control are processed by the
cerebrum
There are two hemispheres of the brain and each has _____ lobes
four
Music and language acquisition skills are learned ______ by humans
innately
Some of the principle differences between classical music and jazz are
instrumentation harmonic language and improvisation
The technique of assigning a unique theme to each character, object, place, and idea in a drama is the use of ______.
leitmotif
When pulses are organized into groups containing strong and weak beats, we refer to this as ________.
meter
Scene Two of Appalachian spring includes an unusual compositional technique that makes it difficult to tap your foot along to the music
mixed meter
In Star Wars, the musical themes are effective because they:
represent specific characters or ideas
Duke Ellington rose to national prominence as a pianist and bandleader and his band toured internationally while making popular recordings
true
Each selection on the album the Far East suite represents ellington's impressions upon visiting a foreign country
true
Human beings are the only animals on the planet that employ music and language and it is this characteristic that separates us from all other species
true
If music and language aptitude is not developed during the elementary years the adult human will be functioning within a limited aptitude
true
It is possible that Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) has had a greater impact on the development of Western art music than any other composer.
true
Luke Skywalker's Theme (the "Main Theme") has more emotional depth than Darth Vader's theme because it is in a three-part form and features a string section.
true
Music processing is interwoven with memory but you won't remember a poem a story or any other information the way you remember music
true
Similarly to Star Wars, Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungsmakes heavy use of themes that represent specific characters or ideas.
true
The cotton club in Harlem only admitted white patrons but the musicians dancers and servers were all black
true
The language processing centers of the brain are activated when a person listens to an processes music even when the music contains no words
true
The members of alarm will sound also had an interest in electronic dance music
true