Music 100

What year is used mark the transition from old instruments to modern instrument and ensembles, such as the piano and orchestra?

1750

Which of the following description of an orchestra are most accurate?

A group of instruments from various instrumental families

Which description define a melody?

A series of notes arranged in a creative order with a specific rhythmic character A series of notes that add up to a recognizable whole

Which descriptions define a melody?

A series of notes arranged in a creative order with a specific rhythmic character A series of notes that add up to a recognizable whole

What is an example of homophobic texture?

A singer, accompanied by a guitarist playing simple chords.

which of the following was a result of the Church's influence in the early medieval period?

Chants were spread through Europe because the monks developed a written system of music notation.

What is the simultaneous sounding of three or more tones, or pitches, called?

Chord

In harmony, what is the term for a combination of tones that is stable and without tension?

Consonance

What do consecutive white notes on the piano from C to C create?

A C major scale

Which statement about a musical Passion is true?

A Passion is a musical setting of the story of the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

In symphonic music, what is used play sustained tones on stringed instrument?

A bow

Although it has become one of the most popular pieces of classical music, Messiah was not a success during Handel's lifetime.

False

The basso continuo was only used to accompany singers in operas

False

The first orchestras were used to play for dances at royal palaces.

False

The minor scale is different from the major scale because it takes some of the major scale"s notes and raises them

False

What mechanism acts to raise or lower pitch on a woodwind instrument?

Finger holes

What mechanism helps to produce sound brass instruments?

Cup-shaped mouthpiece

Which of the following terms refers to simultaneous tones, or pitches, in music?

Harmony

Which statement about J. S. Bach is false?

He was a bridge between Renaissance and baroque musical styles.

Which of the following is a true statement about George Frideric Handel?

He was born in Germany, studied in Italy, but spent most of his career in England.

Which texture may be described as consisting of one primary melody supported by accompanying harmony?

Homophony

Which of the following are characteristics of irregular meters?

Irregular meters are less common than duple, triple, and quadruple meters. Irregular meters include those with five or seven beats per measure

Tempo in music is traditionally indicated in which language?

Italian

What kind of music is George Frideric Handel most famous for writing?

Italian operas and English language oratorios

Which statement about Martin Luther's chorale melodies is true?

J. S. Bach used Luther's chorale melodies in more complex compositions such as cantatas

What is the set if sharp signs or flat signs that follow the clef sign called?

Key signature

What is the plural form of the German word that means "song?"

Lieder

What characteristics are part of rhythm?

Meter Tempo Beat

In which of the following keyboard instrument are tones produces when air blows across or through opening in pipes?

Pipe organ

From highest to lowest, which is the correct order for the four standard choral voice ranges?

Soprano, alto, tenor, bass

recitative

a vocal line with flexible rhythm that imitates speech

In the baroque era, the sonata was

a work in several contrasting movements for a small group of instruments.

The distance between two pitches is referred to as

an interval

which on of the following was a major musical concern of the Roman Catholic Church'es counter-reformation of the 1500s?

That church music be written so that the words would be easier to understand

The Florentine camerata tried to recreate Greek dram by doing what?

The actor sang their lines rather than spoke them.

Which is a true statement about the French overture?

The slow opening section is characterized by a "dotted" rhythm - long, short, long, short, long, short...

Which brass instrument uses a slide to change notes

Trombone

A cantata could be either sacred or secular in nature

True

In Western music, modulation is a way to add variety in longer musical selections.

True

In the baroque era, operas were performed in public theaters and became popular with both the middle and upper classes

True

Chorus

music sung by a group that comments on the action or creates a background atmosphere

The first beat in a measure is called the

downbeat

Which percussion instrument in use prior to 1750 was originally tuned solely by adjusting screws or bolts around its edges?

Timpani

The type of music notation which we can read did not develop until about the twelfth century.

True

Which is the correct order, from highest to lowest pitch range, of the modern brass family instruments?

Trumpet, French horn, trombone, tuba

A baroque trio sonata uses Players.

four

In Western music, the smallest possible distance between any two different notes is called a

half step

The statement of a melodic idea by one voice and then immediately by another, is called

imitation

The composer of the English madrigal, "Fair Phyllis"

is known to have lived in both Dublin and London

In Cantata No. 140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme by Johann, the congregation was expected to

join in the singing of the final chorale, which so firmly expressed their unity and belief.

Choose the two texture which prevailed in the music of the medieval era.

monophony and polyphony

Which one of the following is actually a combination of repetition and contrast?

Variation

which id the correct pattern of whole steps(w) and half steps (h) is an ascending major scale?

w-w-h-w-w-w-h

The five horizontal, parallel lines which serve as a sort of graph for written music is called a

staff

The combination of two accompanying instruments - one to play chords and the other to play the bass line - commonly found in baroque music is called

the basso continuo.

Libretto

the text of an opera

The sound quality of one instrument or voice that distinguishes it from another is called

timbre

The melodic and harmonic construction of music around a central tine toward which other tones gravitates is called

tonality

Which set of dates best encompasses the era known as Greek classicism?

450-146 BCE

Which set of dates most accurately describes the medieval period?

476-1450 CE

Which is the proper order of tempos, moving from slowest to fastest?

Andante. allegro, vivace, presto

Why were musical activities of medieval woman somewhat restricted?

Biblical verses commanded that women be silent in church.

What is the general term for a small performing group, usually without a conductor, in which only one person is assigned to each part?

Chamber ensemble

What is the type of scale that uses the twelve tones of the octave called?

Chromatic scale

Which term has a similar meaning as decrescendo?

Diminuendo

Meters in which the primary beats is divided equally into halves are called simple meters. Meters in which the primary beat is divided equally into third are called

Compound

Which of the following statements correctly describes the plot of Purcell's Dido ans Aeneas?

Dido is in love with the Trojan hero Aeneas, but he abandons her to sail to Italy.

What feature of certain woodwind instrument help to create a buzzing sound, which results in a slightly nasal timbre?

Double reed

Which statements regarding major scales and pitch range are true?

If you start on a C, and play every white note until the next C, you will be playing a C major scale. Any completer major scale has the range of one octave.

Opera was first developed in what country and about what time?

In Italy around 1600

A percussion instrument that does NOT produce a tine is classified as

Indefinite pitch

One way of accenting a note is to make it than the notes around it

Louder

What is the term for a group of a fixed number of beats?

Measure

An important innovation at the School of Notre Dame between 1170 and 1200 was the use of rhythm.

Measured

which one of the following items ensures that the result will be monophonic texture?

Only one pitch at a time.

What type of musical work involves singers accompanied by an orchestra acting out a story with costumes, scenery, and staging?

Opera

Most of the earliest music played on instruments in the Renaissance was

Originally written for signing.

What section of the late 19th century orchestra saw the most growth and expansion?

Percussion

Match each higher pitched woodwind instrument in the left column with its most closely related lower pitched woodwind instrument in the right column.

Piccolo - Flute Oboe - English horn clarinet - Bass clarinet Bassoon - Contrabassoon

Which texture may be defined as more melodies of similar interest performed simultaneously?

Polyphony

What is main may that unity is achieved in musical form?

Repetition

what is the most dominate section of the orchestra?

Strings

What is term for an unexpected accent of an "offbeat" note?

Syncopation

In which type of musical form is there a musical statement, then a contrasting statement, then a return to the first musical statement?

Ternary form

Why is it difficult to know what music sounded like prior to the medieval period?

The few examples of musical notation written before the medieval era are written in a system which we cannot understand.

How is rhythm is music best defined?

The ordered flow of music through time

Which statements best describes the movements of a baroque concerto grosso?

There are usually three movements (fat-slow-fast)

which of the following is an idea encouraged by the Christian church in the medieval era?

To live one's life in a way that looks forwards to the afterlife and its rewards

The essence of musical form lies in the prescience of

Unity and Variety

The concluding movement of a sacred chorale is usually

a four-part setting of a chorale melody.

In the Renaissance, a small instrumental ensemble was called

a consort

Aria

a song sung by one person with orchestral accomplishment

Match each Italian dynamic level marking with its meaning.

ch 1.1

Dynamic levels

ch 1.2

Tempo

ch 1.3

Which pitch succession is an example of a melodic leap?

do-mi

In which of the following keyboard instrument are tones produced by strings that vibrate when a wooden wheel spins against them?

hurday-gurdy

In the twelfth century, a musician (clergy) in a monastery or cathedral might

sing liturgy

Strophic form, often found in songs of trousers, troubadours, and minnesingers, means that

the melody is the same for each verse of the poem