music app final exam
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.
Wernickes
Francis Scott Key began writing the poem for the American National Anthem on board the British flagship HMS Tonnant and published it a few days later under the title:
"Defence of Fort M'Henry"
The Rite of Spring was:
a ballet
Price's Symphony No. 1 was premiered at the 1932 World's Fair and was entitled:
a century of progress
"Music for music's sake" is referred to as:
absolute music
There are two hemispheres of the brain and each has _______ lobes.
4
While 186,000 advance tickets to Woodstock were sold, approximately this number of concert goers attended:
500,000
Both music and language aptitude are developmentally stable by about age _______.
8-9
The "Sacrificial Dance" is in rondo form, best represented by:
A B A' C A'' C A'''
A satirical cartoon mocking Berlioz's excessive instrumentation pictures him with which of these?
A large orchestra and a cannon
"Hot Jazz" was a term used to describe the rhythmically interesting style associated with:
african americans
Even though instrumental music does not have words, it can communicate meaning with which of the following techniques?
all the above
In 1997, Mandela commissioned a new national anthem that:
all the above
In Star Wars: A New Hope, when the droids R2D2 and C3PO land on Tatooine, Williams utilized the following elements popularized by Igor Stravinsky:
all the above
In the European tradition, opera is a staged work of music theater that features:
all the above
Since WWII, only the third verse of West Germany's "The Song of the Germans" has been used in official contexts due to the fact that:
all the above
The act of singing an anthem together has documented effects on participants, including:
all the above
The final scene (Act III, Scene 3) of The Valkyrie contains ______.
all the above
The leading criticism of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was that it was too difficult to sing because:
all the above
Unlike Whitney Houston's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner," Namika's rendition of "The Song of the Germans" includes the audience signing along, likely because:
all the above
Which of these famous African American artists performed works composed by Florence Price:
all the above
While in Chicago in the 1920s, Florence Price published:
all the above
Woodstock was the largest music festival of the 1960s and took place against the backdrop of the:
all the above
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
As an accomplished African American musician and educator, Florence Price left her home in Little Rock, Arkansas, due to the unbearable burden "Jim Crow" laws placed on the black community.
T
Beethoven held a famous concert on December 22, 1808, at the Theater an der Wien, which translates to "Theater on the Banks of the Vienna River."
T
Berlioz' Fantastical Symphony was based upon his desire for relationship with Harriet Smithson.
T
Black South Africans favored a Xhosa-language Methodist hymn entitled "Lord Bless Africa."
T
Concerts during Beethoven's time had become presentational, with a clear divide between performers and the audience.
T
During the Romantic era there was increased interest in individual experience, and the portrayal of heartbreak, illness, and personal struggle
T
Each of Vivaldi's concertos was accompanied by a sonnet that he probably wrote himself.
T
Following WWII, the government of East Germany commissioned a new anthem, "Risen from the Ruins," while West Germany ceased to use an anthem altogether.
T
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.
T
If music and language aptitude is not developed during the elementary years, the adult human will be functioning within a limited aptitude.
T
In 1948, the National Party was elected to power and instituted apartheid (white supremacist segregation) in South Africa.
T
In 1957, the National Party adopted a new anthem, "The Call of South Africa."
T
In 1992, a referendum brought apartheid to an end, and African National Party leader Nelson Mandela became President.
T
In 19th-century Europe, a debate took place concerning the superiority of absolute music to program music.
T
In the film, music that the characters can hear is called source music because the source of the sound is usually visible on screen
T
It is possible that Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) has had a greater impact on the development of Western art music than any other composer.
T
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.
T
Many of Vivaldi's students were illegitimate offspring of noblemen.
T
Music processing is interwoven with memory, but you won't remember a poem, a story, or any other information the way you remember music.
T
Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a piano suite because he was not a skilled orchestrator.
T
Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a ten-movement piano suite in twenty days.
T
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition constitutes a musical tour of an art show, each painting represented in a movement.
T
Mussorgsky's career was in military and civil service, not composing.
T
Of all animals, human beings have the largest brains in relation to the size of their bodies.
T
Paul Whiteman's 1924 concert was intended to demonstrate the potential of jazz as serious concert music.
T
Similarly to Star Wars, Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungsmakes heavy use of themes that represent specific characters or ideas.
T
Solo music in China is predominantly programmatic.
T
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.
T
Sonata form is a musical structure consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation
T
South Africa has eleven official languages, including nine indigenous African languages, which posed difficulties for the creation or selection of a national anthem.
T
Spring River in the Flower Moon Night is based on a famous poem written by Zhang Ruoxu.
T
The 4th movement of Berlioz' Fantastical Symphony utilized musical topic, quotation, and mimesis.
T
The Anacreontic Society was named after the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote about love, wine, and amusements.
T
The Rite of Spring depicted pagan rituals and caused consternation among members of its Parisian audience at the premier.
T
The Rite of Spring does not tell a coherent story.
T
The ancient Greeks believed that the unique musical styles of each regional tribe represented the characteristics of that tribe.
T
The first national anthem was "God Save the Queen" which was adopted by Great Britain in 1875.
T
The language processing centers of the brain are activated when a person listens to and processes music, even when the music contains no words.
T
The lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner" were written by Francis Scott Key in 1814.
T
The organizers of Woodstock encountered delays as they tried to secure permits from local authorities to hold the festival.
T
The shared experience of singing or hearing the anthem binds people together.
T
The structures responsible for language production and comprehension (Broca's and Wernicke's areas) are unique to humans.
T
The tune of the current German national anthem, composed by Joseph Haydn, was first known as "God Save Emperor Francis."
T
Vivaldi's Four Seasonswas a collection of four concertos representing each season.
T
Wagner used leitmotifs to communicate information to an audience that is not included in the libretto or onstage action.
T
When Germany was unified in 1871, the new nation adopted the Prussian national anthem, which used the same tune as "God Save the Queen."
T
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 brain stem.
T
Whiteman's strategy for marketing jazz to resistant white audiences included inviting prominent performers, conductors, and critics of classical music to his 1924 concert.
T
Woodstock was held at a 600-acre dairy farm in upstate New York.
T
Populations who shared _____________ began campaigning for independence during the 19th century.
an ethnic and linguistic heritage
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
Prior to pursuing a full-time music career, Jimi Hendrix briefly worked for whom?
army
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 musician who:
becomes obsessed with a woman and overdoses on opium
We know that humans were creating music long before history began to be recorded because of prehistoric _______ found across the world.
bone flutes
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 element of music that has to do with loudness or softness is _________.
volume
"Sweet Jazz" was a term used to describe lively dance music primarily intended for:
white consumers
"The Song of the Germans" became the German anthem in 1918 following:
wwi
Basic functions that don't involve voluntary thought, such as heart rate, breathing, body temperature, digestion, swallowing, coughing, and vomiting, are controlled by the ________.
brainstem
Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934) was _____.
british composer of the planets
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is an example of a:
broadside ballet
Persons with damage to _________ area understand heard language and know what they wish to say, but are unable to speak.
broca's
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
The ________ is the part of the brain that gives it a wrinkled appearance.
cerebrum
In the European tradition, instrumental music that claims to tell a specific story or to otherwise communicate extra-musical information is referred to as:
program definition
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 the compositional practice of:
quotation
The incorporation of a passage of existing music into a new composition is termed:
quotation
In Star Wars, the musical themes are effective because they:
represent specific characters or ideas
The element of music that constitutes the temporal aspect of sound is:
rhythm
Mussorgsky belonged to a progressive school of 19th-century composers of which nationality?
russian
A set of only seven pitches that forms the basis for most music is called a ________.
scale
In ritornello form, as it is used in Vivaldi's concertos, the full orchestra alternates with:
solo passage
Jimi Hendrix's version of ______ famously employed text painting.
star spangled banner
Arguably, Berlioz's most influential work was:
symphony fantastic
Both language and music have ________, an orderly system of arrangement of sounds.
syntax
The word that refers to how fast or how slow a pulse occurs is ________.
tempo
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
What name did Berlioz give to the melody that represents his protagonist's love interest?
the "Obsession"
Organicism is defined as:
the development of a large-scale work from a single musical motif
Jimi Hendrix experienced success with a band called:
the jimi hedrix experience
Challenges to concert performances during Beethoven's time included all of the following except for:
the lack of concert halls
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
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the text of "The Song of the Germans" in 1841 in order to call for:
the unification of Germany under democratic rule
There is no correlation (relationship) between studying music and earning higher grades in other subject areas.
False
How do contemporary listeners know what Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony is about?
He wrote a detailed program to accompany performance
The letters Beethoven wrote to his brother reflecting the shame he felt about his affliction are known as the:
Heiligenstadt Testament
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
Before enrolling in the Paris conservatory in 1826, Berlioz studied the field of:
Medicine
When pulses are organized into groups containing strong and weak beats, we refer to this as ________.
Meter
The first major music festival was called:
Monterey International Pop Festival
Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs derives from ______ mythology.
Norse
Which of the following could have resulted in "Purple Haze" being banned from the airwaves?
References to explicit drug use
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
Music processing is more isolated than language processing (that is to say, fewer brain regions are involved).
F
Mussorgsky and his colleagues were known as "The Mighty Few."
F
Mussorgsky and his musical colleagues were dedicated to developing an authentically Austrian means of musical expression.
F
Rhapsody in Blue explores five themes in a single movement.
F
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) was a world-famous performer by the time he was 17 years old.
F
Technological limitation which included the inability to amplify contributed to the slow rise of rock concerts in the 1960s.
F
The 1930s saw decreased prominence of black performers and composers of classical music.
F
The Concert Spirituel series was launched in Vienna in 1725.
F
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement in which African American artists sought to incorporate compositional techniques from the Renaissance period.
F
The Heiligenstadt Testament revealed Beethoven's inner emotional state as he struggled with physical disability.
F
The Rite of Spring debuted as the sole ballet on the program and audience members at the premier loved the dancing and costumes.
F
The Russian composer Mussorgsky was inspired to compose Pictures at an Exhibition after his experience witnessing an artist during live composition.
F
The chromatic pitch set includes most of the pitches used in Western music, but not all of them.
F
The current national anthem of Germany was written when the nation came into existence.
F
The earliest operas performed in Florence were open to the public.
F
The guzheng is a type of wind instrument.
F
The guzheng is the oldest Chinese instrument and dates back to about 500 BCE.
F
The history of the public concert is tied to the history of socialism in Italy.
F
To work around the prohibition of young women performing in public, the weekly Vespers services were not open to the public.
F
Vivaldi trained as a medical doctor but abandoned school to teach music.
F
Volume in music is indicated by numbers that represent the amplitude of the sound wave.
F
Wagner shrunk the size of the orchestra for The Ring of the Nibelungs in order to highlight characters with single instruments.
F
When South Africa gained independence in 1931, the political parties that came to power represented the interests all people, regardless of race.
F
Woodstock began as a venture to hold a music festival in order to popularize Janice Joplin.
F
Beethoven transformed the symphony genre with this work:
Symphony No. 5
"Mars" served as a model for John Williams's "Imperial March" theme in the Star Wars soundtrack.
T
"The Anacreontic Song" remained popular and was frequently used as the tune for new works.
T
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is an example of a new text fitted to an old melody.
T
A standardized version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was published in 1917.
T
The term "fixed composition" refers to works in which the pitches and rhythms are identical between performances.
fixed composition
The way a musical work unfolds over time, or its ________, typically relies upon repetition, variation, and contrast.
form
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
Jimi Hendrix was the most influential guitar player of the 1960s due to:
his use of distortion and sound effects
During _________, the musical performers vary material by creating music in the moment, rather than relying upon fixed pitches and rhythms.
improvisation
Music and language acquisition skills are learned _______ by humans.
innately
The word _________ refers to the distance between to pitches.
interval
Which of the following was Berlioz NOT known for?
inventing new percussion techniques
All of the following are true about "The Star-Spangled Banner," except that:
it was designated as the national anthem in 1912
The technique of assigning a unique theme to each character, object, place, and idea in a drama is the use of ______.
leitmotif
Each of these keywords is associated with Berlioz's Fantastical Symphony except for:
malaise
The popular solo Attack on All Sides is an example of a:
martial composition
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 compositional technique that attempts to imitate or represent real-world sound is:
memisis
Music therapy may be used for ________ rehabilitation.
music rehabilitation
The clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship is known as
music theory
When a composer uses familiar musical styles or clichés to communicate to a listener, it is referred to as the use of:
musical quotations
Musical representation of shepherds with a bagpipe-like drone is an example of what compositional technique?
musical topic
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
European countries began adopting anthems in the mid-19thcentury, which marked a period of growing:
nationalism
Apartheid included all of the following elements except:
non-whites retained full voting rights
In a musical technique called underscoring
none of the above
Stravinsky's introduction to The Rite of Spring made heavy use of:
none of the above
This famous hymn by Beethoven was sometimes used for state occasions in post-WWII West Germany:
ode joy
Historically, the Chinese tradition of music composition has been primarily:
oral
A session musician is a musician who:
participates in in recording sessions for tv and film
The term that refers to the relative highness or lowness of sound is ________.
pitch
The tune to which Francis Scott Key's "Defence of Fort M'Henry" is sung was originally known as:
Anacreon in heaven
Which of the following artists did NOT adapt Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition?
Beethoven
The area that controls the physical production of speech is: _________________.
Broca's area
By the 19th century, Sonata Form had become standardized and contained the following sections:
Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation, and an optional Coda
"The Anacreontic Song" was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, a group of aristocrats who gathered to discuss art and literature.
F
"The Call of South Africa" contained lyrics that celebrated indigenous ownership of the land.
F
A certified music teacher can practice music therapy in the classroom.
F
A cyclical technique in music composition is one by which all parts of a large work are connected by the same tonal center.
F
A pulse is the most complex form of rhythm.
F
Afrikaans is a language spoken in South Africa by the descendants of British colonists that combines elements of English and indigenous languages.
F
All 18th-century concertos contained four movements
F
Antonio Vivaldi was a violinist and composer in the city of Nice, France.
F
Beethoven was entirely at the mercy of his aristocratic patrons as he sought to cultivate a public career.
F
Berlioz wrote detailed narratives of all of his works, but did not utilize a program at the premiere of his Fantastical Symphony.
F
Emotional expression in music is not subjective, because every listener will perceive the same emotional content.
F
Even Adolph Hitler believed that Wagner's operas should not be produced.
F
Every country has a national anthem.
F
Francis Scott Key knew that American forces had lost the battle when he saw the British flag flying over the buttresses.
F
George and Ira Gershwin were cousins who became famous for writing Broadway musicals.
F
Hector Berlioz was 55 years old when he wrote his Fantastical Symphony.
F
Holst became wealthy as a trombone performer in the middle part of his career.
F
In Beethoven's time, concert programs typically included works from a variety of genres, time periods and composers.
F
John Williams was only influenced by specific historical compositions, rather than by style more generally.
F
Learning disconnected information through music has little impact on memory and retention.
F
Like the composer of the musical scores for Star Wars, Wagner randomly paired themes with objects and ideas.
F
Mandela discarded "The Call of South Africa" and adopted "Lord Bless Africa" as the national anthem of South Africa.
F
Many modern European countries came into existence during the 19th century.
F
Music and language engage all areas of the brain at once.
F
Music festivals during the 1960s were widely popular but rarely turned a profit.
F
"Wotan's Farewell" features one of the most significant powers of the leitmotif:
The ability to foreshadow events yet to come
Which of these was the first musical presentation to which the public could buy tickets?
The operas at the St. Cassiano Theater in Venice
Holst manipulated which characteristic of sound by utilizing women's voices in "Neptune":
Timbre
The famous opening of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue featured a glissando on what instrument?
clarinet
Although he composed in many formats, Vivaldi primarily composed:
concertos
The Anacreontic Society was disbanded in 1792 following:
controversy over lewd songs
In music composition, mimesis is the process of:
creating imitation of real-world sounds
During his years as a concert pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven's career was suspended due to this health concern:
deafness
Program music is music that is accompanied by a(n):
descriptive texts
In the 19th century, English became an important language in South Africa due to the:
displacement of the Dutch colonists by the British
The ________ is the first strong pulse in each meter.
downbeat
The Italian terms crescendo, decrescendo, forte, mezzo forte, and mezzo piano all refer to _________ in music.
dynamics
Whiteman invited George Gershwin to compose a piano concerto that combined jazz with:
european concert music
Berlioz won the top honor for French composers, the Rome Prize, years after his death.
false
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
