Music Appreciation Chapters 1-3

In a concerto group the larger group of players of players is called the _______________ is meaning all.

Tutti

The ritorrello is always played by the ____________.

Tutti

The different movements of a baroque composition are usually ___________ to add variety tot he piece.

Contrasting

True or False: Before the twentieth century, a basic principle of music composition was that a composition would begin in the home or tonic key, and would end in a different key.

False

Orfeo by Monteverdi was composed in the year?

1607

Monteverdi's music is important because its is a bridge between the ______________ centuries.

16th and 17th

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

A chromatic scale

What is a movement in musical composition?

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

When a note is emphasized more than other, usually by being played louder, it is called a(n) ___________.

Accent

Like a play, operas are divided into, _____________ and these are subdivided into _____________.

Acts, Scenes

What is the term describing the regular, recurrent pulse that is subdivided and organized to create rhythms and metrical configurations?

Beat

Why did Purcell add dances to his opera Dido and Aeneas?

Because the school principal where it was performed was a dancer

The resting place or point of arrival at the end of a melodic phrase is call a _______________.

Cadence

For what is recitatives used?

Carry the action forward

In harmony a combination of tones that is stable and whose sound has a sense of arrival or resolution is referred to as _________________.

Consonance

Forward motion, conflict and change in mood are all aspect of ______________.

Contrast

The xylophone, shown here, belongs to which primary category of percussion instruments?

Definite pitch

Timpani or kettledrums, belong to which primary category of percussion instruments?

Definite pitch

True or False: Dido and Aeneas was a lavish and complex production with virtuoso singers and a large orchestra that demanded the best musicians of all time.

False

True or False: The higher a note is placed on the staff, the lower the pitch.

False

The two most important geographical areas in the development of music during the Renaissance were ______________________.

Flanders and Italy

In brass instruments, tone-producing vibrations are made by blowing through the lips into a _______________.

Funnel-shaped mouthpiece

After what was the new vocal style of opera modeled?

Greek Dramas

In which of the following keyboard instruments are tones produced by wedge-shaped parts that pluck strings.

Harpsichord

What texture describes a main accompanied by chords?

Homophonic

A melody in one voice will frequently be _________________ in another voice in a baroque composition.

Imitated

The statement of a melodic idea first by one voice and then immediately b another is called ______________?

Imitation

When a melodic idea is presented by one voice or instrument, and then is restated immediately by another voice or instrument, this is called ______?

Imitation

When a melody moves from one tone to a tone that is NOT adjacent, it is said to move by a _____________.

Leap

If you play the white notes of the piano from C to C, you are playing a _______ scale?

Major

The term ___________ is used to refer to the organization of beats into regular groups of strong and weak ones.

Meter

Which of the following statements about the role of music in baroque society is true?

Music was an important source of entertainment in the courts of the aristocracy

Which of the following is a true statement about late baroque music?

Music with polyphonic texture gained importance

What are typical characteristics of melody in baroque music?

- Create a feeling of continuity -Opening melody heard again and again -Constant character even with varied form

Which of the following statement are true of music in the Renaissance?

-Composers began to put their name on their name on their compositions and expected to be compensated -Virtuoso women singers began singing in several Italian courts - Patronage increased in the courts of the nobility

How did Monteverdi make his music more expressive and intense?

-Her employed new orchestral effects -He used dissonance extensively -He successful blended music drama

How does a fugue differ from a round, such as Row Row, Row, your Boat?

-In a fugue, a new voice presents the subject is a different key, whereas is a round, a new voice starts in the same key -In a fugue, unlike a voice can change to a new melody after presenting the subject.

Which of the following describe the words and music of Renaissance music?

-It uses harmonies that help express the emotions of the words -It uses word painting to represent poetic images -The humanistic interest in language is evident in vocal music

What were the most common ways people became musicians during the baroque period?

-It was a art passed on form generation to generation -Boys and girls received musical education in orphanages -By attending choir schools in church

Which statements are basic melodic principles?

-Many melodies are made up of shorter parts called phrases -a melody moves by small intervals called steps or by larger ones called leaps.

Opera commonly fuses together which of the following elements?

-Music -Scenery -Acting -Costumes

What characterizes the aria?

-Outpouring of melody that expresses an emotional state -A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment

Which statements accurately describe the baroque period?

-The art were symbols of royal wealth and power -The aristocracy held enormous power and wealth

What creates a sense of directed motion for melody in baroque music?

-The continuous unwinding of a melody -Melodic sequence successive repetition of a musical idea at higher of lover pitches

Which statements describe this selection from Monteverdi's Tu Se Morta

-The vocal line is accompanied by a lute -The vocal line is accompanied by a basso continuo

Which of the following statements comparing the motet and the mass in the Renaissance are accuarate?

-The words of the mass were those of the ordinary, where as the motet used other scared text -The motet and mass were the primary forms of sacred music -A mass has five texts and take more time to perform than a motet

What did the music director of a church do?

-Was responsible for the musical training of choristers -Was expected to compose new work for church performance on a regular basic

Why was the opening of the first public opera house significant?

-You did not have to be a noble to attend an opera performance -Anybody who could pay admission was able attend -It helped spread opera beyond the wall of royal opera

What technique is used in music to depict specific images enhancing the text being sung?

Word painting

The baroque trumpet had _______________.

No valves

Which instruments use double reeds?

Oboe, English horn, Bassoon

Early Italian baroque composers created __________ which is a drama sung to orchestral accompaniment.

Opera

Playing a single, low tone while one or more voices are presented is called _______________.

Pedal point

The three main types of musical texture are monophonic, homophobic and ______________.

Polyphonic

What is the texture of the music is this audio recording?

Polyphonic

What is the name for a series or sequence of chords?

Progression

In a recitative how are words sung?

Quickly and clearly, often on repeated notes

What did the music director at the court of an aristocrat do and receive?

Received relatively high pay for a musician (more)

This selection from Monteverdi's Tu SE Monta is a type of opera singing called an ________________.

Recitative

What term describes a vocal line that imitates the rhythm and pitch fluctuations of speech?

Recitative

Another word for ritorrello or major theme that returns is _______________.

Refrain

A Specific part of a singer's or an instrument's tonal range, such as the low part of the tonal range is know as it's ________________.

Register

Many instruments come in different sizes, which means they have different ________?

Registers

In music notation, the symbol that indicates that duration of silence is called a _______________.

Rest

Eighth note, quarter note, and half note are all used to notate what aspect of music?

Rhythm

Which 6 categories or classifications of instruments are used in the western (or European) music?

Strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboard, and electronic

Many of the early audio manipulating processes done on __________ and tape studios are now done in modern more powerful computers.

Synthesizers

Largo, moderate, allegro and presto are Italian terms in music that indicate __________.

Tempo

In which type of musical statement (A) then a contrasting statement (B) then a return to the first musical statement (A).

Ternary (three-part) form

During the late baroque period, what type of dynamics was commonly used?

Terraced or abrupt dynamic changes

Which of the following is the best description of concerto grosso?

The concerto grosso contrasts and alternates between a small group of soloists and a large group

Which instrument plays the last solo, displaying virtuosity section of rapid scale passages rhythms?

The harpsichord

What is the primary scale in a piece of music called?

The key

What symbol at the beginning of the piece indicates the key that a piece of music is in?

The key signature

The ground bass in Dido's Lament remains ____________ in it's eleven statements.

The same

Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is written as a theme and variations, which is best defined by which of the following characteristics?

There is a main theme that is varied in each repetition.

A chord made up of three notes (roots, third and fifth or do, mi, sol) is called a _____________.

Triad

True or False: A synthesizers gives the composer control over the pitch, dynamics rhythm and duration of a musical sound.

True

True or False: As in this Bizet piece changes in texture add variety and excitement to the music.

True

True or False: Electronic instruments include amplified instruments synthesizers and computers.

True

True or False: In Chopin's Prelude in E minor, the harmony plays an important role?

True

True or False: In western music changing key is a way to strengthen listener interest in longer musical selections.

True

True or False: Rhythm is a fundamental part of life?

True

True or False: The melody of a song often reflects the intended mood of the lyrics contexts.

True

What instruments are the soloists in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5?

Violin, flute, harpsichord

In a fugue various instrumental lines called _________ imitate the subject.

Voices

Gregorian Chant = 1 line

Everyone sings one line over and over

Which term describes a song for solo voices with orchestral accompaniment?

Aria

What is the technique of playing that notes of a chord one after the other (instead of simultaneously) called?

Arpeggio

Which voice-line is played using the pedal keyboard?

Bass

Another word for ground bass is ____________.

Basso Ostinato

What is the ritornello form in the concerto grosso?

In the ritornello form, an opening theme played by all the musicians (the tutti) is repeated like a refrain throughout the work.

The procedure of varying a fugue subjecting turning it upside down is called_____________.

Inversion

Who's death marked the end of the baroque period in music?

Johann Sebastian Bach

A mechanical or digital device that indicates tempo on a scale of beats per minute by emitting sounds or flashes or light is called a(n) ______________.

Metronome

Why were castrates important and unique?

They had the lung power of men and vocal range of a woman

Generally, how are rhythmic used in a baroque period?

They start off the piece and are repeated throughout

What is used to indicate the meter of a piece at the beginning of the staff?

Time signature

In general, why did baroque musicians write music?

To fit specific needs of their employers

By having each instrument of the orchestra play individually, Britten lets us hear the differences in _________ of the orchestral instruments in The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Tone color