Music Survey Practice Final
Primary composer of opera at the beginning of the Baroque was
Claudio Monteverdi
What two historical events were important during the baroque period?
Jamestown was established and the 30 years war took place
A prominent and very important composer of the string quartet lived
Josef Haydan
Billings is named by some texts as the
first great american song writer
Plainchant consists of
melody sung alone or by a group in unison
Music of this period reflected many different characteristics easily associated with composers homelands. this was the influence of
nationalism
What rhythmic approach was always used in performing plainchant in the Middle Ages?
no one knows exactly how it was preformed
One of Beethoven's abilities other than a composer was the skill he showed early in his life as a young and accomplished
pianist
concerto
piece featuring accomplished soloists
True or False: Music of Gottschalk was considered to be technically difficult and demanding upon anyone that preformed it
true
True or False: Unlike Haydn, Mozart was born during the classical period and died during the same period.
true
In the Middle Ages every musical document had to be
written by hand
Haydn's approach to writing symphonies was to incorporate Pranks in his music that his audience wasn't expecting, such as in the:
"Surprise" Symphony
Structure of Opera
1. overture- instramental; that introduces music 2. chorus- narrator 3. soloist- characters 4. recitative- reciting of action that takes place on stage
Renaissance Period
1400-1600
Baroque Period
1600-1750
The birth date of Haydn
1732
Classical Period
1750- 1800
The birth date of Mozart
1756
19th century date
1800- 1900
A string quartet always consisted of ____ musicians
4
The dates of the Middle ages
400-1400
A major war occurred on the American Continent during this period
American Civil War
A prominent composer of the 19th century was a victim early in his life of severe and chronic hearing loss. This composer's name was
Beethoven
perhaps the most bold and famous explorer that discovered the New World was:
Christopher Columbus
The composer of a rare patriotic tune from her pen called forward during this century was
Clara Wieck Schumann
Bach
Composer of cantatas
Two composers mentioned in chapters 6, 7 and 8 wrote in their native language of
English
two prominent female composers of the 19th century were both pianist and were both related by marriage or siblings. They were
Frannie Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Wieck Schumann
Figaro
French play scorned by Mozart's emperor
Bach wrote in a form in which one melody was played for a short time then the same melody would be played in a different key with it, this was known as a
Fugue
Two of the late Baroque composers were born in Germany, but one became a British citizen
George F. Handel
The subject matter of secular songs centered around
Greek Gods
The Pygmalion story has its origins in
Greek and Roman myth
A composer from New Orleans who was a Union sympathizer during the American Civil war
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
An important religious figure during the Renaissance was
Martin Luther
The priest who in effect started what we know as the Reformation in 1517 by posting 95 theses of protest on the church in Wittenburg Germany was
Martin Luther
The composer mentioned in the above question used a combination of different tunes in his work called "Union" that was to inspire loyalty to the Union during the Civil War. One of those tunes is
Star Spangled Banner
Handel wrote a piece called Hallelujah! It was only part of a larger piece called
The Messiah
Salieri
Villain of the movie "Amadeus"
Singing in several voices without accompaniment is called
a capella
aria
a song that expresses emotion
A major world event that took place during the Classical period
american revolution
Many composers in the Middle Ages
are now anonymous, were monks priests, or nuns, and were troubadours, trouveres, or minnesingers
John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" is an example of what medieval practice?
arranging a texted song for instruments alone
Another composer of the 19th century was Franz Schubert, known for setting music to poetry in a unique way in a genre called the
art song
Two-double reed instruments used today are the
bassoon and oboe
Many religious texts for anthems or church services would come from a Biblical source
book of Psalms
Handel
borrowed tunes for his pieces from "street" music of the day
music during the Renaissance was primarily written for
both sacred and secular uses, eventually more secular uses
__________ are to music as periods are to verbal expression, indicating the end of a unit of thought.
cadences
The music of Bach was important because of its use in
churches and cathedrals
Two single reed instruments used today are
clarinet and saxophone
The period of music that occurred directly after the baroque period was the
classical period
In the new world, the most important development was the establishment of what during the baroque period?
colonies
The art form mention in the previous question was written in a
comic
timbre was important during the Renaissance because of grouping instruments of like types known as
consorts
Secular music was frequently used as
dance music
in the music of the type mentioned in the previous question, a symphony orchestra plays a short musical idea in a piece called Midsummer Night's Dream reminiscent of the sound of a
donkey
The two subfamilies of reed instruments are
double and single
Words such as __________ and ____________ describe the rhythm of secular Renaissance music
duple/triple
with the more advance technology of piano construction in the 19th century the composers were able to make better use of contrasts between loud and soft called
dynamics
The repertory of secular songs in the Middle Ages is
enormous
In addition to her music, Hildgard
experienced visions and revelations and directed the life of a thriving convent, considered herself a channel through which the Holy Spirit spoke to human kind, was the first women to receive permission from a pope to write on theology in addition to writing on medicine, plants, and the lives of saints
True or False: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was perhaps the most stable personality of composers during the classical period
false
True or false: the secular song was completely different from the aria
false
true or false: Wagner's operas were short one-act productions
false
The characters in opera in the Baroque period were
fictitious people and events
Music was already the ____________ in the Middle Ages, long before Shakespeare coined the phrase.
food of love
symphony
four movement work "fathered" by Haydn
string quartet
four-part instrumental piece
Rhythm during the Renaissance contrasted from rhythm of the Middle Ages which, when signing plainchant was known for
free rhythms
Richard Wagner also composed in the same genre but was different from Verdi because
he wrote everything in a major key
With the advent of Protestantism came the advent of songs that could be sung by the average person in a church setting
hymns
The person who is being addressed by the singer of "I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady" is
ignoring the singer's pleas, much as a statue would ignore its sculpture's pleas
In the Middle Ages, polyphony was used for
sacred music, secular music and songs about courtly love
the development of opera during the baroque was
intentionally done through the camerata in Italy
Harpsichord
keyboard instrument of the baroque
One famous type of secular music during the late Renaissance often written to poetry was
madrigal
Gregorian Chant during the Middle Ages was chiefly
monophonic in texture
The texture in Hildegard's play was
monophonic, allowing preformers to project the text with great clarity
Contrasting the music of the Middle ages and Renaissance, the Middle Ages was more _____________, and the Renaissance more ______________.
monophonic/polyphonic
Bach was well known because of a muscial piece of sacred nature known as
motet
A technique of composition during the 19th century was using a few notes assembled in a unique way to describe something or identify an character a piece of music was about. This technique was called using a
motive
Vivaldi
music teacher at orphanages for girls
In polyphony, what is the relationship between the voices?
one in which each voice is melodious and retains its own identity
Music during the Middle Ages was primarily written with
one line of music deliberately set to the meaning of the words
Guiseppi Verdi was a note composer of a very popular genre of classical music in the 19th century called
opera
Mozart wrote works of music in an extremely popular music genre during the Classical period known as
opera
One type of music that Bach did not write during his life that others did
opera
George Fredrick Handel was known for a musical genre that was all about Bible stories known as the
oratorio
A twelfth-century cleric named Perotin, who worked at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, wrote long and detailed works with the harmonies known as
organum
The beginning musical piece in an opera played by the orchestra is the
overture
William Billings was a composer of a
patriotic songs
In addition to being a composer, Machaut was famous for his work as a
poet
In "I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady," cadences are identified in the music by a
point of arrival, coupled with a pause in the forward motion of the voices
Most of the secular music of the Renaissance was
polyphonic
What is the texture of "I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady"?
polyphonic
A certain type of music was composed early in the 19th century depicting a story or accompanying a play. This genre of 19th century music was much like today's movie music and is known as
program music
The word Renaissance means
rebirth
Architecture referred to as "classical" has many characteristics as music of this period because of its
reflect as sense of balance and symmetry in its presentation
A certain technique of composition used by the composer Frederic Chopin in some of his solo piano music in which the rhythm is not steady but sounds broken is called
rubato
Landini is believed to have written more that 150 __________ songs, which represent about one third of all Italian music that has survived from the fourteenth century.
secular
An instrument popular during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance
shawm
Which double reed instrument is heard in the recording of "He Who Gladly Serves"?
shawm
Which type of medieval instrument tends to have a "buzzy" sound?
shawm
In Hildegard's Play Of Virtues, Satan does not sing, but
shout his lines
Musics of the Baroque period can best be described as having
simple but highly ornamented melodies
Two notable traits of classical music were
simple melodies with balanced and logical harmonies
The earliest chant manuscripts show
simple symbols above the texts, indicating motion of the pitch up or down
The word "classical" often refers to
something that endures
Musicians were hired frequently for other reasons than their ability to play their instruments or sing. One of those reasons would be as
spies
Mozart's final work was a(n)
symphony
in texts of courtly love, a nobleman admires a woman especially if she
takes no interest in him
Melismatic refers to
text set to multiple notes per syllable
Syllabic setting
text set to one note per syllable
Guillaume de Machaut's "Messe de Nostre Dame" is
the first polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary by a single composer
The primary technological development during the renaissance was:
the printing press
Who is the probable composer of "He Who Gladly Serves"
the real composer is anonymous
For each four line unit of poetry in "Behold Spring," Landini inserts a cadence at the end of
the second and fourth lines
True or False: Josef Haydn always had access to good musicians when he was in the service of the Esterhazy family in Austria
true
What is the meter of Landini's "Behold Spring"?
triple
Billings song set to the theme of "Chester" is known as the
unofficial anthem of the American Revolution
Whether it was a singer or instrumentalists, composers wrote increasingly more music for those musicians who had special gifts and technical abilities. they were known as
virtuoso
Different composers during the late Baroque were known for different things. Antonio Vivaldi was different from others because he wrote music that
was about something
Gregorian Chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who
was said to have written the bulk of the standard chants, according to later legend
poetry set to music
william billings music
A technique that began to be used during the Renaissance as means of enhancing the words making them more descriptive
word painting