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John Farmer's "Fair Phyllis" is an English Madgrigal that uses the technique called ___________ which allows us to "hear" words in the story through the way the melody moves in lines like "up and down."

"Word painting"

Homophonic Texture

A main melodic line accompanied by chords which support and are derived from that melody.

Meter

A regularly repeating pattern of one strong and one or more weak beats

Monophonic Texture

A single unaccompanied melody without counterpoint or harmonic accompaniment.

Melody

A succession of single tones or pitches which add up to a recognizable whole. The musical equivalent of a sentence. Usually the most important part of a composition.

The vocal portions of most operas consist of a combination of recitatives, arias, and choruses. Which of these parts of an opera is the most important from a musical standpoint?

Aria

He was employed as a "minister of music" by the Lutheran church.

Bach

His music was not very well or widely known during his life time.

Bach

Married twice, he was the father of twenty children; several of his sons became famous composers.

Bach

This composer worked in Weimar, Coethen, and Leipzig.

Bach

The form in John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes is

Binary (A-A-B-B).

John Corigliano's Prelude is part of a work that is based on the seven poems by

Bob Dylan

Which opera revolves around mythology and magic?

Die Walkurie

A diatonic scale is a scale made up of all whole steps.

False

Aaron Copland was one of the first ethnomusicologists. He did field work in Hungary as well as throughout eastern Europe and the Middle East.

False

Beethoven lost his sight in his late 20s.

False

Chopin's Mazurka in B-flat Minor is written in a largely monophonic texture.

False

Debussy was a well known composition teacher in Paris and taught at the Conservatory of Paris for nearly 20 years.

False

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was encouraged by her father to pursue her love of composing music. He did not mind that she was not doing what was necessarily expected by a woman during that day and time.

False

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's "September: At the River" is from a multi-movement symphony that she composed in 1841

False

Forte is a term that means "very soft."

False

French-born composer, Hector Berlioz, was best known for his operas.

False

Gershwin's "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess is a recitative.

False

Most 18th century opera was written in French. French was the international language of opera throughout Europe at this time.

False

Mozart had an older brother named Nannerl who was as much a child prodigy on the keyboard as he was. Their father, Leopold, would tour them around to play for various members of the nobility.

False

Program music is instrumental music with a literary or pictorial association supplied by the composer. Another name for program music is "absolute music."

False

The "fixed idea" in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is played at the end of the fourth movement by the piano.

False

The father dies at the end of the Schubert's "Elfking."

False

The opening to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor is a long, lyrical melody influenced by the symphonies of Mozart.

False

The premier of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" went smoothly and the audience loved the music.

False

The timbre of the sting quartet includes a violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

False

Widely known as a composer of songs or Lieder, Franz Schubert actually wrote more instrumental music than vocal music.

False

Which of the following coposers composed an English madrigal in 1599 that used word painting on the opening line "all alone" and "up and down?"

Farmer

Who said the following: "I think composers are everything they've ever experienced, everything they've ever read, all the music they've heard . . . I think there's a lot of music that has a darker side and maybe some of this music influenced me."

George Crumb

A notable composer of operas during his career, he is much more widely known for his oratorios today.

Handel

After a performance of the "Messiah," he said, "My Lord, I should be sorry if I only entertained them; I wish to make them better."

Handel

Although German by birth, he is thought of as one of the greatest English composers ever to have lived.

Handel

Josquin's motet, "Ave Maria" exhibits a brilliant example of musical _______________ where musical ideas are exchanged between vocal lines and then same or similar phrases are heard in different registers.

Imitation

The idea of a "prepared piano" was conceived by __________________ who would place screws, nails, and other materials to be inserted between the strings of a grand piano.

John Cage

Wagner used a musical element called the ___________________, which is a brief musical phrase or idea connected dramatically to a person, event or idea in the drama.

Leit motif

All of the following are associated with Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique excep

Leprello

The Gloria from Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass would have been sung during which part of the Mass?

Mass Ordinary

During the ________________, melodies were conjunct, early pieces were nonmetric, harmony was modal and texture was monophonic.

Middle Ages

Harmony

Occurring on a vertical plane, it accounts for the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other.

_____________ consists of a single-line melody; it is monophonic in texture and lacks harmony and counteroint. The music reflects the inflections of the Latin text.

Plainchant

In 1517, Martin Luther launched the Protestant movement known as the _______________ which was one of many religious reform movements that spread across Europe that called for changes in practices by the Catholic Church.

Reformation

During the _______________, melodies were arched and smooth, rhythm was regular and mostly in duple, harmony was modal and moving toward tonality, and texture was imitative polyphony.

Renaissance

This opera is a story set during the Renaissance period.

Rigoletto

________________ is an example of one of Wagner's _____________________ where he made the instrumental music equal in importance to the vocal music.

Selected Answer: Die Walkure; music dramas

All of the following may be associated with Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring except

Selected Answer: Germany

Because Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is associated with a story, we consider this piece an example of

Selected Answer: Program Music

In Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun," he uses the chormatic scale and whole-tone scale instead of the _____________________ system used in the nineteenth century.

Selected Answer: major-minor

Porgy and Bess was a(n) ______________ composed by American George Gershwin.

Selected Answer: opera

Chopin's Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op. 24, No. 4 was composed for

Selected Answer: piano

The speeding up and slowing down of the tempo in Chopin's Mazurka is called

Selected Answer: rubato

Wagner loved making certain musical phrases connect dramatically to a person, event, or idea in the drama. This technique was the technique of

Selected Answer:Leitmotif

Classified as _____________________, The Rite of Spring supposedly inspired a ____________ during its premier.

Selected Answer:primitivism; riot

The terms \"syllabic\" and \"melismatic\" identify how many notes accompany a single syllable of text. If there is a 1:1 ratio between a syllable and a musical note, the passage is considered

Syllabic

Polyphonic Texture

The combination of two or more melodic lines of equal interest which sound simultaneously on a horizontal plane.

Rhythm

The flow of music through time. The relative duration of notes which make up a musical composition.

Musical Form

The organization or structure of a piece of music

Tempo

The pace or speed of a piece of music.

Dynamics

The volume (loudness or softness) of a piece of music.

All of the following statements about "Ma fin est mon commencement" are true except:

This piece is monophonic

"Dies irae" means "Day of wrath" in English.

True

Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring is a ballet suite in seven sections.

True

Atonal music is music that is NOT key-centered.

True

Beethoven\'s Symphony No. 5 in C minor contains four movements.

True

Claude Monet's painting "Impression: Sunrise" was the work that gave the movement of "impressionism" its name.

True

Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt" has a "pastoral" sound where he features the flute, oboe, and horn.

True

Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" is an opera.

True

Gershwin's "Summertime" is for soprano and orchestra. You also hear a backup chorus on the recording.

True

Impressionism was an artistic (and then later musical) movement that emphasized SUGGESTION rather than STATING.

True

In Schubert's "Elfking," the piano plays an introduction before the singer sings.

True

In jazz, a chorus is a single statement of a melodic-harmonic pattern.

True

In the recapitulation of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, he has Theme 2 return in C major, not in the expected key of C minor.

True

Modulation is a common device in music and is when the music moves from one key to another.

True

Most of the time, classical symphonies contained no basso continuo.

True

One of the major differences between music of the nineteenth century and music composed before the nineteenth century was that musicians tried to make their instruments "sing" and their melodies had audience appeal that was unique.

True

One way that Beethoven creates drama in his Fifth Symphony is through sharp contrasts in dynamics.

True

Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is a symphonic poem.

True

Revueltas' "Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca contains three movements.

True

Romantic music places emphasis on self-expression and individuality of style.

True

Romantic music requires a wide range of dynamics; composers frequently used crescendos and decrescendos, as well as sudden dynamic changes.

True

Schubert's Erlkönig tells a fantastic story about a young boy traveling on horseback with his father.

True

Sonata form is a large ABA form with an exposition, development, and recaptulation. The recapitulation is a repeat of the exposition with all of the themes played in the tonic key.

True

Stephen Foster's "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" is a major key Parlor song that is both homophonic and polyphonic.

True

Strophic form describes the relationship between the words and music of a song in which the same music is repeated for each verse or stanza of a poem.

True

Symphonie Fantastique is a five-movement symphonic work that tells a dramatic story including a final scene at a witches' sabbath surounded by fearsome spirits.

True

The "Harlem Renaissance" was a literary, artistic, and sociological movement that highlighted African American interllectual life in the 1920s and 30s.

True

The "Rite of Spring" was music originally written for a ballet, however the piece is often performed as a concert piece for orchestra

True

The Rite of Spring caused a riot.

True

The dynamics of the second movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 100 alternate between softs and louds. The movement begins softly and then by section "B," the dynamics are loud.

True

The fact that Beethoven links all of the movements of his Fifth Symphony with the 4-note (short-short-short-long) motive makes the work cyclical.

True

The first movement of Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" is in Sonata-Allegro form

True

The genre of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is Opera Buffa.

True

The repetition often heard in 18th century opera helps audiences to grasp the actual words being sung. The speed of singing as well as the ensemble arrangments often make it difficult for audiences to understand the words.

True

The second movement of Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 is "Theme and Variations" form.

True

The symphonic poem, created by Franz Liszt, was program music for orchestra in one movement.

True

To reinforce the full sound of the orchestra, Beethoven adds instruments to the fourth movement of his Fifth Symphony. These players wait on stage until it's their turn to play and sit quietly throughout the first three movements.

True

William Grant Still composed orchestral music, film scores, stage works, operas, vocal music, piano music, and choral music.

True

Jennifer Higdon studied music at this university where she worked with George Crumb.

University of Pennslyvania

This opera composer sought to reform political conventions through his art. Of special interest to this composer was the unification of Italy.

Verdi

He composed more than 500 concertos, about 230 of which are for solo violin.

Vivaldi

He was also ordained as a Catholic priest.

Vivaldi

He was the chief administrator for an orphanage in addition to his musical activities.

Vivaldi

The Valkyrie was composed by

Wagner

The operas written by this composer require a large and diverse orchestra as well as a huge theater.

Wagner

Which opera composer was interested in being in total control of all aspects of his operas?

Wagner

Music that left decisions determining the overall shape of the musical experience to the performer or to chance was called

chance music or aleatoric music.

Billie Holiday's "Billie's Blues" was originally written as ballet music.

fALSE

Mozart once wrote, "I could make experiements, observe what produced an effect and what weakened it, and . . . improve, alter, make additions or omissions, and be as bold as I pleased."

fALSE

The opening of Beethoven\'s Fifth Symphony contains a very simple theme of _____________ notes.

four

Josquin's motet "Ave Maria" is a cappella and contains extensive _______________ where musical ideas are exchanged between vocal lines.

imitation

Composers of the Renaissance who composed sacred music most often focused on the Mass Ordinary which is the part of the mass that

is fixed and does not vary from service to service.

John Williams' Star Wars contains musical themes that are associated with certain characters. The term for this technique was first introduced when we studied the music of Richard Wagner. This term is:

leitmotif

The third movement of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is composed in _____________ form.

minuet and trio

Doctor Atomic a(n) ____________ that focuses on the last days and hours before the first atomic test on July 16, 1945.

opera

Schubert\'s \"Erlking\" is an example of a German Lied where we hear a singer accompanied by a(n) ___________________. The song features several characters (sung by one singer) including a narrator, the Erlking, a father, and a ________.

piano,boy

Hildegard von Bingen's "Alleluia, O virga mediatrix is considered

plainchant

In terms of genre, Hildegard von Bingen's "Alleluia, O virga mediatrix" is

plainchant

"Bella figlia" (from Verdi's Rigoletto) is sung by a __________ of singers.

quartet

The first movement of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is composed in sonata form. When the first, second, and closing themes come back at the end, this section of sonata for is called

recaplutiation

The solo violin concerto from the Baroque period featured in your text was an example of Baroque Program Music. It was in _________________ form.

ritonello

In Bach's Cantata No. 140, "Wachet auf" is translated

sleepers,awake

Chopin's piano music calls for "rubato" which is when the performer is allowed to take certain liberties with time - slowing down and speeding up without upsetting the basic beat of the music.

tRUE

The fourth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is set in a minor mode and features the timpani and instruments playing in unusual ranges.

tRUE

John Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is written for

two six-voice choirs

In the nineteenth century operas were

widely popular and well attended

In "Mambo" from Bernstein's West Side Story, we hear

woodwinds,brass,bongos, cowbells (all of the above)