MUS 200
Which of the following best defines binary form?
A-B
Ternary form is represented by the pattern:
A-B-A
The form based on a statement and departure without a return to the complete opening statement is called:
Binary
When a theme comes to a logical ending sounds complete it is:
Cadence
A musical form based on statement, departure, and a restatement of the first idea is called binary form.
False
An ostinsto is the smallest fragment of a theme that forms a melodic-rhythmic unit.
False
Homophonic describes a single voiced texture without accompaniment.
False
Improvisation is common in western music, but not in non-western music.
False
Most composition use one type of texture exclusively.
False
The art of counterpoint is most closely associated with monophonic texture.
False
Traditions music of the middle and Far East is typically polyphonic.
False
What quality of a work of art refers to its structure or shape?
Form
Heterorhythemic is the opening of:
Hallelujah Chorus
We used the Hallelujah chorus as an example of homorhythmic texture. Who was the composer?
Handel
Most of the music in today's culture tends to be
Homophonic
What texture in which all the voices move in the same rhythm is called
Homorhythm
Explain imitation and cannon
Imitation is a melodic idea presented into one voices and restated in another. Cannon (rounds)m a type of music used of row, row, row, your boat. includes each vore enters in successions with some type of melody.
Polyphony is best describe as:
Many- voiced
Imitation is:
Melodic line starts and restarted in other voices
The predominant texture used in Western music up to about one thousand years ago was
Monophonic
A texture featuring a single, unaccompanied line called
Monophony
A basic technique in thematic development is the fragmentation of themes into:
Motives
Work called symphonies can be split into three or four:
Movements
What term best describes, row, row row, your boat?
Round
A vocal work in which each poetic stanza is sung to the same melody is in...
Strophic form
Compare strophic form and through-composed form- define and give an example of each.
Strophic form common in songs. features repeated musical for each stanza of text. Through-composed are no large repeats sections.
When a melodic idea is used a building block in construction of a large work, it is called a:
Theme
A heterophonic texture frequently occurs in music involving improvisation, such as jazz.
True
A movement is a complete, comparatively independent division of a large-scale work.
True
A short melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic pattern repeated throughout a musical work is called ostinato.
True
Call and response music in common in African and Native American Cultures.
True
Imitation is when a melodic idea in one voice is restated in another.
True
In homorhythmic texture, the melody and harmony move with the same rhythm.
True
Musical structure generally features a balance between unity and variety.
True
The art of combining two or more simultaneous melodic lines is called counterpoint.
True
The term _______ is describes the technique whereby some aspects of the music are changed, yet the whole remains recognizable.
Variation
The restatement of a musical idea at a higher or lower pitch is called:
a sqeuence
Describe in your best words improvisations and explain what styles of music used this device most frequently.
improvisation is when music does not follow the same style of what had been perviously played before. It changes completely form. Making up on the spot (spontaneously). Two examples are jazz, pop, African American and rock. Use solos with certain instruments in the middle of the song.
The basic structural concepts in the element of form are
repetition and contrast
