Music Appreciation Exam 1

What are two ways of lengthening the value of a note?

Using a tie and adding a dot next to the note.

The creation of music as it is being performed is called?

improvisation

Where can musical style be evident?

During a specific period in history, from performers, within a country, and within a single composer's work.

In general, how does the voice in singing differ from speaking?

1. Vowel sounds are often held for longer duration when singing. 2. Singing typically uses a wider range of expressive dynamics than speaking. 3. Singing typically uses a wider range of pitches than speaking.

The sudden quiet and crescendos leading to important parts of the piece are examples of changes in?

Dynamics

The main properties of musical sounds:

Dynamics, pitch, tone color, duration.

Which statements are true about this J.S. Bach piece?

Each section (A and B) is repeated, sometimes with light variations in dynamics, there is a pauses or longer notes signaling the end of part A and the beginning of part B, and it has two contrasting section A and B.

True or false: the faster that an object vibrates, the lower its pitch.

False

Which of the following are NOT keyboard instruments?

Harp and tambourine

When a melody serves as the starting point of a competition and is modified in various ways as the work progresses, it is called a ?

theme

Which are correct terms concerning the duration of rests?

Whole rest, half rest, quarter rest, eighth rest, and sixteenth rest.

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

Word painting

What is the woodwind instrument shown here?

a bassoon

In symphonic music, what is used to play sustained tones on stringed instruments?

a bow

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

a chromatic scale

When a note is emphasized more than others, usually by being played louder, it is call a(n)?

accent

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

arpeggio

A musical piece that has two contrasting sections is said to have a ? form.

binary

The simultaneous sounding of three or more tones, or pitches, is called a ?

chord

Choruses, orchestras and bands usually have a ? who leads the group, keeping everybody together and helping to shape the musical composition.

conductor

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

consonance

What provides variety?

contrast

When a musical idea differs from the previous one in timbre, texture, tonality, dynamics or rhythm, the technique used is ?

contrast

The first beat of each measure, which is also the strongest one is called the?

downbeat

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 way.

false

True or false: The beat in music is always clearly emphasized and strongly felt.

false

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

funnel-shaped mouthpiece

In music notation, the term "crescendo (cresc)" is used to mean ?

gradually louder

In music notation, the term "diminuendo (dim) or decrescendo (decresc.)" is used to mean?

gradually softer

What is the texture when there is a melody accompanied by chords?

homophonic

The distance between any two specific pitches.

interval

A series of tones, or pitches, that move by steps or intervals and add up to a recognizable whole is called a ?

melody

On which musical element is the attention focused in a homophonic texture?

melody

A mechanical or digital device that indicates tempo on a scale of beats per minute by emitting sounds or flashes of light is called a?

metronome

Music created in medieval Europe and later can come alive and be reproduced today thanks to ?

notation

What texture contains several melodic lines played simultaneously that often compete for attention?

polyphony

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

progression

The distance between the overall lowest tone to the highest tone that an instrument can play.

range

A specific part of a singer's or an instrument's tone range, such as the low part of the tonal range, is known as its?

register

Beat, meter, accent, tempo, and syncopation are all aspects related to?

rhythm

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

rhythm

Music as an art is organized by?

sounds and silence in time

A short, detached style of playing or singing a melody is called ?

staccato

To notate pitch, notes are placed on the lines or spaces of a?

staff

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

synthesizer

Accelerando (accel.) and ritardando (rit.) are Italian terms and abbreviation in music for a gradual change in?

tempo

What is the term that describes the different layers of musical sound and how they relate to each other?

texture

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

the key

What symbol at the beginning of the piece indicates the key in which the piece is written?

the key signature

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

time signature

Introducing each instrument family separately demonstrates which musical element?

tone color

The quality of sound that distinguishes voices and instruments one from the other is called?

tone color or timbre

No matter how often work changes key, its main (home) key is called the ?

tonic key

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

triad

True or false: Major and minor scales differ from each other in their structure of whole and half steps.

true

True or false: Musical style refers to the way rhythms, melodies, harmonies, texture and form are used in a specific period in history, in a geographical location or within a composer's work.

true

True or false: Tchalkovsky made the B section of the Dance of the Reed Pipes different by changing the instrumentation, the mode (from major to minor), and the range of the melody.

true

True or false: The melody of a song often reflects the intended mood of the lyrics (or text).

true

Which categories of instruments are commonly found in BOTH orchestras and marching bands?

Percussion and brass

This section of the orchestra contains drums.

Percussion section

In which of the following keyboard instruments are tones produced when air blows across or through openings in pipes?

Pipe organ

This section of the orchestra contains string.

String section

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

Ternary (three-part) form

What is the instrument shown here?

Trombone

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

True

True or false: As in this Chopin piece, dissonant harmonies can add tension and a sense of longing and melancholy to the music.

True

True or false: Attentive and perceptive listening is necessary for recognizing and fully understanding the properties of musical sound in a performance.

True

True or false: Electronic instruments include amplified instruments, synthesizers and computers.

True

Dynamics

Degrees of (loudness or softness) in music.

How is a percussion instrument that does NOT produce a specific tone and only noise-like sounds classified?

An instrument of indefinite pitch

Which instruments use double reeds?

Bassoon, English horn, oboe

What is the first stylistic period in the history of western music?

Middle Ages

Which of the following statements about modulation are true?

Modulation is the shifting from one key to another key and modulation usually changes the central tone.

What characteristic do two tones of different pitches that are an octave apart have?

They sound very much alike.