Music 1306 Review Set #2

Match the following years in history with the corresponding Musical Era:

1400-1600 > Renaissance 1750-1800 > Classical Era 400-1400 > Middle Ages 1600-1750 > Baroque Era

The Middle Ages is generally considered to span the years from

400-1400

The interval from the second scale degree in a major scale to the seventh scale degree is a(n)_____.

6th

Match the following years with the corresponding events in music history.

8th-14th Centuries - Absolute Authority of the church 1378 - Great Schizm 1450 - Invention of the printing press 1517 - Protestant Revolution 1545 - Counter Reformation, Council of Trent

Which of the following are a type of form in music?

ABA Theme and Variations Ternary

The large-scale (or overarching) form of a symphonic minuet is

ABA.

How are the pieces in chapter 3 by Mozart and Ellington similar?

Both have a lot of variety in a short amount of time.

In what key does the Trio from Mozart's Minuet and Trio begin?

C major

A piece of music always remains in the same key and never wanders into any other keys.

False

The smallest possible interval between two different sounding pitches is called a unison.

False

What is an indication that a vocalist is improvising?

He or she makes up sounds and random syllables, referred to as "scatting."

Who wrote the lyrics to "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"?

Irving Mills

Which of the following composers are from the Renaissance? Select all that apply.

Josquin Morley Gabrieli Palestrina

What is a key difference between Josquin's Pange Lingua Mass and the plainchant on which it is based?

Josquin's music has rhythms and is polyphonic

The majority of plainchant is written in which language?

Latin

Which of the following composers are from the Middle Ages? Select all that apply.

Leoninus and Beatriz de Dia

Which of the following refer to texture in a piece of music? Select all that apply.

Monophonic Chordal Harmony Homophonic Polyphonic Round

This musical selection Handel Oratorio Messiah Hallelujah 1741 Sample.mp3 contains the following (select all that apply):

NOT blue scales

IMG_1052 2.jpg The following can be said about this musical excerpt (select all that apply):

NOT this is obviously a sacred plainchant from the Middle Ages

Rank the following dynamic levels from loudest to softest: mf, pp, mp, fff, f, crescendo

Not possible

Using the following score sample identify the genre IMG_1046 2.jpg

Orchestral

What is the interval, chord type, and/or quality of the sound in the following musical example? In other words, what do you hear? Listening Example 1 Exam 1.mp3

Perfect 5th and consonance

Who said, "Music gives soul to the universe"?

Plato

Match the following terms to the most appropriate definition:

Ronde and Saltarello - types of Renaissance dances in binary form motet - a sacred vocal work, invented during the Renaissance word painting - composing music to express the specific meaning of the words Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei - the five sections of the Ordinary of the Mass round - the strictest form of imitation, also a type of polyphony madrigal - a secular vocal work, invented during the Renaissance and employing text painting (also referred to as word painting)

From which musical era is the music shown in the following score? IMG_1025 2 _1_.jpg

The Classical Era

The following musical sample is most likely from the IMG_1027 2 _1_.jpg

The Middle Ages

What is the form of the following musical selection? https://youtu.be/7BTvoqVK420

Theme and Variations

In the following excerpt, how do the two statements compare with each other? Listening Example 7 Exam 1.mp3

They begin similarly, but have different endings

In the following excerpt, how do the two statements compare with each other? Listening Example 7 Exam 1.mp3

They have a similar beginning with different endings

How do historians distinguish one historical period from another?

They look for similar characteristics that set one period apart from another.

Most of the surviving music from the medieval period was designed for use in the Roman Catholic liturgy.

True

Music in the Middle Ages was written without bar lines or exact rhythmic notation.

True

Pizzicato means to pluck the strings with your finger instead of playing them with a bow.

True

The frequency of a pitch, or note, is determined by how many times per second an object vibrates.

True

The lowest "A" on the piano vibrates 27.5 times per second. It, therefore, has a frequency of 27.5 Hertz.

True

Match the following musical compositions to the appropriate year of composition and composer:

Viderunt Omnes - 1199, Perotinus Motet, "Exsultate Deo" - 1584, Palestrina Canzona, "Duodecimi Toni" - 1597, Gabrieli Pange Lingua Mass - 1520, Josquin Desprez Secular song (rondeau), "Doulz Viaira Gracieus" - mid-1300s, Machaut Secular song, "A Chantar" - c. 1175, Beatriz de Dia

What is the formula for the major scale?

WWHWWWH

What is a canzona?

a serious contrapuntal instrumental piece from the late Renaissance

The earliest music must have passed from generation to generation by means of

an oral tradition.

How does a composer provide contrast and continuity in a minuet?

by repeating the first minuet after a contrasting trio

When the pulse, or beat, of the music can be "felt" in groups of two, it is said to be in ______ meter.

duple

Most liturgical and ceremonial music of the Middle Ages was

intended to be sung.

Match the following terms with the correct definition.

interval - the distance from one note to another note melismatic - multiple notes per syllable homophonic - melody and harmony move at the same time with basically the same rhythms polyphonic - multiple melodic lines occurring simultaneously beat - the pulse of the music

Which of the following is the slowest tempo marking?

largo

Which three types of compositions were dominant in the Renaissance?

liturgical music, motets, and secular songs

Match the following term with the most appropriate definition.

music - organized sound interval - the distance from one note to another note melismatic - one syllable with many notes monophonic - the texture of plainchant Middle Ages - a period in history which included the Absolute Authority of the Roman Catholic Church Great Schism - a divisive period of time in the Middle Ages when the church had two Popes rondeau - a kind of poem with a two-line refrain or chorus Magnus Liber Organi - the Great Book of Polyphony

The type of text setting that uses a small number of notes per syllable is called

neumatic.

In class, we looked at the first page of the fourth movement ("Jupiter") of Holst's famous work The Planets, which was written for a VERY large, 20th century _________.

orchestra

What is the equivalent of a cadence in writing?

punctuation

Which of the following are a type of text setting? Select all that apply.

syllabic neumatic melismatic

Which part of an orchestral stringed instrument is used to make the strings vibrate?

the bow

Who was among Josquin's most important patrons?

the duke of Milan

Which of the following factors helped the arts flourish in the Middle Ages?

the growth of trade and commerce

Two vocalists singing the same pitch is a(n)__________.

unison

When you see an instrument for the first time

you can sometimes make educated guesses about it by transferring your knowledge about other instruments.