Music Test 1
32-bar song form can be best described as
AABA with each stanza having 8 bars
Mozart and beethoven are baroque period composers. T or F?
False
a melody that has many skips and leaps is in conjunct motion. T or F
false
a rock concert in England would be considered world music. T or F
false
all pieces of music can be called a songs t or f
false
bach and handel are classical composers. T or F
false
heterophony is very common in western art music. t or f
false
in the renaissance period, one of the most important types of sacred composition was the polyphonic setting of the chanson. T or F?
false
j. s. bach was known as a catholic church composer. T or F
false
traditional shakuhachi music is based on japanese septatonic scales. T or F
false
the shakuhachi
is a japanese chordophone with five strings
what usually does not apply to western art music?
it died out in the early 20th century
what usually does not apply to world music?
it is composed and notated by a known person
what usually does not apply to popular music?
its popularity is usually long-lived
what are the six historical periods of western art music in chronological order
medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, twentieth-century(present)
when art tatum was a teenager in toledo, ohio, one would go to
murphys, the only nightclub for african americans downtown, to hear him play jazz
Italian humanists wanted to revive the emotive power of ancient Greek drama. This led to the development of
opera at the beginning of the baroque period
if you attend a concert and hear a symphony orchestra performing with a solo flutist, the genre is
sonata
what is not true about the effect of loud sounds on human body?
sounds louder than 6-dB will cause pain
violins and guitars are categorized as
strings
"over the rainbow" was orginally a jazz piece adapted for the wizard of oz. T or F
true
"world music" or "global music" are categories that refer to local or regional music traditions outside the spheres of popular music and western art music. T or F
true
a coda is a tail, a section added to the end of a piece. t or f
true
a suite is a collection of dances meant for listening rather than dancing. t or f
true
an instrument that sounds very loud refers to its timbre. t or f
true
art tatum was both an iconic and controversial figure in jazz. t or f
true
cultural identities are not fixed and can be negotiated. T or F
true
in bali, the interlocking rhythmic technique is called kotekan. t or f
true
music can facilitate speech recovery and ease pain. T or F
true
the classical period featured an "international style" that drew primarily from italian and germanic taste. T or F
true
the lied (art song) is a work for vocal soloist and piano. T or F
true
there are three types of minor scales. T or F
true
impressionism is a musical style that
was developed around the turn of the twentieth century and focuses on atmosphere and mood
bachs suite in e minor
was meant to be listened to
cultural appropriation is
when members of a dominant culture take or adopt elements of a minority culture for their own gain
one commonly accepted way to classify the different types of music throughout the world is by using the following three categories
world/global music, popular music, and western art music
the american songbook is
a collection of songs from musical theatre and tin pan alley
the area of the brain that perceives and analyzes sound is the
auditory cortex
the surviving music from the medieval period comes from the early church and the nobility because
commoners did not write down their music
a melody that mostly moves between adjacent tones is called
conjunct
most scholars agree that culture is
deterministic and completely formed by our social environment
32-bar song form is rarely used outside of popular song. T or F
false
"over the rainbow" was composed by
harold arien
a pentatonic scale
has 5 tones
if the choir is singing a melody each a little differently the texture is
heterophonic
if a choir is singing a melody exactly together the texture is
homophonic
the performance of "over the rainbow" in the movie the wizard of oz is
homophonic
if the choir is singing a melody with the sopranos on the melody and each of the other voice on a complementary but indecent melody, the texture is
polyphonic
in this period, extremes were embraced, symphonies enlarged, and new genres developed, including the symphonic poem and lied
romantic period
the overall shape or structure of a piece of music is its
texture
an octave is
the distance from one tone in a scale to its upper or lower repetition
during the late 17th and 18th century the shakuhachi became associated with
the fuke sect of of buddhism and the development of a standard repertory