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What is the correct pronunciation for the last name of Ludwig van Beethoven?

"Bay-toe-van"

What is the correct pronunciation for the last name of Antonín Dvořák?

"Duh-vor-zhak"

How does one properly say the last name of Franz Joseph Haydn?

"Hi-den"

How does one properly say the last name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

"Moats-art"

What is the correct pronunciation for the last name of romantic pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff?

"Rock-mon-in-off"

What is the correct way to pronounce the last name of Franz Schubert?

"Shoo-bert"

What is the correct pronunciation for the last name of romantic composer and performer Frederic Chopin?

"Show-pan"

What is a prepared piano?

A piano that has everyday items like nuts, bolts, screws and erasers placed on or between the strings in order to create a more percussive sound.

What is an art song?

A poem that was set to music. It was designed to be performed by one singer and one pianist.

What is sprechstimme?

A singing technique where the notes are half-sung, half-spoken

What is a ballet?

A stage work that tells a story through dancing.

What is an opera?

A stage-play that involves music (primarily singing).

What is bel canto singing

A type of singing in which beautiful singing is glorified

What is scat singing?

A type of singing where the singer sings sounds and non-sense syllables rather than actual words.

What is a concerto?

A work for orchestra and soloist. The orchestra and soloist work together to create a performance but trade back and forth who gets the spotlight (though the soloist is featured more so than the orchestra).

What is a cantata?

An often dramatic musical work for solo voice or choir with instrumental accompaniment (like a small orchestra). Similar to an opera but shorter and has no costumes, stage props, or acting.

What is a leitmotif?

An operatic concept in which a short melody is associated with an idea, object, or character in the stage production

In opera, the main type of song is called a/an_____. This song generally has a steady beat. In addition, it is common for these songs to be performed in concert apart from the opera as a stand-alone song.

Aria

Franz Schubert's greatest compositional output was in the genre of the _____.

Art Song

Johann Sebastian Bach lived during what musical period

Baroque

In music, what do we call the pulse in a musical work?

Beat

Who was nicknamed the Empress of the Blues?

Bessie Smith

For the violin, viola, cello, and double-bass, an object is commonly used to create sound from the instrument. This object is a long and thin piece of wood with horse hairs stretched from end to end. Those horsehairs are moved over the strings of the instrument to create sound. What is this object called?

Bow

The modern orchestra primarily contains instruments from which four instrument families?

Brass Percussion String Woodwind

Throughout the 1960s, a host of rock 'n' roll bands from Britain came to America to perform. This process became known as the _____.

British Invasion

Which early rock 'n' roll artist had a band named The Crickets?

Buddy Holly

____ was one of the first women to gain an international reputation as a piano virtuoso.

Clara Schumann

Identify this instrument

Clarinet

In the later 1940s, Miles Davis formed a type of jazz music that focused on playing lower and quieter notes, spotlighted the ensemble more than the soloist, and had a very introspective and calm mood. What type of music is this?

Cool Jazz

The jazz hit Take Five was composed by which artist?

Dave Brubeck

Select all of the instruments that could belong to the rhythm section of a jazz band.

Drums, Piano, Bass

What term is used to describe the volume of music?

Dynamics

Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong are all examples of what?

Early examples of video games that include music composed for them.

Who was officially titled the King of Rock and Roll?

Elvis Presley

What answer below best fits with the musical style of impressionism?

Emphasis of atmosphere and mood, avoidance of pomp, and melodies that drift in and out smoothly.

A group of musicians performing together is referred to as a/an_____.

Ensemble

Chamber music ensembles greatly utilize the conductor.

False

John Cage's piece 4'33" is his way of proving that silence frequently surrounds us if we just listen for it.

False

The bebop style tended to be calm, introspective, and focused on the full band rather than any soloist.

False

Who was the first black woman in America to gain much recognition as a symphonic composer?

Florence B. Price

Claude Debussy was born in what country?

France

Who started the trend of turning the piano sideways in concerts to allow the audience to better see the hands of the pianist while also hearing the intricate sounds produced by the instrument?

Franz Liszt

In response to his time in the United States, what did Antonín Dvořák nickname his ninth symphony?

From the New World

What kind of jazz attempted to merge rock and jazz?

Fusion

Who composed Rhapsody in Blue?

George Gershwin

Which 2010s musical infuses traditional show-tune styles with hip-hop, pop, blues, and other musical styles?

Hamilton

Regarding the difference between hearing and listening, which statement is true?

Hearing is passive (requiring no action on your part) while listening is active (requiring active effort to pay attention to the sound).

Though it looks as if it belongs in the brass family, the saxophone actually belongs in the woodwind family. Why so?

It uses a single, wooden reed to help create the sound.

Who composed The Stars and Stripes Forever?

John Philip Sousa

Who is the most successful and influential film music composer?

John Williams

Who was commonly referred to as the Man in Black?

Johnny Cash

Due to his interaction with the amazing _____ family, Louis Armstrong was able to better see that people are all equal, no matter the color of the skin.

Karnofsky

Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, this 1980s musical is full of love, revolution (in France), redemption, and beautiful forgiveness. Jean Valjean (prisoner 24601) serves time for stealing a loaf of bread and, later, continues to dodge the authorities. For years he is hunted by the policeman Javert. Valjean adopts Cosette, the daughter of Fantine (because Fantine dies tragically). Cosette is loved by Marius and Marius is loved by Eponine (the only good and kind person to come from the deceptive Thenardier family).

Les Miserables

_____ takes effort. It's a skill one must develop and practice. _____ involves making a conscious effort to pay attention to the sounds entering your ears.

Listening

To which composer do we often look as helping move the musical world from the classical period into the romantic period?

Ludwig van Beethoven

If you sing along with a song while driving in your car, you are probably singing the main tune of the song. What do we call the main tune of a piece of music?

Melody

Philip Glass primarily composes in what style of music?

Minimalism

What is improvisation as it relates to music

Music that is created by the performer during the moment of performance.

What is program music?

Music that uses the sounds of the instruments to recreate an image, scene, or event in the listener's mind.

Jazz was born in _____.

New Orleans

Which composer was often called the "John Williams" of the video game industry due to his popularity and influence in the video game music world (much like John Williams' popularity and influence in the film music world)?

Nobuo Uematsu

Musicals are quite similar to _____.

Operas

George Frederic Handel's Messiah is a/an_____.

Oratorio

_____ was an art style that had incredibly vivid colors, was filled with flat shapes, and often had no sense of perspective. Musically, works of this style had harsh, angular melodies (they didn't flow smoothly) and unexpected rhythmic accents.

Primitivism

Which style of music merged the blues with the folk music of white, working-class Americans? It served as a precursor to rock 'n' roll and was created by Billy Haley, among other artists.

Rockabilly

Because of the newness of Liszt's concert ideas, he gained an incredible following of people who went wild at his concerts. Because of this, Liszt could be nicknamed the _____.

Romantic Period Elvis

To help adjust the notes on the instrument, a trombonist uses the _____.

Slide

The greatest pop songwriter of early America was _____. He composed songs like Camptown Races, My Old Kentucky Home, and Oh! Susanna.

Stephen Foster

The baroque orchestra primarily used which three instrument families?

Strings Woodwind Brass

What do we call a multi-movement work where each movement is based on a particular popular dance? It is composed for a solo instrument and commonly found in the baroque period.

Suite

In general, what do we call a large, multi-movement work for orchestra?

Symphony

The music for The Nutcracker was composed by _____.

Tchaikovsky

When discussing the speed of a piece of music, you are discussing the

Tempo

Of all the bands of the British Invasion, which two most stood out (and were the most famous)?

The Beatles The Rolling Stones

Aaron Copland was from which country?

The USA

The opening rhythmic motif of Beethoven's 5th Symphony is often nicknamed what?

The fate motif

In a printed program at a classical music concert, something similar to the following might be seen: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67 Allegro con brio Andante con moto Scherzo. Allegro Allegro Ludwig van Beethoven(1770-1827) Under the piece's title are four lines of foreign terms (in this example Allegro, Andante, Scherzo, Allegro). What do these terms represent?

The four movements of this particular symphony

Who was Scott Joplin

The most popular and successful composer and performer of ragtime music.

What does the term a capella mean?

The music features singing with no instrument accompaniment.

The bebop style was particularly popular among which jazz artists?

Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker

"Lied" is the German term for "Art Song." They refer to the same thing.

True

Beethoven took the ideas of Haydn and Mozart and expanded them greatly: larger orchestras, longer works, greater dynamic contrast, and a demand for performers to create music in ways unheard of until that time.

True

The story of Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) involves a young girl who, as part of pre-historic Russian pagan culture, has to dance herself to death in order to convince the gods to end winter and bring on spring.

True

To help conquer the somewhat awkward "silent" experience of early films, musicians used to play live music during the movie.

True

What kind of music used all twelve notes of the chromatic scale as the basis for creating a melody?

Twelve Tone

Traditionally, what four instruments are used in a string quartet ensemble?

Two violins, viola, cello

____ was an American pianist who, in 1958, won the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Four years later, a piano competition was created in his honor.

Van Cliburn

The title of Mozart's works are often followed by the letter "K" and a number (like K. 273). What does this number represent?

Where in Köchel's chronological listing the Mozart piece can be found.

Who composed the work Afro-American Symphony?

William Grant Still

How does a wind ensemble differ from an orchestra

Wind ensembles do not have the full string family present

Of the following, who was recognized and known as a child prodigy?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

What is a requiem?

a funeral mass

For what reasons did the early rock 'n' roll scene almost disappear toward the end of the 1950s? Select all that apply.

a. c. d. h. j.

With what impairment did Beethoven struggle for much of his life?

deafness

Arrange the following music periods into chronological order.

medieval renaissance baroque classical romantic modern

A nocturne is a short piece of music for solo piano that reflects the _____.

peace and quiet of night time

John Cage was obsessed with _____.

sound

To learn ideas for writing incredibly emotional music, to where do film composers turn?

the music of the romantic period

Despite the onset of deafness and much contemplation of suicide, Beethoven chose to fight through his trials and continue to compose music.

true

When purposefully and intently listening to music, it helps to listen for the instruments/instrumental families as well as various other musical elements (dynamics, tempo, etc.).

true