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History of Music & Music Genres Flashcards

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“In the beginning was the voice. Voice is sounding breath, The audible sign of life.”

A. Robert Hughes
B. Albert Einstein
C. Otto Jespersen
D. Pablo Picasso

A

Otto Jespersen

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our ancestors began communicating some two million years ago with emotional tones they called?

A. Vocalization
B. Vocal training
C. Vocal grooming
D. Vocal briding

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Vocal grooming

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It presumed to be the original musical instrument.

A. Guitar
B. Voice
C. Drums

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Voice

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A bone flute that was discovered near Ulm in Germany. The five holed flute has a V shaped mouthpiece and is made from a vulture wing bone, believed that the holes are caused by the teeth of some carnivorous animals.

A. Enheduana
B. Hohle Fels
C. Standard of Ur
D. Queen’s Lyre

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Hohle Fels

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A wooden box called as ____ was unearthed in the 1950’s from an ancient Sumerian cemetery dating from around 2600 BCE The wooden box depicting people at a banquet, several animals, many soldiers, a king, and a musician playing the lyre.

A. Enheduana
B. Hohle Fels
C. Standard of Ur
D. Queen’s Lyre

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Standard of Ur

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A lyre that was found in the grave of Queen Pu-abi.

A. Enheduana
B. Hohle Fels
C. Standard of Ur
D. Queen’s Lyre

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Queen’s Lyre

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a Cuneiform artifact written in Hurrian, a Sumerian dialect, in a tablet dedicated to the wife of a moon god The music and the tablets are referred to as the Hurrian Songs or as the Hurrian cult hymns.

A. A Hymn to Nikkel
B. A Hymn to Nikkal
C. A Hymn to Nikkol

A

A Hymn to Nikkal

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an Akkadian priestess and believed to be the earliest music composer.

A. Akkasia
B. Enheduana
C. Ellduana
D. Akalesia

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Enheduana

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Ritual temple music was largely a matter of dancing and the rattling of the s_ _ _ _ _ m accompanied by voice, sometimes with harp and/or percussion.

A. Sistrum
B. Hohle Fels
C. Aulos
D. Pan

A

Sistrum

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Ancient Greek music or m____e has long posed a
maddening enigma.

A. Musike
B. Mosike
C. Mousike

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Mousike

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who believed that music was a mathematical expression of the cosmic order?

A. Socrates
B. Pythagoras
C. Parmenides

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Pythagoras

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Organ of Ktesibios, Posered by water, the first keyboard instrument in the world.

A. Tuba
B. Hydraulis
C. Cornua
D. Lyra

A

Hydraulis

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a long woodwind instrument made of bronze and similar to a trumpet it had a conical mouthpiece which was detachable It was used by the military and in public events and spectacles.

A. Tuba
B. Hydraulis
C. Cornua
D. Lyra

A

Tuba

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a Greek aulos that was often played at funerals in order to repel evil spirits because of a beautiful low clarinet like sound.

A. Tibia
B. Hydraulis
C. Cornua
D. Lyra

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Tibia

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an ancient Roman brass instrument similar to a French horn, about 3 meters long and it had the shape of the letter ‘G’.

A. Tibia
B. Hydraulis
C. Cornua
D. Lyra

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Cornua

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The Romans also
had the ____ which was like a bagpipe.

A. Tibia
B. Askaueles
C. Cornua
D. Lyra

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Askaules

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made of a tortoise shell or a wooden sounding body, two arms made of animal horn or wood, and strings attached to a cross bar and stretching to the sounding body/shell.

A. Lyra
B. Cithara
C. Lute
D. Sambuca

A

Lyra

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also came from Greece and was similar to the lyre but only larger.

A. Lyra
B. Cithara
C. Lute
D. Sambuca

A

Cithara

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a small mandolin only it had fewer strings than the lyre or the cithara but could actually produce more notes than
the lyre.

A. Lute
B. Sambuca
C. Trigonum
D. Cithara

A

Lute

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a large harp.

A. Lute
B. Sambuca
C. Trigonum
D. Cithara

A

Sambuca

21
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a small harp which could be held in one’s hand.

A. Lute
B. Sambuca
C. Trigonum
D. Cithara

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Trigonum

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Romans had bells, tambourines, rattles made of wood or metal or the scabellum used to beat time.

A. Sistrum
B. Tympana
C. Timpani
D. Cymbala

A

Tympana

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cymbals that were clashed together to produce a sound.

A. Sistrum
B. Tympana
C. Timpani
D. Cymbala

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Cymbala

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They also had other percussion instruments such as the timpani and the sistrum that came from Egypt and which was like a rattle made of bronze.

A. Sistrum
B. Tympana
C. Timpani
D. Cymbala

A

Timpani

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is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world.

A. Seikilos Epitaph
B. Seikikos Epitaph
C. Sikeilos Epithaph

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Seikilos Epitaph

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an Italian and pedagogue of the medieval era and laid the foundations of medieval era. He is regarded as the inventor of modern staff notation (do re mi) that replaced the predominate pneumatic notation and was thus massively influential to the development of Western musical notation and practice.

A. John Dunstable
B. Adam de la Halle
C. Guido D’Arezzo
D. Philippe de Vitry

A

Guido D’Arezzo

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the first in which we can be sure as to how music sounded during this time Most notated manuscripts from this period came from the church or places connected to the church, and so most pieces have a religious subject.

A. Medieval music
B. Renaissance music
C. Baroque music

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Medieval music

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English composer who influenced the transition between late medieval and early Renaissance music. The influence of his sweet, sonorous music. He was the first English composer to have influence on other European composers. He also has an unusual treatment of harmony and the equality of the vocal parts.

A. Adam de la Halle
B. John Dunstable
C. Philippe de Vitry
D. Francesco Landini

A

John Dunstable

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Poet, musician, and innovator of the earliest French secular theatre. Originator of the polyphonic rondeau, one of the very first authors of musical drama and, European vernacular drama, as well as a mature, innovative use of voice.

A. Adam de la Halle
B. John Dunstable
C. Philippe de Vitry
D. Francesco Landini

A

Adam de la Halle

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A French composer, music theorist and poet. He was an accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, and the author of the ‘Ars Nova treatise’. He also introduced the new method of measuring rhythm which allowed for syncopation to be easily implemented and the concept of a time signature was also introduced.

A. Adam de la Halle
B. John Dunstable
C. Philippe de Vitry
D. Francesco Landini

A

Philippe de Vitry

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a French poet and composer in which many musicologists understood him the finest and most important composer of the 14th century. His musical piece Messe de Notre Dame” (Mass of Our Lady) is the most celebrated musical work of the 14th century.

A. Adam de la Halle
B. Guillaume de Machaut
C. Philippe de Vitry
D. Francesco Landin

A

Guillaume de Machaut

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Italian composer known a ‘A True and Truthful Artist’. He was instrumental on innovative and creative rhythm. Son of a painter, he became blind in childhood but then acquired great virtuosity on the organ, built and invented a new stringed instrument, probably similar to the harpsichord, which emerged during his time.

A. Adam de la Halle
B. Guillaume de Machaut
C. Philippe de Vitry
D. Francesco Landini

A

Francesco Landini

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significantly increased amounts of harmony, instrumental pieces, and polyphony into music, as most composers were focused on choral music

A. Medieval music
B. Renaissance music
C. Baroque music

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Renaissance music

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English organist and composer of the Shakespearean age who is best known for his development of the English madrigal. He also wrote virginal and organ music that elevated the English keyboard style.

A. William Byrd
B. John Dowland
C. Orlando Gibbons
D. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

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William Byrd

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English composer. He was most famous for his lute songs, works for the voice with accompaniment by the lute. He was, in effect, an ‘Elizabethan era pop musician’.

A. William Byrd
B. John Dowland
C. Orlando Gibbons
D. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

A

John Dowland

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English composer Organist and one of the last great figures of the English polyphonic school. Well known for his sacred choral music, he was among the first major English choral composers schooled entirely in the Protestant doctrines, and his highly polished English anthems are among the finest in the repertory.

A. William Byrd
B. John Dowland
C. Orlando Gibbons
D. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

A

Orlando Gibbons

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A. William Byrd
B. John Dowland
C. Orlando Gibbons
D. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

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