EXAM 3 Flashcards
EXAM 3 (179 cards)
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Alban Berg and Anton Weber were students of
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Arnold Schoenberg
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The Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to
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a near riot
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Which of the following does NOT characterize the musical language of expression?
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extended passages of consonance
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Music that rejects the framework of key is described as
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atonal
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Which Viennese composer invented the twelve-tone method after writing in both post-Romantic and atonal styles?
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Schoenberg
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Which early twentieth-century style wealth with the realm of the psyche?
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Expressionism
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Which painter associated with Expressionism influence Schoenberg?
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Munch
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Which of the following Stravinsky works is from his primitivist period?
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The Rite of Spring
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Which of the following is NOT a Stravinsky ballet?
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Daphnis and Chloé
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Which of the following was the Russian-born composer who wrote post-Impressionist, primitivist, Neoclassical and twelve-tone styles?
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Stravinsky
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Copland’s Appalachian Spring quotes the early American tune:
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Simple Gifts
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Copland’s Billy the Kids is a
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ballet
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During the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk developed
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bebop
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George Gershwin’s folk opera ______ was far ahead of its time
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Porgy and Bess
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In his early years, William Grand Still was associated with which artistic movement
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the Harlem Renaissance
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In which musical style did Copland compose
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twelve-tone, jazz, neoclassical
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John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes is a work for
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prepared piano
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John Williams was the music director and principal conductor of the
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Boston Pops
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Leonard Bernstein was the first American-born conductor to be appointed director of the
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New York Philharmonics
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Prokofiev and Shostakovich were prominent composers from
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the Soviet Union
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Nadia Boulanger was an extraordinarily gifted
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teacher
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One composer in Paris who explored post-Impressionist trends was
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Ravel
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The introduction to Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring begins with a melody played on the
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bassoon
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The comparative study of musics of the world is called
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ethnomusicology
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The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was
neo-Classicism
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The first great American composer of the twentieth century was
Charles Ives
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The principal exponent of cool jazz was the trumpeter
Miles Davis
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West Side Story is a modern-day musical retelling of Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet
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What kind of jazz is Duke Ellington known for?
big band
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What was the trademark of bebop?
a two-note phrase
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Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?
New Orleans
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Which Hungarian composer combined native folk music characteristics with main currents of European music?
Bartók
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Which Russian figure played a crucial role in the development of the twentieth-century ballet?
Serge Diaghilev
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Which mass-media forum was launched in 1981?
MTV
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Which of the following composers invented the prepared piano?
John Cage
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Which of the following composers would NOT have been emulated during the neoclassical era
Wagner
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Which of the following did NOT characterize the career of George Gershwin?
He lived a long life and was a mentor to other young composers
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Which of the following does NOT characterize Ive's Country Band March?
standard march form
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Which of the following does not characterize John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes?
lyrical melodies
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Which of the following is NOT a balled by Copland?
Our Town
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Which of the following music genres developed around the turn of the twentieth century and incorporates elements of African music and Western popular and art music?
jazz
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Which of the following musical was NOT a collaboration by Rodgers and Hammerstein
The Phantom of the Opera
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Which of the following was NOT composed by Leonard Bernstein
An American in Paris
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Which of the following works by John Cage has no musical content and can be performed by anyone any instrument
4'33
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Which of the following wrote the lyrics for West Side Story?
Stephen Sondheim
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Which work did Gershwin compose in France?
An American in Paris
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With which contemporary movement is the composer John Cage linked?
chance music
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Bartok's use of rhythm was
particularly innovative
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Berg's opera Wozzeck centers on
a soldiers obsession with unhappy love
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Berg's opera Wozzeck is best described as an example
Expressionism
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Bernstein rose to prominence as
a conductor
a pianist
a composer
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Bernstein's West Side Story updates the feud of the Capulets and the Montagues to a feud between
The Jets and the Sharks
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In the twelve-tone method, the arrangement of the twelve tones is called a
tone row
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Irving Berlin's first hit song was
Alexander's Ragtime Band
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Louis Armstrong was also known as
Satchmo
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Louis Armstrong's instrument-like approach to singing is called
scat-singing
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Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as
Sprechstimme
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The third movement of William Grand Still's Suite for Violin and Piano can best be described as
bluesy
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The twelve-tone method is also known as
serialism
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Which composer was a disciple of Schoenberg and is best known as his operas Wozzeck and Lulu?
Berg
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Which early twentieth-century songwriter composed the wartime hit Over There
George M. Cohan
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Who was a prominent student of Nadia Boulanger?
Copland
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The leading composer of Italian opera in the late-Romantic era was:
Puccini
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Which of the following compositions is LEAST likely to be an example of program music?
String Quartet in B-flat Major
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The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism, called:
verismo.
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In Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, what is the idée fixe?
the basic theme of the symphony, heard in every movement
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The first movement of a symphony is usually in ________ form.
sonata-allegro
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Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a:
program symphony
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Which of the following composed The Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Rossini
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born in:
New Orleans
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The German term for the art song is:
Lied
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The Dies irae text from the Requiem Mass describes:
Judgement Day
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Which of the following was NOT a leading composer of Italian opera?
Bizet
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Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of:
Claude Debussy
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What is the form of the second movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5?
theme and variation
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Music composed without literary or pictorial meanings is called:
absolute music
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The “Ode to Joy” is the finale of Beethoven’s:
Symphony No.9
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Which of the following was NOT characteristic of Impressionist music?
strong accents on the first beat of each measure
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In which country was Franz Liszt born?
Hungary
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Which of the following inspired Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?
the actress Harriet Smithson
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How many movements are in a Classical concerto?
3
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Which group of instruments was the nucleus of the Classical orchestra?
strings
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Which of the following composers created the symphonic poem?
Liszt
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Beethoven suffered from perhaps the most traumatic of all maladies for a musician. What was it?
deafness
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Mozart died while writing his:
Requiem.
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How many symphonies did Beethoven write?
9
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Of which genre is Fauré is considered to be a master?
song
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Which of the following Russian composers was famous for his ballets?
Tchaikovsky
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Wagner’s cycle of four music dramas is called:
The Ring of the Nibelung
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Which of the following was a widely beloved nationalist opera composer?
Verdi
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The nickname “father of the symphony” was earned by:
Haydn
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Wagner’s total artwork, in which all the arts—music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle—are fused together, is called:
the Gesamtkunstwerk
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A group of Lieder unified by a narrative thread or by a descriptive or expressive theme is called a(n):
song cycle
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A rondo is most typically found in the ________ movement of a Classical multimovement cycle.
last
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A typical feature of a concerto is a free solo passage without orchestral accompaniment called the:
cadenza
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Chopin spent his early years in:
Poland
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Which of the following best describes the form of the first movement of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik?
sonata-allegro
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The Dies irae is:
a chant from the Mass for the Dead
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Which nineteenth-century composer’s entire output centered around the piano?
Chopin
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Schubert was born in:
Vienna
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Which composer is from Finland?
Sibelius
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Oratorios primarily drew their stories from:
bible
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Which composer both maintained and disrupted the balance of the Classical style?
Beethoven
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The librettist for Wagner’s music dramas was:
Wagner himself
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The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:
piano
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Chopin spent most of his productive life in:
Paris
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How did Classical artists differ from their Romantic counterparts?
Classical artists emphasized clarity and beauty of form.
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What trend inspired composers to write music evoking scenes or sounds of far-off lands?
exoticism
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Which of the following was a noted woman composer of the Romantic era?
Clara Schumann
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A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called:
a Requiem
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Impressionism: Sun Rising, the painting that sparked the Impressionist art movement, was created by:
Claude Monet.
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Robert Schumann’s A Poet’s Love is set to texts by:
Heinrich Heine
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Which composer rebelled against the patronage system and struggled to achieve financial independence?
Mozart
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How many movements are in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?
5
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How many movements make up a typical Haydn symphony?
4
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Which of the following does NOT characterize Romantic music?
reserved emotions
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Which movement of a symphony is traditionally the slowest?
2nd
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Which of the following composers was NOT a master of the Viennese school?
Chopin
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The Classical period in music ranged from approximately:
1750-1825
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Brahms is often described as a(n) ________ because of his use of the forms established by the Classical masters.
traditionalist
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How did comic opera differ from opera seria?
It was sung in the vernacular.
It presented down-to-earth plots.
It featured ensemble as well as solo singing.
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In the Classical multimovement cycle, the third movement is usually in ________ form.
minuet and trio
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In Schubert’s Elfking, the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano accompaniment represents:
the galloping of the horse
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The standard ranges of the human voice, from highest to lowest, are:
soprano, alto, tenor, bass
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The term timbre refers to the
color of a tone
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The bass instrument in the brass family is the:
tuba
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The device placed on the bridge of string instruments to muffle the sound is called a:
mute
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The highest-sounding member of the woodwind family is the:
picolo
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The instruments of the Western orchestra are categorized in four groups: strings, brass, percussion, and:
woodwinds
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The soprano brass instrument sometimes described as possessing a brilliant timbre is the:
trumpet
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The special effect produced on a string instrument by plucking a string with the finger is called:
pizzicato
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Timpani are members of the ________ family of instruments.
percussion
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Which is the correct order of bowed string instruments from highest to lowest in range?
violin, viola, cello, double bass
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Which of the following instruments is NOT a member of the bowed string family?
guitar
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Which of the following is NOT a double-reed instrument?
clarinet
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Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
English horn
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Which of the following is an unpitched percussion instrument?
bass drum
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A fairly large group of singers who perform together is called a(n):
chrous
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Approximately two-thirds of a symphony orchestra consists of:
strings
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The term a cappella refers to choral music performed:
without any accompaniment.
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Which of the following is the proper chronological order of musical style periods?
Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, twentieth century
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Which of the following women was a religious leader and a prominent figure in literature and music?
Hildegard of Bingen
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________ is traditionally associated with collecting and organizing the chants of the church.
. Pope Gregory the Great
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The earliest type of polyphony was:
organum
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The first major center of polyphony was:
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
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During the fourteenth century, a style of music developed that became known as:
. the Ars nova.
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The French courtly love song of the Middle Ages was called the:
chanson
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The outstanding composer-poet of the Ars nova was:
Machaut
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The tradition of troubadours and trouvères developed in:
France
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The vivid depiction of a text through music, known as word-painting, is a hallmark of the:
madrigal
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Who invented the printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
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Josquin’s Ave Maria . . . virgo serena is an example of the:
motet
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The text of Ave Maria . . . virgo serena is:
in praise of the Virgin Mary.
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What best describes the texture of ideal Renaissance sacred music?
imitative
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What is a cantus firmus?
a fragment of Gregorian chant or a secular tune used as the foundation of a polyphonic Mass
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After the Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church responded with a movement to recapture the loyalty of its people. This was known as:
the Counter-Reformation
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What was the primary language of the Mass?
Latin
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Which composer responded to the reforms of the Council of Trent in an exemplary fashion?
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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Which of the following are the movements of the Ordinary of the Mass?
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
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Which of the following was a leader in the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
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The greatest native-born English composer of the Baroque was:
Henry Purcell
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The orchestral introduction at the beginning of an opera is called the:
overture.
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The text of an opera is called the:
libretto
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The vocal style in opera that imitates the natural inflections of speech is called:
recitative
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Which of the following composers is regarded as the first master of opera?
Monteverdi
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In the Lutheran Church, the weekly hymns sung by the congregation were called:
chorales
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Johann Sebastian Bach was most famous in his day as a performer on the:
organ
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The expansion of the chorale with new poetry resulted in the:
cantata
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The famous choral climax of Handel’s Messiah is:
the “Hallelujah Chorus
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The orchestra for Messiah relies primarily on the:
strings
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The stories for oratorios are generally drawn from:
the Bible
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________ was born in Germany and studied in Italy, but spent much of his creative life in England.
Handel
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The first era of Western music history in which instrumental music was a major focus for composers was the:
Baroque
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The solo instrument in Spring, from The Four Seasons, is the:
violin
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The typical solo concerto has ________ movements.
3
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Which of the following is Vivaldi’s best-known set of concertos?
The Four Season
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The ________ is a keyboard form based on the principle of voices imitating each other.
fugue
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The ________ is a keyboard instrument whose strings are plucked by quills.
harpsichord
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The model for Bartók’s melodies can be found in:
Hungarian folk songs.
