Final Exam

Question 1

The term referring to the overall shape of a melody is

Answer 1

Contour

Question 2

The distance between two pitches is called

Answer 2

Interval

Question 3

A phrase and cadence in music can be likened to a

Answer 3

Sentence and period

Question 4

**True or False: **Simple meters are meters in which the beats are divided into three

Answer 4

False

Question 5

In plainchant from the Middle Ages, if there are many notes per syllable, the style is called

Answer 5

Melismatic

Question 6

Which of the following topics might be found in Secular music by the Troubadours and Trouveres?

Answer 6

War and the Crusades
Politics
Unrequitted Love

Question 7

The number if beats in a measure determines the

Answer 7

Meter

Question 8

is the principle of organization around a central tone

Answer 8

Tonality

Question 9

strophic form

Answer 9

The same melody is repeated with each stanza of text

Question 10

Which composer wrote two stage works Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea, now considered the first operas to be staged?

Answer 10

Claudio Montiverdi

Question 11

True or False:In through-composed songs, music from previous stanzas is repeated.

Answer 11

FALSE

Question 12

A short, repeated musical pattern used as a structural device is known as a(n)

Answer 12

Ostinato

Question 13

_____ can give the “Forward Drive” feeling in a composition

Answer 13

Syncopation

Question 14

Where did Plainchant originate?

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Rome

Question 15

What used original chants (Cantus Firmus) while a separate melody formed over it?

Answer 15

Polyphony

Question 16

The word “oratorio” is derived from which?

Answer 16

an Italian word meaning “place of prayer”

Question 17

The Protestant Reformation was started by

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Martin Luther

Question 18

How is the oratorio similar to opera?

Answer 18

They both feature arias, recitatives, and choruses

Question 19

Which term means an instrumental refrain?

Answer 19

Ritornello

Question 20

The term “Baroque” comes from

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The Portuguese word “Borocco”

Question 21

True or False: There was an interest in both the regularity and complexity of musical patterns during the Ars nova

Answer 21

TRUE

Question 22

Alessandro Scarlatti formed the Italian Overture which consists of which 3 sections?

Answer 22

Allegro-Adagio-Allegro

Question 23

Tchaikovsky was a famous ______ composer.

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Russian

Question 24

True or False: Castrati were pre-pubescent boys that were castrated in order to keep their range high.

Answer 24

TRUE

Question 25

A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called

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A Requiem

Question 26

In either binary or ternary form, the A part usually moves from the home key (tonic) to a contrasting key (dominant), while the B section

Answer 26

makes the corresponding move back from the dominant to the tonic

Question 27

The Baroque dance inspired by the music of Spain is the

Answer 27

Sarabande

Question 28

There are _____ movements in Brahms's Requiem.

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Seven

Question 29

The concerto

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was a new instrumental genre of the Baroque era.

Question 30

What did Wagner call his operas?

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Music Dramas

Question 31

Jean-Baptiste Lully gained notoriety by establishing this genre of Opera

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Tragedie Lyrique

Question 32

Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called

Answer 32

Singspiel

Question 33

All of the following are generally regarded as antecedents to jazz except

Answer 33

Parlor Songs

Question 34

The _____ style is characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility and purity of tone.

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Bel Canto

Question 35

Big-band jazz was performed

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For black and white audiences in clubs and ballrooms across the country.

Question 36

**True or False:** Latin American percussion instruments and dance rhythms had an influence on jazz.

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TRUE

Question 37

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called _____ music.

Answer 37

Program

Question 38

Duke Ellington is best remembered for ?

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His work as a pianist, bandleader, and big-band arranger

Question 39

Term refers to Italian comic opera

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Opera Buffa

Question 40

Who were Tin Pan Alley song pluggers?

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musicians who demonstrated and sold sheet music

Question 41

In "Noche de jaranas," Revueltas incorporated elements that suggest

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* the popular dance genre called son. * a mariachi ensemble. * revelers wandering away from their celebration

Question 42

The _____ movement of a string quartet is often in minuet-and-trio form.

Answer 42

Third

Question 43

A theme can be fragmented by dividing it into small units called

Answer 43

Motives

Question 44

Which is most likely the slow movement in the multi movement cycle?

Answer 44

Second

Question 45

What was Aaron Copland's compositional aim?

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compositions designed for wide appeal

Question 46

The version of Rhapsody in Blue most commonly performed today is scored for

Answer 46

piano and full orchestra

Question 47

The melody, "Simple Gifts," heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the ______ tradition

Answer 47

Shaker

Question 48

In La noche de los Mayas, how does the orchestra emulate the sound of a Mexican mariachi group?

Answer 48

violins in thirds answered by brass

Question 49

**True or False: **The expansion of a melodic idea is known as thematic development.

Answer 49

TRUE

Question 50

Which two composers influenced John Cage?

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Henry Cowell and Harry Partch

Question 51

What was the American stage genre from which American musical theater drew inspiration ?

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Vaudeville

Question 52

**True or False: **Artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance were more interested in fostering musical traditions that they understood as more thoroughly African American--blues, jazz, and spirituals--than in encouraging the development of modernist art music.

Answer 52

TRUE

Question 53

In what language is George Crumb's Caballito negro sung?

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Spanish

Question 54

Avant-garde music _____.

Answer 54

utilizes unusual styles and techniques

Question 55

7 Different Musical Eras

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Medieval Renaissance Baroque Classical Romantic Modernism Post-Modernsim

Question 56

In what way is John Cage's 4'33" unusual?

Answer 56

The whole piece is silence

Question 57

The minuet, gavotte, bourrée, passepied, and hornpipe are

Answer 57

optional movements often included in a Baroque dance suite

Question 58

The Afro-Cuban dance with a fast, syncopated beat, heard in "The Dance at the Gym," is the

Answer 58

Mambo

Question 59

Eighteenth-century slaves from Africa's west coast brought the _______ style to America.

Answer 59

Call and Response

Question 60

What were the effects of minstrelsy on American culture?

Answer 60

It shaped stereotyping of African American culture well into the twentieth century and beyond.

Question 61

The ______ art song, or Lied, is performed by solo voice and piano.

Answer 61

German

Question 62

What happened to composer/musician Federico García Lorca

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was killed by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.

Question 63

______ became the figurehead for an intense debate about the definition of American music.

Answer 63

Antonín Dvorák

Question 64

Source music is music that

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functions as part of the drama itself

Question 65

**True or False:** European immigrants who populated the United States in the nineteenth century did not maintain their native languages.

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FALSE

Question 66

What are some of the Functions of music in Film?

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* help establish the characters * set the mood * Establish a sense of place and time

Question 67

During the nineteenth century, where did composers often gather to perform and discuss their music?

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Salons

Question 68

Some Characteristics of the Blues are:

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* Standard chord changes * Twelve- or Sixteen-bar harmonic progressions * Melodic pitch bending

Question 69

From which older genre did the symphony develop?

Answer 69

The Italian opera overture

Question 70

Johannes Brahms is revered for his mastery in composing what type of music?

Answer 70

Absolute Music

Question 71

Gradually getting softer in music is indicated by which term in the score?

Answer 71

Decrescendo

Question 72

What are some Musical Forms that are discussed throughout this course?

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* Ternany * Rondo * Binary * Strophic * Sonata