Semester 1 Final

Question 1

Which of these is a brass instrument?

A. Saxophone
B. Trumpet
C. Clarinet
D. Cymbals

Answer 1

B. Trumpet

Question 2

Which of these is NOT a woodwind instrument?

A. Flute
B. Clarinet
C. Djembe
D. English Horn

Answer 2

C. Djembe

Question 3

What instrument has the most ancestors?

A. Flute
B. Clarinet
C. Trumpet
D. Guitar

Answer 3

A. Flute

Question 4

What is the interval from C to G?

A. 5th
B. 4th
C. 2nd
D. Octave

Answer 4

A. 5th

Question 5

What is the interval from A to the next higher A?

A. Octave
B. Unison
C. 5th
D. 6th

Answer 5

A. Octave

Question 6

What are the names of the spaces in the treble clef?

A. FACE
B. ACEG
C. CEGB
D. EGBDF

Answer 6

A. FACE

Question 7

What are the names of the lines of the treble clef?

A. EGBDF
B. GBDFA
C. SHIELD
D. BDFAC

Answer 7

A. EGBDF

Question 8

What are the lines that extend the staff beyond the five lines?

A. Bar lines
B. Measures
C. Ledger Lines
D. Sharps

Answer 8

C. Ledger Lines

Question 9

What raises a note by a half step?

A. #
B. ♭
C. ^
D. *

Answer 9

A. #

Question 10

What lowers a note by a half step?

A. ♭
B. #
C. $
D. @

Answer 10

A. ♭

Question 11

What is the name of the marking that cancels a sharp or flat?

A. Natural
B. Sharp
C. Flat
D. Eraser

Answer 11

A. Natural

Question 12

What was the dominant force in people’s lives in the Middle Ages?

A. The Church
B. The King
C. The weather
D. Music

Answer 12

A. The Church

Question 13

Making the music reflect the words is called what?

A. Word Painting
B. Poetry
C. Good Writing
D. Motet

Answer 13

A. Word Painting

Question 14

What is the dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance?

A. Humanism
B. Confucianism
C. Catholicism
D. Lutheranism

Answer 14

A. Humanism

Question 15

For 1000 years, what was the official music of the catholic church?

A. Gregorian Chant
B. Motet
C. Mass
D. Oratoria

Answer 15

A. Gregorian Chant

Question 16

Gregorian Chant is named after?

A. Pope Gregory
B. Greg from accounting
C. Waylon Kemper
D. Grogonin

Answer 16

A. Pope Gregory

Question 17

Early Chant was monophonic but a second line was added making the music what?

A. Polyphonic
B. Monophonic
C. Stereophonic
D. Quadrophonic

Answer 17

A. Polyphonic

Question 18

Leonin worked at a cathedral in what city?

A. London
B. Paris
C. Rome
D. Vienna

Answer 18

B. Paris

Question 19

Chant with added lines of music was called what?

A. Organum
B. Motet
C. Madrigal
D. Rock n Roll

Answer 19

A. Organum

Question 20

Musicians that traveled the countryside singing songs of love were called what?

A. Troubadors
B. Motets
C. Scoundrels
D. Han Solo

Answer 20

A. Troubadors

Question 21

What caused a weakening of the church?

A. The Plague
B. War
C. Multiple Popes
D. All of these

Answer 21

D. All of these

Question 22

Secular music is played in church.

True or False

Answer 22

False

Question 23

The Renaissance gets it’s name from a word meaning what?

A. Rebirth
B. Beautiful but odd
C. Praise
D. Thought

Answer 23

A. Rebirth

Question 24

Bach was a Renaissance composer.

True or False

Answer 24

False

Question 25

Modern music notation owes it's creation to whom? A. Guido B. Leonin C. Perotin D. Palestrina

Answer 25

A. Guido

Question 26

Music in the Renaissance was chiefly what? A. Homophonic B. Monophonic C. Polyphonic

Answer 26

C. Polyphonic

Question 27

The large scale musical work for the catholic service is called what? A. Mass B. Motet C. Madrigal D. Cantana

Answer 27

A. Mass

Question 28

The piano was popular during the Renaissance. True or False

Answer 28

False

Question 29

In the movie, Bach's Fight For Freedom, the boy in the film wanted to be a what? A. Servant B. Stone Mason C. Composer D. Duke

Answer 29

B. Stone Mason

Question 30

Which is sacred? A. Motet B. Madrigal

Answer 30

A. Motet

Question 31

What is the time period of the Middle Ages? A. 0-1400 B. 1400-1550 C. 1550-1650 D. Tuesday

Answer 31

A. 0-1400