Test 3

Question 1

What time period is the Romantic Era?

Answer 1

1810-1910

Question 2

What is Strophic form?

Answer 2

When the same music is used for multiple verses of songs. (ex. hymns)

Question 3

What is Modified Strophic form?

Answer 3

When the same music is used for most of the verses, but some are altered.

Question 4

What is Through-composed?

Answer 4

Each verse has different music

Question 5

What is Rubato Technique?

Answer 5

Allows the performer to speed up or slow down the notes of a piece of music

Question 6

What is Leitmotivs?

Answer 6

Short melodies that represent people, places, objects, emotions and intents.

Question 7

What is the ‘idee fixe’?

Answer 7

melody that represents a character in a story. Means fixed idea

Question 8

What is Nationalism?

Answer 8

A music style in which the composers nationality or homeland is reflected in their music.

Question 9

What are Art Songs?

Answer 9

Art songs are songs for solo voice and piano. Meant to be performed in homes.

Question 10

What is a ‘lied’?

Answer 10

An art song based on a German Romantic poem.

Question 11

What is a song cycle?

Answer 11

A collection of art songs written with poetry.

Question 12

What is a character piece?

Answer 12

Short solo piano piece with no set form. Considered program music.

Question 13

What is the program symphony?

Answer 13

They tell a story using program music. No set form.

Question 14

What is a concert overture?

Answer 14

single movement orchestral piece. One piece among many pieces in a concert.

Question 15

What is Symphonic Poem/ Tone Poem?

Answer 15

Single-movement work for orchestra, tell a story and our not set form.

Question 16

What is Music Drama/ Gesamtkunstwerk?

Answer 16

Means “Total Work of Art.” Wagner defined this terms for his Opera’s.

Question 17

What is a French Grand Opera?

Answer 17

A type of opera in the French language where everything is grand.

Question 18

What is verismo?

Answer 18

Means Realism. Described Italian Opera’s in which humanity was depicted realistically.

Question 19

What is Paraphrase/ Transcription/ Arrangement?

Answer 19

Paraphrase: rewrites music
Transcription: change the performing force (instrument)
Arrangement: Changing the style

Question 20

What is a Ballet?

Answer 20

A genre in which the story is told through music and dance.

Question 21

What is impressionism?

Answer 21

music when the composer attempts to convey an impression of something

Question 22

What is whole-tone scale?

Answer 22

all whole steps, no half

Question 23

What is a pentatonic scale?

Answer 23

a scale that only has five pitches before reaching the octave

Question 24

What is Expressionism?

Answer 24

non-traditional music that deals with disturbing subjects

Question 25

What is Atonality?

Answer 25

composing music with a complete lack of a tonal center

Question 26

What is Bitonality?

Answer 26

A composer used two tonal centers at the same time

Question 27

What is Polytonality?

Answer 27

When there are two or more tonal centers at the same time

Question 28

What is Polyrhythm?

Answer 28

Two contrasting rhythms occurring at the same time

Question 29

What is Polymeter?

Answer 29

Multiple meters are occurring at the same time

Question 30

What is Irregular meters?

Answer 30

Meters that are not divisible by two or three

Question 31

What is Sprechstimme?

Answer 31

Singer does not sing the pitches but speaks the pitches

Question 32

What is Serialism?

Answer 32

Where a specific series of notes is used in order to avoid a sense of tonality

Question 33

What is Indeterminacy?

Answer 33

technique where part of performance is not pre-determined by the composer

Question 34

What is Aleatory Music?

Answer 34

Indeterminacy music, called gambling or chance music

Question 35

What is prepared piano?

Answer 35

Inserting various objects between the strings of a piano to make special sounds

Question 36

What is Extended Technique"

Answer 36

anything an instrumentalist does to create sound outside the normal of their instrument

Question 37

What is Quoting and borrowing?

Answer 37

Quoting is taking exact other piece, borrowing can be changed a bit

Question 38

What is electro-acoustic?

Answer 38

When electronic means are used to create music

Question 39

What is Chamber music?

Answer 39

music in the recital and concert halls with little form

Question 40

What is a Brass Quintet?

Answer 40

two trumpets, one horn, one trombone, and one tuba

Question 41

What is a Pierrot Ensemble?

Answer 41

chamber music group with one flute, clarinet, ciolin, cello and piano

Question 42

When is the Contemporary Era?

Answer 42

1960 - Present

Question 43

What is minimalism?

Answer 43

short motives, simple melodies, and simple harmonic progression

Question 44

What is Phasing?

Answer 44

technique where two performers gradually get out of sync and then come back together