Test - Jan 13 - Eras, vocab, keyboard, vocal with answers Flashcards
8.
Which 3 features belong to the Baroque period?
basso continuo
polyphonic texture
exoticism
folk elements
idiomatic writing
basso continuo
polyphonic
idiomatic writing
5.
Which era is ca. 1825 - ca. 1900 ?
Romantic
10.
Which period’s art and music focus on proportion, symmetry, and balance?
Classical
11
Provide the term for the following definition and a composition in which it is best demonstrated.
This important 19th century musical style has a fascination with foreign lands and culture. They are evoked by melody, harmony, rhythm, and orchestration
exoticism in music
12
Choose the term from selections provided for the following definition and provide a composition title in which it is best demonstrated.
- hemiola
- chromatic harmony
- figured bass
- program music
- impressionism in music
This word comes from the Greek word for color, khorma.
It uses notes outside of the chosen key signature and is increasingly used for heightened expression in 19th century music.
chromatic harmony
Erlking
Symphonie fantastique
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Choose the term from selections provided for the following definition and provide a composition title in which it is best demonstrated.
chromatic harmony
- figured bass
- program music
- impressionism in music
This important 19th century musical style is instrumental music with extramusical associations, such as literary, poetic or visual stories. Each movement or section has descriptive titles that describes the music. Some composers include a written text or ‘program’ with the work.
program music
Symphonie fantastique
- One of the following musical features is not typically associated with the Romantic period.
Which one is it and what period is it usually associated with?
Sonata form
Piano forms
Greater flexibility in tempo, use of tempo rubato
Programmatic elements
Sonata form is more closely associated with the Classical period.
14
Choose the three late 19th-and early 20th-centry artistic movement from the following list.
-Impressionism,
-Expressionism
- Nationalism
- Exoticism
-Symbolism
Impressionism,
Expressionism, and
Symbolism
15
Choose the term in which modern composers use more different harmonic vocabulary (whole tone, modal pentatonic scales, parallel chords) and suggest instead of describing images. Other techniques include use innovative orchestral colours and unclear meters.
Give example title
-Impressionism
- Symbolism
- Nationalism
- Exoticism
-Symbolism
Impressionism in music
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, symphonic poem (tone poem), Debussy
16 Choose the term for a 19th century French literary movement in which writers experimented with unusual grammar and language structures in order to bring out feelings instead of simply describing the actual items?
Give example title.
-Impressionism
- Symbolism
- Nationalism
- Exoticism
-Symbolism
Symbolism
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, symphonic poem (tone poem), Debussy
17
Choose the term in which scales that were used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance and then once again in the modern period?
Modal scale
whole-tone scale
pentatonic scale
Give example title.
Modal scales
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, symphonic poem (tone poem), Debussy
18
Choose the term for using extremely chromatic harmony while still maintaining the tonal center?
Polytonality
Atonality
Expanded tonality
Give the example title
Expanded tonality
Changes, solo piano by Louie.
7.
Which era was Viennese School most closely associated?
Classical
1.
a. Which era was most closely associated with musical theatre?
b. give one example and its composer
Modern
West Side Story by Bernstein
2.
a. During which era were nationalism, exoticism and folk elements were important elements?
b. give one example of exoticism and its composer
Romantic
Carmen by Bizet
