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Who wrote Sumer is Icmen?

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Anon

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Define CHIPTUNE in video game msic

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Sound chips or short music segments that repeat over and over as background to the early video game music

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Beethoven only opera?

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Fidelio

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Woodwind instruments got their name because?

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Originally made of wood

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Highest woodwind instrument in the orchestra?

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Piccolo

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Video game performers?

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Shimomura, Zimmer, soule *

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Double reed instruments

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Oboe, English horn, bassoon

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What instrument not commonly used by modern composer?

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Crumhorn

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What is classified as a so-called sad chord?

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Minor

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Composition almost always ends in?

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Tonic chord

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Medieval music consisting of Gregorian chant and one or more melodic line

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Organum

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Video game composer that writes for both video games and movies

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Hans Zimmer

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Ternary form is characterized by what lettering group?

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ABA

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What were church modes?

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Basic scale of western music during Middle Ages

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Who was responsible for reinstating Bach to the forefront of classical music after it had been forgot after his death (1750)?

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Felix Mendelssohn

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What was Haydn considered from his contract of employment?

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Skilled servant

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Baroque term oratorio

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Based on bible events and a story is told performing with a voice and orchestra. There is no set or costumes.MAIN REASON IT IS AN ORATORIO NOT AN OPERA

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What voice category can sing very high and execute rapid scales and trills?

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Coloratura soprano

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Two giants of Baroque composition?

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George Handel and J.S. Bach

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Main keyboard instruments of baroque period

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Organ and harpsichord

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The use that gives Barogue music its most characteristic feature?

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Basso continuo

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Beethoven musical heir of Haydn and Mozart, bridged what periods?

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Classical and romantic

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Most famous women video game composer?

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Yoko Shimomura

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Texture of Gregorian chant?

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Monophonic

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The first movement of classical period symphony is often in what form?
Sonata allegro
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Performing choral music without instrumental accompaniment
Cappella
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What are the first and third sections of sonata form?
Exposition and recapitulation *
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What instrument is played in the recapitulation of Beethoven symphony #5 1st movement
Oboe
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Songs Mozart wrote
Don Giovanni, The magic flute, the marriage of Figaro
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Singer with low range taking authoritarian roles
Basso profundo
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Composer of opera Oreo
Claudio Monterverdi
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A vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuation of speech
Recitative
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Bach was respected/recognized as what of his day
Organist
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What Baroque form did back not create a masterpiece in?
Opera
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Chorale
A Lutheran congregational hymn tune
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In use of aria, duet and recitative, Bach cantatas closely resembled
Operas
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Oratorio
Large scale composition for chorus, vocal,soloists and orchestra, usually set to narrative biblical text
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Messiah by Handel is an example of what type of music
Oratorio
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How many notes in a pentatonic scale?
5
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Masters of classical period
Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven
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Characteristics of classical period
Classical composition has wealth of rhythmic patterns, fluctuate in mood, melodies are tuneful and easy to remember.
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Father of symphony
Haydn
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First 4 note of Beethoven’s 5th symphony signified
Morse code for V for victory
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Typical orchestra of classical period consisted of
Strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani
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Sonata form
Frequently used as the form for the first movement of multi-movement work
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Haydn two important types of compositions
String quartets
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Sonata-form movement often followed by concluding section known as
Coda
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Bridge
Traditional passage that smoothly connects one section to another
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A rondo is a musical form described as having
A reoccurring theme
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Basso continuo
A Bass part together with numbers (figures) specifying the chords to be played above it, characteristic of the baroque
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The character of the minuet is best describe as
Brisk and lively
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Operas composed by Mozart
Don Giovanni, cosi fan tutte, marriage of figaro
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Trouser role in opera
A girl in guys clothing that could sing high notes that males could not
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Program music
Instrumental music associated with a story poem, idea or scene popular during romantic period
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Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony is unified by the recurrence of an idée fixe known as?
The beloved
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Compose that did not specifically write for movies
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Through composed
Form when Composer writes new music for each stanza of a poem
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Who composed winterreise?
Franz Schubert
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Chopin expressed His love of native Poland by composing what?
Polonaises and muzurkas
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Strophic form
When music is repeated for each stanza of a poem
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Rubato
Slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music
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Nationalism
Deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composers own homeland
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Bedrich smetana composed a symphonic poem depicting Bohemia’s main river. What is the name of the river (and the composition)
The Moldau
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Art song is a musical composition composed for what combination of performers?
Voice and piano
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Clara Schumann
Did some composing but considered herself primary a performer
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Etudes
A study piece designed to help performs master chain technical difficulties
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Who wrote the music for Star Wars?
John Williams
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Symphonic poem
One movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea
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The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of the Fantastic Symphony
DIES IRAE
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4th movement of the Fantastic Symphony depicts
March of the scaffold
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Who wrote the librettos to Richard Wagner's the Ring of the Nibelung
Richard Wagner
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Why does Wagner call his works music dramas instead of operas?
Continuous musical flow within each act, no breaks where applause can interrupt, the vocal line is inspired by the rhythms and pitches of German text
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Wagner spins orchestral web out of recurrent musical themes called
Leit motifs
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What form did Johannesburg brahms not write?
Opera
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Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is an?
Overturn-fantasy
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Valhalla in Richards Wagner's opera Die Walkure is
The castle of the gods
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Richard Wagner had an opera house with his own design. Where was this built?
Bayreuth Bavaria
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Brahms works through personal style arerrooted in music of
Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
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Erich Korngold wrote what kinda music?
Movies music, operas, ballets, and chamber
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What were Franz Schubert gatherings called?
Schubertiads
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Who was Clara and Robert Schumann close with?
Johannesburg Brahms
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How long are Schubert’s song numbers
600
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Composer that wrote German Requiem and dedicated it to his mother and Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms

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