Music Appreciation Quiz

Form is defined as what?

Name popular composers that derived from this era?

When there is no key or there is an absence of tonality you have _____

System gives equal distance between each note with the absence of whole steps and half steps

What does Baroque mean?

What happened in 1848?

The orchestra was comprised of how many instruments/instrumentalists in this time period?

What was a key invention during this time period?

This new discovery allowed composers to record music through technology

What great novel was written during this musical period?

The use of two or more keys at once is _____

What years did the Renaissance/Baroque Era commence?

What country is most noted as the birthplace of the Baroque era?

The typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of?

What is the difference between Renaissance & Baroque

When at least two voices are performing together it is called?

Which of the following composers is not considered a master of the classical period?

Which of the following characteristics is not typical of the music of the classical period?

The musical heir of Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven bridged the _______

Romanticism was a period in the arts and literature that emphasized?

This person taught theories of social reform and opposed political tranny?

Classical chamber music is designed

Mozart and Beethoven wrote a number of concertos for their favorite solo instrument, the ______

The _____ was the beginning of the musical change of Beethoven and other composers.

The romantic period can be noted as what years?

Who composed Symphony No. 3?

Haydn was a prolific composer, as demonstrated in part by his 68 string quartets and 104 ____

Who composed the "Unfinished Symphony"

Independent rhythms played at the same time?

What performance building was built in 1891 in the city of New York?

A concerto is a large-scale work in several movements for

What instruments derived from the Renaissance/Baroque Era?

Sonata form consists of three main sections, exposition, development and _______

Classicism, as a stylistic period in western art music, roughly encompassed the years?

Mozart was born in _________

Hector Berlioz the composer was born in what country

The most important instrument of the Romantic period was the?

A symphony is a

Characterized by a steady pulse clear tonality & insistent repetition of short melodic patterns

Where was the first opera performed and introduced?

This term is defined as a rapid scale (slide) up and down the scale.

In 1803, the US acquired a piece of land from another country known as the?

Each successive variation in a theme and variations?

SATB is defined as?

The string quartet

Characterized by the use of the 12-tone system to organize rhythm, dynamics and tone color.

Mozart composed his Requiem

Form is the ___ and ___ of a musical selection

On the piano if a ___ is pressed, a ___ hammer strikes the string to produce sound.

The impressionist movement started is attributed most with what composer?

All of the following are examples of timbre EXCEPT?

What other arts were affected by the wave of expression in the Renaissance/Baroque era?

What instruments were used in Brahms "Lullaby"

Two chords that can be heard at the same time is ________

Tempo signifies the ____ of music?

What does Renaissance mean?

Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life?

"In the Hall of the Mountain King" was composed by who?

Texture is defined as?

The romantic period is primarily driven by what two concepts?

The use of the term Romanticism started from ______________

The first romantic composers was who?

Which of the is a Romantic composer?

The Messiah was written by (of the Baroque era)?