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This is a solo concerto
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This is a solo concerto
True
False
2
Who was John Adams?
A founding father of the USA
Composer known for use of serialism
American Minimalist composer; wrote opera Dr Atomic
Composer known for atonal music; wrote Song of the Whale
3
Pietro Metastasio wrote many operas
False
True
4
Name that dude
Beethoven
Schubert
Mozart
Debussy
5
Berlioz's Symphony Fantastic is an example of a program symphony
True
False
6
What is recitative accompagnato?
A recitative that is accompanied by orchestra
A recitative that is accompanied by b/c only
An Aria accompanied by orchestra
A type of costume in opera performance
7
What is twelve-tone serialism?
A-tonal music
All of the tone rows
Only using 12 notes when composing
Randomly placing notes
8
Who is Henry Cowell?
The man tower is named after
He invented the prepared piano
Wrote the Banshee
ultra-modernist composer introduced piano tone clusters
9
What is the Florentine Camerata?
the group of artsy dudes who liked greek stuff
A group of composers based in Florence
The dudes who invented opera
AN Italian pasta dish
10
What is a Da Capo aria?
An aria that is written in a conversational style
An Aria with the sections AB Da Capo
A special type of aria that repeats itself
A type of opera
11
This song is through-composed
True
False
12
Who was John Cage?
The 4 33 guy
The Symphony Fantastique guy
An American composer who experimented with sound
Nicholas Cages underrated cousin
13
What is an octatonic scale?
A scale with the repeating pattern Semitone, Tone
A scale with the repeating pattern Tone, Semitone
A scale with 5 notes
A scale with the Pattern T, T, ST, T, T, T ST
14
What is continuo?
a type of bass
Figured bass that accompanies
A reoccurring figure
When a piece is too long
15
Why do we care about Johann Stamitz?
He invented the opera
A Russian leader
He was the first conductor
He expanded the symphony to 4 movements
16
What is an ostinato?
A type of early saxophone
A motif that represents a thing
A two bar rhythmic motif
A motif that persistently repeats
17
This is a syncopation
True
False
18
What
IS NOT
a characteristic of Aria?
Accompanied by orchestra
through-composed
Strophic
Lyrical melody
19
What is the Libretto?
The text of the opera
A type of opera
The author of the opera
The type of singing used in opera
20
What is a tone poem?
A poem made of tones
When the poem has sass
Orchestra music on a descriptive theme
A short orchestral piece based on a poem
21
This piece is through-composed
True
False
22
Who was Carl Maria Von Weber?
Composer of the first musical
composer, conductor, pianist and music critic
composer of the first German romantic opera
Famous Opera Singer
23
Haydn's Symphony No 9 is an example of a program symphony
False
True
24
What is an extended performance technique?
Yoga and Music at the same time
Screaming into a clarinet
Crying
Hitting Brass instruments
25
What is expressionism?
Crying on stage
When you have a lot of feels
Composing a piece based on a single negative feeling
Term avoids traditional forms in order to express feelings
26
Which of the following composers is not associated with the minimalist movement?
Philip Glass
Claude Debussy
Terry Riley
Steve Reich
27
What is recitative secco?
A type of costume in opera performance
A recitative that is accompanied by orchestra
An Aria accompanied by orchestra
A recitative that is accompanied by b/c only
28
Who was Anton Webern?
A composer who cut himself almost completely from tonality
schoenberg's student
Composer very opposed to a-tonal music and wrote about it
Wrote a famous a-tonal opera
29
Who is Alban Berg?
One of Schoenberg's students, but popular
Wrote medieval music in the 19th century
Russian Ballet composer
wrote a-tonally but w gestures that were like popular tonal
30
What is monody?
Music with a single melodic line with b/c accom
A type of figured bass
A type of chorale singing developed in the 1400's
A type of early baritone
31
Who was Christoph Willibald Gluck?
Leading figure in the opera reform movement
I have no idea
A German composer who wrote opera
The dude who took out choruses in opera
32
Who do we care about Igor Stravinsky?
He wrote many famous ballets
He wrote a very famous symphony
He was one of the famous five
He wrote the flight of the bumble bee
33
What is a symphony?
A card you get someone when they die
Any piece composed for orchestra
Multi-movement composition for orchestra
An orchestral work composed featuring a soloist
34
Who was Georges Bizet?
He wrote a series of famous piano sonatas
He helped invent Broadway Musical
He reinstated ballet in opera
The man who wrote the opera Carmen
35
Who was Haydn?
He was known for his opera
He was the father of the symphony
36
What is programme music?
A set of music that is played in a concert
music that has an extra-musical association
Beethoven's 5th Symphony
The order in which music is played
37
Why do we care about Claudio Monteverdi?
Most innovative and imaginative composer of the Renaissance
He invented the piano
Wrote the first successful opera
He saved polyphony in the church
38
Who was Hector Berlioz?
Was a virtuosic piano player
The symphony Fantastic guy
Best known for his operatic works
Wrote a lot of a-tonal music
39
What is modulation?
Changing from one key to another
Staying in the same key
Changing instruments
Changing meter
40
What does idiomatic mean?
Being dumb
A type of electronic instrument that is automatic
The opposite of virtuosic playing
Means written for a specific instrument
41
What is a tone cluster?
Putting things into the piano
Hit all of the things (@kevin and Abigail we love u)
lying down on the piano
4 different notes at the same time
42
An episode is a section of music
False
True
43
What is an opera seria?
A comedic opera
A serious Opera
A dramatic opera
A sad opera
44
What is a symphonic poem?
like a programme symphony but one movement
When a poem is read before a piece
When a composition is based on a poem
Like spoken word poetry but with music
45
What is rhythmic dissonance?
Rhythm played backward and forwards at the same time
Like tonal dissonance but with rhythm
46
What is the Dies Irae?
A desire that is expressed in opera
The thing that was quoted in symphony fantastique
A type of cello suite
A plainchant for a funeral service
47
This is a solo concerto
True
False
48
What is an idée fixe?
An entire piece being just one theme repeated
A fixed idea that you have to compose a piece around
A technique used in the rite of spring
A musical reoccurring theme that represents a thing
49
What is a concerto?
multi-movement work for orchestra that features a soloist
A type of string quartet
A type of cookie
A solo performance in a small chamber setting
50
Who was Claude Debussy?
Impressionism in music was kinda his thing
Influential and innovative french composer
The frenchiest fry
Started minimalist music style
51
What is a recitative?
a compositional style that mimics speech
A style of singing in recitals
regular meter, active bass line, lyrical melody
A type of solo piano composition
52
What is primitivism?
Playing old music in the modern day
The rite of spring
Playing period instruments
To aspire to recreate the "primitive" experience
53
Who was Jacopo Peri?
Invented the printing press
Italian Composer
May have written one of the first opera
Wrote one of the first mass cycles
54
Which of the following is not true about Lenord Bernstein?
He wrote a lot of popular musicals
He integrated a lot of different musical styles together
He did a lot of children's education
He was one of the first popular German Conductors
55
What is a Rondo?
A melody that reoccurs throughout the piece
When a solo players theme is alternated with singing
Principal theme alternates with 1+ contrasting themes
A theme that represents a thing
56
What is a leitmotif?
A movement in a program symphony
A motif that is supposed to be played lightly
An idee fixe but in German
Musical idea representing a particular thing
57
Handel was a pretty cool dude
false
true
58
What is modernism?
Simple atonal music
Music written after 1910
music that did not seek 2 please ppl but made them think
It offers critiques of mass culture through music
59
What is ritornello?
a recurring passage playing by instruments
Form where strings and winds play against each other
When the tempo slows
A type of pasta
60
What is bel canto singing?
To talk-sing
Meaning to sing in a bell-like fashion
style of composing & singing that is agile light & beautiful
To sing so loudly that it is almost yelling
61
What is a virtuoso?
person who dazzles audiences with their skillz
Someone who plays a lot of instruments pretty well
Someone with good virtues
A type of cold
62
Debussy is
not
considered to be an impressionist composer
True
False
63
What is a cadenza?
A type of keyboard instrument
passage played by soloist meant to show off skills
The end of a piece
A type of pasta
64
What is a sectional in music?
An independent movement in music
A Musical idea, the section complete but no independent
When instrument groups break up to practice individually
A solo in the middle of a symphony
65
What is that?
An early Baritone
The good kush
A type of saxophone
An ophicleide
66
Who was Giochino Rossini?
Italian Opera composer known for Comic opera
Rossini Linguini Alfredo
A prolific violinist and violin composer
A very famous violin maker
67
What is block construction?
Composing with lego
Composing in sections/blocks
Composting with sections
Having a foundation 4 your piece and then improvising
68
What is Gesamtkunstwerk?
Umm bless you
means complete work or many media directed by single creator
A German opera abt magic bullets
A type of opera singing
69
What is a scene complex?
A very intense scene in an opera
When the music high point happens in an aria
When a scene is complicated
A scene in an opera that has recitatives and arias
70
What does impresario mean?
When an instrument impersonates another instrument
The dudes who planned the concert, got ppl, hired performers
The Barb of concerts
When a comedian impersonates a musician
71
What is the order of Sonata Allegro form?
Crying and then more crying
Exposition, development, recapitulation
Exposition, recaptiulation, development
Recapitulation, development, exposaition
72
Who was Giovanni Battista Sammartini?
He is the father of the symphony
He wrote many famous operas
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He was a very influential composer
73
What is Absolute Music?
Music for Music's sake
Music that is composed for funsies
A type of Baroque Chamber music
Music with an extra-musical association
74
Beethoven is one of the most influential composers ever.
false
true
75
What is an Opera?
A poem that is put to music and sung
A musical drama with some spoken text
A four-movement instrumental work featuring a soloist
a through-sung, staged drama, birthed in about 1600
76
What is a ballet?
A Russian musical form
Dance using music with light, graceful, elegant movements
Any formalized dance set to music
The ladies with the point shoes
77
What is a minuet and trio?
When you play a minuet three times
When a minuet is written in triple meter
Stylized dance in Ternary Form and triple meter
A movement in a suite
78
Which of the following represents ritornello form? (Rit = ritornello, Ep.= episode)
Rit 1. Ep. 1, Ep. 2
Rit. 1 , Ep. 1 , Rit. 2, ep. 2, rit. 3, cadenza
Rit 1, Rit 2, Rit 3
Ep 1, Rit 1, Rit 2, Rit 3, Ep. 2, cadenza, rit 3
79
Which of the following is
Not
true about Franz Liszt?
He was super gay for Chopin
Pianists hate him for making them memorize
He wrote many famous operas
He turned the piano sideways cuz he thought he was hot stuff
80
What is an orchestra?
A high school band
A large ensemble of instrumentalists.
A large group of string players
An ensemble of wind players
81
Why do we care about Felix Mendelssohn?
He wrote a bunch of shit
We don't because of Nazis
He was one of the first conductors
He wrote a-tonal music
82
What is prepared piano?
Screws!!!!!
the name for piano playing after 1945
Tuning the piano
Putting shit in the piano to make it sound different
83
What are parallel chords?
Each note within the chord rises/falls by the same interval
Chords that travel beside each other but never meet
doubling the chord in three octaves
Playing the same chord in different octaves
84
What is a sinfonia?
Term used for symphony
Historically informed performers
Used interchangeably with the term overture
A group of small children playing orchestra music
85
What is a concerto grosso?
A concerto that sounds really gross
A longer, bigger concerto
The middle movement of a concerto
A concert but the soloist is a small group of people
86
Who was Richard Wagner?
A famous piano virtuoso
One of the famous five
one of the most influential musicians of all time
wrote 2 essays abt the relationship between music & drama
87
What is a movement?
A self-contained section of music
A type of dance
The name for the actual playing of organ music
When the players switch places
88
What does avant-garde mean?
Being ahead of the game
Being new and unusual or experimental
Using lots of extended techniques in musical compositions
A-tonal music
89
Pietro Metastasio was an influential poet and playwright
False
True
90
What is an overture?
A type of multi-movement instrumental work
A large group of instrumentists
Developed into the symphony
Instrumental work used to begin an opera/ later act
91
Who was Guilio Caccini?
He created the mass cycle
He saved polyphony
He kind of wrote the first opera
The man who invented monody
92
What is a cavatina?
The first time a character sings in an opera
When a solo is played in an opera
A type of aria
A special stage prop in an opera
93
What is opera Buffa?
A comedic opera
A sad opera
A serious Opera
A dramatic opera
94
What is the Librettist?
The program for an opera
The singers in an opera
The author of the opera
A type of multi-movement instrumental work
