Music Appreciation Final Exam Review

What time period is this piece of music from?

Who composed this piece of music?

Who composed this piece of music?

Jazz Style pioneered in the 1950's and 1960's by Ornette Coleman. Pure Improv!

What type of music is this?

Popular Mexican-based dance music, originating on the border of Mexico and Texas. Accordion!!!

Schubert wrote over 600 Italian Art Songs.

Call and Response singing....

Someone who performs in any medium with creativity/sensitivity/communication with the audience.

A succession of musical tones, usually varying in pitch and rhythm. Horizontal.

St. Mark's Cathedral is shaped like...

Mexican folk music - Violins, Guitars (big and small), trumpets..and sometimes voice and harp!

These are the hymn books that contain psalms to be sung during worship.

Soul is....

What type of music is this?

Which of these is NOT a type of Folk Music.

This American Composer created prepared piano, chance music, and electrified cactus.

A chant that was used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; "fixed melody".

Classical Genre - Solo instrument playing with orchestra

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Who composed this piece of music?

A type of folk song that promotes union organization, patriotism, and political candidates.

We put music into these categories to help us understand it better.

Who composed this piece of music?

What genre does this piece fit best into?

The loudness of softness of music. Varies in intensity.

This is a sacred polyphonic composition, usually sung in Latin without accompaniment.

Who composed this piece of music?

This city hosts one of the best known Folk Festivals AND Jazz Festivals.

What does A Cappella mean?

Which of these is not an element of sound?

What is the best description of the melody played by the clarinet?

What type of music is this?

What type of music is this?

When music is passed down generations without the use of notation. Word of mouth.

Berry Gordy founded Motown Records.

Type of motet written for more than one choir.

This German Romantic composer of EPIC operas was a self-taught musician. Very Brassy!

Who is NOT a contemporary country artist?

The Classical Period was restrained, balanced, and clear when compared to the Romantic Era.

The bass line used in a continuo.

These were put together to improve the "deplorable" state of psalm singing.

He was one of the great composers of the Renaissance. Wrote innovative motets.

Time period: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci....other ninja turtles...

Who composed this piece of music?

Early chants tend to be....

Worldwide point of view that requires an awareness and respect for other nations and cultures.

What time period is this piece of music from?

Who composed this piece of music?

Scholars in music culture. They research, write and teach about music of a particular culture.

A chant which one note is given to each syllable of a text.

Who composed this piece of music?

Vocal Genre, choral, Bach wrote one about Coffee....

After Gospel Music, Elvis Presley crossed into commercial genres like Rock and Roll.

Over 600 compositions - 25 piano concertos, 41 symphonies, 23 string quartets, etc; died at 35.

Oldest documented orchestra music in the world.

R&B stands for...

Relatively short pieces used in the Roman Catholic Church; established by Pope Gregory I.

Changing keys. Shifting the tonal center from one pitch to another.

This Classical form has 3 distinct sections: exposition, development, and recapitulation.

Who is the legendary Folk Singer and Songwriter that headed the Urban Folk Revival?

The composers symbols which can be translated into musical sounds....they are on paper!

Afro-Cuban dance that has been popular since the 1970's.

He was a friend to Mozart and Beethoven's teacher.

What time period is this piece of music from?

The shape or structure of a piece of music. How it is organized.

A system of visual symbols which was developed to reinforce the singer's memory of a melody.

A song that has sustained popularity through decades and generations. A staple!

What time period is this piece of music from?

Where did traditional gospel music come from?

What type of music is this?

What does MIDI stand for?

This form is used quite a bit in Jazz Music.

Earliest music = Classical Style, but his later works = Romantic Style. Who is he?

Instrument that displaced the harpsichord and was used for solos during the Classical Period.

The words to an opera.

Who composed this piece of music?

Which of these genres is NOT from Latin America?

A resurgence or return to a popularity of an existing style of music.

Baroque composer, wrote a cantata about coffee, 20 children, master of fugues. Who is he?

What is the instrumentation of this piece?

She was a nun, abbess, mystic, poet, writer, and composer.

A theatrical work containing songs, dances, and drama....like Phantom of the Opera.

A madrigal is a sacred composition typically with 8-10 parts.

When America first took shape, whose culture did Americans borrow to help shape their own?

Who composed this piece of music?

This instrument was NOT present in the Baroque Era.

This Classical Genre is for a small group of instruments playing with full orchestra.

Who helped lead the splitting of the Christian Church into Catholic and Protestant?

The science of sound.

What type of music is this?

It is a sacred composition intended for concert performance. G. F. Handel’s "Messiah" is one.

A steady beat. The "heartbeat" of the music.

What type of music is this?

Music created for its own sake, without any extra musical connotations...no feels.

A harmony with 3 or more simultaneous sounds.

What time period is this piece of music from?

Who is the "King" of R&B? (The old kind)

What type of music is this?

The part of the Catholic liturgy that has produced the most important sacred music.

13 stringed instrument from Japan. Having one in your home suggests an artist's upbringing.

It is a dramatic stage production that involves soloists who sing arias and recitatives.

A better term for what we used to consider "Classical Music".

This term describes rate of speed in which a piece of music is played.

Which of these is NOT a genre of music?

A suite of dances.

What is the best description of the tempo?

Usually occurring before an aria, it is narrative singing in a free tempo; the dialogue part.

This is the indigenous music of North America.

This is done when one listens attentively in an attempt to understand the musical process.

Born in Germany, Produced Italian Operas in England, Wrote Oratorios... Who is he?

All of these are traditional Jazz instruments except...

Instruments whose material of contruction is the sound producing agent. Hit it or Shake it!

Changing from one tonal center to another (key change).

The blending of cultures.

The roots of Rap and Hip-Hop can be traced to this area.

This term describes the level of loudness.

The Easy Instructor introduced this system , where each pitch of a is notated on a staff.

This is a job that makes music a business.

Who composed this piece of music?

What time period is this piece of music from?

He was a child prodigy who received a superior education from his father Leopold.

The rate of speed of a piece of music.

What is the best description of the texture? (Listen for a bit)

Who developed Ragtime in St. Louis?

1890's-1950's - Greatest period of American songwriting...also a street in NYC.

The illegal downloading or copying of music.

What type of music is this?

Who is the father of modern black gospel music?

An unstable feeling in music. It doesn't feel good.

What is most likely the form of this piece?

One of the most influential Rock and Roll artists...

What type of music is this?

Radio station WSM in Nashville started a hillbilly program that became the Grand Ole Opry.

Music styling where an artist will slightly lower the pitch and return to the same pitch.

Chamber music is typically written for 10 or more musicians.

This composition technique used in the Baroque Era; keyboard improvised based on chord symbols.

Minstrel Shows and Vaudeville were variety shows containing many different acts.

One of the most famous Russian composers. Best known for his Ballet Music.