Music Appreciation Final Review

The finale to the Symphonie fantastique projects a satanic character.

How many movements are in a Classical concerto?

While composing in his spare time, Charles Ives made a living as a(n)

Which of the following best describes the opening idea of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5?

The mariachi tradition originated in

Langston Hughes is the most important literary figure associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Josquin’s career centered exclusively in his native France.

The Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas lived a long and productive artistic life.

The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the

Johann Sebastian Bach lived a short, unhappy life and had no children.

Harry T. Burleigh created art-song arrangements of spirituals.

How many movements are in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

In his Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz used a recurrent theme that he called the idée fixe, symbolizing the beloved.

A chorale is a hymn tune associated with German Lutherans.

Chorales were intended to be sung by a trained choir.

Which of the following characterizes humanism?

Which African American composer wrote the first symphony to be performed by a major American orchestra?

The solo instrument in Spring, from The Four Seasons, is the

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is a good example of a program symphony.

The Classical concerto has four movements.

Many composers wrote motets in praise of the Virgin Mary.

What was the primary language of the Mass?

Fisk University was originally founded as a college for freed slaves in Nashville, Tennessee.

The movements of a Classical concerto are organized into fast-slow-fast.

The modes were developed from the major and minor scales.

Adding a second voice to a Gregorian melody at the interval of a fifth or a fourth is called organum.

What was Haydn’s nickname?

Stradivarius, Guarneri, and Amati were famous makers of violins during the Baroque era.

The prayers that make up the Mass fall into two categories: the Proper and the Ordinary.

Mozart played a minor role in the development of the piano concerto.

A setting of Gregorian chant with one note per syllable is called

The first era of Western music history in which instrumental music was a major focus for composers was the

William Grant Still composed music in many genres, including

Mozart composed his Requiem out of gratitude for a long life of artistic creativity.

Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday performed in Harlem at the

The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was

During the nineteenth century, the Mass was sung only in church.

Which of the following is Vivaldi’s best-known set of concertos?

Which of the following was referred to as “the greatest Negro city in the world” during the 1920s?

Neo-Romanticism absorbed some of the complexities of modernism.

________ is traditionally associated with collecting and organizing the chants of the church.

Martha Graham was a leading figure in modern dance.

Neo-Classical composers preferred absolute music and forms to program music.

A Requiem is a musical setting of

Impressionism takes its name from a painting by Claude Monet.

What were the principal genres of sacred choral music during the Classical era?

How many movements make up a typical Haydn symphony?

Which of the following describes camp meetings?

William Grant Still composed the first symphony by an African American to be performed by a major American orchestra.

Fauré’s Requiem was originally scored for

The typical Romantic symphony has four movements.

Humanism is characterized by independence from tradition and religion.

Which genre of religious song contained coded messages about earthly escape?

Which of the following are types of absolute music?

Which group of instruments was the nucleus of the Classical orchestra?

Which of the following inspired Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

Which of the following was the greatest and most prolific Italian composer of concertos?

How many movements does Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 have?

The concerto lends itself to virtuoso playing.

The range of the piano increased during the nineteenth century.

Polyphony is the combination of two or more simultaneous melodic lines.

________ took recording equipment into the field to preserve songs exactly as the village folk sang them.

Impression Sunrise, the painting that sparked the Impressionist art movement, was created by

The symphony was a new genre in the Romantic era.

In addition to composing music, Hildegard of Bingen is known for

Who composed Water Music?

Debussy was much influenced by the non-Western music he heard at the Paris World Exhibition of 1889.

The Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 453 is Mozart’s only concerto.

Which of the following is Handel’s MOST famous oratorio, frequently performed today?

Why is Messiah so popular in Britain and America today?

Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called ________ music.

Music endowed with literary or pictorial associations is called absolute music.

Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was inspired by a play written by

During the Romantic era, piano music was intended for professional performers only.

Vivaldi was the music master at a school for orphaned boys.

The Roman Catholic Church service that symbolically reenacts the sacrifice of Christ is

The most important organizing element in absolute music is

Edvard Grieg was a prominent composer from Norway.

Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of

The tradition of the ring shout was brought to America from

Many Romantic piano works are in short, free forms.

An oratorio is a dramatic, staged work with elaborate scenery and costumes.

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a

The Fisk Jubilee Singers took their name from

The stories for oratorios are generally drawn from

Piano manufacturing remained unchanged until the technical advances of the early twentieth century.

Johann Sebastian Bach was most famous in his day as a performer on the

The fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing in the Renaissance was called

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 is perhaps the best known of all symphonies.

Which of the following characterizes the piano?

When Fisk University was founded, it was a

The growth of nationalism became a decisive force within the Romantic movement.

String instruments during the Baroque era used gut produced from animal intestines for strings.

In absolute music, musical ideas are organized without the aid of external images provided by a program.

There are no non-Western influences in Jennifer Higdon’s blue cathedral.

Who wrote Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?