Final Exam Review

This form requires someone to make up music on the spot, in a way that sounds pleasing.

This kind of music is often sad and about work or the struggle of life.

What is an ostinato?

When the parts in a song have the same rhythms in harmony with one another

This kind of music is for a party atmosphere with marching instruments.

This is the word for monetary support of the arts

This italian word means play VERY emphasized.

What is the letter name of this note?

Motown is from

British Invasion was a part of this genre of music

Gesualdo was a poor priest known for his charity work.

This word means "play like you are singing"

"a tempo" means

A music staff has ___ lines and ___ spaces.

Name this note:

an accent is

Scott Joplin is the king of:

Which kind of note gets 0.25 duration?

Monophony is

Composers use harmony to convey

What is the letter name of this note?

Musicology is the study of music history and

Blues is strictly composed for the stage in an organized manner.

What does a fermata ask you to do?

What is the musical device where short phrases are repeated?

A quarter note plus a quarter note equals

This is a french secular song often about love

Homophony translates to

a diminuendo means to

Renaissance sacred music referring to the holy trinity was:

Many voices is

Generally sounds happy:

Hildegard worked as

What is the letter name of this note?

Name this note:

Which term applies to the rules controlling sacred music during the Renaissance?

This means "different voice"

Music that has many notes over one word/syllable

Instrumentation is a part of what element of music

Folk music is for commercial gain

This is a full main melody that could represent something

Renaissance dance music was in binary and ternary form.

This category of music is "intellectually designed"

This happened during the Renaissance period:

This illustrates a(n)

A cappella music is

What is the letter name of this note?

What is the letter name of this note?

Adagio means

Name this note:

What is the letter name of this note?

This object lowers a note by a half step

This rest is worth 1 beat.

Duke Ellington played piano and led a swing band.

What's the texture of a motet?

Strophic songs are ABCD (they don't repeat any sections)

Name this note:

Pop music's form often uses