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Which is an example of a solo concerto?
What is polytonality?
Winter MTTA Midterm
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1
What is polytonality?
the simultaneous use of two or more keys
Having more than one voice with a melody
When you have an instrument that is transposed
The use of cluster chords
2
Which is an example of a solo concerto?
Symphonie fantastique
Symphony No. 8 in G Major
Flute Concert No. 1 in G Major
Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 3 No. 6
3
What is modulation?
Changing keys
Like a computer mod but for music
Switching from Flute to Piccolo
Changing the theme of the composition
4
What is a soli?
What they did to save ink when writing solo
passage written for performance by one person
When a player performs in the spotlight
Like a solo but everyone gets credit
5
What is an idée fixe?
The theme of a song
When a composer gets really focused on one idea
A character in an instrumental piece
A recurring theme serves as a structural foundation
6
Why do we care about Johann Christian Bach?
He put on the first concert series
He was a piano virtuoso
He traveled a lot and had a lot of influence
He wrote a lot of organ music
7
What is a cadenza?
The fancy part played by the soloist alone
A type of cheese
The name for when the soloist in a concerto begins
A type of ending, like a coda
8
What is the classical Concerto?
A cookie
When vocals and instruments have different parts
A fancy name for a soloist
A multi-movement work that features a soloist
9
Which of the following is
not
true for symphonies?
Symphonies don't have brass instruments
They were multi-movement composition for orchestra
Usually three movements fast-slow-fast
Developed from the opera overture
10
Who is famous for using primitivism in their music?
Clara Schumann
Henry Cowell
Igor Stravinsky
J.S Bach
11
What is an octatonic scale?
A scale that goes by semitones
A scale that goes tone-semitone
A scale that goes semitone-tone
A scale that goes by whole tones
12
What is Sonata Allegro form?
Exposition-Development-Recapitulation-Cresendo
Development-Recapitulation-Exposition
Recapitulation-Development-Exposition
Exposition-Development-Recapitulation
13
What is a graphic score?
A score but with colours
A picture that shows what the music is supposed to do
A score but with a fancy font
A score that you blow up to make it bigger
14
What is a whole tone scale?
The scale used in blues music
A scale that goes up by whole tones
A scale that goes up by chromatic tones
When you use all the notes
15
What is a Sinfonia?
A type of small orchestra
Term used interchangeably with an overture
What is played to open an orchestra
When young ones play orchestra music
16
What is programme music?
A chosen set of music to be played in a concert
Music played with art to look at
music that has an extra-musical association
Program notes
17
What is dodecaphony?
When u hit all of the keys on a piano at once
A type of fish that Debussy wrote a song for
type of fancy dice
Another name for 12-tone serialism
18
What is an estampie?
When a frenchman is running from a Stampede
A type of madrigal
A type of medieval clarinet
A medieval dance and musical form
19
What is a ritornello?
When voice and instruments play different parts
A recurring passage played by instruments
A type of pasta
When the orchestra plays in between solo parts
20
What is a sonata?
A multi-movement work for soloist or small ensemble
A piano solo
A multi-movement work for orchestra
Literally any piece that is solo and keyboard accompaniment
21
continuo is a type of figured bass
False
True
22
What is an overture?
The last movement of an opera
The first movement of an orchestra
A movement in a suite
Instrumental work used to begin an opera
23
Why do we care about Anton Webern?
The nazis promoted his music
He was Schoenberg most radical pupil
He basically invented total serialism
He wrote experimental tonal music in the 20th century
24
What is an orchestra?
Any ensemble with strings
a large ensemble of instrumentalists usually with strings
Wind Ensemble is an Orchestra
Another name for symphony
25
Why do we care about Felix Mendelssohn?
He invented the piano
He was one of the first conductors
He begun the romantic era
He wrote things
26
Why do we care about Chopin?
His heart was stolen by Nazis
He wrote chopsticks
He was realllllllllly gay
We don't, its not on the sheet
27
What is a movement?
A solo work accompanied by piano
A moment in time
A self-contained section of music
A measurement of time
28
What is a program symphony?
A program that goes with a symphony
Its program music but for a symphony
a pay per view symphony
When you picture a scene listening to music
29
What is a virtuoso?
Someone who is ridiculously good
Someone who begins playing before age 5
Trombone players
Stravinsky
30
Why do we care about Claude Debussy?
He married Clara Wieck
He invented buses
He was friends with lots of other artists
A wrote atonal tonal music
31
Is this Prepared Piano?
Yes
No
32
What does aleatoric mean?
It means that aspects of the composition r left undetermined
A type of ocean algae used for ink on scores until 1767
Using a graphical score
It is a type of 20th-century music
33
Name an •extended performance technique?
Prepared Piano
The Derek Charke flute thing
Crying
hitting brass instruments with sticks (@Maya we love u)
34
What be Dies Irae?
Its apart of Mass
Kinda like an Idee Fixe but not
A plainchant for funeral services
That thing ins Symphony Fantastic
35
Modernism?
No
Yes
36
What is ritornello form?
When the tempo continuously slows
passages for the tutti with passages for the soloists
Rondo form
A type of flute concerto
37
What is a minuet and trio?
When you play a minuet three times
A stylized dance in Ternary form
A stylized dance in sonata-allegro from
A trio in the style of a minuet
38
Why do we care about Franz Liszt?
He turned the piano sideways
He forced everyone to memorize their piano music
He was a piano rockstar
He was really gay for Chopin
39
Why do we care Igor Stravinsky?
He changed the world of ballet music
He created the pit band
He invented straws
He rlly liked birds
40
Through-composed means different music all the way through a piece
false
true
41
Is this Prepared Piano?
Yes
No
42
What does col legno mean?
When you hit the strings with the bow
Play with the bow upside down
I have no idea
To slow down
43
Debussy used parallel chords
true
False
44
Why do we care about Henry Cowell?
He invented prepared piano
He's the dude Tower is named after
He was the first to play inside the piano
He was experimental composer and ultra modernist
45
Why do we care about Ludwig van Beethoven?
He wrote the magic flute
He wrote some nifty symphonies
He was besties with Bach
He went blind
46
Why do we care about Johannes Brahms?
He birthed modernism
He wrote symphonies
He played old music
He wrote symphony fantastie
47
What is an episode?
A 30 minute period of time used to tell a story
A period of time that is exactly 17 minutes
When the whole orchestra plays
The solo passages in Concertos
48
What is sonorism?
Sonar sound from trumpets
approach to associated with a number of Polish composers
Very loud notes played suddenly
Playing the piano with your arm or forearms
49
What is a tone cluster?
When you are confused about tonality
Using extended chords (9th, 13th, etc.)
When u play a bunch of notes all at once
the arm thing
50
This is syncopation
False
True
51
What did the impresario do?
planned concert details, got subscribers, hired performers
Put on a street show to draw in crowds
Fill in for performers if they don't show up
Impersonate the conductor
52
What does idiomatic mean?
Appropriate 2 style associated w period, individual, group
In a vernacular language
Imitating another instrument
Written for that specific instrument
53
What does avant-garde mean?
White Toast Music
Fancy music
Music at the forefront of experimentation
Music that is played inside the piano
54
What is block construction?
Symphony Fantastic
Music with continued variation on a theme
ABA Form
How the house Beethoven lived in was created
55
What is a rondo?
When you play a lot of repeats
Passages with alternating soloist and orchestra
Where people go to ride bulls
ABA form
56
What is indeterminacy?
Chamber music workshop
some aspects of work are left open to chance or free choice
No knowing how to play music but doing it anyway
Using a graphical score
57
What is a Ballet (in music terms)?
A dance movement of a suite
Music that accompanies a ballet performance
A traditional dance with point shoes
A dance Opera
58
Why do we care about Franz Joseph Haydn?
He rlly like birds
he invented the violin
He was Beethovens BFF
He was father of symphony and string quartet
59
Who was Giovanni Battista Sammartini?
He invented to violin
He was a pretty cool dude
He invented Sonata-Allegro form
He is associated with the formation of the concert symphony
60
What is twelve-tone serialism?
When you put all 12 tones in an order and use that a lot
Using only 12 tones in a composition
Using the chromatic scale
Synonym for atonal music
61
What is absolute music?
Music that tells a story
Music with no Story attached
Music for music's sake
Music written on paper as opposed to ideas
62
Why do we care about John Cage?
He's Nicholas Cages better half
He abandoned music that expressed emotion
He did the prepared piano thing
He was the first to play inside the piano
63
Why do we care about Kryztof Pendereck?
He did the arm piano thing
He was a star in Frozen
He was the first one to play inside the piano
He wrote the Hiroshima thing
64
What does Impressionism use?
bright contrasting colours, diff. angles, scene abt everyday
Monocolours, still life
65
What is a tone poem?
Also called symphonic poem
A piece composed with 12-tone serialism
Like a programme symphony but one movement
A type of atonal music
66
Name that dude
The four seasons guy
J.S Bach (1685-1750)
Guiseppe Verdi (1450-1538)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
67
What is the pentatonic scale?
Idk but Debussy used them
A scale of 5 random notes
A scale of whole tones
The scale used in Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat Theme
68
What is a symphonic poem?
like a programme symphony but one movement
A short solo work for an instrument
The name of the melody in program symphonies
Putting poems to orchestra music
69
What is a concerto grosso?
Like a concerto but with a group solo part
When a fat man plays the solo part
A long concerto
A concerto written for a rich person
70
What is an ostinato?
A vocal cadenza
A motif that repeats and is the same throughout a piece
A type of flower
a motif that repeats in the same musical voice
71
Why do we care about Johann Stamitz?
He expanded the concerto to 3 movements
He expanded the symphony to 5 movements
He expanded the symphony to 4 movement
He expanded the symphony to 3 movements
72
An ophicleide is a saxophone tuba
False
True
73
Tutti is when everyone plays
False
True
74
Why do we care about Hector Berlioz?
He wrote symphony fantastic
He invented the piano
Because he wrote orchestral and large-scale choral works
He wrote the first symphony
75
Why do we care about Arcangelo Corelli?
He was the first virtuoso
He invented the genre of symphonies
He helped to popularize harpsichord music
His music was key in the development of Concertos
76
What is chromaticism?
When Mark gives you criticism but hes mad about it
Step by step
Having a chromatic scale run
Using the chromatic scale as the base scale
77
What is ultra modernism?
Weird atonal music
Avant-garde
Stuff composed in the 21st Century
Very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
