Music Appreciation test 2 study

For most of history, a ballad has been some variety of a lengthy song meant for dancing.

The letters Beethoven wrote to his brother reflecting the shame he felt about his affliction are known as the:

instrumental music that claims to tell a specific story or to otherwise communicate extra-musical information is:

Mussorgsky’s career was in military and civil service, not composing.

Schubertiade, was developed to describe a performance that featured only Schuberts music

The final song in Lovely Maid of the Mill “The Brook’s Lullaby,” ends the cycle on a happy note

Price’s Symphony No. 1 was premiered at the 1932 World’s Fair and was entitled:

During his years as a concert pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven’s career was suspended due to this health concern:

Schubert’s “Elf King” is strophic, meaning that each stanza of text has the same melody.

A canso was about the passion a knight felt for the lady he served.

The biographies of troubadours emphasized their loves and were recorded in which of these?

The Ottoman courts cultivated a rich musical tradition referred to as:

In a strophic song:

A raga can be performed on any melody instrument that is capable of producing slides, but is most commonly played on a:

To work around the prohibition of young women performing in public, the Vespers services were not open to the public.

“Ode to Billie Joe” is a ballad that uses a simple melody as a vehicle for a joyful story.

Whiteman’s strategy for marketing jazz included inviting prominent performers, conductors, and critics of classical musi

“Hot Jazz” was a term used to describe the rhythmically interesting style associated with:

Tablature indicates where fingers should be placed on the lute.

Dock Boggs developed a unique playing style on the banjo, based upon his observation of:

Jimi Hendrix was the most influential guitar player of the 1960s due to:

Murder ballads were similar to true crime shows today, because they detailed the misdeeds of condemned criminals.

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was a collection of four concertos representing each season.

The Harlem Renaissance was a movement where African American artists incorporated compositional techniques from the Ren

In the Vienna of Schubert’s time, music lovers supported an economy of small, in-home concerts known as:

In 19th-century Europe, a debate took place concerning the superiority of absolute music to program music.

Program music is music that is accompanied by a(n):

The standard form of the canso is ________, which means that each stanza of the poem is sung to the same melody:

Berlioz wrote narratives of all of his works, but did not utilize a program at the premiere of Fantastical Symphony.

Fin a’mors concerned the suffering of unrequited love by knights at court.

A compositional technique that attempts to imitate or represent real-world sound is:

George and Ira Gershwin were cousins who became famous for writing Broadway musicals.

Mussorgsky was inspired to compose Pictures at an Exhibition after his experience witnessing an artist during live comp

Mussorgsky belonged to a progressive school of 19th-century composers of which nationality?

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is about a:

Before enrolling in the Paris conservatory in 1826, Berlioz studied the field of:

Jimi Hendrix’s version of ______ famously employed text painting.

Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a piano suite because he was not a skilled orchestrator.

An album that brings together a unified collection of songs to tell a story or capture an experience is a _______ album.

The famous and influential poet who wrote the text to Schubert’s “Elf King” was:

“Music for music’s sake” is referred to as:

Whiteman invited George Gershwin to compose a piano concerto that combined jazz with:

While in Chicago in the 1920s, Florence Price published:

The members of The Beatles were:

Civilizations around the world have long used song as a vehicle for telling long stories, or epics.

The 12th-century Provençal term “Troubadour” means:

The songs of the troubadours of Aquitaine were lost because they lived in oral tradition and were never written down.

The Heiligenstadt Testament revealed Beethoven’s inner emotional state as he struggled with physical disability.

The first major music festival was called:

Lesions is divided into four sections that represent stages in the grief process:

Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a ten-movement piano suite in twenty days.

Each of Vivaldi’s concertos was accompanied by a sonnet that he probably wrote himself.

Music festivals during the 1960s were widely popular but rarely turned a profit.

Which of the following was Berlioz NOT known for?

Many of Vivaldi’s students were illegitimate offspring of noblemen.

Beethoven transformed the symphony genre with this work:

The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was unique because it was intended to be heard:

Florence Price left her home in Little Rock, due to the unbearable burden Jim Crow laws placed on the Black community

a _________, is where a popular artist releases a collection of recordings that accomplish creating a narrative

Beyonce’s album Lemonade is a good example of a modern work that accomplishes the same purpose as a song cycle.

In Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, many of the songs relate to childhood memories and feelings of nostalgia

Audiences of the Romantic Era (1815-1900) were fascinated by:

The term “fin a’mors” translates as:

While 186,000 advance tickets to Woodstock were sold, approximately this number of concert goers attended:

Concerts during Beethoven’s time had become presentational, with a clear divide between performers and the audience.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) pioneered the string quartet, one of the new genres of instrumental _________.

The layout of Dowland’s The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres was designed to facilitate:

The earliest operas performed in Florence were open to the public.

Technological limitation, including the inability to amplify, contributed to the slow rise of rock concerts in the 1960s

Woodstock was held at a 600-acre dairy farm in upstate New York.

“Sweet Jazz” was a term used to describe lively dance music primarily intended for:

Historically, the Chinese tradition of music composition has been primarily:

How do contemporary listeners know what Berlioz’s Fantastical Symphony is about?

Performances of Homer’s Iliad would originally have been accompanied by a four-stringed lyre.

Arguably, Berlioz’s most influential work was:

Hector Berlioz’s Fantastical Symphony tells the story of a musician who:

The incorporation of a passage of existing music into a new composition is termed:

During the Romantic era there was increased interest in individual experience, heartbreak, illness, & personal struggle

Although he composed in many formats, Vivaldi primarily composed:

Anoushka Shankar (b. 1981) is a renowned sitar player from which musical tradition?

The Beatles themselves knew that the album would never be performed in public.

The 1930s saw decreased prominence of black performers and composers of classical music.

“Pretty Polly” is an example of a ballad that is difficult to discuss in specific terms because:

The songs of the troubadours were written down in a way that preserved both their melodies and rhythms.

Jean Ritchie was an accomplished ballad singer, but she is best known for her role in popularizing the:

Berlioz’ Fantastical Symphony was based upon his desire for relationship with Harriet Smithson.

During the 19th century, there was new interest in rural folk culture, folk stories, folk dances, & folk songs.

The famous opening of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue featured a glissando on what instrument?

Which themes present in Schubert’s Lovely Maid of the Mill were especially prevalent in the Romantic era?

Paul Whiteman’s 1924 concert was intended to demonstrate the potential of jazz as serious concert music.

Solo music in China is predominantly programmatic.

A satirical cartoon mocking Berlioz’s excessive instrumentation pictures him with which of these?

Pictures at an Exhibition constitutes a musical tour of an art show, each painting represented in a movement.

Schubert did not set “Elf King” in a folk-like style, instead going to great lengths

In music composition, mimesis is the process of:

Hector Berlioz’s obsession with Irish actress Harriet Smithson was unrequited for his entire life.

A female troubadour is referred to as a:

Woodstock was the largest music festival of the 1960s and took place against the backdrop of the:

“Flow, My Tears” exemplifies Dowland’s talent for writing joyful music.

In ritornello form, as it is used in Vivaldi’s concertos, the full orchestra alternates with: