DCMA Written Exam Review

Carmen = Exoticism

Shoenberg = Atonal tone = 12-tone system = serialism

Which answer best describes the Medieval era?

Fanny Mendelssohn revived the works of J.S. Bach

Which "ism" fits Debussy's "Clair de Lune"?

Mozart is one of the "Big Three" Classical composers

Which answer best aligns with the musician B.B. King?

Identify the Genre

Funny opera written in German

Which "ism" fits Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"?

Funny opera written in Italian

Identify the texture:

Which answer best aligns with the composer Haydn?

Movement #3 in Mass

Which word best aligns with the composer Hildegard?

Identify the Genre

Identify the Genre

The ___________ era was from 1900-Present.

The ___________ era was from 450-1450.

Minuet Trio = 1st Movement of Symphony

Identify the Genre

Which answer best describes the Baroque era?

Select the opposite! Secular = __________

Based on mythology

The death of Dunstable signified the end of the Medieval period.

What is a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of natural speech

Which answer best aligns with the composer Wagner?

Big Mama Thornton = Hound Dog

Identify the Genre

Which answer best aligns with the composer J.S. Bach?

4th part of sonata-allegro form

Martin Luther King was responsible for the Protestant Reformation in 1517.

Which answer best aligns with the composer John Dowland?

Based on Old Testament

The ___________ era was from 1450-1600.

Lieder = secular song in German

Which "ism" fits Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire"?

What is a general term for all secular music with words in Italian? This was the first pop song.

Identify the Genre

Identify the texture:

Bach = Organist

Select the opposite! Protestant = __________

Movement #5 in Mass

Mass for the Dead is known as a Requiem.

Identify the texture:

Tchaikovsky wrote The Nutcracker

Serious opera written in Italian

The death of Beethoven signified the end of the Romantic period.

Identify the Genre

A musical representation of specific poetic images

Which answer best aligns with the composer Lully?

Movement #4 in Mass

The ___________ era was from 1750-1820.

Movement #1 in Mass

Which answer best aligns with the composer Mozart?

3rd part of sonata-allegro form

This sacred piece is about the crucifixion and death of Christ:

Which answer best aligns with the composer Handel?

Fanny Mendelssohn revived the works of J.S. Bach

Which answer best describes the Renaissance era?

Which "ism" fits Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever"?

Which answer best aligns with the composer Verdi?

Sonata-Allegro Form = 1st Movement of Symphony

Movement #2 in Mass

Messiah = Handel

Libretto = Opera Music

Which answer best aligns with the composer Beethoven?

Which answer best aligns with the composer Palestrina?

1st part of sonata-allegro form

Which answer best aligns with the composer Schubert?

Prayers sung on pitches are chants.

Which answer best aligns with the composer John Dowland?

The ___________ era was from 1600-1750.

The death of Bach signified the end of the Baroque period.

2nd part of sonata-allegro form

Which answer best describes the Romantic era?

Leonin and Perotin were famous for writing organum in France.

Which answer best aligns with the composer John Dowland?

Identify the Genre

Which answer best describes the Classical era?

Select the opposite! Opera = __________

Red Priest = Bach

This is the solo singing that reflects on actions or what is happening in an opera or oratorio:

Which answer best aligns with the composer John Williams?

Machaut wrote the first complete setting of the Mass.

Select the opposite! Peasant = __________

The death of Palestrina signified the end of the Renaissance period.

Select the opposite! Mass = __________

Which "ism" fits John Cage's "4:33"?

The ___________ era was from 1820-1900.