Music Appreciation Final Review

The typical Romantic symphony has four movements.

Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday performed in Harlem at the

The stories for oratorios are generally drawn from

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

Who wrote Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

How many movements are in a Classical concerto?

Humanism is characterized by independence from tradition and religion.

The finale to the Symphonie fantastique projects a satanic character.

Who composed Water Music?

Edvard Grieg was a prominent composer from Norway.

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

Fauré’s Requiem was originally scored for

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following describes camp meetings?

The most important organizing element in absolute music is

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

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

The concerto lends itself to virtuoso playing.

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

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

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

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

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

How many movements make up a typical Haydn symphony?

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

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

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

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

Why is Messiah so popular in Britain and America today?

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

The Fisk Jubilee Singers took their name from

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

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

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

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

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

When Fisk University was founded, it was a

Which of the following are types of absolute music?

What was Haydn’s nickname?

The symphony was a new genre in the Romantic era.

Josquin’s career centered exclusively in his native France.

The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the

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

Which of the following characterizes humanism?

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

Which of the following inspired Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

The mariachi tradition originated in

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

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

The modes were developed from the major and minor scales.

Martha Graham was a leading figure in modern dance.

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

The Classical concerto has four movements.

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

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

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a

Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of

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

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

William Grant Still composed music in many genres, including

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

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

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

What was the primary language of the Mass?

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

Impressionism takes its name from a painting by Claude Monet.

The tradition of the ring shout was brought to America from

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

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

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

Many Romantic piano works are in short, free forms.

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

Which of the following characterizes the piano?

A chorale is a hymn tune associated with German Lutherans.

A Requiem is a musical setting of

Many composers wrote motets in praise of the Virgin Mary.

Chorales were intended to be sung by a trained choir.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The range of the piano increased during the nineteenth century.

Neo-Romanticism absorbed some of the complexities of modernism.

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

How many movements are in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

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