Kamien 10th Edition Parts 1-3

An ______ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.

In a musical time signature, what does the upper number indicate?

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in what form?

During the Middle Ages, what institution was the center of musical life?

The piano has _______ keys, spanning more than seven octaves.

A round is an example of what type of texture?

The _____ of a sound is decided by the frequency of its vibrations.

In musical notation, pitches are written on a set of five horizontal lines called a ______.

Western music uses what letters of the alphabet to indicate pitch?

Gregorian chant is ______ in texture.

What are sharp or flat signs immediately following the clef sign at the beginning of the staff collectively called?

What is consonance?

What is a song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment called?

The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was ______.

What type of sonata was intended to be played in church, and therefore dignified and suitable for sacred performance?

The four main properties of musical sounds are pitch, dynamics, tone color, and ______.

To what does terraced dynamics refer?

Which singer has a low range and usually takes comic roles?

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ______ of his day.

Handel's Messiah is an example of what genre?

The Italian term __________ is a tempo marking to indicate a moderately slow or walking pace.

From where do the vibrations of brass instruments come?

What is a MAJOR difference between a cantata and an oratorio?

The longest period of Bach's professional life was spent as director of music at St. Thomas's Church in ______.

What is homophonic texture?

In general, the smaller the vibrating element, the __________ its pitch.

What was the principal means of musical expression in the Lutheran service?

A string player causes small pitch fluctuations by rocking the left hand while pressing the string down.

The ___________ are the only orchestral drums of definite pitch.

The Baroque period in western music is usually given as what years?

The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning ______.

What innovation of the school of Notre Dame can be seen in the music manuscripts of Leonin and Perotin?

What is a chord?

An ______ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work.

The texture of a single melodic line without accompaniment is _______.

Who was a leading English composer of lute songs?

Sets of dance-inspired instrumental movements are called ______.

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and who?

To what do dynamics in music refer?

Handel is associated with which period?

The distance in pitch between any two tones is called ______.

How can music be defined?

Which of the following about Vivaldi’s La Primavera (Spring) from The Four Seasons is true?

The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the ______.

Who composed Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text?

Retaining some features of a musical idea while changing others is called _______.

The term ___________ refers to the speed of the beat of the music.

A specific pitch corresponds to a specific ______.

Handel spent the major portion of his life in what country?

The various dances of the baroque suite typically exhibit what characteristic?

Three-part form can be represented as _______.

The organization of beats into regular groups is called ______.

The first opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in what city?

The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly ______.

The Renaissance, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed which years?

What was NOT a subject of the trouvère songs of the Middle Ages?

Timbre is synonymous with ______.

Why is Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 unusual?

The ______ is a regular, pulse that divides music into equal units of time.

What is cadence?

Today, what singing type performs a castrato part in baroque opera?

The simplest, most basic chord used in western music is the _______.

The _________ has strings that are plucked by a set of plastic, leather, or quill wedges.

Which is the highest woodwind instrument in the orchestra?

The organization of musical ideas in time is called _______.

Baroque trio sonatas usually involve ______ performers.

Vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in what city?

A gradual increase in loudness is known as a ______.

In musical notation, silence is indicated by ______.

A large-scale composition for chorus, soloists, & orchestra, usually set to biblical text, is called a(n) ______.