Fine Arts Music Quarter Review

The element of music that has to do with pitches organized into a cohesive unit, the tune.

Which of the following is NOT a jazz musician?

Which of the following is NOT a property of musical sound?

The steady underlying pulse in music is called the _.

Playing two different rhythms at the same time is

Using folk songs, legends, and history of a country is

Using colorful materials, such as melodies and rhythms, from foreign lands is

A musical scale associated with happiness, joy, and confidence.

Music with long singable melodies, flexible rhythm, and a wide range of pitches and dynamics

The accompaniment to a melody

Which keyboard instrument has a mechanism that plucks the string when a key is pressed?

A musical sentence is called a _.

Identify the double reed instruments.

The four sections of a symphonic orchestra are

Music with a melody and an accompaniment has a _ texture.

Music with short, tuneful melodies, balanced phrases, stop and go rhythms, and homophonic.

What is the main reason Classical composers preferred the piano over the harpsichord?

What form of entertainment was invented in the Baroque period?

When jazz players create music on the spot and change a melody, it is called _.

Pitch is

A musical scale associated with sadness, fear, or despair.

What instruments make up the rhythm section of a jazz band?

The texture of Renaissance music is

An accent on an unexpected beat is a

A person who writes music is a

Which composer lost his hearing?

Music NOT played in church is called

Which is the correct order of voices from highest to lowest?

Jazz music is an example of _ because multiple lines happen at the same time.

Jazz was probably started in

Melodies in the Middle Ages

The composer thought to be the greatest composer during the Baroque period.

Making a musical "picture" of the text is

Which of the following are the building blocks of harmony?

What was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church?

Music that is very disjunct, chromatic, and, dissonant with irregular rhythm and changing meter

What texture is music from the Middle Ages?

Which of the following is NOT a brass instrument?

Music with only one line of music is called _.

An opera without acting, scenery, and costumes is

The traveling musicians of the Middle Ages were _.

An interval is

What are dynamics?

Music that uses everyday sounds, electronic sounds, and new types of notation.

A type of scale that uses all twelve notes within an octave is _.

Music is

A sudden shifts in dynamics is