College Music Appreciation Final

What emotional themes are commonly found in Expressionist music?

Haydn is often called the "Father of the Symphony."

Match with the Era: Leonin & Perotin

Match with the Era: J.S. Bach

Sprechstimme is a mix between singing and speaking.

Madrigals were sacred compositions performed in churches.

Match with the Era: Hildegaard von Bingen

Match with the Era: Josquin de Prez

A concerto grosso is different from a concerto because:

Ruth Crawford composed experimental atonal music and wass a Guggenheim fellow.

What style is Debussy most associated with?

The fugue is a homophonic composition.

In Cage's 4'33", the performer: 

Which of the following best describes program music?

Jazz includes improvisation, syncopation, and blues scales.

In Schubert’s Erlkönig, what do the repeated piano chords represent?

What is the standard structure of a sonata form movement?

Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring featured dissonance and complex rhythms.

What did the audience do during the first performance of The Rite of Spring?

Classical orchestras were generally smaller than Baroque orchestras.

Match with the Era: Arnold Schoenberg

Match with the Era: Johannes Brahms

Match with the Era: Claude Debussy

Which is an example of musique concrète?

Who was influenced by African-American spirituals?

What is plainchant?

What does Dido prepare to do in her aria "Dido’s Lament" from Dido and Aeneas?

Symbolism emphasized suggestion over clear meaning in art. 

Which statement about troubadours is correct?

What is Gesamtkunstwerk, and which composer is most associated with it?

Troubadours composed sacred music for use in the church.

Mozart wrote symphonies, operas, and chamber music.

Which of these composers is most closely associated with thematic transformation?

Which statement is true about basso continuo?

Match with the Era: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

What is a Lied?

What term describes music with no tonal center? 

Clara Schumann was a virtuoso pianist and respected piano teacher.

The Industrial Revolution had little effect on the spread of music.

Match with the Era: Franz Joseph Haydn

The pentatonic scale is based on five notes and common in folk music.

What was the purpose of the Counter-Reformation in music?

Match with the Era: Thomas Weelkes

A motet is a secular composition that uses Gregorian chant fragments.