Midterm Practice Test

Question 1

True or False There were many challenges to the basic assumptions upon which people based their way of viewing the world

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Which of the following did Bach use as a job application?

Accepted Answer

Brandenburg Concerti

Question 3

What is the name of the schools created to teach musicians?

Accepted Answer

Conservatories

Question 4

Which of the following composers was able to live their life independently from wealthy patrons?

Accepted Answer

Beethoven

Question 5

Avant-garde was used to do what?

Accepted Answer

Overcome years of neglect in the elements of timbre and rhythm

Question 6

What is a leitmotif?

Accepted Answer

musical phrases linked to a specific character

Question 7

Which form of art (non-music) was used to break down the established rules of art?

Accepted Answer

Dadaism

Question 8

Which of Aaron Copland’s works was originally written as a ballot and later rearranged as an orchestral suite?

Accepted Answer

Appalachian Spring

Question 9

The first ____________ occurred in the UK during the Romantic Era?

Accepted Answer

Industrial Revolution

Question 10

Most musicians of the Middle Ages were a member of this social class:

Accepted Answer

Clergy

Question 11

Which composer was commissioned to write a piece to commemorate Handel’s 300th birthday?

Accepted Answer

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Question 12

Which of these instruments was the most prominent in the church music of the time?

Accepted Answer

The Organ

Question 13

Which of the following Operas did Mozart write?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 14

The earliest forms of music were called:

Accepted Answer

Plainchant

Question 15

What is a Madrigal?

Accepted Answer

Polyphonic, secular, vocal genre

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT a musical style of the Baroque period?

Accepted Answer

Motet

Question 17

Dynamics were limited by instrument design, so what was used for dynamic changes?

Accepted Answer

Terraced Dynamics

Question 18

Expressionism like Impressionism started in the __________ arts before transitioning into literature and music.

Accepted Answer

Visual

Question 19

Which of the following composers were big in the Avant-garde style?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 20

Which of the following composers was the most important of the Baroque period?

Accepted Answer

Bach

Question 21

Composers gradually left the patronage system and became free agents of their own works.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

True or False: Women moved from being performers and composers to being conductors in the 20th Century?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Which country was Claude Debussy from?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 24

Which of the following is one of the social classes from Medieval times?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 25

The Rite of Spring written by Igor Stravinsky was written in what form of music?

Accepted Answer

Ballot

Question 26

What city was the center of the Classical era?

Accepted Answer

Vienna

Question 27

Which is an important event that took place during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Columbus Sailed across the Atlantic

Question 28

Beethoven took the words from what to create the lyrics to his 9th Symphony?

Accepted Answer

A Poem by Friedrich Schiller

Question 29

Which of the following major world events took place during the 20th Century?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 30

What is a Composer?

Accepted Answer

Someone who writes music

Question 31

True or False: Opera is a drama set to continuous music, with all dialogue sung, no talking allowed!!

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Why did the middle class start to emerge during the Baroque Era?

Accepted Answer

Because of specialized livelihoods (blacksmiths, etc.)​

Question 33

Which of the following were the musical centers of the 20th Century?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 34

What does polyphony mean?

Accepted Answer

Multiple lines all are equal

Question 35

What does Homophonic mean?

Accepted Answer

One main melody with a harmony

Question 36

20th/21st-century century music, like the music of every age, effectively mirrors the prevailing patterns of the time.​

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

The secular musicians of the time were called:

Accepted Answer

Troubadours

Question 38

The music we are studying is in which of the following traditions?

Accepted Answer

Western Music Tradition

Question 39

Which of the following is a Composer from the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Palestrina

Question 40

Instruments from this time period were:

Accepted Answer

Both Red and Yellow

Question 41

Which of the following is the most famous Theme and Variation from the Classical Era?

Accepted Answer

Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman- Mozart

Question 42

What is the definition of Classicism?

Accepted Answer

Trying to emulate the classics of Ancient Greece

Question 43

Which form of music was invented in the Romantic Era?

Accepted Answer

Tone Poems

Question 44

Which of the following composer WAS NOT considered a Nationalist?

Accepted Answer

Claude Debussy

Question 45

Which Composer was the first to write a String Quartet?

Accepted Answer

Haydn

Question 46

Which of the following is NOT one of the new genres of music developed during the Classical Era?

Accepted Answer

Opera

Question 47

Which Composer was NOT from the Baroque Era?

Accepted Answer

Palestrina

Question 48

True or False: Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

Who invented the Song Cycle?

Accepted Answer

Wagner

Question 50

True or False: Orchestras got larger in the 20th Century.

Accepted Answer

False

Midterm Practice Test

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Midterm Practice Test

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