Music Appreciation Final Exam Review

Music created for its own sake, without any extra musical connotations...no feels.

Who is the father of modern black gospel music?

R&B stands for...

This form is used quite a bit in Jazz Music.

This is a job that makes music a business.

This Classical form has 3 distinct sections: exposition, development, and recapitulation.

The science of sound.

Scholars in music culture. They research, write and teach about music of a particular culture.

Jazz Style pioneered in the 1950's and 1960's by Ornette Coleman. Pure Improv!

What is most likely the form of this piece?

One of the most influential Rock and Roll artists...

Changing keys. Shifting the tonal center from one pitch to another.

What type of music is this?

He was one of the great composers of the Renaissance. Wrote innovative motets.

It is a dramatic stage production that involves soloists who sing arias and recitatives.

The blending of cultures.

What time period is this piece of music from?

Minstrel Shows and Vaudeville were variety shows containing many different acts.

An unstable feeling in music. It doesn't feel good.

A madrigal is a sacred composition typically with 8-10 parts.

After Gospel Music, Elvis Presley crossed into commercial genres like Rock and Roll.

This term describes the level of loudness.

Who composed this piece of music?

13 stringed instrument from Japan. Having one in your home suggests an artist's upbringing.

St. Mark's Cathedral is shaped like...

When music is passed down generations without the use of notation. Word of mouth.

This instrument was NOT present in the Baroque Era.

A suite of dances.

Classical Genre - Solo instrument playing with orchestra

Over 600 compositions - 25 piano concertos, 41 symphonies, 23 string quartets, etc; died at 35.

A chant which one note is given to each syllable of a text.

Who composed this piece of music?

Born in Germany, Produced Italian Operas in England, Wrote Oratorios... Who is he?

Radio station WSM in Nashville started a hillbilly program that became the Grand Ole Opry.

This city hosts one of the best known Folk Festivals AND Jazz Festivals.

What does A Cappella mean?

What time period is this piece of music from?

The words to an opera.

We put music into these categories to help us understand it better.

The composers symbols which can be translated into musical sounds....they are on paper!

Who composed this piece of music?

Which of these genres is NOT from Latin America?

Early chants tend to be....

The loudness of softness of music. Varies in intensity.

What does MIDI stand for?

Who composed this piece of music?

Music styling where an artist will slightly lower the pitch and return to the same pitch.

This is a sacred polyphonic composition, usually sung in Latin without accompaniment.

Relatively short pieces used in the Roman Catholic Church; established by Pope Gregory I.

This composition technique used in the Baroque Era; keyboard improvised based on chord symbols.

Where did traditional gospel music come from?

Type of motet written for more than one choir.

Who composed this piece of music?

He was a child prodigy who received a superior education from his father Leopold.

A better term for what we used to consider "Classical Music".

All of these are traditional Jazz instruments except...

Usually occurring before an aria, it is narrative singing in a free tempo; the dialogue part.

The shape or structure of a piece of music. How it is organized.

Who composed this piece of music?

When America first took shape, whose culture did Americans borrow to help shape their own?

This Classical Genre is for a small group of instruments playing with full orchestra.

This term describes rate of speed in which a piece of music is played.

What type of music is this?

Who composed this piece of music?

Instruments whose material of contruction is the sound producing agent. Hit it or Shake it!

Who composed this piece of music?

What type of music is this?

Who helped lead the splitting of the Christian Church into Catholic and Protestant?

This American Composer created prepared piano, chance music, and electrified cactus.

The rate of speed of a piece of music.

What type of music is this?

What type of music is this?

Baroque composer, wrote a cantata about coffee, 20 children, master of fugues. Who is he?

This is done when one listens attentively in an attempt to understand the musical process.

A resurgence or return to a popularity of an existing style of music.

This German Romantic composer of EPIC operas was a self-taught musician. Very Brassy!

The Classical Period was restrained, balanced, and clear when compared to the Romantic Era.

What is the best description of the tempo?

A theatrical work containing songs, dances, and drama....like Phantom of the Opera.

It is a sacred composition intended for concert performance. G. F. Handel’s "Messiah" is one.

One of the most famous Russian composers. Best known for his Ballet Music.

The roots of Rap and Hip-Hop can be traced to this area.

What time period is this piece of music from?

What is the best description of the melody played by the clarinet?

Which of these is not an element of sound?

This is the indigenous music of North America.

A harmony with 3 or more simultaneous sounds.

Chamber music is typically written for 10 or more musicians.

Someone who performs in any medium with creativity/sensitivity/communication with the audience.

A song that has sustained popularity through decades and generations. A staple!

Schubert wrote over 600 Italian Art Songs.

Changing from one tonal center to another (key change).

What time period is this piece of music from?

Oldest documented orchestra music in the world.

What type of music is this?

What type of music is this?

What genre does this piece fit best into?

What is the best description of the texture? (Listen for a bit)

Who composed this piece of music?

Who is the legendary Folk Singer and Songwriter that headed the Urban Folk Revival?

What type of music is this?

A succession of musical tones, usually varying in pitch and rhythm. Horizontal.

The part of the Catholic liturgy that has produced the most important sacred music.

I think I'll do well on this Final Exam.

A system of visual symbols which was developed to reinforce the singer's memory of a melody.

What is the instrumentation of this piece?

What type of music is this?

Afro-Cuban dance that has been popular since the 1970's.

Which of these is NOT a genre of music?

A type of folk song that promotes union organization, patriotism, and political candidates.

What type of music is this?

A steady beat. The "heartbeat" of the music.

Mexican folk music - Violins, Guitars (big and small), trumpets..and sometimes voice and harp!

Which of these is NOT a type of Folk Music.

Vocal Genre, choral, Bach wrote one about Coffee....

Popular Mexican-based dance music, originating on the border of Mexico and Texas. Accordion!!!

The Easy Instructor introduced this system , where each pitch of a is notated on a staff.

Earliest music = Classical Style, but his later works = Romantic Style. Who is he?

Who developed Ragtime in St. Louis?

What time period is this piece of music from?

These are the hymn books that contain psalms to be sung during worship.

She was a nun, abbess, mystic, poet, writer, and composer.

The illegal downloading or copying of music.

What time period is this piece of music from?

These were put together to improve the "deplorable" state of psalm singing.

Soul is....

Time period: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci....other ninja turtles...

A chant that was used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; "fixed melody".

Instrument that displaced the harpsichord and was used for solos during the Classical Period.

Berry Gordy founded Motown Records.

Who is NOT a contemporary country artist?

Who composed this piece of music?

He was a friend to Mozart and Beethoven's teacher.

Worldwide point of view that requires an awareness and respect for other nations and cultures.

Who composed this piece of music?

The bass line used in a continuo.

1890's-1950's - Greatest period of American songwriting...also a street in NYC.

Call and Response singing....

Who is the "King" of R&B? (The old kind)