MUL 2010 :)

Haydn's Creation is an oratorio and uses the creation of the animals in text painting

What would Richard Wagner want you to call his operatic works?

An organist can play a fugue on an organ with no other instruments involved

What is the philosophy of the Romantic Period?

How many pedals does a standard grand piano have?

Da Capo Aria form

Handel's Messiah was premiered in Ireland, and a tradition began of using the proceeds for charity

an organist uses ONLY their hands to play

Goal of Sacred Motet:

Which of the following lists features the brass section of an orchestra?

Which of the following musical genres would NOT appear in a small  salon setting?

Which of the following composers best exemplified the Counter-Reformation's musical goals?

What is the philosophy of the 20th/21st Period?

The first person to determine pitch ratios was Pythagoras

What is the philosophy of the Classical Period?

A musical ensemble comprised of a string instrument, wind instrument, percussion instrument, and a harpsichord would be

What could the bottom layers of Renaissance masses be?

Early Lutheranism employed which types of music:

Which of the following lists features the woodwind section of an orchestra?

Tobias Hume was an English composer who served under Anglican Queen Elizabeth and was granted a printing patent

The word Renaissance, meaning "rebirth," refers to which of the following ideas being "reborn?"

How does Du Fay use number symbolism?

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a program symphony

Early Calvinism employed monophonic psalms

The Bach Passions use text from all of the following sources EXCEPT the book of common prayer

Dionysus was the Greek god that the Classical Era attempted to emulate

An instrument that makes sound via vibrating strings is an idiophone

A drum with an animal skin drum head is a member of the chordophones

Structural Listening: Privileges Form of Music and Kinesthetic Listening: allows music to inspire movement

The difference between oratorios and operas is that they are not staged

What is the philosophy of the Renaissance?

An instrument that makes sound via air vibrating in a tube or column is an aerophone

Each pitch that we hear is comprised of many pitches in specific ratios due to the harmonic series.

Which of the following instrument pairs could function as a basso continuo group?

The Medici family wormed their way into the Papacy

Anglicanism employed which types of music:

A concerto grosso is different from a solo concerto because it has a group of soloists instead of just one

Nationalist music attempts to connect listeners to a sonic aspect of the composer's homeland. How?

What instrument did Paganini compose difficult technical pieces?

Cantatas can be sacred or secular

Which of the following genres does NOT use the Four Movement Plan?

Wagner's version of nationalism meant drawing upon Norse mythology for his operatic stories.

Music involves sound and organization

What is the philosophy of the Middle Ages?

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel ran a salon

Which of the following lists features percussion instruments?

Timbre allows us to differentiate between two instruments playing the same pitch

What was Martin Luther's original goal?

Affect is a main aesthetic idea of the Baroque.

Asymmetry is not a leading tenet of the Classical Era

A pair of cymbals is a member of the idiophones

Beethoven's Symphony 5 features a ______________ that appears in each movement, connecting them all organically.

The goal of the Counter-Reformation was to make decorative polyphony the main goal

A “suite” is comprised of music NOT originally used for dancing.

Which of the following lists features the string section of an orchestra?

A solo concerto usually uses which of the following forms?

Courtiers had to learn sophisticated dances in order to be considered cultured

The longer a pipe, tube, or string, the higher the pitch.

Beethoven's Symphony 9 adds a new scoring element to the symphony:

What is the philosophy of the Baroque Period?

Which of the following contexts would NOT involve secular music/text?