Music Appreciation Final Exam Review

What type of music is this?

What does A Cappella mean?

Call and Response singing....

All of these are traditional Jazz instruments except...

What type of music is this?

Who composed this piece of music?

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

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

What type of music is this?

What is the best description of the tempo?

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

Who composed this piece of music?

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

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

This is the indigenous music of North America.

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

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

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

Which of these is NOT a type of Folk Music.

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

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

What is the instrumentation of this piece?

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

What type of music is this?

Which of these is not an element of sound?

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

This is a job that makes music a business.

Who composed this piece of music?

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

Oldest documented orchestra music in the world.

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

The blending of cultures.

A suite of dances.

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

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

What type of music is this?

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

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

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

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

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

What type of music is this?

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

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

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

The bass line used in a continuo.

R&B stands for...

A harmony with 3 or more simultaneous sounds.

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

Who is NOT a contemporary country artist?

Classical Genre - Solo instrument playing with orchestra

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

Who composed this piece of music?

The words to an opera.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This form is used quite a bit in Jazz Music.

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

Who developed Ragtime in St. Louis?

What type of music is this?

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

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

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

Who composed this piece of music?

Berry Gordy founded Motown Records.

What does MIDI stand for?

What type of music is this?

Type of motet written for more than one choir.

What is most likely the form of this piece?

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

Who is the father of modern black gospel music?

Who composed this piece of music?

Which of these genres is NOT from Latin America?

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

The loudness of softness of music. Varies in intensity.

The illegal downloading or copying of music.

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

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

Early chants tend to be....

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

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

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

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

What type of music is this?

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

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

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

The science of sound.

Who composed this piece of music?

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

Who composed this piece of music?

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

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

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

The rate of speed of a piece of music.

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

Who composed this piece of music?

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

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

Which of these is NOT a genre of music?

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

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

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

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

Who composed this piece of music?

Who composed this piece of music?

What type of music is this?

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

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

Soul is....

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

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

Chamber music is typically written for 10 or more musicians.

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

What genre does this piece fit best into?

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

This term describes the level of loudness.

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

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

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

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

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

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

This instrument was NOT present in the Baroque Era.

Where did traditional gospel music come from?

Schubert wrote over 600 Italian Art Songs.

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

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

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