Music History Final Practice

What was the time period of Renaissance music?

Music performed outside of churches was called:

Before Edison, Bell, Marconi, and Berliner, music was shared on sheet music or performances.

The first important Opera of the Baroque Period is Monteverdi's:

Mozart was born in ...

The mass was written in this language.

Beethoven was a very popular musician during the Renaissance.

The harpsichord was replaced by the:

The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are mass and the:

A music drama is called a:

The graphophone was originally known as the:

Secular music is becoming more and more important during the Renaissance.

The Baroque Period lasted from:

Which is not a woodwind?

The three M's of Renaissance music are:

Put these inventions in the order they were invented.

Bell secretly built on Edison's Phonograph and invented the photophone and graphophone.

Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph.

Alexander Graham Bell was able to send the 1st wireless phone message in 1880.

Which is NOT a brass instrument?

What is the general mood of Renaissance music?

Classical music used more keys, dynamics, rhythms, and melodies than the Baroque Period.

Which composer popularized the clarinet?

During the Renaissance era, vocal music was more important than instrumental music.

A Pedal point is a sustained note over which harmonies change.

Instruments in the Renaissance era were seeing an advancement of metals such as brass.

In the Renaissance the most sacred vocal form was

The most important musical form of the Classical Period was the Sonata.

Which section of the orchestra did not become self-contained until the classical period?

Name three instruments of the Renaissance.

Toccata is a genre of Baroque Instrumental music.

What song is a good example of Imitative Polyphony?

The size of the Classical orchestra was:

A real answer is an altered statement of the subject; while a tonal is exact transposition.

Martin Luther was a sacred composer.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Baroque style?

Which one these historic individuals was not known as a music composer?

Idiomatic writing is a Baroque practice of changing dynamics abruptly.

Counterpoint is a single line of melody supported by a harmonic accompaniment.

What does polyphonic mean?

The harp was invented during the Renaissance era.

What was King Henry the VIII's main rule for composing music for church?

What of the following did Alexander Graham Bell NOT invent?

Baroque music could be described as:

Woody Guthrie was known as ...

A prelude is a highly structured, imitative, contrapuntal composition.

In the Renaissance period every educated person was expected to be trained in music.

During the Renaissance times, instruments were not allowed to be played.

Classical music, compared to the music of the past was:

Which of these is a composer from the Renaissance?

The Baroque Era grew out of the Catholic Church's response to Martin Luther and the

The violin became the main solo instrument in the Classical Period.

What is Imitative Polyphony?

Music in the Renaissance always used vocals.

Who had 20 children, many of them who became famous musicians themselves?

Most of Stephan Foster's songs were written to be performed in ...

The Classical period dates are 1750-1800.

Which of these is NOT an instrument from the Renaissance?

Three instruments of the Renaissance were the guitar, cello and trombone.

Vivaldi lived in Weimer, Cothen, and Leipzig.

List two types of music from the Baroque period:

Basso continuo is a set of numbers placed below the bass line to show harmonic progression.

What instrument was the percussion section in the classical orchestra?

What other name can the piano go by?

Marconi was able to invent the Victrola because of Bell's work in the Graphophone.