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1
What social, political, and scientific events below contributed to the evolution of Modern Period music?
WWII, Theory of Evolution, & Russian Revolution of 1917
American Civil War, Industrial Revolution, and rise of the middle class
Spanish Flu, WWI & Einstein's Theory of Relativity
None of these
2
When was the Renaissance Period?
1400-1600
1500-1600
1600-1750
486 CE-1600
3
Tempo markings determine how high or low a pitch is.
True
False
4
Which of these Renaissance composers wrote the "Pope Marcellus Mass"?
Guillaume du Fay
Jacopo Peri
Thomas Tallis
Giovanni Pierluigi di Palestrina
5
What is
serialism
in music?
It uses all 12 chromatic pitches.
It is a fixed order of writing music.
All of these are true
A 20th century compositional technique
6
Which of these topics was NOT a theme often used by Romantic composers
Death
Supernatural elements
Greek tragedy
Romantic love
7
What is
modernism
?
Evolution of music from traditional harmonies to non-traditional harmony
A movement where electronic music supercedes traditional instrumentation.
The chronological change of the 19th into the 20th century
None of these
8
Romantic era music focused on the form of the work over the emotional elements of the music.
True
False
9
What was the approximate time period of the Classical era?
1800-1900
1650-1800
1750-1825
1750-1850
10
What Ancient Greek philosopher/mathematician proposed the idea of intervals of unison, octave, fourth, and fifth?
Descartes
Plato
Socrates
Pythagoras
11
What was the approximate time period of the Romantic era
1820-1900
1825-1910
1800-1900
1750-1890
12
What are the four versions of a twelve tone row?
forwards, backwards, diagonal, circular
None of these
major, minor, augemented, and diminished
prime, inversion, retrograde, retrograde-inversion
13
The Ancient Romans used music for ceremonial and military purposes.
False
True
14
What is the name for the graphic used by Twelve Tone composers
Scale
Graphic music
Atonality
Matrix
15
The Ancient Romans contributed to music by...
...composing the first Mass.
...none of these.
...adding new musical scales.
...writing out their music on papyrus for the first time.
16
Movement towards modern harmony began in the Renaissance.
True
False
17
Classical music was highly ornamented and virtuosic, while Baroque music was all about form and structure.
True
False
18
Identify one Impressionist composer.
Arnold Schoenberg
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Igor Stravinsky
19
Which statement is true about music of Ancient Greece
It was a part of their everyday life.
All of these are true statements.
Music was a gift of the gods.
The Greeks believed music was tied to their physical and emotional states.
20
What disability affected Beethoven in later life?
autism
loss of hearing
ADD
loss of sight
21
'Haydn was known as the "Father of the _____________ _____________"
String Quartet
Ludwig Beethoven
String Theory
22
Movement towards modern harmony began in the Renaissance.
True
False
23
Which of the following was NOT one of Mozart's compositional styles?
oratorio
opera
symphony
concerto
24
Which of the following is a type of dynamic marking?
tonic
rallentando
allegro
forte
25
Chants were __________________, while motets and madrigals were __________________.
monophonic, polyphonic
heterophonic, homophonic
medieval, Renaissance
polyphonic, monophonic
26
_______________ is the primary pitch line of a song or musical composition.
dynamics
accompaniment
harmony
melody
27
The musical alphabet includes which letters?
FACE
ABCDEFG
EGBDF
ABCDEFGH
28
What did the Ancient Greeks call their scales?
Scales, duh.
They didn't write scales.
Modes
Chromatica
29
Tempo markings indicate the speed of the music.
False
True
30
Which of these instruments is not a Medieval/Renaissance instrument?
Lute
Syrinx
Sackbut
Vielle
31
What is the name for the order of notes in a twelve tone piece
tone row
chromatic
scale
none of these
32
What does the term,
romantic
, mean in this context?
Written in Latin, the language of Rome.
None of the above.
Return to Roman musical elements.
Focus on love and romance.
33
Which letter-based form represents what is known as ternary form?
ABACDCABA
ABC
ABA
ACA
34
Which one of the following is NOT one of the rules we follow to write melodic lines?
Occasional skips of reasonable distance are ok.
Only move by skip.
Move mostly by step-wise motion.
Start and end on the same pitch name.
35
What is the name for the musical form known as ABA
sonata form
ternary form
rounded binary
concerto form
36
Romantic music was written in a more linear fashion (melody focused) rather than vertically aligned (harmony focused).
True
False
37
Who were the three major composers of twelve tone music?
Schoenberg, Berg, & Webern
Debussy, Ravel, & Stravinsky
Larry, Moe, & Curly
Mozart, Haydn, & Beethoven
38
What was the approximate time span of the Modern era of music?
1890-1945
1900-1999
1912-1945
1890-1930
39
Which of these is NOT a tempo marking?
decrescendo
allegro
ritardando
largo
40
Which of these is NOT a genre of music pioneered in the Romantic Era?
Symphonic Poem
Symphony
Nocturne
Song cycle
41
Which of these BEST describes the term,
harmony
?
a secondary pitch line (or multiple) to support a melody.
extra notes
cool sounds
polyphonic notes from the Middle Ages.
42
Identify a "rock star" composer of the Romantic Period.
Franz Liszt
Ludwig van Beethoven
Nicolo Paganini
Richard Wagner
43
What impact did the Protestant Reformation have on the development of church music during the Renaissance?
There was less focus on the mass and more hymns were written.
Any music with Latin texts was banned.
Musical texts began to appear in other languages than Latin.
All church music stopped being written.
