Music Appreciation Final Exam Review

Who is the father of modern black gospel music?

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

What time period is this piece of music from?

Who composed this piece of music?

What type of music is this?

Who composed this piece of music?

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

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

Who composed this piece of music?

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

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

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

Which of these is NOT a type of Folk Music.

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

The science of sound.

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

Oldest documented orchestra music in the world.

The illegal downloading or copying of music.

This is a job that makes music a business.

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

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

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

What type of music is this?

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

Schubert wrote over 600 Italian Art Songs.

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

What type of music is this?

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

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

Type of motet written for more than one choir.

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

What type of music is this?

Who composed this piece of music?

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

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

Who is NOT a contemporary country artist?

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

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

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

This term describes the level of loudness.

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

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

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

Which of these is NOT a genre of music?

The blending of cultures.

What type of music is this?

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

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

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

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

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

The words to an opera.

What type of music is this?

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

Where did traditional gospel music come from?

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

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

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

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

Who composed this piece of music?

What does MIDI stand for?

What is most likely the form of this piece?

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

Who developed Ragtime in St. Louis?

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

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

Who composed this piece of music?

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

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

What time period is this piece of music from?

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

A suite of dances.

This form is used quite a bit in Jazz Music.

Which of these is not an element of sound?

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

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

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

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

Berry Gordy founded Motown Records.

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

What type of music is this?

Who composed this piece of music?

Call and Response singing....

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

Early chants tend to be....

A harmony with 3 or more simultaneous sounds.

What does A Cappella mean?

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

Classical Genre - Solo instrument playing with orchestra

Who composed this piece of music?

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

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

This is the indigenous music of North America.

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

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

What type of music is this?

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

All of these are traditional Jazz instruments except...

Soul is....

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

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

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

What genre does this piece fit best into?

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

Which of these genres is NOT from Latin America?

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

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

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

What is the best description of the tempo?

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

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

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

Chamber music is typically written for 10 or more musicians.

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

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

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

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

What type of music is this?

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

Who composed this piece of music?

The loudness of softness of music. Varies in intensity.

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

The bass line used in a continuo.

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

Who composed this piece of music?

This instrument was NOT present in the Baroque Era.

What type of music is this?

What is the instrumentation of this piece?

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

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

R&B stands for...

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

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

Who composed this piece of music?

The rate of speed of a piece of music.