Music Appreciation Final Exam Review

Ternary form is represented by the pattern _____.

The Four Seasons is considered to be program music.

Polyphony was initially reserved for worship on the highest feast days.

A setting of plainchant with many notes per syllable is called syllabic.

A chord is produced when three or more pitches sound together.

The typical solo concerto has ________ movements.

The standard ranges for female singers are Soprano, Tenor, Alto.

Johann Sebastian Bach was a composer born in __________

The first section of the Ordinary of the Mass, a plea for mercy, is called the _______

The tempos in a three-movement concerto are Adagio-Allegro-Andante.

Words that occur after each stanza are called the refrain or chorus.

Strophic form is one of the most common in vocal music, both popular and classical.

Which portion of the Mass stays the same in every celebration of the service?

The _____ consists of five lines and four spaces, each representing different pitches

Claudio Monteverdi was a composer born in _________

Johann Sebastian Bach is the culminating figure of the ________ musical style.

Vivaldi lived and worked in ________

The entire mass Ordinary is sung in Latin.

Which of the following is Vivaldi’s best-known set of concertos?

Music pitch refers to the perceived frequency of a sound determining how high or low a note sounds.

This musical symbol "#" represents a ______.

Vivaldi was a composer who primarily worked for the church.

Which of the following are the movements of the Ordinary of the Mass?

Adding a second voice to a Gregorian melody at the interval of a fifth or a fourth is called organum.

What term would a composer use to indicate a holding back of tempo

The Roman Catholic service that symbolically reenacts the sacrifice of Christ is ______

Multiple sounds or melodies played at the same time.

Vivaldi was a German composer who is credited with developing the concerto.

A flat is used to take a pitch down a half step.

A whole note split in two will give you _____.

Who is credited with compiling the Great Book of Organum (Magnus liber organi)?

The “Hallelujah Chorus” is the climax of the Christmas section of Messiah.

Scat- singing is common in ____

The Renaissance motet is a sacred genre with a single Latin text.

Musical ___ is the structured pattern of beats in a piece of music, organizing the rhythm into repetitive cycles.

The text of Ave Maria . . . virgo serena is in praise of _____________

A ______ is a symbol in musical notation indicating a period of silence where no notes are played.

Antonio Vivaldi composed over two hundred concertos for solo violin.

Bach composed the famous set of works known as the Brandenburg Concertos.

The Introit is the first movement of the Ordinary of the Mass.

The concerto lends itself to virtuoso playing.

Although a skilled composer, Bach never mastered the art of the fugue.

The famous choral climax of Handel’s Messiah is ________

A unit within the melody is called ______

Handel’s oratorios were designed to turn a profit.

Monteverdi’s composed works included _________

The standard range of the human voice from highest to lowest.

Where was the madrigal first developed?

Many composers wrote motets in praise of the Virgin Mary.

The development of plainchant led to more recognition for individual composers such as Léonin.

The text of an oratorio is called ______

Allegro is the Italian term for fast, cheerful tempo.

Where was Handel born?

The term timbre refers to the _______ of a tone.

George Frideric Handel is considered a master of the ___________

Music performed a cappella is for voices only, without instrumental accompaniment.

A sharp lowers the tone by a half step.

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion” from Messiah is an example of ________

Handel’s Messiah is a(n) __________

The madrigal was the most important genre during the ________