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A review for Exam 3 for Music 1010
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1
The term "da capo" means:
From the top
Repeat the middle section
Go slower
Go faster
2
What notable about Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre?
First woman to publish works for keyboard instruments
She was Queen of France
She was a famous singer
She was a patron of Mozart
3
The saying "it's not over until the fat lady sings" refers to Brunhilde, from a Wagner opera
True
False
4
Which of the following were important American composers during the late 19th century?
All of the above
Amy Cheney Beach
Edward MacDowell
John Phillip Sousa
5
Elton John and Tim Rice used the story of which of Verdi's operas in their Broadway rock opera?
Macbeth
Falstaff
Aida
Nabucco
6
Georges Bizet is famous for which acclaimed opera-the story of a free-spirited gypsy girl?
Le Docteur Miracle
Madame Butterfly
Rigoletto
Carmen
7
Which composer wrote 9 symphonies, and set the standard for symphonic?
Gershwin
Tchaikovsky
Mozart
Beethoven
8
The songs of the troubadours, trouveres, and minnesingers dealt with what topics?
None of the above
Courtly love and chivalry
Foreign news and gossip
Faith and redemption
9
What is the reason that instrumental music flourished during the Baroque Era?
Major advances made in the technology musical instruments
People preferred instrumental music to choral music
It wasn't the Renaissance
10
Gregorian Chant is music:
With no melody
With several instruments
With no set rhythm
With no text
11
Which of the following were Hungarian composers who could be the first ethnomusicologist?
Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly
Sergei Rachmaninoff and Peter Tchaikovsky
Carl Orff and Bela Bartok
Anton Webern and Alban Berg
12
Composer Frederic Chopin is known for writing music for what instrument?
The piano
The piccolo
The trombone
The oboe
13
What are the two types of music that are used in films?
Love music and action music
Incidental music (underscoring) and source music
Source music and solo music
Title music and credit music
14
Which 20th century composer wrote Le tombeau de Couperin?
Igor Stravinsky
Peter Tchaikovsky
Maurice Ravel
Henry Cowell
15
What is the pattern for the tempi in a Classical-Era symphony or string quartet?
Slow-fast-medium-slow
Fast-fast-slow
Slow-fast-slow-fast
Fast-slow-minuet & trio-fast
16
Which of the following resulted from the emergence of "Rock & Roll"?
All of the above
led to decline in the popularity of jazz
created a generation gap between kids & traditional parents
Musical desegregation in society
17
Which term describes a one-movement programmatic symphonic work?
String quartet
Tone poem
Dies Irae
Symphony
18
Who is a deadhead?
Someone who follows The Grateful Dead concert to concert
None of the above
Someone whose head is not functioning
Gardner who removes dead blossoms from flowering plants
19
Which of the following are songs written by Stephen Foster?
Camptown Races
All of the above
Oh, Susanna
Beautiful Dreamer
20
Schubert's symphony that only has two movements instead of the usual four is called:
The Tragic
The Incomplete
The Great
The Unfinished
21
The form of a da capo aria is:
ABC
ABA
ABB'
AA'B
22
Which Brazilian composer became one of the leading Latin American composers.
Bela Bartok
Maurice Ravel
Hector Villa-Lobos
Dimitri Shostakovich
23
Which composer wrote symphonies that were nicknamed "The Clock", "London", and "Surprise"?
Rachmaninov
Haydn
Handel
Beethoven
24
Which of the following was NOT an Italian opera composer from the Romantic Era?
Gioachino Rossini
Giocomo Puccini
Giuseppi Verdi
Richard Wagner
25
What is a leitmotif?
A musical statement that represents a character or a concept
"total work of art"
a music drama
an instrumental solo during an opera
26
The Renaissance motet is usually ____ in nature.
Instrumental
Secular
Dancelike
Sacred
27
A "Passion" deals with what subject?
Last week of the life of Christ
Classical Greek mythology
Stories of the Old Testament
The Creation of the world
28
Which genre of music was pioneered by Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk and The Modern Jazz Quartet?
bebop
ragtime
cool jazz
swing
29
True or False: Chopin had a 10-year affair with George Sand
False
True
30
Mendelssohn staged a concert of the St. Matthew Passion of which composer?
George Frederic Handel
Giovanni de Palestrina
JS Bach
WA Wolfgang
31
Which of the following were not songwriting duos?
Bert and Ernie
Lerner and Lowe
Sondheim and Bernstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein
32
Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor is not often performed today-
True
False
33
True or False: Bizet died knowing that his last opera was a great success
False
True
34
Why did Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak come to the United State?
To visit a friend
To see a medical specialist
To teach composition at the National Conservatory of Music
To escape political unrest in his country
35
What does the idee fixe in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique represent?
Berlioz's father
William Shakespeare
Harriet Smithson
Berlioz
36
Which German opera tells the story of a marksman who gambles his soul to win the girl he loves
Rigoletto
Tosca
Der Freischutz
Das Lied von der Erde
37
Gregorian chant is sung:
To instrumental accompaniment
Without a set text
In unison with no harmony
With multiple layers of harmony
38
What technique is at the heart of jazz music?
Scat
Improvisation
Rhythmic playing
None of the above
39
Music used for films is always newly-composed
True
False
40
Which of the following is an instrumental genre?
Cantata
Opera
Sonata
Oratorio
41
Franz Schubert was a contemporary of:
JS Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Frederic Chopin
Aaron Copland
42
Which of the following composers did NOT live during the Romantic Era?
Johannes Brahms
Frederic Chopin
Giovanni Sammartini
Robert Schumann
43
Which of Prokofiev's compositions tells the story of the young boy, grandfather and a wolf?
Classical Symphony
Peter and the Wolf
Leiutenant Kije
The Firebird
44
Why did it take more than 14 years for Brahms to complete his first symphony?
None of the above
He was sidetracked by many other compositions
He knew it would be compared to Beethoven's 9th
He became ill after beginning it
45
The first polyphony, called organum, began at:
Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
Cathedral of St. Peters Basilica in Rome
Catheral of St. Mark in Venice
Cathedral of St. Paul in London
46
Mozart's most famous operas were:
Opera tragedie
Opera buffa
Opera seria
Opera lyrique
47
What is unique about Corelli's Concerto?
It has 6 movements instead of the usual 3
There is nothing unique about this work
The solo parts are written for trombone
It was written for the Christmas season
48
What is the genre of the following recording?
Mass
Opera
Cantata
Oratorio
49
The collaboration of Serge Diaghilev and
which composer
produced The Firebird, Pestrushka?
Sergei Prokofiev
Maurice Ravel
Manuel de Falla
Igor Stravinsky
50
Josquin's frottola, El Grillo, is about what creature?
Butterfly
Bird
Dog
Cricket
51
Which of the following was NOT composed by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov?
Scheharezade
Flight of the Bumblebee
Russian Easter Overture
Piano Concerto No. 21
52
Henry Purcell's only full opera, were every line is sung, is:
King Arthur
Dido Aeneas
The Fairy Queen
Orfeo
53
What is the texture of a fugue?
Heterophonic
Monophonic
Polyphonic
Homophonic
54
Which is composer is considered the "father" of both symphony and the string quartet?
Lully
Corelli
Mozart
Haydn
55
Which of the following is NOT a composition by Gustav Holst?
St. Paul's Suite
First Suite in E-flat for Military Band
The Planets
The Ring of the Nibelungen
56
Which ballet depicts the ritual sacrifice of a maiden, and famous for causing a riot?
Sleeping Beauty
Scherezade
The Rite of Spring
The Three-Cornered Hat
57
How did Robert and Clara Schumann meet?
At a university
Robert studied piano with her father, Friedrich Wieck
At a concert
At a dance
58
What is fusion music?
An imagined genre
A mix of jazz and other genres
A chemical reaction
The joining of two musical instruments
59
Which composer was also a famous concert pianist who had "rock star" status.
Richard Wagner
JS Bach
George Phillipp Teleman
Franz Liszt
60
Which composer is known as the "Father of Opera"?
Claude Debussy
Claudio Monteverdi
Guiseppi
Giovanni Sammartini
61
Which American composer made a living selling insurance, and won a Pulitzer Prize?
Leonard Berstein
Aaron Copland
Amy Cheney Beach
Charles Ives
62
Beethoven wrote how many symphonies?
Ten
Twelve
Fifteen
Nine
63
What is an idee fixe?
Berlioz's insanity
A special chord that means "day of the dead"
A melody that represents a person or feeling
A major key that represents happiness
64
The troubadours and trouveres of France and minnesingers of German performed for which people?
Peasants
Clergy
Merchants
Nobility
65
For which population is 20th Century art music written?
Rock & Roll fans
Connoisseurs who understand advanced music structure
Country music fans
Children
66
John Philip Sousa is best known for composing what kind of music?
Sousa is known for composing many kinds of music
Symphonies
Concertos
Marches
67
Why has there been an explosion of popular music in the last 150 years?
People want alternative to art music
Education of common people improved; they have skills
None of these reasons is correct
Recording technology has developed
68
For what is Irving Berlin famous?
He wrote the music for several famous shows in Tin Pan Alley
He wrote White Christmas
He wrote God Bless America
All of the above
69
Bandleader Maynard Ferguson is famous for playing which instrument?
Piano
Trumpet
Drums
Flute
70
Scott Joplin is associated with which style of American popular music?
Marches
Dixieland
Ragtime
Blues
71
Which Italian opera composer was nicknamed "the Italian Mozart"?
WA Mozart
Giuseppi Verdi
Giovanni Sammartini
Gioachino Rossini
72
Clara Schumann supported herself and children by writing musical compositions.
False
True
73
Which was the most prevalent type of solo instrumental work in the Baroque?
Opera
Sonata
Symphony
Cantata
74
Which of Puccini's operas tells of a Japanese woman betrayed by her America husband?
Aida
Rigoletto
Madame Butterfly
Turandot
75
How were Felix Mendelssohn and W.A. Mozart similar?
They both had short lives
none of the above
They both had sisters who were musical prodigies
both of the above
76
Who were Gilbert and Sullivan?
Pop artists
Operetta lyricist and composer
Famous jazz musicans
Ethnomusicologists
77
Which of the following is NOT true of Tchaikovsky?
All of the above
He struggled with his homosexuality his entire life
He was supported financially for many years by N. von Meck
Famous for his ballets, symphonies, concerti and overtures
78
Which young composer was a close family friend of Robert and Clara Schumann?
Johannes Brahms
Franz Schubert
Richard Wagner
Giuseppi Verdi
79
Which of the following is NOT a type of popular music in America today?
Gamelan
Country and Western
Jazz
Rock and Roll
80
Which popular music composer wrote The Entertainer?
William Billings
Stephen Foster
John Phillip Sousa
Scott Joplin
81
What is nationalistic music?
Music written for dancing
Music that represents a specific culture or country
None of the above
Music written for a political figure
82
Which American composer was known as a songwriter, and blended jazz and Classical styles?
Samuel Barber
George Gershwin
Charles Ives
Aaron Copland
83
What field was Berlioz's schooling in?
Music
Law
Medicine
Banking
84
Which is NOT a collection of compositions by J.S. Bach?
The Art of the Fugue
The Water Music
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Goldberg Variations
85
Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice is featured prominently in Disney's Fantasia.
True
False
86
What is a leitmotif?
a music drama
"total work of art"
an instrumental solo during an opera
A musical statement that represents a character or a concept
87
What is the "strange fruit" in the Billie Holiday blues song with the same name?
Cotton
Strange music
Pomegranates
Black bodies that had been hung on a tree
88
Which of the following is NOT a Baroque-Era composer?
Telemann
Ravel
Corelli
Bach
89
Which vocabulary word refers to the use of pitches that are not in the key of a work?
idee fixe
diatonicism
minor
chromaticism
90
What age did Rock & Roll lead to a decline in the composition of symphonic scores for films?
None of the above
Popular rock & roll songs were used to advertise the movies
Rock & Roll was better suited emotions in their films
Because it was cheaper to use rock & roll songs
91
Our modern string instruments are modeled after some of those during the Baroque period?
False
True
92
At the beginning of the 20th Century, music divided into 2 large groups. What were they?
Rock and Roll & Classical
Art Music & Popular Music
Rastafarian & Soul
Jazz & Rock
93
Composers Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg were the 3 members of which group?
The Second Viennese School
The Second American School
The Mighty Handful
Les Six
94
Which of the following are compositions by French composer Camille Saint-Saens?
Marche Militaire Francaise
Carnival of the Animals
All of the Above
Symphony NO. 3 "Organ"
95
Songwriter William Billings suffered financially because the U.S. lacked copyright laws
False
True
96
What is the main difference between a concerto and a sonata?
A concerto is longer than a sonata
A concerto: solo/orchestra; sonata: solo instrument/piano
NO difference; they are interchangeable
A concerto vocal solo; a sonata instrumental
97
Who were "the Russian Five"?
A group of famous Russian performers
Russian composers who wanted to create truly Russian music
A group of powerful Russian political figures
Five Russian composers who lived during the Classical Era
98
Wagner considered works like The Ring of the Niebelungen to be operas.
False
True
99
During the Baroque Era, which keyboard instrument(s) did composers write more for?
Organ & Harpsichord
Harpsichord
Organ
Piano
100
Maurice Ravel transcribes which composer's "Pictures at an Exhibition" for orchestra?
Gustav Holst
Modest Musorgsky
Amy Cheney Bleach
John Philip Sousa
101
What is another name for the Swing Era?
The Louis Armstrong Era
The Classical Era
The Big Band Era
The Renaissance
102
Which composer is most closely associated with Impressionism?
Georg Phillipp Telemann
Claude Monet
Claude Debussy
Igor Stravinsky
