A&H Final Review

What string instrument, shaped like half a pear, was commonly used in the Renaissance?

What element of music is a combination of notes and rests and creates the "beat" of a song?

What monarch helped establish ballet as the dance of the upper class?

What dynamic marking means medium soft?

What two composers were the most prominent with creating motets in the Renaissance?

Music that is in a ________________ is also called "sad" music.

Which ballerina was credited as the first to go on her toes?

What is the origin of jazz music?

What element of music supports the melody?

What category of why people dance includes musical theater?

What is improvisation?

A requiem is a mass for a what?

What ballerina helped spread ballet to the rest of the world?

Composers of atonal music created music without what?

What describes how fast or slow music is?

What does "en pointe" mean?

The word "Baroque" means what?

What does the word "prestissimo" mean?

What are the main characteristics of classical music?

A line dance is a type of social dance, which prefers cooperation over competition.

The Brazilian martial art disguised as dance is called what?

This element of music is a satisfying sequence of notes; what you come away singing.

Which composer was a bridge from the Classical Period to the Romantic Period?

What element of music received the greatest emphasis in the Romantic period?

Haydn is remembered as the first great composer of what form (he had 106 of these)?

Which element of dance refers to the area that is used?

Which element of dance refers to the actual, specific movements performed?

What element of music means the loudness and softness of music?

What element of music is defined as the structure of music?

What did Beethoven add to symphonies for the first time?

What 20th century style returned to qualities of a previous time period?

What type of atonal music uses all notes of the chromatic scale?

Which category of social dance relates to finding a mate or a partner?

Debussy composed in what style?

What Classical composer performed and composed at a young age, but also died at a young age?

What type of music from the Renaissance was for non-religious purposes?

What style of jazz was created with Cuban, African, and Spanish music qualities?

What element of music means the unique sound of an instrument?

Baroque melodies were often heavily ________________ by the performer.

What improved the quality of instruments in the Romantic period?