Final Exam Review PT 1 - DC Music Appr

Question 1

Which musical era basically lasted during the 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Romantic

Question 2

Which era of music history was all about form, structure, and simplicity?

Accepted Answer

Classical

Question 3

What form is characterized by the back-and-forth alternation of "tutti" (refrain) and soloists' musical sections?

Accepted Answer

ritornello form

Question 4

TRUE or FALSE: Oratorio is always about some sacred storyline.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

The six Brandenburg Concertos are examples of which genre?

Accepted Answer

concerto grosso

Question 6

John Dowland is associated with which genre of music?

Accepted Answer

lute song

Question 7

One difference in opera and oratorio: Opera (but not oratorio) has _________.

Accepted Answer

costumes and set

Question 8

Who was the 12th century German nun and composer who wrote Ordo virtutum?

Accepted Answer

Hildegard of Bingen

Question 9

Which of the following is a musical genre that was created in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Jazz

Question 10

What is "the relative degree of a sound's loudness/ volume"?

Accepted Answer

dynamics

Question 11

What is the most complex type of musical texture, having more than one melodic line happening at any given time?

Accepted Answer

polyphonic

Question 12

TRUE or FALSE: The rise of instrumental music began at the beginning of the classical period.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

Which musical era lasted from approx. 450 - 1450?

Accepted Answer

Medieval

Question 14

The Protestant Reformation began when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a church in Germany.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Which era of music history was all about emotions, individualism, and expressiveness?

Accepted Answer

Romantic

Question 16

Which form begins with a melody (called the "subject") heard by itself, then imitated by another voice (the "answer")?

Accepted Answer

fugue

Question 17

Which TWO composers worked for Queen Elizabeth I and held a monopoly on music publishing?

Accepted Answer

William Byrd and Thomas Tallis

Question 18

TRUE or FALSE: The main type of solo song in opera is called "aria".

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

What do we call sacred Latin texts, sung a cappella and in a monophonic texture?

Accepted Answer

Gregorian chant

Question 20

TRUE or FALSE: The brass family of instruments includes trumpet, trombone, and clarinet.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

A ________ is a secular song of the Renaissance era, sung by multiple soloists, a cappella, with lots of word painting.

Accepted Answer

madrigal

Question 22

Fill in the blank: (1) Kyrie (2) ___________ (3) Credo (4) Sanctus (5) Agnus Dei

Accepted Answer

Gloria

Question 23

What is the simplest musical texture, having just one melodic line occurring at a time?

Accepted Answer

monophonic

Question 24

Which form starts with a melody heard in its entirety, then heard several more times with different changes each time?

Accepted Answer

theme and variations

Question 25

A sacred worship song written in strophic form is also known as what?

Accepted Answer

hymn

Question 26

What do we call it when the meaning of the lyrics is portrayed literally in the music?

Accepted Answer

word painting

Question 27

The Florentine Camerata (a friend group in Florence, Italy) invented what important genre in the late 1590s?

Accepted Answer

opera

Question 28

Which form has 3 sections (exposition, development, and recap) and is used for the 1st movement of a symphony or sonata?

Accepted Answer

sonata form

Question 29

TRUE or FALSE: The term "forte" means "quiet"

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

Which of the following instruments would NOT have been found in the basso continuo group?

Accepted Answer

violin

Question 31

Which musical era lasted from approx. 1450 - 1600?

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 32

TRUE or FALSE: Religious music is also called "sacred".

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

Which musical period gets its name from the Portuguese term for "oddly shaped pearl"?

Accepted Answer

Baroque

Question 34

TRUE or FALSE: The following image is a TREBLE CLEF.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

What important milestone did Guillaume de Machaut achieve?

Accepted Answer

Wrote the first complete setting of the Mass Ordinary

Question 36

A cappella music is sung without __________.

Accepted Answer

instruments

Question 37

TRUE or FALSE: The term "Terraced dynamics" is just another way of saying "gradual changes from soft to loud".

Accepted Answer

False

Question 38

What is the term for the creation of music at the time it is being performed? ("Making it up on the spot"?)

Accepted Answer

Improvisation

Question 39

Which era of music history gets its name from the French word for "rebirth"? Lots of a cappella vocal music here!!

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 40

Which musical era lasted from approx. 1600 - 1750?

Accepted Answer

Baroque

Question 41

What is this?

Accepted Answer

Bass clef

Question 42

What is "the measure of how HIGH or LOW a sound is"?

Accepted Answer

pitch

Question 43

What is this instrument called?

Accepted Answer

cello

Question 44

Schubert wrote over 600 ________: sung poetry performed by one singer with a pianist accompanying

Accepted Answer

art songs

Question 45

When referring to the speed or pace of a song, you are responding to the _____.

Accepted Answer

tempo

Question 46

True or false: The troubadours were sacred music composers from Italy.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 47

How many symphonies did Beethoven write?

Accepted Answer

9

Question 48

TRUE or FALSE: An *interval* is a type of *octave*.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 49

What do we call the regular, unchanging pulse that we feel in music?

Accepted Answer

beat

Question 50

Which movement in music history is all about "vibes" rather than formal structure? (Ex. the music of Debussy)

Accepted Answer

Impressionism

Question 51

The HIGHEST female voice type is called _______.

Accepted Answer

Soprano

Question 52

The HIGHEST male voice type is called _______.

Accepted Answer

Tenor

Question 53

Polyphonic __________ is a characteristic of Renaissance music. Basically, a melody is "echoed" in another voice part

Accepted Answer

imitation

Question 54

Which composer "saved" polyphony with his Pope Marcellus Mass?

Accepted Answer

Palestrina

Question 55

Leonin and Perotin wrote in WHAT style of early polyphony, AKA "the addition of a melodic line to a preexisting chant"?

Accepted Answer

organum

Question 56

What is an INTERVAL in music?

Accepted Answer

the "distance" between any two notes

Question 57

What term means "the individual distinguishing tone quality of a sound"?

Accepted Answer

timbre

Question 58

TRUE or FALSE: The pitch range of a piano is greater than that of the average singing voice.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 59

The first "great" opera is L'Orfeo, by which composer?

Accepted Answer

Monteverdi

Question 60

TRUE or FALSE: The Italian term "crescendo" means to "gradually get louder".

Accepted Answer

True

Final Exam Review PT 1 - DC Music Appr

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Final Exam Review PT 1 - DC Music Appr

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