Music 1010 Final Review

Who is America's greatest bandmaster?

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Beatles?

What American composer is known as the king of ragtime?

What is considered to be America's unique contribution to world theater?

Who was Haydn's principal patron?

The composer who invented the music drama was

Rock and role merged as union of which two styles?

The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the

This Broadway Musical was the first to include a movie-like score under the whole show.

The dream ballet was a new way of forwarding the plot in this Broadway Musical.

The chorale is a type of hymn tune created by

Which of the following statements is NOT true about Romantic choral music?

What term suggests something of the overall character of the work, as well as its repertoire?

Which of the following statements about Charles Ives is INCORRECT?

Which of the following Russian composers was famous for his ballets?

The term tempo rubato, associated with Chopin's music, means that the performer should

Which movement is the most highly organized and most characteristic o the mulitmovement cycle?

Mozart died while writing his

A texture where a single voice takes the melodic interest and the accompaniment is subordinate.

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of Impressionist music?

Clara Schumann was virtuoso performer on

How do Classical artists differ from their Romantic counterparts?

This early Rock & Roll pioneer contributed to the sexually charged bad-boy image.

___ is the Vienesse composer who invented the twelve-tone method.

A string quartet consists of

The so-called Second Vieneese School of composition includes

Which best describes Beethoven?

The recurring principal themes in Wagner's operas that carry specific meanings are called

Handel's Messiah is

A large-scale work in several movements for solo instrument(s) and orchestra is called a

Atonality may be characterized by

The standard ranges of the human voice from highest to lowest are

This early Rock & Roll pioneer contributed blazing guitar solos.

A jazz style of singing that sets syllables without meaning to improvised vocals is called

Which was the chief institution that supported music in Renaissance society?

The element of music that organizes movement in time is

____ worked with Paul Simon to create an album that fused styles from two geographic regions.

Which American jazz composer was also a pianist and a master of orchestration for big bands?

Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of

Besides Schubert, which other 19th cen. composer was also prolific in Lieder?

Which American composer wrote ballets such as Billy the Kid and Rodeo based on American themes?

The approximate dates of the Baroque period are

How many players are generally necessary to perform a trio sonata?

In opera, a vocal style that imitates speech and set freely to sparse accompaniment is called

Which 19th cen. American composer is best remembered for his ballads and astral show tunes?

Which of the following is a contemporary Broadway musical based on folk tales?

In Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique what is the idea fixe?

The three main sections of sonata-allegro form are the exposition, development, and

A combination of tones, three or more, that constitutes a single block of harmony is called

Which of the following is an established, living, American composer of musicals?

An Italian comic opera is called a

The High Middle Ages witnessed

This composer is considered the creator of the modern orchestra for his use of larger ensembles

In sonata-allegro form, the part which rounds it off with a vigorous closing cadence is the

How many movements are in a Classical concerto?

All of the following were new opera types that reflected simplicity and real emotions EXCEPT

The rate of speed at which a piece of music is played is its

Which movement of the symphony is traditionally the slowest?

Which does NOT characterize an oratorio?

The earliest type of polyphony was

The element that most decisively separated 20th century music from that of the past was

Robert Schumann ended his career and life

The action of the opera occurs mainly in the

In which form is the Lied Erlking

Bach was most famous in his day as a performer on

Which film score is NOT composed by John Williams?

The distance between two different pitches is called a/n

The Classical symphony had its roots in the

Which of the following was the chief form of Italian secular music in the Renaissance?

The approximate dates for the Renaissance era are

Which composer is known as "the poet of the piano?"

The famous four-note figure at the beginning of Beethoven's Symphony No.5 is best described as

Dvorak wrote his New World Symphony while living in

Brahms maintained a life-long relationship with

The element of rhythm in twentieth-century music is best characterized by

Water Music by Handel is best describes as a

The late Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism called

Composers introduced new harmonic styles in the twentieth century, including

Jonathan Larsen's rock opera, Rent, is inspired by which opera?

Which of the following make up the movements of the Ordinary of the Mass?

Of which national school of composition is Dvorak a representative?

Which term best describes a melody that loves by small intervals?

The principle of organization where we hear a piece in relation to a central tone is called

A cappella, meaning "in the church style", indicates

Which is the correct oder of bowed string instruments from highest to lowest range?

Which of the following best defines binary form?

Nationalistic composers expressed their nationalism by

Which of the following was a widely loved nationalist opera composer?

A fanciful improvised solo passage interpolated into a concert movement is called

The leader of the Impressionist painters is considered to have been

The artistic trends of the early twentieth century can best be characterized as

Comparing the # of symphonies written in the Classical era vs. Romantic, what can be concluded?

Which meter would be conducted in a pattern of down-right-up?

According to your text, the most popular composer of art music in the world is

Tchaikovsky's ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is

Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called

Which description best characterized a part song?

The Classical period in music ranged from approximately

The most important instrumental form of the Classical period was the

A highly emotional song in an opera is called