Music History Review

Question 1

Ornamented, embellished music.

Accepted Answer

Baroque

Question 2

The piano replaced the harpsichord as the primary keyboard instrument.

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Classical

Question 3

Aleatoric/chance music

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Contemporary

Question 4

Civil Rights movements and the feeling of oppression facilitated the birth of several new genres of music.

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Contemporary

Question 5

What happened in the Medieval era for music?

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Music notation became refined

Question 6

Art, architecture, and music was elaborate and fancy as a means to portray power and wealth.

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Baroque

Question 7

Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Debussy

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Romantic

Question 8

Composers wrote music that told a story, also known as programmatic music.

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Romantic

Question 9

What was Mozart’s last piece?

Accepted Answer

Requiem K. 626

Question 10

1750-1825

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Classical

Question 11

The time period in which all original band music was composed.

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Contemporary

Question 12

Webern, Cage, Copland, Gershwin

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Contemporary

Question 13

1600-1750

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Baroque

Question 14

Harpsichord was the prominent keyboard instrument.

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Baroque

Question 15

Composers used experimentalism to try new things in their music, including minimalism.

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Contemporary

Question 16

What is the difference between a symphony and a sonata?

Accepted Answer

A symphony is for full orchestra and a sonata is for a solo instrument.

Question 17

What happened in the Renaissance era for music?

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Text painting

Question 18

Composers wrote music that was more expressive, focusing on emotional and artistic inspirations such as love or nature.

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Romantic

Question 19

Debussy, Schoenberg, Ravel, Mahler, Bernstein

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Contemporary

Question 20

Composers used nationalism in their music to show pride for their country.

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Romantic

Question 21

During the Baroque era, what did absolutism refer to?

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Giving power to the monarchy

Question 22

During which era of Jazz was the “big band” born?

Accepted Answer

Swing

Question 23

The Scientific Revolution pushes for logic and reason in examining the world in a systematic way.

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Classical

Question 24

1825-1900

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Romantic

Question 25

Which composer was associated with two time periods?

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Beethoven

Question 26

Bach, Vivaldi, Handel

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Baroque

Question 27

Composers wrote atonal music, which is music with an ambiguous key/tonal center.

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Contemporary

Question 28

Beethoven, Wagner, Chopin

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Romantic

Question 29

1900-present

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Contemporary

Question 30

Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven

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Classical

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