Unit 3 Flashcards

1

Tonality was established when?

Romantic Period
Classical Period
Medieval Period
Baroque Period

2

What pitch is this?

A
B
D
C

3

What are parts of a longer (typically instrumental) musical work (such as a symphony) called?

Movement
Obbligato
Letters
Charts

4

What did composers start to do more in the Classical Period

Tell musicians to use specific instruments
Writing polyphony
Going freelance
Becoming religious figures

5

How do we remember the letter names of the notes on the staff?

Anything goes before cats do eat
Every good boy does fine
Good boys can't do everything always
All cows eat grass

6

The Classical Period saw a decline of this musical texture

Homophony
Monophony
Polyphony

7

What was the totalitarian form of ideology that influnenced Classical thinking?

Republicanism
Democracy
Absolutism
Lassiez-Faire

8

What is a continuo?

An improvised accompanyment
Special type of chord
Musician hired for a special occasion
A continuation of music

9

Where is this from?

Hamlet
Messiah
Pope Marcellus Mass
Orfeo

10

This is the ending of a musical phrase

Rhythm
Meter
Cadence
Key

11

What is Counterpoint?

A school of music in the Baroque period
Meter of music
A town in Webster County
Relationship of lines of music

12

What is absolute music?

Music that has a program to it
Music with no "backstory"
Music written for a king
Music that always has a positive meaning

13

What piece by Bach encouraged pianos to be tuned the modern way?

The Well Tempered Clavier
Tocata and Fugue in G minor
Orfeo
Symphony 5

14

Which came first?

Baroque Period
Classical Period
Romantic Period
Impressionism

15

This is sacred opera

Mass
Oratorio
Symphony
Motet

16

Music in the Baroque Period often specified instrument

True
False

17

What is this?

Quarter note
Half note
Two eighth notes
An eighth note

Unit 3

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Unit 3

Questions 17