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What is twelve-tone serialism?
Why do we care about Hector Berlioz?
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Why do we care about Hector Berlioz?
He invented the piano
He wrote symphony fantastic
He wrote the first symphony
Because he wrote orchestral and large-scale choral works
2
What is twelve-tone serialism?
Using the chromatic scale
When you put all 12 tones in an order and use that a lot
Using only 12 tones in a composition
Synonym for atonal music
3
What is a Ballet (in music terms)?
A traditional dance with point shoes
A dance Opera
A dance movement of a suite
Music that accompanies a ballet performance
4
Is this Prepared Piano?
No
Yes
5
Why do we care about Franz Liszt?
He forced everyone to memorize their piano music
He was a piano rockstar
He turned the piano sideways
He was really gay for Chopin
6
What is Sonata Allegro form?
Exposition-Development-Recapitulation-Cresendo
Development-Recapitulation-Exposition
Recapitulation-Development-Exposition
Exposition-Development-Recapitulation
7
Debussy used parallel chords
False
true
8
What is sonorism?
Playing the piano with your arm or forearms
approach to associated with a number of Polish composers
Sonar sound from trumpets
Very loud notes played suddenly
9
Why do we care about Ludwig van Beethoven?
He wrote some nifty symphonies
He wrote the magic flute
He went blind
He was besties with Bach
10
What did the impresario do?
Put on a street show to draw in crowds
Fill in for performers if they don't show up
Impersonate the conductor
planned concert details, got subscribers, hired performers
11
What is an overture?
The last movement of an opera
The first movement of an orchestra
A movement in a suite
Instrumental work used to begin an opera
12
What is an orchestra?
Wind Ensemble is an Orchestra
Another name for symphony
a large ensemble of instrumentalists usually with strings
Any ensemble with strings
13
Why do we care about Johann Stamitz?
He expanded the symphony to 5 movements
He expanded the symphony to 4 movement
He expanded the concerto to 3 movements
He expanded the symphony to 3 movements
14
What is a rondo?
Where people go to ride bulls
Passages with alternating soloist and orchestra
When you play a lot of repeats
ABA form
15
Tutti is when everyone plays
True
False
16
What is an octatonic scale?
A scale that goes by whole tones
A scale that goes semitone-tone
A scale that goes tone-semitone
A scale that goes by semitones
17
Why do we care about Johann Christian Bach?
He put on the first concert series
He traveled a lot and had a lot of influence
He was a piano virtuoso
He wrote a lot of organ music
18
What is a cadenza?
A type of ending, like a coda
The name for when the soloist in a concerto begins
The fancy part played by the soloist alone
A type of cheese
19
Name an •extended performance technique?
The Derek Charke flute thing
hitting brass instruments with sticks (@Maya we love u)
Crying
Prepared Piano
20
Who is famous for using primitivism in their music?
Clara Schumann
Henry Cowell
J.S Bach
Igor Stravinsky
21
Why do we care about Felix Mendelssohn?
He begun the romantic era
He invented the piano
He was one of the first conductors
He wrote things
22
What does avant-garde mean?
Music at the forefront of experimentation
Music that is played inside the piano
White Toast Music
Fancy music
23
What is a sonata?
A multi-movement work for soloist or small ensemble
Literally any piece that is solo and keyboard accompaniment
A multi-movement work for orchestra
A piano solo
24
Which is an example of a solo concerto?
Flute Concert No. 1 in G Major
Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 3 No. 6
Symphonie fantastique
Symphony No. 8 in G Major
25
Why do we care about Kryztof Pendereck?
He did the arm piano thing
He was a star in Frozen
He was the first one to play inside the piano
He wrote the Hiroshima thing
26
What is ultra modernism?
Avant-garde
Weird atonal music
Stuff composed in the 21st Century
Very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
27
What is chromaticism?
When Mark gives you criticism but hes mad about it
Having a chromatic scale run
Using the chromatic scale as the base scale
Step by step
28
What be Dies Irae?
A plainchant for funeral services
Kinda like an Idee Fixe but not
Its apart of Mass
That thing ins Symphony Fantastic
29
What does aleatoric mean?
It is a type of 20th-century music
Using a graphical score
A type of ocean algae used for ink on scores until 1767
It means that aspects of the composition r left undetermined
30
What is a graphic score?
A score that you blow up to make it bigger
A picture that shows what the music is supposed to do
A score but with a fancy font
A score but with colours
31
What is polytonality?
the simultaneous use of two or more keys
When you have an instrument that is transposed
Having more than one voice with a melody
The use of cluster chords
32
What is an estampie?
A type of madrigal
A type of medieval clarinet
When a frenchman is running from a Stampede
A medieval dance and musical form
33
What does idiomatic mean?
In a vernacular language
Appropriate 2 style associated w period, individual, group
Written for that specific instrument
Imitating another instrument
34
Why do we care about Arcangelo Corelli?
He helped to popularize harpsichord music
His music was key in the development of Concertos
He was the first virtuoso
He invented the genre of symphonies
35
Why do we care about Anton Webern?
He basically invented total serialism
He was Schoenberg most radical pupil
He wrote experimental tonal music in the 20th century
The nazis promoted his music
36
What is a concerto grosso?
When a fat man plays the solo part
A long concerto
A concerto written for a rich person
Like a concerto but with a group solo part
37
What is the classical Concerto?
A fancy name for a soloist
A cookie
A multi-movement work that features a soloist
When vocals and instruments have different parts
38
What is a tone cluster?
When u play a bunch of notes all at once
Using extended chords (9th, 13th, etc.)
When you are confused about tonality
the arm thing
39
Why do we care about Henry Cowell?
He invented prepared piano
He's the dude Tower is named after
He was the first to play inside the piano
He was experimental composer and ultra modernist
40
What is modulation?
Switching from Flute to Piccolo
Changing the theme of the composition
Like a computer mod but for music
Changing keys
41
Why do we care about Franz Joseph Haydn?
He was Beethovens BFF
he invented the violin
He rlly like birds
He was father of symphony and string quartet
42
What does col legno mean?
Play with the bow upside down
To slow down
When you hit the strings with the bow
I have no idea
43
continuo is a type of figured bass
False
True
44
What does Impressionism use?
Monocolours, still life
bright contrasting colours, diff. angles, scene abt everyday
45
Through-composed means different music all the way through a piece
false
true
46
What is an episode?
A period of time that is exactly 17 minutes
A 30 minute period of time used to tell a story
The solo passages in Concertos
When the whole orchestra plays
47
Modernism?
Yes
No
48
This is syncopation
True
False
49
What is a tone poem?
A piece composed with 12-tone serialism
Like a programme symphony but one movement
Also called symphonic poem
A type of atonal music
50
What is block construction?
Symphony Fantastic
How the house Beethoven lived in was created
Music with continued variation on a theme
ABA Form
51
What is a Sinfonia?
When young ones play orchestra music
Term used interchangeably with an overture
What is played to open an orchestra
A type of small orchestra
52
Why do we care about Johannes Brahms?
He wrote symphonies
He birthed modernism
He wrote symphony fantastie
He played old music
53
What is a virtuoso?
Stravinsky
Trombone players
Someone who is ridiculously good
Someone who begins playing before age 5
54
What is absolute music?
Music written on paper as opposed to ideas
Music that tells a story
Music for music's sake
Music with no Story attached
55
What is a symphonic poem?
Putting poems to orchestra music
The name of the melody in program symphonies
like a programme symphony but one movement
A short solo work for an instrument
56
What is an idée fixe?
A character in an instrumental piece
A recurring theme serves as a structural foundation
When a composer gets really focused on one idea
The theme of a song
57
Name that dude
Guiseppe Verdi (1450-1538)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The four seasons guy
J.S Bach (1685-1750)
58
Which of the following is
not
true for symphonies?
Symphonies don't have brass instruments
Usually three movements fast-slow-fast
Developed from the opera overture
They were multi-movement composition for orchestra
59
Who was Giovanni Battista Sammartini?
He invented Sonata-Allegro form
He was a pretty cool dude
He invented to violin
He is associated with the formation of the concert symphony
60
What is an ostinato?
a motif that repeats in the same musical voice
A motif that repeats and is the same throughout a piece
A vocal cadenza
A type of flower
61
What is programme music?
music that has an extra-musical association
A chosen set of music to be played in a concert
Music played with art to look at
Program notes
62
Why do we care about John Cage?
He's Nicholas Cages better half
He was the first to play inside the piano
He abandoned music that expressed emotion
He did the prepared piano thing
63
What is a ritornello?
A type of pasta
When the orchestra plays in between solo parts
When voice and instruments play different parts
A recurring passage played by instruments
64
Why do we care about Claude Debussy?
He married Clara Wieck
He invented buses
He was friends with lots of other artists
A wrote atonal tonal music
65
What is a movement?
A solo work accompanied by piano
A measurement of time
A moment in time
A self-contained section of music
66
What is dodecaphony?
When u hit all of the keys on a piano at once
A type of fish that Debussy wrote a song for
type of fancy dice
Another name for 12-tone serialism
67
What is a soli?
What they did to save ink when writing solo
When a player performs in the spotlight
Like a solo but everyone gets credit
passage written for performance by one person
68
An ophicleide is a saxophone tuba
True
False
69
What is the pentatonic scale?
A scale of whole tones
A scale of 5 random notes
The scale used in Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat Theme
Idk but Debussy used them
70
Is this Prepared Piano?
No
Yes
71
What is ritornello form?
passages for the tutti with passages for the soloists
A type of flute concerto
Rondo form
When the tempo continuously slows
72
What is indeterminacy?
Using a graphical score
some aspects of work are left open to chance or free choice
Chamber music workshop
No knowing how to play music but doing it anyway
73
Why do we care about Chopin?
He wrote chopsticks
We don't, its not on the sheet
His heart was stolen by Nazis
He was realllllllllly gay
74
Why do we care Igor Stravinsky?
He invented straws
He rlly liked birds
He created the pit band
He changed the world of ballet music
75
What is a program symphony?
A program that goes with a symphony
When you picture a scene listening to music
a pay per view symphony
Its program music but for a symphony
76
What is a whole tone scale?
A scale that goes up by chromatic tones
When you use all the notes
A scale that goes up by whole tones
The scale used in blues music
77
What is a minuet and trio?
A trio in the style of a minuet
A stylized dance in sonata-allegro from
When you play a minuet three times
A stylized dance in Ternary form
