Midterm Practice Test

Which of the following composer WAS NOT considered a Nationalist?

Which of the following did Bach use as a job application?

Composers gradually left the patronage system and became free agents of their own works.

Which of Aaron Copland’s works was originally written as a ballot and later rearranged as an orchestral suite?

Which country was Claude Debussy from?

Which of the following composers were big in the Avant-garde style?

Which of these instruments was the most prominent in the church music of the time?

What is a Madrigal?

Expressionism like Impressionism started in the __________ arts before transitioning into literature and music.

Which of the following composers was able to live their life independently from wealthy patrons?

The first ____________ occurred in the UK during the Romantic Era?

Which composer was commissioned to write a piece to commemorate Handel’s 300th birthday?

What is the definition of Classicism?

What city was the center of the Classical era?

Which of the following is one of the social classes from Medieval times?

What does polyphony mean?

Which of the following is NOT a musical style of the Baroque period?

What is the name of the schools created to teach musicians?

Which of the following major world events took place during the 20th Century?

True or False There were many challenges to the basic assumptions upon which people based their way of viewing the world

20th/21st-century century music, like the music of every age, effectively mirrors the prevailing patterns of the time.​

The secular musicians of the time were called:

Which form of music was invented in the Romantic Era?

Most musicians of the Middle Ages were a member of this social class:

The Rite of Spring written by Igor Stravinsky was written in what form of music?

Instruments from this time period were:

The music we are studying is in which of the following traditions?

True or False: Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation.

Dynamics were limited by instrument design, so what was used for dynamic changes?

True or False: Women moved from being performers and composers to being conductors in the 20th Century?

Beethoven took the words from what to create the lyrics to his 9th Symphony?

Which of the following is the most famous Theme and Variation from the Classical Era?

Which Composer was NOT from the Baroque Era?

Which of the following composers was the most important of the Baroque period?

Which of the following were the musical centers of the 20th Century?

Which of the following Operas did Mozart write?

True or False: Opera is a drama set to continuous music, with all dialogue sung, no talking allowed!!

Why did the middle class start to emerge during the Baroque Era?

Which Composer was the first to write a String Quartet?

Which of the following is NOT one of the new genres of music developed during the Classical Era?

What does Homophonic mean?

What is a leitmotif?

Which of the following is a Composer from the Renaissance?

True or False: Orchestras got larger in the 20th Century.

Which form of art (non-music) was used to break down the established rules of art?

Avant-garde was used to do what?

Which is an important event that took place during the Renaissance?

The earliest forms of music were called:

What is a Composer?

Who invented the Song Cycle?