Music Appreciation Final Exam Review

What type of music is this?

Vocal Genre, choral, Bach wrote one about Coffee....

Born in Germany, Produced Italian Operas in England, Wrote Oratorios... Who is he?

Who is the father of modern black gospel music?

This instrument was NOT present in the Baroque Era.

Music styling where an artist will slightly lower the pitch and return to the same pitch.

Who composed this piece of music?

What type of music is this?

What time period is this piece of music from?

A harmony with 3 or more simultaneous sounds.

A system of visual symbols which was developed to reinforce the singer's memory of a melody.

The blending of cultures.

A type of folk song that promotes union organization, patriotism, and political candidates.

The loudness of softness of music. Varies in intensity.

The bass line used in a continuo.

This is a job that makes music a business.

What is the instrumentation of this piece?

This Classical Genre is for a small group of instruments playing with full orchestra.

Who is the "King" of R&B? (The old kind)

Who is NOT a contemporary country artist?

This city hosts one of the best known Folk Festivals AND Jazz Festivals.

What genre does this piece fit best into?

Instrument that displaced the harpsichord and was used for solos during the Classical Period.

What type of music is this?

The part of the Catholic liturgy that has produced the most important sacred music.

What type of music is this?

The rate of speed of a piece of music.

Who composed this piece of music?

These were put together to improve the "deplorable" state of psalm singing.

A madrigal is a sacred composition typically with 8-10 parts.

13 stringed instrument from Japan. Having one in your home suggests an artist's upbringing.

What does A Cappella mean?

Berry Gordy founded Motown Records.

Schubert wrote over 600 Italian Art Songs.

Worldwide point of view that requires an awareness and respect for other nations and cultures.

These are the hymn books that contain psalms to be sung during worship.

This is the indigenous music of North America.

This Classical form has 3 distinct sections: exposition, development, and recapitulation.

Who composed this piece of music?

What time period is this piece of music from?

What does MIDI stand for?

One of the most famous Russian composers. Best known for his Ballet Music.

The roots of Rap and Hip-Hop can be traced to this area.

Jazz Style pioneered in the 1950's and 1960's by Ornette Coleman. Pure Improv!

This form is used quite a bit in Jazz Music.

Soul is....

It is a dramatic stage production that involves soloists who sing arias and recitatives.

What time period is this piece of music from?

Who composed this piece of music?

What is the best description of the texture? (Listen for a bit)

Classical Genre - Solo instrument playing with orchestra

What type of music is this?

A succession of musical tones, usually varying in pitch and rhythm. Horizontal.

Who composed this piece of music?

Popular Mexican-based dance music, originating on the border of Mexico and Texas. Accordion!!!

Early chants tend to be....

It is a sacred composition intended for concert performance. G. F. Handel’s "Messiah" is one.

Which of these is NOT a genre of music?

What type of music is this?

Who composed this piece of music?

What time period is this piece of music from?

This term describes rate of speed in which a piece of music is played.

Where did traditional gospel music come from?

Changing from one tonal center to another (key change).

Who composed this piece of music?

A chant which one note is given to each syllable of a text.

Radio station WSM in Nashville started a hillbilly program that became the Grand Ole Opry.

We put music into these categories to help us understand it better.

The science of sound.

Who helped lead the splitting of the Christian Church into Catholic and Protestant?

What type of music is this?

The Easy Instructor introduced this system , where each pitch of a is notated on a staff.

What is the best description of the tempo?

Minstrel Shows and Vaudeville were variety shows containing many different acts.

This is done when one listens attentively in an attempt to understand the musical process.

Oldest documented orchestra music in the world.

What type of music is this?

He was one of the great composers of the Renaissance. Wrote innovative motets.

This composition technique used in the Baroque Era; keyboard improvised based on chord symbols.

Someone who performs in any medium with creativity/sensitivity/communication with the audience.

Who is the legendary Folk Singer and Songwriter that headed the Urban Folk Revival?

She was a nun, abbess, mystic, poet, writer, and composer.

What time period is this piece of music from?

Time period: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci....other ninja turtles...

After Gospel Music, Elvis Presley crossed into commercial genres like Rock and Roll.

Scholars in music culture. They research, write and teach about music of a particular culture.

A chant that was used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; "fixed melody".

Chamber music is typically written for 10 or more musicians.

Changing keys. Shifting the tonal center from one pitch to another.

Who composed this piece of music?

Mexican folk music - Violins, Guitars (big and small), trumpets..and sometimes voice and harp!

What is most likely the form of this piece?

An unstable feeling in music. It doesn't feel good.

This term describes the level of loudness.

A steady beat. The "heartbeat" of the music.

I think I'll do well on this Final Exam.

The shape or structure of a piece of music. How it is organized.

Which of these is not an element of sound?

What is the best description of the melody played by the clarinet?

Who composed this piece of music?

This American Composer created prepared piano, chance music, and electrified cactus.

St. Mark's Cathedral is shaped like...

Call and Response singing....

Usually occurring before an aria, it is narrative singing in a free tempo; the dialogue part.

Baroque composer, wrote a cantata about coffee, 20 children, master of fugues. Who is he?

One of the most influential Rock and Roll artists...

R&B stands for...

The composers symbols which can be translated into musical sounds....they are on paper!

Who developed Ragtime in St. Louis?

Over 600 compositions - 25 piano concertos, 41 symphonies, 23 string quartets, etc; died at 35.

A resurgence or return to a popularity of an existing style of music.

Music created for its own sake, without any extra musical connotations...no feels.

This is a sacred polyphonic composition, usually sung in Latin without accompaniment.

Relatively short pieces used in the Roman Catholic Church; established by Pope Gregory I.

He was a friend to Mozart and Beethoven's teacher.

A better term for what we used to consider "Classical Music".

When America first took shape, whose culture did Americans borrow to help shape their own?

He was a child prodigy who received a superior education from his father Leopold.

What type of music is this?

This German Romantic composer of EPIC operas was a self-taught musician. Very Brassy!

Who composed this piece of music?

1890's-1950's - Greatest period of American songwriting...also a street in NYC.

Earliest music = Classical Style, but his later works = Romantic Style. Who is he?

A theatrical work containing songs, dances, and drama....like Phantom of the Opera.

A song that has sustained popularity through decades and generations. A staple!

Who composed this piece of music?

Instruments whose material of contruction is the sound producing agent. Hit it or Shake it!

When music is passed down generations without the use of notation. Word of mouth.

Afro-Cuban dance that has been popular since the 1970's.

A suite of dances.

What type of music is this?

The Classical Period was restrained, balanced, and clear when compared to the Romantic Era.

Which of these genres is NOT from Latin America?

What time period is this piece of music from?

The illegal downloading or copying of music.

The words to an opera.

Which of these is NOT a type of Folk Music.

All of these are traditional Jazz instruments except...

Type of motet written for more than one choir.