FINAL EXAM MUL REVIEW

Postmodern composers

How many instrumentalists would you expect to find in a chamber group?

In the 1930s and 40s, early jazz gave way to

Recitative is characterized by

The text of an opera is known as a

Which describes a trouser role?

Postmodernists broke away from the modernist stance

Dynamics determine the ________ at which music is played.

The most important new genre of the Baroque era was

The multimovement cycle of the Classical composers can be found in their

Which term describes a one-movement work for orchestra with a literary program?

One recent trend by composers who embrace aspects of nineteenth-century orchestral sound is called

The basic unit of rhythm is the

Guarneri, Stradivarius, and Amati were all noted Baroque makers of which instrument?

Which is a true statement regarding the piano in nineteenth-century culture?

Which is a true statement regarding the musician’s place within the patronage system during the Classical era?

A _____ can be a building block in the construction of a musical work.

The instruments of the Western orchestra are categorized into which groups?

Which term describes a one-movement work possibly written to introduce a larger work but also played independently?

Poets and artists in the Romantic era were drawn to

A highly structured contrapuntal form based on a single theme or subject is a

Before recorded music was widespread, music like the rags of Scott Joplin could be mechanically performed by

Which describes the goals of early twentieth-century modernists?

Which of the following characterize(s) plainchant?

A Chinese Two-stringed violin is called

The principal components of opera include arias, recitatives, overtures, and

A leitmotif is a

Both Italian and English madrigals often feature word-painting.

Musical compositions are often identified through a cataloguing system described by

Which of the following describes the setting of many notes to a syllable?

Martin Luther and John Calvin believed

The element that propels music forward in time is

_____ is where the fusion of ragtime, blues, and other musics resulted in the development of jazz.

Which Shakespeare play is the literary basis for West Side Story?

A texture in which two or more different melodic lines are combined is called

Which was a recommendation of the Council of Trent regarding music for the church?

In a Classical symphony, which of the four movements is typically the slow movement?

Which of the following pertains to modernism of the early twentieth century?

The following were new instruments added to the Romantic orchestra:

Tempo refers to the

The text of country or rural blues that arose in the Mississippi Delta after the Civil War

Music with no literary basis is referred to as

Impressionism began as a movement in

Many modern film composers have incorporated _________ in their music, a technique found in concert works by Wagner.

A group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme is known as a

Sonatas and Interludes is written for

The first movement of a string quartet or symphony is most likely in ________ form.

Source music is music that

Melody

Scientifically, pitch is determined by its

The _____ movement of a string quartet is often in minuet-and-trio form.

The term “baroque” derives from the Portuguese word for

The conductor

The function of music in film is to

Which of the following terms describes religious or spiritual music?

Participating in performances of _____ provided an artistic outlet for the nineteenth century middle classes.

Which of the following is a type of program music written to accompany plays?

A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called

Which of the following is a stylistic element of Impressionist music?

Canons are controversial because of

the concerto

Dissonance in early-twentieth century music

Which of the following describes the celesta?

Baroque trumpets were still “natural,” meaning they

Philip Glass is often associated with the _______ movement.

The Harlem Renaissance

The German word Sprechstimme means

By the nineteenth century, large-scale choral works such as Masses, oratorios, and Requiems, were typically performed

Which of the following genres consists of a group of dance movements, usually in the same key?

Underscoring is music that

In what way is John Cage's 4'33" unusal?

A virtuosic solo passage in the manner of an improvisation within a concerto is called a

Which is most likely the slow movement in the multimovement cycle?

The property of sound that gives instruments and voices their unique tone color is 

Avant-garde composers

Which current composer is credited as reviving the grand symphonic film score?

The ______ was a castrated adult male soprano popular in the Baroque era.

Independent parts of a large-scale work (a symphony, for example) are called

The word “song” refers to

What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?

Composers who share a preference for mostly consonant harmonies and small musical ideas that are combined and recombined

Which of the following multimovement tempo schemes corresponds to the typical Classical concerto? 

In Baroque music, the instruments that provided accompaniment were referred to as

A ________ is a multimovement programmatic orchestral work.

_____ music gives equal importance to the twelve tones of the chromatic scale.

An aria is characterized by

Instrumental music first flourished in conjunction with

Music that is made up spontaneously in performance is called improvised.

The ______ art song, or Lied, is performed by solo voice and piano.

Big-band jazz is a

The oratorio was generally based on

A symphony

The earliest polyphonic music is called

Three or more tones sounded together produce a(n)

________ was the cultural center of the United States by the mid 1800s.

When a melody pictorializes a word or words it is called

Music that rejects the framework of key is called

What was the formal language of the church and sacred music tradition during the Middle Ages?

As a result of the Industrial Revolution

The larger size of the Romantic orchestra resulted in the need for a 

A principle of form that is based on repeated alterations of a given melody (which is still recognizable) is called

Which term refers to a category of music?

Tempo and dynamic markings are usually given in

A typical form of the second movement in a multimovement cycle is

The nineteenth-century trend toward realism in opera was known as

Sonatas during the Classical era were

The longest and most dramatic in the multimovement cycle was generally the

Winners of the Prix de Rome

____ were weekly hymns with simple and memorable melodies created by Luther and his followers for congregations to sing

In Tan Dun’s score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he blends the styles of ______ and Western musical traditions.

Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?

_______ is a technique in which a composer chooses a very simple and harmonically clear musical idea—one or two chords

The classical concerto form has ___ movements

The basic elements of form are