Music Appreciation Final Review

The levers, buttons, and handles on an organ are called:

Music of the Renaissance was nicknamed "Golden Age of Homophony":

Two most popular instruments during Ancient Greece were Shawm and Psaltery:

This devout Catholic composer set the style for the Renaissance:

Which instrument can imitate almost any other?

A single, unaccompanied melody is which harmonic texture?

Two notes that sound the same but have different letter names are called:

Pythagoras studied the science of sound, which is called:

The earliest from of polyphony is called:

A triad is builit from which two intervals?

Which is NOT a way musical uses of Ancient Greece and now are NOT similar?

The pauses or stopping spots in music are called:

The highness and lowness of sound is a definition of dynamics:

Music manuscript is called:

During the Renaissance, the hub for the arts was in this city:

During the Classical period, the standard form for the first movement of a composition:

Martin Luther began the:

The two most common clef signs in musical notation are the:

This Classical composer is the most famous musical prodigy in the history of music:

What group was discouraged from becoming professional musicians/composers in Classical period?

A stress accent occurs when a note is placed higher or lower than all of the notes around it:

This famous Baroque composer wrote nearly 200 cantatas:

Which scale moves only in half steps?

What was the transitional period between the Baroque era and Classical era called:

A Baroque term for human emotions or states of the soul:

When accents fall where we don't expect them to it is called:

Which interval involves the higher note vibrating exactly twice as fast as the lower note?

Pizzicato is the device that plucks the string on a harpsichord:

Which is NOT a change in the arts from the Ars Nova?

A popular song form from 12th and 13th century England was the:

Hildegard of Bingen wrote about natural sciences in addition to being a composer:

The myth of a sculptor who brought sculptures to life with a lyre is:

Which statement is NOT true about Martin Luther?

Concerto features and orchestra and soloist at a higher talent level from outside the group:

Organ music fit in well during the Baroque because it offered dynamics and manuals:

A device that provides a steady beat is called:

Two woodwind instruments that don't use any type of reed are the:

Music that is active and filled with tension is called:

Which is NOT a characteristic of an orchestra playing a symphony?

Tonality is the dominance of the tonic over all other scale degrees:

Which of the following is NOT one of the three common meters?

The melodic type that is short, complete by itself, and easy to remember is:

Statements from Greece saying music had powers to heal and perform miracles were found where?

The whole and half step pattern for a major scale is WWHWWWH:

When instruments imitate specific sounds like drums imitating thunder, it is called:

The Viennese style is used to describe Classical music by Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi:

In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented:

In the 6th century, the man who organized all the chant was:

Which of the following is NOT a reason that Western Europe was in the dark ages?

Late Baroque opera that emphasized beautiful singing at the expense of dramatic integrity: