Music Appreciation Semester Test

Composers began to make fortunes as freelance musicians during the classical period.

Blues music is associated with the 1930s and the Great Depression

Rock music has always been a form of music that expressed the ________ ________ of the youth of each generation

What is a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s?

What was the center of musical life during the Middle Ages?

What is the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics?

Choose the best definition of "genre"

There was a divide in religion between the Catholics and Protestants during the Baroque period.

All of the following are main instruments of the Baroque period EXCEPT

Which of the following is an important composer that we associate with the Baroque period?

True or False: The lyrics to county songs often tell a story

True or False:During the 1920s, the atmosphere in America was very negative and tense due to a bad economy.

Jazz got its roots from...

What do we call the period when many rulers exercised absolute power?

The aristocracy was enormously rich and powerful during the Baroque period.

Composers during the Romantic Period used music as...

True or False: Country music is never patriotic

What decade was known as the jazz age?

What does "ars nova" mean?

a type of secular, polyphonic song that became popular during Europe's Renaissance, traditionally performed a cappella

Opera was born in

Which came first: Renaissance or Classical period?

What is another term that describes the jazz age?

Blues music draws inspiration from...

What genre is a form of popular music originating in the rural southern

All of the following are characteristics of Blues music EXCEPT

What does "renaissance" mean?

All of the following are characteristics of jazz EXCEPT

What term describes ceremonial choral music used in the medieval Catholic church?

What was the center of musical life during the Renaissance?

Which best describes music of the Romantic period?

What was the most common feeling expressed in music of the Romantic Period?

What is the aristocracy?

Which of the following is an important composer that we associate with the Classical period?

Which came first: Romantic or Baroque period?