Unit 1-5 Study Guide

When notating music for others to read, composers traditionally have used ____________ words to indicate dynamics.

When a dissonance moves to a consonance it is called a

The dynamic markings traditionally used to indicate very soft, loud, and very loud are respectively

The term ___________ refers to the rate of speed of the beat of the music.

A gradual increase in loudness is known as a_______, and a gradual decrease in loudness is known as a ____

The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except

A _______ is placed at the beginning of a staff to show the exact pitch of each line and space.

A cappella refers to

The range of a singer’s voice depends on

Pitch is defined as

Monteverdi, an early baroque composer, strove to create music that was

A section that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition is called

Music can be defined as

The main tool of composers of electronic music during the 1950s was

Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are called

A short, detached style of playing a melody is known as

Orpheus goes to Hades in the hope of bringing _____ back to life.

Symphonic bands differ from symphonic orchestras in that they

Renaissance melodies are usually easy to sing because

Western music uses ____________ letters of the alphabet to indicate pitch.

The baroque period in western music is usually given as

The piano has _______ keys, spanning more than 7 octaves.

A combination of three or more tones sounded at the same time is called

Haydn's two popular oratorios are entitled The Seasons and

During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to

A smooth, connected style of playing a melody is known as

An_____ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.

Register refers to

Handel's Messiah is an example of

Mozart composed Requiem

A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called

A staff is a

The Renaissance as a stylistic period in the western music encompassed the years

The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is

The ______________ has many sets of pipes controlled from several keyboards, including a pedal keyboard.

Degrees of loudness and softness in music are called 

 The distance between the lowest and highest tones a voice or instrument can produce is called

The element of music defined as the steady pulse of music through time or the particular arrangement of note lengths in

The Council of Trent attacked the church music of the Renaissance because it

Woodwind instruments are so named because they

The ________ is a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time.

Baroque melodies often are

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and

Classicism as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years

Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English was composed by