Final for Intro To Music

The sense of relatedness to a central tone is known as 

What is the backbone of a jazz ensemble?

The distance between a melody's lowest and highest tones is known as its _______.

In electronic music, there is no need for ______.

An ______ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, cosmes, and action.

Who was a friend of Robert and Clara Schumann?

What term is used for the pattern when a voice or instrument(s) is answered by another voice or instrument(s)?

Which rap artist was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music in 2018?

The French secular songs of the Middle Ages were often concerned with what subject?

Bruce Springsteen is a major rap artist?

A gradual decrease in loudness is known as a ______.

In the Middle Ages, what was music centered around?

The first oratorios were based on what?

Who is Don Giovanni?

What style features the deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds?

What is associated with music of Africa?

A gradual increase in loudness is known as a ______.

A symphony is a multi-movement work for orchestra

Staccato means short and detached

A gradual slowing-down of tempo is indicated by the term ______.

What was secular music of the late middle ages often paired with?

What subgenre of rock, is characterized by pounding drums, heavily amplified bass, and unrestrained guitar?

Who was an important impressionist composer?

An ______ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work.

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

Music is an art based on the organization of sounds in time

What was the dominant dance music of the 1970s?

What is a song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment called?

Rava Shankar played what instrument?

What time period is considered the golden era of American musical theater?

EDM?

Twentieth-century musical expressionism grew out of the emotional turbulence in the works of late romantics such as ___.

What city was the epicenter of jazz from about 1900 to 1917?

What term is used to describe the absence of key or tonality in a musical composition?

Impressionist painting and symbolist poetry as artistic movements originated in ______.

What Instrument from north India has movable frets, seven strings, and 9-13 sympathetic strings?

dynamics refer to the relative highness and lowness in music

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and who?

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ______ of his day.

What is the speed of the beat

Handel's Messiah is an example of what genre?

What Instrument family formed the orchestra?

What type of form features a basic musical idea that is repeated over and over and is changed each time?

Developed in the 1980s, ______ is a cable television network that broadcasts rock videos.

Nationalism in music is often reflected through what feature?