A&H Final Review

What dynamic marking means medium soft?

Which element of dance refers to the area that is used?

What improved the quality of instruments in the Romantic period?

What type of music from the Renaissance was for non-religious purposes?

What is improvisation?

Haydn is remembered as the first great composer of what form (he had 106 of these)?

Which category of social dance relates to finding a mate or a partner?

What did Beethoven add to symphonies for the first time?

What style of jazz was created with Cuban, African, and Spanish music qualities?

What does "en pointe" mean?

A line dance is a type of social dance, which prefers cooperation over competition.

Music that is in a ________________ is also called "sad" music.

What is the origin of jazz music?

What ballerina helped spread ballet to the rest of the world?

Which ballerina was credited as the first to go on her toes?

What 20th century style returned to qualities of a previous time period?

What string instrument, shaped like half a pear, was commonly used in the Renaissance?

What element of music supports the melody?

What are the main characteristics of classical music?

What element of music means the unique sound of an instrument?

Composers of atonal music created music without what?

What element of music received the greatest emphasis in the Romantic period?

Which composer was a bridge from the Classical Period to the Romantic Period?

Debussy composed in what style?

What category of why people dance includes musical theater?

What two composers were the most prominent with creating motets in the Renaissance?

What type of atonal music uses all notes of the chromatic scale?

What does the word "prestissimo" mean?

This element of music is a satisfying sequence of notes; what you come away singing.

What element of music is defined as the structure of music?

Which element of dance refers to the actual, specific movements performed?

The Brazilian martial art disguised as dance is called what?

Baroque melodies were often heavily ________________ by the performer.

What monarch helped establish ballet as the dance of the upper class?

The word "Baroque" means what?

What element of music means the loudness and softness of music?

What Classical composer performed and composed at a young age, but also died at a young age?

What element of music is a combination of notes and rests and creates the "beat" of a song?

A requiem is a mass for a what?

What describes how fast or slow music is?