Music Appreciation Review

This composer established the format of the modern-day piano recital. (Apparently he was also a major cutie).

Which combination of words best describes baroque art and music?

What is the literal meaning of the Italian word "Scherzo?"

Ritornello form is associated with fugues.

Which genre uses stylized steps and pantomine to tell a story?

Who wrote Amazing Grace?

Troubadours and trouveres invented the musical genre known as:

Which term describes the performer temporarily altering the tempo to enhance the expressive quality of the music?

Which composer's works have a Kochel (K) number to assist in identification?

The middle or "heroic" period is when Beethoven:

Which term designates a composition sung by a choir without instrumental accompaniment?

The main keyboard instruments of the Baroque style period were:

Polyphony is

Word Painting occurs when composers and artists play while paintings are drawn.

Who was the king of Ragtime?

Between the early and late 19th century the concert hall underwent a transformation, becoming a multi-purpose theater.

The style that combines elements of Romantic music but reimagines them with the awareness of Modernist musical processes

A character piece is a short instrumental work that tries to capture the essence of a single mood, sentiment, or emotion

Cubism is an artistic style that dislocates reality in geometric blocks and planes

A 20th century artistic movement: emphasized musical forms and size of ensemble that characterized 18th century music.

The cantata, which means "to be sung" is like a minature opera

The years between _______ is known as the classical period

What process is used to construct a disjunct melodic line by placing the next note up or down an octave?

Which innovation made the piano such a popular instrument?

Sounds that came from our real world environment, captured by a tape recorder and imaginatively manipulated.

Which artistic style attempts to capture the unadorned lines, raw energy, and elemental truth of Western art?

This composer became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1983.

Which word describes a type of class of music?

What is the term for instrumental music that is not based on a story or any preexisting program?

Which European capital city was the influential center of Classical style?

This compositional method involves an element of unpredictability on the part of the performers

Identify the Medieval composer who wrote four-voice organum for the cathedral of the Notre Dame in Paris.

What type of music was sung for religious services of the monastery?

The term Impressionism was associated with which particular art form?

Baroque music began using keys. Music in a key is known as tonal music.

Monteverdi is famous for:

The Italian term for beautiful singing is?

The dramatic text that composers set to music in an opera, oratorio, or cantata is called

The most important religious organization in Europe during the Middle Ages was:

What is the term for early polyphonic chant?

The most common basso continuo group was the:

Which Baroque genre opens with a section called the "expostion?"

Hildegard of Bingen was notable for

A highly original composer, he created atonal music and was the father of twelve-tone composition

The classical era in music, art, and architecture coincides with the period in philosophy known as:

The literal meaning of the word Renaissance is "rebirth"

Which term describes the sharp, abrupt dynamic contrasts found in the music of the Baroque era?

The years between _____ is known as the Classical Period.

Which composer was particularly adept at writing dramatic operas that could convey lightning-quick changes in mood?

Quarter-tone music has of sounds in which the smallest interval is not the chromatic half step but half of a half step

Which composition of Beethoven's is considered a work of his late period?

An orchestral song is an art song in which the full orchestra replaces the piano as the medium of accompaniment

Most popular form of dance in the mid-sixteenth century. A slow, gliding dance performed by couples holding hands.

Which Renaissance wind instrument was the predecessor of the modern oboe?

What is a term for a scale in which half-steps are omitted?

When a song contains ever-changing melodic and harmonic matieral, it is?

Which instrument is similar in sounds and shape to a trumpet?

The simultaneous sounding of two keys or tonalities is known as:

He displayed extraordinary musical talent, playing the piano, violin and organ as well as composing by the age of five.

Rondo is one of the oldest musical forms and can be traced back to the middle ages.

Music without a tonal center is considered:

The terms "prima donna" and "diva" both refer to the heroine of the opera and are thus interchangeable.

Musical Exoticism is communicated by any sound drawn from outside the traditional Western European musical experience.

The idea that different musical moods could and should be used to influence the emotions of the listener is known as:

What is the numerical shorthand in music that tells player which unwritten notes to fill in above the written bass note?

The classical symphony has...

During the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries, musicians devised a system called "mensural notation"

Kind of Blue was the first important modal jazz recording.

Classical music was concerned with:

This late romantic period composer wrote in classical forms, he saw himself as carrying on where Bach left off.

What personal adversity did Beethoven struggle to overcome during his adult life?

A bolero is a sultry Spanish dance in a slow tempo and triple meter

Which genre of compostion was not used during the Renaissance?

This sacred vocal genre makes no use of acting, costumes, or staging though vocalists may sing as characters in a story.

A melody, harmony, or rhythm that repeats continually throughout a musical composition is called:

The idea of "art for arts sake" was born of the romantic spirit.

Who created symphonic jazz?

Two major artistic movements of the 20th century were Expressionism and Impressionism.

The years between _____ are known as the Romantic period

A genre that was prominent during the early Baroque; consists of supporting instruments that accompany emotional singer

Gregorian chant is:

Expresses feeling or emotions rather than narrating the drama's action.

Imitation is a polyphonic procedure whereby voices enter in succession with the same musical motive.

What is the section added to the end of the composition that gives the listener a sense of conclusion?

Gregorian Chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who

Syallbic singing is _______

What is the term for a German comic opera?

Which composition resulted in an audience riot during it's premiere performance?

Who is considered the "father of the string quartet?"

The Counter-Reformation was a reactionary movement in the Roman Catholic church

What is the term used to describe a violinist playing multiple strings at once?

This composer was not discovered during his day, however his music goes on to to define the Baroque period.

What was the first book printed in North America?

The term that describes the repetition of a musical motive at successive higher or lower degrees of the scale

What is the German word for song?