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What is ritornello form?
Name an •extended performance technique?
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Name an •extended performance technique?
Prepared Piano
The Derek Charke flute thing
hitting brass instruments with sticks (@Maya we love u)
Crying
2
What is ritornello form?
A type of flute concerto
Rondo form
passages for the tutti with passages for the soloists
When the tempo continuously slows
3
Is this Prepared Piano?
Yes
No
4
Why do we care about Claude Debussy?
He invented buses
He married Clara Wieck
He was friends with lots of other artists
A wrote atonal tonal music
5
What is an episode?
The solo passages in Concertos
When the whole orchestra plays
A 30 minute period of time used to tell a story
A period of time that is exactly 17 minutes
6
What is polytonality?
When you have an instrument that is transposed
Having more than one voice with a melody
the simultaneous use of two or more keys
The use of cluster chords
7
Why do we care about Ludwig van Beethoven?
He wrote the magic flute
He went blind
He was besties with Bach
He wrote some nifty symphonies
8
Through-composed means different music all the way through a piece
false
true
9
Which is an example of a solo concerto?
Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 3 No. 6
Flute Concert No. 1 in G Major
Symphony No. 8 in G Major
Symphonie fantastique
10
What is a rondo?
Where people go to ride bulls
When you play a lot of repeats
ABA form
Passages with alternating soloist and orchestra
11
What is a minuet and trio?
A trio in the style of a minuet
When you play a minuet three times
A stylized dance in Ternary form
A stylized dance in sonata-allegro from
12
Who was Giovanni Battista Sammartini?
He invented to violin
He is associated with the formation of the concert symphony
He was a pretty cool dude
He invented Sonata-Allegro form
13
What is indeterminacy?
some aspects of work are left open to chance or free choice
Using a graphical score
No knowing how to play music but doing it anyway
Chamber music workshop
14
What is programme music?
music that has an extra-musical association
Music played with art to look at
A chosen set of music to be played in a concert
Program notes
15
What is an orchestra?
Another name for symphony
Any ensemble with strings
a large ensemble of instrumentalists usually with strings
Wind Ensemble is an Orchestra
16
What is ultra modernism?
Very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
Avant-garde
Stuff composed in the 21st Century
Weird atonal music
17
What is a tone cluster?
the arm thing
When you are confused about tonality
When u play a bunch of notes all at once
Using extended chords (9th, 13th, etc.)
18
What be Dies Irae?
That thing ins Symphony Fantastic
A plainchant for funeral services
Its apart of Mass
Kinda like an Idee Fixe but not
19
What is an overture?
Instrumental work used to begin an opera
The last movement of an opera
A movement in a suite
The first movement of an orchestra
20
What did the impresario do?
Put on a street show to draw in crowds
planned concert details, got subscribers, hired performers
Fill in for performers if they don't show up
Impersonate the conductor
21
Why do we care about Felix Mendelssohn?
He invented the piano
He wrote things
He begun the romantic era
He was one of the first conductors
22
What is a sonata?
A multi-movement work for soloist or small ensemble
A piano solo
Literally any piece that is solo and keyboard accompaniment
A multi-movement work for orchestra
23
Why do we care about Henry Cowell?
He was the first to play inside the piano
He's the dude Tower is named after
He invented prepared piano
He was experimental composer and ultra modernist
24
What is block construction?
How the house Beethoven lived in was created
ABA Form
Symphony Fantastic
Music with continued variation on a theme
25
What does idiomatic mean?
Imitating another instrument
In a vernacular language
Appropriate 2 style associated w period, individual, group
Written for that specific instrument
26
Why do we care about Johann Christian Bach?
He put on the first concert series
He traveled a lot and had a lot of influence
He wrote a lot of organ music
He was a piano virtuoso
27
Why do we care about Franz Liszt?
He turned the piano sideways
He was really gay for Chopin
He forced everyone to memorize their piano music
He was a piano rockstar
28
Modernism?
No
Yes
29
What is a virtuoso?
Trombone players
Someone who begins playing before age 5
Stravinsky
Someone who is ridiculously good
30
Why do we care about Franz Joseph Haydn?
he invented the violin
He was Beethovens BFF
He rlly like birds
He was father of symphony and string quartet
31
What is a movement?
A solo work accompanied by piano
A moment in time
A self-contained section of music
A measurement of time
32
An ophicleide is a saxophone tuba
True
False
33
What does col legno mean?
To slow down
I have no idea
Play with the bow upside down
When you hit the strings with the bow
34
continuo is a type of figured bass
False
True
35
What is absolute music?
Music written on paper as opposed to ideas
Music for music's sake
Music with no Story attached
Music that tells a story
36
Why do we care about Kryztof Pendereck?
He was a star in Frozen
He did the arm piano thing
He was the first one to play inside the piano
He wrote the Hiroshima thing
37
What is a program symphony?
A program that goes with a symphony
When you picture a scene listening to music
a pay per view symphony
Its program music but for a symphony
38
What does Impressionism use?
Monocolours, still life
bright contrasting colours, diff. angles, scene abt everyday
39
Debussy used parallel chords
False
true
40
What is a whole tone scale?
A scale that goes up by whole tones
A scale that goes up by chromatic tones
The scale used in blues music
When you use all the notes
41
What does aleatoric mean?
Using a graphical score
It is a type of 20th-century music
It means that aspects of the composition r left undetermined
A type of ocean algae used for ink on scores until 1767
42
What is a cadenza?
A type of ending, like a coda
The name for when the soloist in a concerto begins
A type of cheese
The fancy part played by the soloist alone
43
Name that dude
Guiseppe Verdi (1450-1538)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The four seasons guy
J.S Bach (1685-1750)
44
What is modulation?
Changing keys
Like a computer mod but for music
Switching from Flute to Piccolo
Changing the theme of the composition
45
What is an idée fixe?
The theme of a song
A recurring theme serves as a structural foundation
When a composer gets really focused on one idea
A character in an instrumental piece
46
This is syncopation
True
False
47
Why do we care about John Cage?
He's Nicholas Cages better half
He was the first to play inside the piano
He abandoned music that expressed emotion
He did the prepared piano thing
48
What is an estampie?
A type of medieval clarinet
When a frenchman is running from a Stampede
A medieval dance and musical form
A type of madrigal
49
What is a Sinfonia?
When young ones play orchestra music
Term used interchangeably with an overture
What is played to open an orchestra
A type of small orchestra
50
Tutti is when everyone plays
True
False
51
Why do we care about Chopin?
He wrote chopsticks
We don't, its not on the sheet
He was realllllllllly gay
His heart was stolen by Nazis
52
Why do we care about Johann Stamitz?
He expanded the symphony to 3 movements
He expanded the symphony to 4 movement
He expanded the symphony to 5 movements
He expanded the concerto to 3 movements
53
What is a ritornello?
A recurring passage played by instruments
When voice and instruments play different parts
A type of pasta
When the orchestra plays in between solo parts
54
What is chromaticism?
When Mark gives you criticism but hes mad about it
Step by step
Having a chromatic scale run
Using the chromatic scale as the base scale
55
What is an octatonic scale?
A scale that goes by whole tones
A scale that goes semitone-tone
A scale that goes by semitones
A scale that goes tone-semitone
56
Which of the following is
not
true for symphonies?
Usually three movements fast-slow-fast
They were multi-movement composition for orchestra
Symphonies don't have brass instruments
Developed from the opera overture
57
What is twelve-tone serialism?
Using only 12 tones in a composition
Synonym for atonal music
Using the chromatic scale
When you put all 12 tones in an order and use that a lot
58
What is a symphonic poem?
Putting poems to orchestra music
The name of the melody in program symphonies
like a programme symphony but one movement
A short solo work for an instrument
59
What is a soli?
passage written for performance by one person
What they did to save ink when writing solo
When a player performs in the spotlight
Like a solo but everyone gets credit
60
Why do we care about Johannes Brahms?
He wrote symphony fantastie
He birthed modernism
He wrote symphonies
He played old music
61
What is the pentatonic scale?
A scale of whole tones
The scale used in Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat Theme
A scale of 5 random notes
Idk but Debussy used them
62
Is this Prepared Piano?
No
Yes
63
What is the classical Concerto?
A cookie
A multi-movement work that features a soloist
When vocals and instruments have different parts
A fancy name for a soloist
64
What does avant-garde mean?
Music that is played inside the piano
Fancy music
White Toast Music
Music at the forefront of experimentation
65
What is a graphic score?
A score that you blow up to make it bigger
A score but with colours
A score but with a fancy font
A picture that shows what the music is supposed to do
66
What is a tone poem?
A type of atonal music
Also called symphonic poem
Like a programme symphony but one movement
A piece composed with 12-tone serialism
67
Why do we care Igor Stravinsky?
He changed the world of ballet music
He rlly liked birds
He invented straws
He created the pit band
68
Who is famous for using primitivism in their music?
J.S Bach
Henry Cowell
Clara Schumann
Igor Stravinsky
69
Why do we care about Hector Berlioz?
He wrote the first symphony
He wrote symphony fantastic
Because he wrote orchestral and large-scale choral works
He invented the piano
70
Why do we care about Anton Webern?
The nazis promoted his music
He wrote experimental tonal music in the 20th century
He was Schoenberg most radical pupil
He basically invented total serialism
71
What is a concerto grosso?
A long concerto
Like a concerto but with a group solo part
When a fat man plays the solo part
A concerto written for a rich person
72
What is dodecaphony?
type of fancy dice
A type of fish that Debussy wrote a song for
When u hit all of the keys on a piano at once
Another name for 12-tone serialism
73
What is Sonata Allegro form?
Development-Recapitulation-Exposition
Recapitulation-Development-Exposition
Exposition-Development-Recapitulation
Exposition-Development-Recapitulation-Cresendo
74
What is a Ballet (in music terms)?
A dance Opera
Music that accompanies a ballet performance
A dance movement of a suite
A traditional dance with point shoes
75
What is sonorism?
Sonar sound from trumpets
Playing the piano with your arm or forearms
Very loud notes played suddenly
approach to associated with a number of Polish composers
76
What is an ostinato?
A motif that repeats and is the same throughout a piece
A type of flower
a motif that repeats in the same musical voice
A vocal cadenza
77
Why do we care about Arcangelo Corelli?
His music was key in the development of Concertos
He invented the genre of symphonies
He helped to popularize harpsichord music
He was the first virtuoso
