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