MUS 150 final

Music during the Enlightenment was meant to:

What device did Renaissance composers use to depict in music the words or ideas of a text?

Who was the first important African American composer in the concert music tradition?

The beat in music can be described as:

From what condition did Beethoven suffer?

Historians might speak of the Baroque period as the:

Which is true of the relative status of music in the nineteenth century?

Homophony occurs when:

The principle of organizing music around a central, or “home,” pitch is called:

The Classical style emerged in the ________ century.

Groupings of simultaneous pitches that work well in combination are:

Moving from one key to another in the middle of a composition is called:

The shortest identifiable melodic fragment is called a:

The Middle Ages, or medieval era, covers the time period of the:

The High Renaissance style began around:

What city was the first important center of jazz?

Which describes the highest goal of music in the nineteenth century?

The fundamental “home” pitch in a section of music is called the:

The chief composers associated with early phase of modernism—Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg, were members of the:

Who was the leading composer of ragtime in the early 1900s?

What political figure inspired Beethoven in composing the Eroica Symphony?

Music can be defined as the art of:

Renaissance composers were inspired to explore the power of music to express human feelings. Their inspiration came from

The Classical style developed principally in:

Tempo is the term for the:

The general term for the combination of qualities that make a piece of music distinctive is:

The arrangement, relationship, or organization of elements in music is called:

A chord that sounds discordant, unstable, or in need of resolution is called:

The composer most responsible for elevating music to a new level of respect during the Romantic era is:

The type of music most likely to be written down in the Middle Ages was:

The two key features of jazz performance style are:

Increasingly, the focal point for the performance of Romantic music was the:

Which grouping shows triple meter?

The Baroque period spans the years:

Pitch is the quality of the:

Composers reacting to the complexities of the avant-garde experiments of the 1950s and 1960s sought:

Which is true of music in the Age of Absolutism?

In the period between World War I and World War II, most radical, avant-garde music was:

An interval is:

Most tunes have a high point. The musical term for this is:

The text of an opera is called the:

The set of seven pitches used in Western music is called a(n):