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The Sonata has 3 movements
True
False
2
What does idiomatic mean?
referring to an idiot
In the style of a particular period, individual, or group
A very simple work
A personal composition
3
Isorhythm's use of rhythmic patterns is called what?
Color
tinntinabul
Talea
Rhythm
4
When did Joeseph Haydn live?
1750-1820
1696-1750
1556-1643
1732-1809
5
Who the hell is Giulio Caccini?
The moustache man
The guy who invented the piano
The dude who invented monody
Galileos Dad
6
What is a Palindrome?
Bob
A word that is the same forwards and backwards
An exaggeration of a word (eg. I am literally dying)
A word that can be rearranged into a different word
7
What's a Neume?
A type of Rhythm
An early form of musical notation
A medieval Trumpet
A delicious snack
8
What is contrapuntal?
When the melodic line is in the altos
Music with more than one melodic line
Switching words but not music
A low drum
9
What is a character piece?
A work where the players dress up as characters
A work that makes you have lots of emotions
Work written for a person
Work with a descriptive title that suggests a mood or scene
10
Why do we care about Arcangelo Corelli?
He wrote a book on composition
He invented the piano
He was a leading composer of Sonatas and Concertos
1st composer whose instrumental works where studied
11
When was the Classical Era?
1450-1725
1730-2001
1750-1820
1600-1750
12
The order of the movements are slow, fast, slow, fast
True
false
13
Why do we care about Giovanni Gabrieli?
He wrote secular choral works
Worked for a fancy cathedral ∴ had the chance to write a lot
He published 680 chorales
known for polychoral writing combining voice and instruments
14
What is a rhythmic mode?
who even knows
A way of notating rhythm
A set of long and short rhythms in patterns
Music written to a specific dance
15
What does polyphonic mean?
One melody/voice
Many sounds simultaneously
16
What is Cantus Firmus Style?
When tenor line of the music is borrowed from another music
Using a separated choir
A piece of music with a firm tempo
When the alto line is different than the rest of the music
17
What is an extended performance technique (according to Michelle)?
Playing an unusually long instrument
Unconventional methods of playing or singing
Extremely expressive performers
Crying
18
Repeat after me songs are an example of responsorial music (kind of)
True
false
19
What is a Melisma?
One note per syllable
Multiple notes on one syllable
20
What is figured bass?
A type of basso continuo
Another name for the tenor line
A fancy name for a fancy string bass
Where numerals indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord
21
Why do we care about Chopin?
He invented the piano
Because Michelle Boyd said he's important
He was the 'poet of the piano'
He was a virtuosic piano player
22
What is the order of Mass Ordinary?
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Santus, Angus Deli
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Santus, Agnus Dei
Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Credo, Gloria, Kyrie, Sanctus, Angus Dei
23
When did Caccini live?
1500-1576
1550-1618
1820-1902
1500-1750
24
Why do we care about Mozart?
His music was rlly good
He was a child prodigy
He wrote a lot of music
25
Who was Nicholas Yonge?
A popular English madrigal composer
The man who invented the philosophers stone
The guy who fueled madrigal composition in England
Invented the violin
26
Why was Haydn important?
He influenced a lot of other composers
He wasn't that important
He was creator of the fundamental genres of classical music
He created the first symphony
27
What is a sacred concerto?
Music written for solo instrument and small group
Any music that combines voices and instruments
Instrumental music about the bible
A type of trumpet music
28
What does strophic mean?
It has a strong sense of meter
It has instruments and voice
It is long
It has verses
29
When was the piano invented?
1455
1623
1921
1709
30
Mass Proper does not change text based on the calendar year
True
False
31
What is a theme and variation?
A piece where each time it's played it's slightly different
A melody and then variations on the melody
Using multiple themes in a composition
Mozarts Twinkle Twinkle little star
32
Cori Sepzzati means separated choir
True
False
33
Why do we care about Claudio Monteverdi and when did he live?
1567-1643, he was a very innovative composer
1777-1829, he wrote many fugues
34
Don't forget about the research part of the exam!
I'm screwed anyway
Oh shit u right
I got this, don't worry
35
Discant is when the parts move in nearly equal Rhythm
False
True
36
Why do we care about Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina?
He became a model composer for the church
He saved polyphony in the church (probably)
He invented the organ
He used instruments in Mass
37
Why do we care about Schoenberg?
He was a prolific piano composer
He pioneered atonality in music
He took a Neo-classical route to his composition
He was a Russian poet
38
What is word-painting?
Literally Painting a word
Use of musical devised to reflect the meaning of the word
Face Paint in performance
Making a word fancy cuz it sounds cooler
39
What is a motet?
Part of the mass cycle
A polyphonic vocal composition with sacred Latin text
A dance
A Monophonic flute-choral comp. with sacred Spanish text
40
When was the 20th Century music era?
1820-1900
1900-present
1450-1600
1900-2000
41
Why do we care about Josquin des Prez?
He invented the organ
He wrote polyphonic vocal compositions
He had a rad hat
He pioneered the symphony
42
When did Bach live?
1500-1750
1650-1730
1770-1825
1685 - 1750
43
What is Ars Nova
A fancy art movement
A type of flute
The sociopolitical movement that stemmed from the German War
1300's art movement where ppl broke from musical tradition
44
When did George Crumb live?
1900-2001
1929-present
1869-1938
1980-2010
45
Isorhythm's use of melodic patterns is called what?
Color
tinntinabul
Melody
Talea
46
What is modified strophic form?
Music with verses
Music with choruses
Verse-Chorus form but chorus is slightly different each time
Early type of theme and variation
47
One of these things is not like the other
Minuet
Prelude
Gigue
Allemande
48
When was the Medieval Era?
1750-1820
1450-1600
400-1450
1000-1550
49
Happy Studying, Good luck and Happy Holidays
:)
:D
50
Why was Pope Gregory important?
He created Gregorian Chant
He was a pretty cool guy
He invented Polyphony
His actions led to the standardization of chant
51
What does Monophonic mean?
Many Parts/Melodies
A Round
One Voice
One Part/Melody
52
Why do we care about Robert Schumann?
He wrote lots of piano music
He was married to Clara Schumann
He pioneered a-tonal music
He was the founding member of music journal
53
Is Pineapple in the vernacular?
No
Yes
54
What is a Chorale?
Any song that's not in Latin
Unison, unacc., metric, rhymed, strophic music in vernacular
Secular Music
Polyphonic performance music in Latin meant for Mass
55
What is contrafactum?
A type of low clarinet
Changing the text but not the music
When the melody is in the bass
Changing the music but not the text
56
What is Expressionism?
Music that gives you feels
Music avoids tradition 2 show feels through exaggeration
Expressive music
The scream (Painting)
57
What is a requiem?
A type of bass flute
A choir piece about Christmas
A stylized set of dance music
A mass for the souls of the dead
58
What is sonata-allegro form?
exposition, development, and recapitulation
The first movement in concertos
A fast sonata
A three-movement piece where all the movements are Allegro
59
What is an Antiphonal Performance style?
Call and Response
More than one voice singing
Melody sung in parallel fifths
Played by two groups
60
What is a song cycle?
A type of round/canon
A group of lieder meant to be performed together
A song that repeats itself
a bicycle for song
61
What did Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre do?
She wrote a very famous requiem
Played the harpsichord like a madwoman
Was the first-ever female composer
Published a book of harpsichord suites
62
What is it called when voices move in parallel, oblique, contrary and similar motion?
Florid Organum
Parallel Organum
Free Organum
63
When did Vivaldi live?
1678-1741
1460-1540
1820-1930
1684-1750
64
Why was the Catholic Church so important to music at this time?
Everyone was Catholic at the time
They got the power
All of the music had to be non-secular at the time
They got the funds
65
Which part of Mass Ordinary is
not
sung in Latin?
Credo
Santus
Kyrie
Agnus Dei
66
When did Handel live?
1540-1620
1663-1750
1820-1910
1685 - 1759
67
What is Rondo Form?
A dance style in duple meter
Music composed in the style of Tibetian Dance
Multi-part with recurring refrain alternated diff. material
A musical rodeo
68
What is a Ritornello?
When the music becomes slower
When the violin doubles the voices
A type of pasta
A short instrumental passage in a vocal work
69
What is retrograde?
Moving backwards
Your grades but in the 1980's
Moving upsidedown
Moving upsidedown and backwards
70
Who invented the Piano?
Arthur Dent
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
J.S Bach
71
What is an imitation style composition?
Thinking of a specific person when writing a musical work
Music written in the style of a different composition
Varying the melody
Repetition of a melody after 1st appearance in diff. voice
72
Why do we care about Schubert?
He was a very prolific composer
He changed the world of lieder
We don't
He's a scary German man (@Andrea)
73
What is a Cantata?
A musical about the bible
A short, unstaged bible opera for church
A long, unstaged, bible opera for performance
Like an Opera but not an Opera
74
What is Direct performance style?
Call and response
Sung together
Many Melodies Sung together
Drone with Melody
75
What is a fugue?
The thing Bach is known for
A type of choral composition
Counterpoint type where voices enter successively w subject
A type of ornament performed on pipe organs
76
What is it called when the harmonizers sing the chant a perfect 5th below the original pitch?
Free Organum
Florid Organum
Parallel Organum
77
Why do we care about Handel?
He wrote about his music frequently
He was a master of counterpoint
One of first composer whose music never fell out of favour
He wrote music for profit, therefore, it was usually popular
78
Why do we care about Johann Walter?
He started a religion
He was a prolific organ composer
He wrote 38 settings of chorales arranged for 4-5 voices
79
When did Arnold Schoenberg live?
1670-1750
1899-1923
1900-1987
1874-1951
80
What is a Madrigal?
A type of Orange
Bitch Idk
Polyphonic through-composed setting of a short secular poem
A short instrumental work meant to be performed in church
81
When did Oliver Messiaen live?
1908-1992
1750-1822
1976-2017
1923-2010
82
What were the reformation and counter-reformation?
A new approach to music and the response from the public
Books of music published in 1450
A boom in musical instrument technology
M.Luther shade with church and their response to his shit
83
What is Musica Enchiriadis?
A Cathedral dedicated to music
A yummy Mexican snack
A performance technique
The first surviving attempt at Polyphony
84
When was the romantic period?
1450-1600
2001-2005
1820-1900
1750-1820
85
When did Robert Schumann live?
1787-1839
1730-1750
1801-1870
1810-1856
86
What is a movement anyway?
a section of music
A dance move
self-contained part of a musical composition
87
What is a suite?
A set of chamber music works performed in an Opera house
A set of stylized dances meant to be performed together
Bach's favourite Candy
A type of German folk music
88
What is a Sonata (in the 17th century)?
Work for 1 or 2 melody instruments with continuo & sections
Literally any music
Solo with orchestral acc.
My death
89
What is nationalism?
Being apart of multiple nations
Promoting the interested of a nation
Being very patriotic
90
What was the Florentine Camerata?
IDEK
A group of scholars who met to discuss the arts
famous work written by J.S Bach for Orchestra
The man who invented the printing press
91
What is Sprechstimme?
Raptor Screeches
Stretched time
Talk-singing
Literally screaming
92
Why is George Crumb important?
He's not
He explored non-traditional means of composing/performing
He wrote medieval music in the modern era
He invented atonality
93
What is a non-retrogradable rhythm?
A music palindrome
A rhythm that can't time travel
When similar rhythms are played at the same time
A rhythm that is played forwards then backwards
94
Is Uphayinaphu in the vernacular?
Yes
No
95
When did Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre live?
1540-1629
3001-3079
1750-1820
1665-1729
96
Why do we care about guido of Arezzo?
He invented notation
He invented polyphony
He invented the harpsichord
He invented plainchant
97
When did Arcangelo Corelli live?
He did not
1750-1450
1633-1701
1653-1713
98
Mass Ordinary Does not change texts based on the calendar year
True
False
99
What is modernism?
Movement in art music composed in 1st half of 20th century
Name for technology boom in the 1940's
Banksy
Composers sought something new while continuing tradition
100
What was the Seconda Practica?
A reminder to practice more but in Latin
Giovanni Maria Artusi's clap back
Term for when a musician is asked the play 2 instruments
This book about music that blew everybody's mind
101
What is Monody?
A type of melody with lots of leaps
Some kind of STD
A type of small gutair
A comp. style with a single melodic line and b/c accom.
102
Musical Dialogue is
A recitative
An Aria
103
What is an Oratorio?
A long, unstaged, bible opera for performance
Like an Opera but not an Opera
A musical about the bible
A short, unstaged bible opera for church
104
What's that?
An old guitar
A lute
The good kush
A Theorbo
105
What is it called when there is a 'drone' voice below the melody?
Free Organum
Florid Organum
Parallel Organum
106
What is tempo rubato?
Taking liberties with the tempo for expressive purposes
Robbed Time
Slower than Allegro, faster than Adagio
Approximately 103bpm
107
What is a Trio Sonata?
A sonata with three parts
A sonata with three instruments
a three-movement sonata
A sonata with three melody instruments
108
Why do we care about Messiaen?
He invented the modern Piano
He rlly liked birds
He was an organist and influential French composer
He wrote song of the whale
109
What is Ternary From?
ABA
ACDC
ABCBA
AB DC al fine
110
Why do we care about Thomas Weelkes?
He invented madrigals
He was besties with Mark Luther
An English poet
He was known for madrigals and church music
111
Musical monologue/soliloquy is
A recitative
An Aria
112
What is stylized dance music?
Folk music
Music written in the style of dance but not for dance
Music written for dance performances
Extended technique where u dance and play at the same time
113
What is a mazurka?
Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo
A type of movement in a Sonata
A type of piano music
An early French horn
114
When and where did Leonin Live?
Vienna in the middle of the 1400's
Paris in the late 12th Century
He's still kicking it in Sweden
Rome in the early 13th Century
115
When did Chopin live?
1910-1988
1800-1888
1670-1750
1810-1849
116
When was the Baroque Era?
1550-1820
1600-1750
1450-1775
1600-1800
117
What is Basso Continuo?
A continued Bass line that never stops
An early string bass
A type of instrumental music
Accompaniment where players improvised over a figured bass
118
What is Atonality?
Music centred around the note A
Music that uses extended techniques
Some weird ass sounding music
Music that avoids establishing important and central pitches
119
Who was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe?
the inventor of the piano
A German Poet
Coined the phrase "Cometh then Goethe away"
Composer of Erlking
120
What is a Troubadour/Trobairitz?
Polish travelling musicians
The name for the audience in secular music performances
Church composers from Notre Dame
French ppl from the 1300ish, made monophonic secular songs
121
What is Tintinnabuli?
When bells are used in music
A type of metal percussion instrument
Begins with diatonic mel. other parts sing from tonic triad
A composition style developed by Arvo Pärt
122
Why do we care about Martin Luther?
He composed a butt ton of chorales
He pissed off the Catholic Church
He was a renowned Organ composer
He started a war
123
What is Concertato Style?
A musical work featuring an instrument
When instruments and voices have different parts
Divided choirs
When more than one instrument is used in the mass cycle
124
What is the L’estro Armonico?
A Spanish harmonica
A type of composition for violin and bassoon
the reason I cry
A collection of concertos for orchestra published in 1711
125
Silent Night is through-composed
True
False
126
When did Mozart live?
400-600
1756-1791
1570-1572
1750-1820
127
What is that?
An early Piano
A Piano
A Harpsichord
An Organ
128
What is Franconian Notation?
A type of figured bass line
The first ever music that was written down
Using note shape to indicate note length
A type of choral music that was written
129
When was the Renaissance Era?
1450-1600
1500-1650
1300-1754
Never, it never happened
130
What is Lied?
Biblical Austrian Music
Music written in the style of traditional Brazilian dance
A secular vocal music in German
An Irish character piece
131
When did Schubert live?
1007-1206
1797 - 1828
1706-1727
1800-1856
132
Why do we care about J.S Bach?
He wrote a lot of secular music
He wrote a butt ton of music
He was a master of fugues and counterpoint
133
What is Avant-garde?
Meaning keep before
Broadly applied to anyone who departs from convention
What they shout in fencing before a match
A term for French 20th century composers
134
Why do we care about Guillaume de Machaut?
He used 2nds for the first time in the church
He put his name on his work
We don't
He composed the first mass cycle (probably)
135
Where are Multi Movement instrumental works supposed to be played?
Small Chamber Settings
On a mountain
Churches
Concert halls
136
What is a mensuration symbol
The fuck if I know
The first time signatures
The very first notation of music
basically just frankonian notation
137
What is a mode of limited transposition?
When u transpose something but it still has the same notes
Transposing to vastly different keys
Never transposing in ur composition
Not using major or minor scales
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Why do we care about Leonin?
He was renowned for composing with polyphony
He invented the pipe organ
He invented Isorhythm
He created the Musica Echiracdia
