Music Appreciation 101: Final Exam

A 3-movement work for an instrumental soloist and orchestra

A composition for solo voice and piano

The Middle Ages was in what time frame?

A basic musical idea is repeated over and over and changed each time

Highlight of the liturgical day; a ritual re-nactment of the Last Supper

Libretto is the text of the opera.

Chamber music is using a large group of musicians with one player to each part

Features a tuneful main theme which returns several times in alternation with other themes

Gregorian chant and one more additional melodic line

A small group of soloists pitted against a larger group of players

A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass

Baroque period is during what time frame?

Melody set to sacred Latin text and sung without accompaniment

Music using a small group of musicians, with one player to a part

The official music of the Roman Catholic Church for over 1,000 years

What became even longer during the romantic period?

Renaissance period is during what time frame?

Derived from a dance in 3 parts

A new way of writing music in France and Italy the during the 14th century (Latin for “new art”)

Opera is drama sung to orchestral accompaniment.

A polyphonic composition based on one-main theme called a subject

Made up of a bass part together with numbers which specify the chord to be played

What is the 3 part form for minuet & trio?

Form of a single movement containing 3 section: exposition, development, and recapitulation

A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment

A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem usually about love

Orchestral composition, exploiting the expanded range of tone color and dynamics of the orchestra

Choral music without instrumental accompaniment

A large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists and orchestra; set to narrative text

When composers draw on colorful materials from foreign lands

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene

When composers deliberately created music with a special national identity (folk songs, dances, legends, and history)

Classical period

A vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech

Romantic period