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1
What does Herbie Hancock play?
Saxophone
Guitar
Trumpet
Piano
2
Which instrument was NOT in Vivaldi's Gloria?
Trumpet
Clarinet
Oboe
Violin
3
What instrument did John Coltrane play?
Saxophone
Trumpet
Guitar
Piano
4
What interval is a tritone?
Perfect 5th
Augmented 4th
Minor 7th
Diminished 5th
5
What style was Ornette Coleman known for?
Free jazz
Blues
Ragtime
Swing
6
Monteverdi wrote this earliest surviving opera, which is still performed today:
Lulu
L'Orfeo
Sigfried
Le Nozze di Figaro
7
What is Frank Sinatra’s highest selling song?
My Way
Strangers in the Night
New York
Fly me to the Moon
8
Beethoven was born in what year?
1692
1770
1492
1776
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Which of these statements describes a mordent?
Note written, note above, note written, note below
A fast movement between two notes
A small 'crushed in' note
A fast repeated movement between two notes
10
Alberti bass
A loud note.
A succession of chords, one after another.
A figuration made up of broken chords used as an accompaniment.
Two distinct phrases, the second is a direct response to the first.
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An antecedent musical phrase ends on the...
The dominant
The relative minor
The tonic
The subdominant
12
Where was Louis Armstrong from
?
Chicago, Illinois
New Orleans, Louisiana
New York New York
Savannah, Georgia
13
In what city was Handel's Messiah first performed?
Berlin, Germany
Dublin, Ireland
Paris, France
Racine, Wisconsin
14
When was St. Matthew's Passion repopularized?
1829
1832
1901
1727
15
On which instrument was J.S. Bach a virtuoso?
Organ
Harpsichord
Trumpet
Violin
16
A trill in music means to ______________________.
get higher and then get lower
go up, down, and the same
go back and forth between two notes
go back to the beginning
17
What is Gesamtkuntswerk?
Leitmotif
Total Work of Art
Apple pie
Village in Germany
18
What is the enharmonic note of F flat?
G
E flat
E
F
19
What is dissonance?
A note which doesn't belong in the chord
The lowest part of musical texture
Wordplay within a song
A Norweigan Electro-Trance Band
20
How does Purcell use the vocal lines to reflect the mood?
It is quite melissmatic
It has very sad lyrics
Lots of long words
He uses examples of word painting
21
Handel wrote “St. Matthew Passion”
True
False
22
What is Homophonic Texture?
Two or more melodies
A single melody
A single melody with chordal accompaniment
Silence
23
An anacrusis is....
A melody played with chords
the downbeat
the most important melody in the piece
The upbeat
24
Which of these statements describes an acciaccatura?
A small 'crushed in' note
A fast movement between two notes
A fast repeated movement between two notes
Note written, note above, note written, note below
25
What is a Cadenza?
A slow section
An extra section
Another name for the first movement
A section where the soloist shows off
26
Franz Liszt was asked for a lock of his hair so many times that
bought a dog and sent fur instead
he bought a wig
needed new scissors
he shaved his head
27
In a fugue, the main melody is called the
episode
potato
countermelody
subject
28
During the period from about 1920-1951, Stravinsky drew inspiration from
African Spirituals
Webern's Serial Techniques
18th Cent. Music
Russian folklore
29
Bach's cantatas usually end with
a Lutheran chorale in 4 part harmony
a prayer
a dramatic ensemble number involving all of the solo singers
a fugal chorus with full orchestral accompaniment
30
Richard Wagner erfand...
die Wagner-Tuba
die Wagner-Pizza
die Wagner-Oktave
die Wagner-Orgel
31
Ella Fitzgerald is known primarily for what type of singing?
Opera
Lounge-style
Rhythm & Blues
Scat
32
What is antiphony?
Decoration or ornamentations
A type of vocal writing similar to recitative
A short passage of music that finishes off a section
Music in which phrases are imitated or echoed
33
What does 'canon' mean in music?
Repetition of a phrase at a higher or lower pitch
A loud, large gun
A type of printer
A texture where one part echoes another a few beats later
34
Handel's
Messiah
is a(n):
cantata
oratorio
opera
masque
35
Stravinsky's enormous influence on 20th Century music is due to his innovations in
Tone Color
Rhythm
All are Correct
Harmony
36
What is a melodic sequence?
Turning a melody backwards
Playing the same thing higher or lower
Turning a melody upside down
Copying other instruments
37
Felix Mendlessohn was a Romantic Composer but his music was true to what period?
Baroque
Middle Ages
Classical
Renaissance
38
What is polyphony?
music not associated with religion
with voices only; no instruments
a poem that is set to music
2 or more melodic lines being sung at the same time
39
Joseph Haydn is sometimes called the father of what type of music?
Baroque
Marching
Symphony
Classical
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Beethoven only wrote one opera. What was it titled?
Carmen
Barber of Seville
Fidelio
Magic Flute
