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What is recitative secco?
Who was Carl Maria Von Weber?
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1
Who was Carl Maria Von Weber?
composer of the first German romantic opera
Composer of the first musical
Famous Opera Singer
composer, conductor, pianist and music critic
2
What is recitative secco?
A recitative that is accompanied by orchestra
An Aria accompanied by orchestra
A type of costume in opera performance
A recitative that is accompanied by b/c only
3
What does avant-garde mean?
Being new and unusual or experimental
Using lots of extended techniques in musical compositions
Being ahead of the game
A-tonal music
4
What is an octatonic scale?
A scale with the repeating pattern Semitone, Tone
A scale with the Pattern T, T, ST, T, T, T ST
A scale with the repeating pattern Tone, Semitone
A scale with 5 notes
5
What is opera Buffa?
A sad opera
A dramatic opera
A serious Opera
A comedic opera
6
What is a cadenza?
passage played by soloist meant to show off skills
A type of keyboard instrument
The end of a piece
A type of pasta
7
What is expressionism?
Crying on stage
When you have a lot of feels
Term avoids traditional forms in order to express feelings
Composing a piece based on a single negative feeling
8
What is rhythmic dissonance?
Like tonal dissonance but with rhythm
Rhythm played backward and forwards at the same time
9
What is a minuet and trio?
A movement in a suite
When a minuet is written in triple meter
When you play a minuet three times
Stylized dance in Ternary Form and triple meter
10
Who was Christoph Willibald Gluck?
The dude who took out choruses in opera
Leading figure in the opera reform movement
I have no idea
A German composer who wrote opera
11
Who was Haydn?
He was known for his opera
He was the father of the symphony
12
What is primitivism?
Playing period instruments
To aspire to recreate the "primitive" experience
Playing old music in the modern day
The rite of spring
13
This is a solo concerto
True
False
14
What is a virtuoso?
Someone who plays a lot of instruments pretty well
person who dazzles audiences with their skillz
A type of cold
Someone with good virtues
15
Which of the following represents ritornello form? (Rit = ritornello, Ep.= episode)
Rit 1, Rit 2, Rit 3
Rit 1. Ep. 1, Ep. 2
Ep 1, Rit 1, Rit 2, Rit 3, Ep. 2, cadenza, rit 3
Rit. 1 , Ep. 1 , Rit. 2, ep. 2, rit. 3, cadenza
16
Who do we care about Igor Stravinsky?
He wrote a very famous symphony
He wrote many famous ballets
He was one of the famous five
He wrote the flight of the bumble bee
17
Who was Georges Bizet?
The man who wrote the opera Carmen
He reinstated ballet in opera
He helped invent Broadway Musical
He wrote a series of famous piano sonatas
18
Which of the following composers is not associated with the minimalist movement?
Claude Debussy
Steve Reich
Terry Riley
Philip Glass
19
What is bel canto singing?
Meaning to sing in a bell-like fashion
style of composing & singing that is agile light & beautiful
To talk-sing
To sing so loudly that it is almost yelling
20
What is Gesamtkunstwerk?
Umm bless you
A German opera abt magic bullets
A type of opera singing
means complete work or many media directed by single creator
21
What
IS NOT
a characteristic of Aria?
Lyrical melody
through-composed
Accompanied by orchestra
Strophic
22
What is programme music?
Beethoven's 5th Symphony
The order in which music is played
music that has an extra-musical association
A set of music that is played in a concert
23
What is an extended performance technique?
Crying
Hitting Brass instruments
Screaming into a clarinet
Yoga and Music at the same time
24
Who was Richard Wagner?
A famous piano virtuoso
One of the famous five
one of the most influential musicians of all time
wrote 2 essays abt the relationship between music & drama
25
What is that?
A type of saxophone
The good kush
An early Baritone
An ophicleide
26
Why do we care about Felix Mendelssohn?
He was one of the first conductors
He wrote a bunch of shit
He wrote a-tonal music
We don't because of Nazis
27
What is a ballet?
Dance using music with light, graceful, elegant movements
A Russian musical form
The ladies with the point shoes
Any formalized dance set to music
28
What is an overture?
Developed into the symphony
Instrumental work used to begin an opera/ later act
A large group of instrumentists
A type of multi-movement instrumental work
29
What is modulation?
Changing from one key to another
Changing meter
Staying in the same key
Changing instruments
30
Handel was a pretty cool dude
true
false
31
This is a syncopation
True
False
32
What is twelve-tone serialism?
Randomly placing notes
Only using 12 notes when composing
All of the tone rows
A-tonal music
33
Beethoven is one of the most influential composers ever.
true
false
34
Berlioz's Symphony Fantastic is an example of a program symphony
True
False
35
What is a tone poem?
A poem made of tones
A short orchestral piece based on a poem
Orchestra music on a descriptive theme
When the poem has sass
36
Debussy is
not
considered to be an impressionist composer
True
False
37
Who was Giochino Rossini?
A prolific violinist and violin composer
Rossini Linguini Alfredo
Italian Opera composer known for Comic opera
A very famous violin maker
38
What is a scene complex?
When a scene is complicated
A very intense scene in an opera
When the music high point happens in an aria
A scene in an opera that has recitatives and arias
39
What is a concerto?
multi-movement work for orchestra that features a soloist
A type of string quartet
A solo performance in a small chamber setting
A type of cookie
40
What is a tone cluster?
Hit all of the things (@kevin and Abigail we love u)
Putting things into the piano
4 different notes at the same time
lying down on the piano
41
Who was Hector Berlioz?
Was a virtuosic piano player
The symphony Fantastic guy
Best known for his operatic works
Wrote a lot of a-tonal music
42
What is Absolute Music?
Music that is composed for funsies
Music for Music's sake
Music with an extra-musical association
A type of Baroque Chamber music
43
What is a Da Capo aria?
An Aria with the sections AB Da Capo
An aria that is written in a conversational style
A special type of aria that repeats itself
A type of opera
44
Who was Giovanni Battista Sammartini?
He was a very influential composer
He is the father of the symphony
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He wrote many famous operas
45
What is a symphonic poem?
When a poem is read before a piece
When a composition is based on a poem
Like spoken word poetry but with music
like a programme symphony but one movement
46
What is continuo?
When a piece is too long
A reoccurring figure
a type of bass
Figured bass that accompanies
47
Who was Guilio Caccini?
He saved polyphony
He created the mass cycle
The man who invented monody
He kind of wrote the first opera
48
What is a Rondo?
A melody that reoccurs throughout the piece
When a solo players theme is alternated with singing
Principal theme alternates with 1+ contrasting themes
A theme that represents a thing
49
Which of the following is
Not
true about Franz Liszt?
He wrote many famous operas
He turned the piano sideways cuz he thought he was hot stuff
Pianists hate him for making them memorize
He was super gay for Chopin
50
What is the Florentine Camerata?
AN Italian pasta dish
A group of composers based in Florence
The dudes who invented opera
the group of artsy dudes who liked greek stuff
51
This song is through-composed
False
True
52
What is an Opera?
a through-sung, staged drama, birthed in about 1600
A four-movement instrumental work featuring a soloist
A poem that is put to music and sung
A musical drama with some spoken text
53
What is an opera seria?
A sad opera
A dramatic opera
A comedic opera
A serious Opera
54
What is block construction?
Having a foundation 4 your piece and then improvising
Composing with lego
Composing in sections/blocks
Composting with sections
55
Name that dude
Mozart
Beethoven
Debussy
Schubert
56
What is monody?
Music with a single melodic line with b/c accom
A type of figured bass
A type of chorale singing developed in the 1400's
A type of early baritone
57
What is a symphony?
Multi-movement composition for orchestra
An orchestral work composed featuring a soloist
A card you get someone when they die
Any piece composed for orchestra
58
Why do we care about Johann Stamitz?
He expanded the symphony to 4 movements
He invented the opera
He was the first conductor
A Russian leader
59
This is a solo concerto
False
True
60
Which of the following is not true about Lenord Bernstein?
He was one of the first popular German Conductors
He wrote a lot of popular musicals
He integrated a lot of different musical styles together
He did a lot of children's education
61
What is modernism?
music that did not seek 2 please ppl but made them think
It offers critiques of mass culture through music
Simple atonal music
Music written after 1910
62
What is ritornello?
Form where strings and winds play against each other
When the tempo slows
A type of pasta
a recurring passage playing by instruments
63
What is the Librettist?
The program for an opera
A type of multi-movement instrumental work
The singers in an opera
The author of the opera
64
Who is Alban Berg?
Wrote medieval music in the 19th century
One of Schoenberg's students, but popular
wrote a-tonally but w gestures that were like popular tonal
Russian Ballet composer
65
Who was Claude Debussy?
Influential and innovative french composer
Started minimalist music style
The frenchiest fry
Impressionism in music was kinda his thing
66
What does idiomatic mean?
A type of electronic instrument that is automatic
The opposite of virtuosic playing
Means written for a specific instrument
Being dumb
67
What is a movement?
When the players switch places
The name for the actual playing of organ music
A type of dance
A self-contained section of music
68
Who was John Cage?
The 4 33 guy
The Symphony Fantastique guy
Nicholas Cages underrated cousin
An American composer who experimented with sound
69
What is the Dies Irae?
A type of cello suite
A desire that is expressed in opera
The thing that was quoted in symphony fantastique
A plainchant for a funeral service
70
Who was Anton Webern?
schoenberg's student
A composer who cut himself almost completely from tonality
Composer very opposed to a-tonal music and wrote about it
Wrote a famous a-tonal opera
71
What is prepared piano?
Putting shit in the piano to make it sound different
Tuning the piano
the name for piano playing after 1945
Screws!!!!!
72
Who was Jacopo Peri?
Italian Composer
May have written one of the first opera
Invented the printing press
Wrote one of the first mass cycles
73
What is an idée fixe?
A technique used in the rite of spring
A fixed idea that you have to compose a piece around
A musical reoccurring theme that represents a thing
An entire piece being just one theme repeated
74
Who was John Adams?
A founding father of the USA
Composer known for use of serialism
Composer known for atonal music; wrote Song of the Whale
American Minimalist composer; wrote opera Dr Atomic
75
What are parallel chords?
doubling the chord in three octaves
Chords that travel beside each other but never meet
Each note within the chord rises/falls by the same interval
Playing the same chord in different octaves
76
An episode is a section of music
False
True
77
What is a cavatina?
When a solo is played in an opera
A type of aria
The first time a character sings in an opera
A special stage prop in an opera
78
Haydn's Symphony No 9 is an example of a program symphony
False
True
79
This piece is through-composed
False
True
80
Who is Henry Cowell?
Wrote the Banshee
He invented the prepared piano
ultra-modernist composer introduced piano tone clusters
The man tower is named after
81
What is an ostinato?
A motif that represents a thing
A type of early saxophone
A two bar rhythmic motif
A motif that persistently repeats
82
What is the Libretto?
The type of singing used in opera
A type of opera
The text of the opera
The author of the opera
83
What is recitative accompagnato?
A recitative that is accompanied by b/c only
A recitative that is accompanied by orchestra
An Aria accompanied by orchestra
A type of costume in opera performance
84
Pietro Metastasio was an influential poet and playwright
True
False
85
What does impresario mean?
The Barb of concerts
When a comedian impersonates a musician
The dudes who planned the concert, got ppl, hired performers
When an instrument impersonates another instrument
86
What is a sectional in music?
A solo in the middle of a symphony
When instrument groups break up to practice individually
A Musical idea, the section complete but no independent
An independent movement in music
87
Why do we care about Claudio Monteverdi?
Most innovative and imaginative composer of the Renaissance
He invented the piano
He saved polyphony in the church
Wrote the first successful opera
88
What is a sinfonia?
A group of small children playing orchestra music
Used interchangeably with the term overture
Historically informed performers
Term used for symphony
89
What is a concerto grosso?
A longer, bigger concerto
A concerto that sounds really gross
The middle movement of a concerto
A concert but the soloist is a small group of people
90
What is a recitative?
A style of singing in recitals
A type of solo piano composition
a compositional style that mimics speech
regular meter, active bass line, lyrical melody
91
Pietro Metastasio wrote many operas
True
False
92
What is an orchestra?
A high school band
A large group of string players
An ensemble of wind players
A large ensemble of instrumentalists.
93
What is the order of Sonata Allegro form?
Exposition, development, recapitulation
Crying and then more crying
Exposition, recaptiulation, development
Recapitulation, development, exposaition
94
What is a leitmotif?
A movement in a program symphony
Musical idea representing a particular thing
A motif that is supposed to be played lightly
An idee fixe but in German
