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Why do we care about Johann Christian Bach?
What is an ostinato?
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What is an ostinato?
A vocal cadenza
A type of flower
A motif that repeats and is the same throughout a piece
a motif that repeats in the same musical voice
2
Why do we care about Johann Christian Bach?
He wrote a lot of organ music
He was a piano virtuoso
He traveled a lot and had a lot of influence
He put on the first concert series
3
Through-composed means different music all the way through a piece
true
false
4
What is indeterminacy?
Chamber music workshop
No knowing how to play music but doing it anyway
some aspects of work are left open to chance or free choice
Using a graphical score
5
What is a graphic score?
A score but with colours
A picture that shows what the music is supposed to do
A score but with a fancy font
A score that you blow up to make it bigger
6
Who is famous for using primitivism in their music?
J.S Bach
Clara Schumann
Henry Cowell
Igor Stravinsky
7
What is a rondo?
Where people go to ride bulls
When you play a lot of repeats
Passages with alternating soloist and orchestra
ABA form
8
Why do we care Igor Stravinsky?
He invented straws
He changed the world of ballet music
He rlly liked birds
He created the pit band
9
What be Dies Irae?
Its apart of Mass
A plainchant for funeral services
Kinda like an Idee Fixe but not
That thing ins Symphony Fantastic
10
Why do we care about Chopin?
He was realllllllllly gay
We don't, its not on the sheet
He wrote chopsticks
His heart was stolen by Nazis
11
Which of the following is
not
true for symphonies?
Developed from the opera overture
Symphonies don't have brass instruments
Usually three movements fast-slow-fast
They were multi-movement composition for orchestra
12
Name that dude
Guiseppe Verdi (1450-1538)
The four seasons guy
J.S Bach (1685-1750)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
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Tutti is when everyone plays
True
False
14
What is a cadenza?
The name for when the soloist in a concerto begins
A type of ending, like a coda
A type of cheese
The fancy part played by the soloist alone
15
Is this Prepared Piano?
Yes
No
16
What does Impressionism use?
bright contrasting colours, diff. angles, scene abt everyday
Monocolours, still life
17
What is a virtuoso?
Trombone players
Stravinsky
Someone who begins playing before age 5
Someone who is ridiculously good
18
What is absolute music?
Music written on paper as opposed to ideas
Music that tells a story
Music for music's sake
Music with no Story attached
19
What is a concerto grosso?
Like a concerto but with a group solo part
A concerto written for a rich person
A long concerto
When a fat man plays the solo part
20
What does col legno mean?
When you hit the strings with the bow
To slow down
I have no idea
Play with the bow upside down
21
What is ritornello form?
Rondo form
A type of flute concerto
passages for the tutti with passages for the soloists
When the tempo continuously slows
22
What is a symphonic poem?
The name of the melody in program symphonies
A short solo work for an instrument
like a programme symphony but one movement
Putting poems to orchestra music
23
What is a Ballet (in music terms)?
A dance Opera
A dance movement of a suite
Music that accompanies a ballet performance
A traditional dance with point shoes
24
What is dodecaphony?
type of fancy dice
Another name for 12-tone serialism
When u hit all of the keys on a piano at once
A type of fish that Debussy wrote a song for
25
What is twelve-tone serialism?
When you put all 12 tones in an order and use that a lot
Using the chromatic scale
Synonym for atonal music
Using only 12 tones in a composition
26
What is a ritornello?
When the orchestra plays in between solo parts
A type of pasta
When voice and instruments play different parts
A recurring passage played by instruments
27
What did the impresario do?
Impersonate the conductor
Put on a street show to draw in crowds
planned concert details, got subscribers, hired performers
Fill in for performers if they don't show up
28
What is Sonata Allegro form?
Exposition-Development-Recapitulation-Cresendo
Development-Recapitulation-Exposition
Exposition-Development-Recapitulation
Recapitulation-Development-Exposition
29
What is a soli?
passage written for performance by one person
What they did to save ink when writing solo
Like a solo but everyone gets credit
When a player performs in the spotlight
30
Why do we care about Henry Cowell?
He was experimental composer and ultra modernist
He was the first to play inside the piano
He invented prepared piano
He's the dude Tower is named after
31
What is a minuet and trio?
A stylized dance in sonata-allegro from
When you play a minuet three times
A stylized dance in Ternary form
A trio in the style of a minuet
32
Who was Giovanni Battista Sammartini?
He is associated with the formation of the concert symphony
He invented to violin
He invented Sonata-Allegro form
He was a pretty cool dude
33
What is polytonality?
Having more than one voice with a melody
When you have an instrument that is transposed
The use of cluster chords
the simultaneous use of two or more keys
34
What is an idée fixe?
When a composer gets really focused on one idea
A recurring theme serves as a structural foundation
The theme of a song
A character in an instrumental piece
35
Why do we care about Felix Mendelssohn?
He begun the romantic era
He wrote things
He was one of the first conductors
He invented the piano
36
Why do we care about Johann Stamitz?
He expanded the symphony to 5 movements
He expanded the concerto to 3 movements
He expanded the symphony to 3 movements
He expanded the symphony to 4 movement
37
Why do we care about Franz Joseph Haydn?
He rlly like birds
He was Beethovens BFF
He was father of symphony and string quartet
he invented the violin
38
Debussy used parallel chords
False
true
39
Is this Prepared Piano?
Yes
No
40
What is a tone poem?
A type of atonal music
A piece composed with 12-tone serialism
Like a programme symphony but one movement
Also called symphonic poem
41
What is a tone cluster?
the arm thing
When u play a bunch of notes all at once
Using extended chords (9th, 13th, etc.)
When you are confused about tonality
42
What does aleatoric mean?
Using a graphical score
It is a type of 20th-century music
A type of ocean algae used for ink on scores until 1767
It means that aspects of the composition r left undetermined
43
Why do we care about Anton Webern?
He was Schoenberg most radical pupil
He basically invented total serialism
The nazis promoted his music
He wrote experimental tonal music in the 20th century
44
What is sonorism?
Sonar sound from trumpets
approach to associated with a number of Polish composers
Playing the piano with your arm or forearms
Very loud notes played suddenly
45
What is a sonata?
A piano solo
Literally any piece that is solo and keyboard accompaniment
A multi-movement work for orchestra
A multi-movement work for soloist or small ensemble
46
continuo is a type of figured bass
False
True
47
Why do we care about Johannes Brahms?
He wrote symphony fantastie
He birthed modernism
He played old music
He wrote symphonies
48
What is an orchestra?
Another name for symphony
Wind Ensemble is an Orchestra
Any ensemble with strings
a large ensemble of instrumentalists usually with strings
49
What is a program symphony?
Its program music but for a symphony
A program that goes with a symphony
a pay per view symphony
When you picture a scene listening to music
50
Why do we care about Arcangelo Corelli?
His music was key in the development of Concertos
He invented the genre of symphonies
He was the first virtuoso
He helped to popularize harpsichord music
51
Why do we care about Kryztof Pendereck?
He wrote the Hiroshima thing
He was the first one to play inside the piano
He was a star in Frozen
He did the arm piano thing
52
An ophicleide is a saxophone tuba
True
False
53
What is programme music?
Music played with art to look at
Program notes
A chosen set of music to be played in a concert
music that has an extra-musical association
54
What is a Sinfonia?
A type of small orchestra
What is played to open an orchestra
Term used interchangeably with an overture
When young ones play orchestra music
55
Why do we care about John Cage?
He did the prepared piano thing
He's Nicholas Cages better half
He abandoned music that expressed emotion
He was the first to play inside the piano
56
Which is an example of a solo concerto?
Symphonie fantastique
Flute Concert No. 1 in G Major
Symphony No. 8 in G Major
Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 3 No. 6
57
What is a whole tone scale?
A scale that goes up by whole tones
The scale used in blues music
A scale that goes up by chromatic tones
When you use all the notes
58
What is modulation?
Changing keys
Switching from Flute to Piccolo
Changing the theme of the composition
Like a computer mod but for music
59
What is block construction?
How the house Beethoven lived in was created
ABA Form
Symphony Fantastic
Music with continued variation on a theme
60
Modernism?
Yes
No
61
Why do we care about Franz Liszt?
He forced everyone to memorize their piano music
He was really gay for Chopin
He turned the piano sideways
He was a piano rockstar
62
What is a movement?
A measurement of time
A self-contained section of music
A moment in time
A solo work accompanied by piano
63
Why do we care about Ludwig van Beethoven?
He was besties with Bach
He went blind
He wrote the magic flute
He wrote some nifty symphonies
64
What is the classical Concerto?
A fancy name for a soloist
When vocals and instruments have different parts
A cookie
A multi-movement work that features a soloist
65
This is syncopation
False
True
66
What is an octatonic scale?
A scale that goes by semitones
A scale that goes by whole tones
A scale that goes tone-semitone
A scale that goes semitone-tone
67
What is ultra modernism?
Avant-garde
Stuff composed in the 21st Century
Weird atonal music
Very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
68
What is chromaticism?
Step by step
Having a chromatic scale run
Using the chromatic scale as the base scale
When Mark gives you criticism but hes mad about it
69
Why do we care about Hector Berlioz?
He invented the piano
He wrote the first symphony
He wrote symphony fantastic
Because he wrote orchestral and large-scale choral works
70
What is an episode?
When the whole orchestra plays
A 30 minute period of time used to tell a story
A period of time that is exactly 17 minutes
The solo passages in Concertos
71
What is an estampie?
A medieval dance and musical form
A type of madrigal
A type of medieval clarinet
When a frenchman is running from a Stampede
72
What is the pentatonic scale?
Idk but Debussy used them
The scale used in Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat Theme
A scale of whole tones
A scale of 5 random notes
73
Name an •extended performance technique?
hitting brass instruments with sticks (@Maya we love u)
Prepared Piano
Crying
The Derek Charke flute thing
74
What does idiomatic mean?
In a vernacular language
Written for that specific instrument
Appropriate 2 style associated w period, individual, group
Imitating another instrument
75
What is an overture?
The last movement of an opera
A movement in a suite
Instrumental work used to begin an opera
The first movement of an orchestra
76
Why do we care about Claude Debussy?
A wrote atonal tonal music
He married Clara Wieck
He invented buses
He was friends with lots of other artists
77
What does avant-garde mean?
Music that is played inside the piano
White Toast Music
Fancy music
Music at the forefront of experimentation
