General Music Final Exam Review - Part 1

Medieval instruments can be classified as bas or haut, meaning

A composer can fragment a theme by dividing it into smaller units called

Chopin is credited with developing the

Beethoven supported himself through

Which of the following instruments is capable of simultaneously playing both melody and harmony?

A string quartet consists of

Which American city is considered the birthplace of Jazz?

A typical blues lyrics voiced the difficulties of life.

Music and mathematics have been linked since the time of the ancient Greeks.

Beethoven suffered from perhaps the most traumatic of all maladies for a musician. What was it?

Early instrumental music largely depended on improvisation.

Joseph Haydn was one of the most prolific composers of the Classical period.

The repeated dance sections of the suite allowed musicians to improvise melodic decorations, also known as

What is a "blue" note?

Beethoven was unable to compose music after he became deaf.

Which American jazz composer was also a pianist and a master of big-band orchestration?

Eine kleine Nachmusik is

Mozart died while writing his

Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to

Which of the following descriptions is MOST characteristics of a jazz performance?

The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the

The Crusades had little impact on the development of Western civilization.

The tradition of troubadours and trouveres developed in

A musical idea that is used as a building block is called

Which of the following are musical traits of African origin?