Music Appreciation Final Review

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 is perhaps the best known of all symphonies.

Mozart played a minor role in the development of the piano concerto.

Music endowed with literary or pictorial associations is called absolute music.

Which of the following inspired Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

What were the principal genres of sacred choral music during the Classical era?

Impression Sunrise, the painting that sparked the Impressionist art movement, was created by

Many composers wrote motets in praise of the Virgin Mary.

The movements of a Classical concerto are organized into fast-slow-fast.

Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called ________ music.

Fauré’s Requiem was originally scored for

Fisk University was originally founded as a college for freed slaves in Nashville, Tennessee.

Johann Sebastian Bach lived a short, unhappy life and had no children.

Harry T. Burleigh created art-song arrangements of spirituals.

Which genre of religious song contained coded messages about earthly escape?

While composing in his spare time, Charles Ives made a living as a(n)

The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the

Vivaldi was the music master at a school for orphaned boys.

Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of

In addition to composing music, Hildegard of Bingen is known for

Martha Graham was a leading figure in modern dance.

Which of the following are types of absolute music?

Who wrote Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

The concerto lends itself to virtuoso playing.

The range of the piano increased during the nineteenth century.

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a

Which of the following best describes the opening idea of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5?

The symphony was a new genre in the Romantic era.

Johann Sebastian Bach was most famous in his day as a performer on the

Impressionism takes its name from a painting by Claude Monet.

William Grant Still composed the first symphony by an African American to be performed by a major American orchestra.

How many movements make up a typical Haydn symphony?

How many movements are in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

The Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas lived a long and productive artistic life.

Neo-Classical composers preferred absolute music and forms to program music.

The growth of nationalism became a decisive force within the Romantic movement.

The mariachi tradition originated in

Polyphony is the combination of two or more simultaneous melodic lines.

Which group of instruments was the nucleus of the Classical orchestra?

Which African American composer wrote the first symphony to be performed by a major American orchestra?

Which of the following was referred to as “the greatest Negro city in the world” during the 1920s?

Stradivarius, Guarneri, and Amati were famous makers of violins during the Baroque era.

Josquin’s career centered exclusively in his native France.

Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday performed in Harlem at the

________ is traditionally associated with collecting and organizing the chants of the church.

The first era of Western music history in which instrumental music was a major focus for composers was the

________ took recording equipment into the field to preserve songs exactly as the village folk sang them.

The modes were developed from the major and minor scales.

The stories for oratorios are generally drawn from

Mozart composed his Requiem out of gratitude for a long life of artistic creativity.

Who composed Water Music?

Which of the following was the greatest and most prolific Italian composer of concertos?

Which of the following is Vivaldi’s best-known set of concertos?

Many Romantic piano works are in short, free forms.

The typical Romantic symphony has four movements.

There are no non-Western influences in Jennifer Higdon’s blue cathedral.

In absolute music, musical ideas are organized without the aid of external images provided by a program.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers took their name from

The most important organizing element in absolute music is

Which of the following characterizes the piano?

When Fisk University was founded, it was a

A chorale is a hymn tune associated with German Lutherans.

Adding a second voice to a Gregorian melody at the interval of a fifth or a fourth is called organum.

A setting of Gregorian chant with one note per syllable is called

Edvard Grieg was a prominent composer from Norway.

The solo instrument in Spring, from The Four Seasons, is the

Which of the following is Handel’s MOST famous oratorio, frequently performed today?

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is a good example of a program symphony.

William Grant Still composed music in many genres, including

The fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing in the Renaissance was called

How many movements does Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 have?

Langston Hughes is the most important literary figure associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

The tradition of the ring shout was brought to America from

The Roman Catholic Church service that symbolically reenacts the sacrifice of Christ is

Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was inspired by a play written by

The finale to the Symphonie fantastique projects a satanic character.

The prayers that make up the Mass fall into two categories: the Proper and the Ordinary.

Debussy was much influenced by the non-Western music he heard at the Paris World Exhibition of 1889.

During the Romantic era, piano music was intended for professional performers only.

Which of the following characterizes humanism?

In his Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz used a recurrent theme that he called the idée fixe, symbolizing the beloved.

String instruments during the Baroque era used gut produced from animal intestines for strings.

The Classical concerto has four movements.

What was Haydn’s nickname?

Piano manufacturing remained unchanged until the technical advances of the early twentieth century.

Which of the following describes camp meetings?

Humanism is characterized by independence from tradition and religion.

A Requiem is a musical setting of

An oratorio is a dramatic, staged work with elaborate scenery and costumes.

The Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 453 is Mozart’s only concerto.

Chorales were intended to be sung by a trained choir.

Why is Messiah so popular in Britain and America today?

The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was

During the nineteenth century, the Mass was sung only in church.

What was the primary language of the Mass?

Neo-Romanticism absorbed some of the complexities of modernism.

How many movements are in a Classical concerto?