General Music Q3

Question 1

Which instrumental genre is a group of dances, usually in the same key?

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Suite

Question 2

Giovanni Gabrieli was the first composer to use dynamics and specify which part of the music?

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Instruments

Question 3

What is the name of a musical setting of a solemn service of the Roman Catholic Church?

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Mass

Question 4

A person highly skilled in music is referred to as a...

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Virtuoso

Question 5

What was the most important secular genre of the Renaissance?

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Madrigal

Question 6

Which term refers to the spontaneous performance of music without written notes?

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Improvisation

Question 7

Which instrumental ensemble was central to Classical chamber music and consisted of two violins, a viola, and a cello?

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String Quartet

Question 8

Which type of opera is comic?

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Opera Buffa

Question 9

What is the name for a drawn out crescendo?

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Steamroller Effect

Question 10

What is the name for the repetition of a pattern at a different pitch?

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Sequence

Question 11

Which type of chant has a large group of notes per syllable?

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Melismatic

Question 12

What was the name of solo song with instrumental accompaniment?

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Monody

Question 13

What is the name for a French secular polyphonic work?

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Chanson

Question 14

Which category of music is a type of "art" music that stands apart from traditional and popular?

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Classical

Question 15

Which component of opera is a lyric song for solo voice and generally expresses intense emotion?

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Aria

Question 16

Which type of chant has only one note per syllable?

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Syllabic

Question 17

Musical ideas being exchanged between vocal lines so the same phrase is heard in different registers is known as...

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Imitation

Question 18

What is the name for making the music reflect the meaning of the words?

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Word Painting

Question 19

Which texture has two or more simultaneous melodic lines?

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Polyphony

Question 20

What is the name of the tuning system that divided the octave into twelve equal half-steps?

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Equal Temperament

Question 21

What is the name for a fixed melody that could be used in a polyphonic setting?

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Cantus Firmus

Question 22

In which year did Rome fall and start the Middle Ages?

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476

Question 23

Which term refers to vocal works without instrumental accompaniment?

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A Cappella

Question 24

What is the name of the system of seven tones built on a tonic, or keynote?

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Major-Minor Tonality

Question 25

When all voices move together, it is known as...

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Homorhythm

Question 26

Which of the following is NOT a name for medieval liturgical music?

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Motet

Question 27

Which type of opera is serious and dramatic?

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Opera Seria

Question 28

Which term refers to "new art" and was more refined and complex than Ars antiqua (old art)?

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Ars Nova

Question 29

Which instrumental genre is based on the opposition between a small group of instruments and a larger group?

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Concerto Grosso

Question 30

Which instrumental genre features a soloist and an accompanying instrumental group?

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Solo Concerto

Question 31

Which of the following is a lively round dance usually performed outdoors?

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Ronde

Question 32

Which of the following refers to two or three choirs singing together or answering each other antiphonally?

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Polychoral Singing

Question 33

The culture of the Classical era thrived under a sponsorship of musicians known as...

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Patronage

Question 34

Which component of opera is the text or script of the opera?

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Libretto

Question 35

Which of the following is a way of thinking focused on human issues and the individual?

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Humanism

Question 36

What is the name of the earliest polyphonic music?

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Organum

Question 37

Which term refers to the volume of the music?

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Dynamics

Question 38

Music for a small ensmeble, usually about two to ten players with one player per part, is known as...

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Chamber Music

Question 39

What is the name for a large scale drama that is sung?

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Opera

Question 40

Which word best describes harmony that is built from the seven tones of a major or minor scale?

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Diatonic

Question 41

Baroque composers wrote to arouse only emotion per piece. This idea is referred to as the...

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Doctrine of the Affections

Question 42

Which component of opera is an instrumental number heard at the beginning of most operas?

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Overture

Question 43

What is the name for the notation system that uses numerals above or below the bass note to indicate the chord required?

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Figured Bass

Question 44

What is the name for a disjunct and marchlike theme that ascends quickly?

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Rocket Theme

Question 45

Music that has no literary, dramatic, or pictorial program is known as...

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Absolute Music

Question 46

Which component of opera is solo vocal declamation that follows the inflection of the text?

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Recitative

Question 47

Which instrumental genre is a four-movement work for full orchestra and one of the principal forms of the Classical era?

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Symphony

Question 48

What is the name of an improvised solo passage from a solo concerto?

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Cadenza

Question 49

Which instrumental genre is a contrapuntal composition where a single theme pervades the entire fabric?

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Fugue

Question 50

Which type of chant has a small group of notes (about five or six) per syllable?

Accepted Answer

Neumatic

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