Music 101 Final Exam

Mozart died while writing his:

By the romantic era, concerts had moved from

What distinguishes chamber music from orchestral music

Mozart is remembered today as:

The high point of a melodic line is considered its

How many symphonies did Beethoven write?

The invention of the printing press allowed:

Pitch is determined by

Medieval instruments can be classified as bas or haut, meaning

______ is the principle of organization around a central tone

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

Henry Cowell helped invent this way of music

Which of the following composers was the greatest child prodigy in all of music history

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of Beethovens symphonies

Wagner called his operas

The scheme of a traditional symphony is

Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite is what type of program music

Which of the following does NOT characterize the oratorio

Which of the following dance types was not standard in Baroque suite

A single-line texture is known as

Harmony describes the ______ aspects of music

In Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, what is the idee fixe?

The Roman Catholic Church responded with a movement to recapture the loyalty of its people. This was known as:

The principal themes in Wagners operas, which recur throughout a work and carry specific meanings, are

Which of the following is NOT a simple meter

Scott Joplin is known as

John Cage invented

Which form is structured A-B?

The term referring to the overall shape of a melody is

Musical sound is performed at varying volumes, also known as the music's

Which of the following does NOT characterize Gregorian chant

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

The _____ is a keyboard instrument whose string are plucked by quills:

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

The ____ is a keyboard form based on the principle of voices imitating each other

The most common type of chord in Western music is the

The vocal style in opera that imitates the natural inflections of speech is called:

The stories for oratorio are generally drawn from

Expansion of a theme by varying its pitches, harmony, or rhythm is known as

Music that is made up on the spot is known as

John Philip Susa is known as

The _____ serves as home base in most Western music

Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial association is called:

The sacred cantata was an integral part of the:

The middle ages lasted from 476 AD to:

A type of homophony in which all voices move together in the same rhythm is called

Which of the following was NOT a typical theme of the Romantic Lied

What is the primary language of the Mass

How many movements are in a typical symphony

The distance between the highest and the lowest pitches in a melodic line is its

The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was:

A string quartet consists of:

How many notes are in an octave?

The first movement of a symphony is usually in:

Melody

Which of the following are the movements of the ordinary of the mass

The first accented beat of each metric pattern is known as the

The third movement of a classical symphony is most frequently in

George Gershwin was known for

Which of the following is NOT a medieval instrument?

What nineteenth-century composers entire output centered around the piano

A setting of Gregorian chant with two to four notes per syllable might be considered:

The distance between two pitches is called a(n)

A texture in which two or more different melodic lines are combined is called

A chord that sounds stable or restful is called

In Western music, the octave is divided into twelve equal

The earliest type of polyphony was:

A work that is comprised of a strictly imitative musical texture is called

The expressive device that Renaissance composers used to pictorialize words musically is called:

The portion of the Mass that remains the same in every celebration of the service is called:

The property of sound that gives instruments and voices their unique tone color is

The number of beats in a measure determines the

A song structure that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called:

The dates of the Renaissance period are:

Most children's songs have a(n) _______ range

A combination of tones that sounds discordant or in need of resolution is called

A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called:

Moving form one key center to a nother within a composition is called

The German term for the art song is

Music that moves without a strong sense of beat is

Louis Satchmo Armstrong is known as the

Three or more tones sounded together produce a(n)

The conductor

The term tempo rubato, associated with Chopins music, means that the performer should

Handel's Messiah is a(n)