Music Appreciation Final Exam Review

Vocal Genre, choral, Bach wrote one about Coffee....

Who developed Ragtime in St. Louis?

Jazz Style pioneered in the 1950's and 1960's by Ornette Coleman. Pure Improv!

Worldwide point of view that requires an awareness and respect for other nations and cultures.

These are the hymn books that contain psalms to be sung during worship.

The Easy Instructor introduced this system , where each pitch of a is notated on a staff.

Popular Mexican-based dance music, originating on the border of Mexico and Texas. Accordion!!!

This city hosts one of the best known Folk Festivals AND Jazz Festivals.

What time period is this piece of music from?

Where did traditional gospel music come from?

What type of music is this?

A succession of musical tones, usually varying in pitch and rhythm. Horizontal.

What type of music is this?

Who composed this piece of music?

What time period is this piece of music from?

He was one of the great composers of the Renaissance. Wrote innovative motets.

Who composed this piece of music?

Call and Response singing....

When America first took shape, whose culture did Americans borrow to help shape their own?

Relatively short pieces used in the Roman Catholic Church; established by Pope Gregory I.

Afro-Cuban dance that has been popular since the 1970's.

13 stringed instrument from Japan. Having one in your home suggests an artist's upbringing.

This German Romantic composer of EPIC operas was a self-taught musician. Very Brassy!

The composers symbols which can be translated into musical sounds....they are on paper!

Radio station WSM in Nashville started a hillbilly program that became the Grand Ole Opry.

Chamber music is typically written for 10 or more musicians.

What type of music is this?

A suite of dances.

The loudness of softness of music. Varies in intensity.

After Gospel Music, Elvis Presley crossed into commercial genres like Rock and Roll.

Which of these is not an element of sound?

Who composed this piece of music?

What time period is this piece of music from?

Which of these is NOT a genre of music?

What is the best description of the tempo?

Instrument that displaced the harpsichord and was used for solos during the Classical Period.

R&B stands for...

All of these are traditional Jazz instruments except...

This Classical Genre is for a small group of instruments playing with full orchestra.

Who composed this piece of music?

Music styling where an artist will slightly lower the pitch and return to the same pitch.

Time period: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci....other ninja turtles...

Who composed this piece of music?

What time period is this piece of music from?

Earliest music = Classical Style, but his later works = Romantic Style. Who is he?

Baroque composer, wrote a cantata about coffee, 20 children, master of fugues. Who is he?

Minstrel Shows and Vaudeville were variety shows containing many different acts.

A type of folk song that promotes union organization, patriotism, and political candidates.

What type of music is this?

The science of sound.

We put music into these categories to help us understand it better.

It is a sacred composition intended for concert performance. G. F. Handel’s "Messiah" is one.

What is most likely the form of this piece?

One of the most famous Russian composers. Best known for his Ballet Music.

A steady beat. The "heartbeat" of the music.

A better term for what we used to consider "Classical Music".

A theatrical work containing songs, dances, and drama....like Phantom of the Opera.

This American Composer created prepared piano, chance music, and electrified cactus.

A madrigal is a sacred composition typically with 8-10 parts.

The roots of Rap and Hip-Hop can be traced to this area.

Which of these genres is NOT from Latin America?

What time period is this piece of music from?

The bass line used in a continuo.

This Classical form has 3 distinct sections: exposition, development, and recapitulation.

Oldest documented orchestra music in the world.

Who helped lead the splitting of the Christian Church into Catholic and Protestant?

This is a sacred polyphonic composition, usually sung in Latin without accompaniment.

A system of visual symbols which was developed to reinforce the singer's memory of a melody.

Who is NOT a contemporary country artist?

What is the best description of the melody played by the clarinet?

Over 600 compositions - 25 piano concertos, 41 symphonies, 23 string quartets, etc; died at 35.

Who composed this piece of music?

Changing keys. Shifting the tonal center from one pitch to another.

Who composed this piece of music?

What genre does this piece fit best into?

Mexican folk music - Violins, Guitars (big and small), trumpets..and sometimes voice and harp!

1890's-1950's - Greatest period of American songwriting...also a street in NYC.

What is the best description of the texture? (Listen for a bit)

A song that has sustained popularity through decades and generations. A staple!

Changing from one tonal center to another (key change).

A harmony with 3 or more simultaneous sounds.

A resurgence or return to a popularity of an existing style of music.

This is the indigenous music of North America.

A chant which one note is given to each syllable of a text.

The Classical Period was restrained, balanced, and clear when compared to the Romantic Era.

Who is the "King" of R&B? (The old kind)

The rate of speed of a piece of music.

When music is passed down generations without the use of notation. Word of mouth.

These were put together to improve the "deplorable" state of psalm singing.

Usually occurring before an aria, it is narrative singing in a free tempo; the dialogue part.

The blending of cultures.

Born in Germany, Produced Italian Operas in England, Wrote Oratorios... Who is he?

The shape or structure of a piece of music. How it is organized.

A chant that was used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; "fixed melody".

This term describes rate of speed in which a piece of music is played.

Early chants tend to be....

The illegal downloading or copying of music.

This composition technique used in the Baroque Era; keyboard improvised based on chord symbols.

What time period is this piece of music from?

It is a dramatic stage production that involves soloists who sing arias and recitatives.

Who is the legendary Folk Singer and Songwriter that headed the Urban Folk Revival?

He was a child prodigy who received a superior education from his father Leopold.

This term describes the level of loudness.

Berry Gordy founded Motown Records.

Who composed this piece of music?

Someone who performs in any medium with creativity/sensitivity/communication with the audience.

She was a nun, abbess, mystic, poet, writer, and composer.

What type of music is this?

This instrument was NOT present in the Baroque Era.

What type of music is this?

Music created for its own sake, without any extra musical connotations...no feels.

One of the most influential Rock and Roll artists...

This form is used quite a bit in Jazz Music.

What does MIDI stand for?

What type of music is this?

Who composed this piece of music?

What does A Cappella mean?

What type of music is this?

The part of the Catholic liturgy that has produced the most important sacred music.

What is the instrumentation of this piece?

Soul is....

Schubert wrote over 600 Italian Art Songs.

St. Mark's Cathedral is shaped like...

What type of music is this?

What type of music is this?

Type of motet written for more than one choir.

Scholars in music culture. They research, write and teach about music of a particular culture.

Who is the father of modern black gospel music?

Which of these is NOT a type of Folk Music.

The words to an opera.

I think I'll do well on this Final Exam.

Instruments whose material of contruction is the sound producing agent. Hit it or Shake it!

Classical Genre - Solo instrument playing with orchestra

This is a job that makes music a business.

Who composed this piece of music?

Who composed this piece of music?

This is done when one listens attentively in an attempt to understand the musical process.

He was a friend to Mozart and Beethoven's teacher.

An unstable feeling in music. It doesn't feel good.