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8th Grade Music History Review
8th Grade Music History Review
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Review of Music History from Early Music to 20th Century, including popular music.
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1
How should you sing when you see this sign?
Quiet
Super Loud
Super Quiet
Medium
2
The earliest written music came from which country?
Turkey
Greece
Italy
Egypt
3
Program music is the idea that...
Music should tell a story.
Music is to be performed in a certain order
Music should be programmed like computers.
All concerts should have detailed program notes.
4
Which is an example of many of JS Bach's surviving organ pieces?
Brandenburg Concerto
Toccata and Fugue in d minor
The Well Tempered Clavier
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
5
Which of these was an American Nationalist composer?
Arnold Schoenberg
Aaron Copland
Igor Stravinsky
Gustav Holst
6
What is the name of the idea that music does not need anything other than itself to be good?
Impressionist Music
Jazz Music
Absolute Music
Aleatoric Music
7
Josquin des Prez wrote this song in 1485. What musical form does it use?
Rondo
Symphony
Canon
Sonata
8
Which duo is NOT known for composing musicals?
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Gilbert and Sullivan
Bernstein and Copland
9
Which ballet was NOT composed by Tchaikovsky?
Romeo and Juliet
Swan Lake
The Rite of Spring
The Nutcracker
10
Who set the first complete Mass to music?
Guillaume de Machaut
JS Bach
Hildegard von Bingen
Guido de Arezzo
11
What is the name of this famous Beethoven piece?
Symphony No. 5
Fur Elise
Ode to Joy
Eroica Symphony
12
Who composed a suite of songs about the different planets?
Gustav Holst
Leonard Bernstein
Dmitri Shostakovich
Percy Grainger
13
The Mighty Handful were concerned with Nationalist music for what country?
Czech Republic
Russia
Italy
America
14
What did Palestrina advocate for during the Council of Trent in 1545?
Removing music from Masses
A return to Harmony in sacred Music
More instruments in Mass Music
Having special music for Sunday Mass
15
Schubert and Paganini are virtuosos, or people who have what kind of musical skill?
Good Emotional Skills
Good Technical Skills
Good nunchuck skills
Good Rhythm Skills
16
Which of these is NOT an Element of Music?
Harmony
Tempo
Timbre
Mood
17
What kind of opera is this?
Opera Buffa
Opera Seria
Opera Scandaloso
Opera Noioso
18
What is a leitmotif?
Musical representation of an idea, object, or person
the name of one of Puccini's operas
an instrument created by Wagner
a plot device for operas
19
Hildegard composed music for what occasions?
Prayer
Masses
Holy Days
Performances
20
What greater work by Handel is the following excerpt from?
Abraham
The Creation
Moses
Messiah
21
Which composer, nicknamed "The Red Priest", composed a Violin sonata based on the Four Seasons?
George F. Handel
JS Bach
Antonio Vivaldi
Josef Haydn
22
What instrument is not in a String Quartet?
Violin
Harp
Cello
Viola
23
What kind of music does not have a "home note?"
Atonal Music
Math music
Pattern music
Diatonic Music
24
Who is the most nominated film score composer of all time?
John Williams
Howard Shore
Hans Zimmer
Danny Elfman
25
What two genres does this song "cross-over?"
Hip-Hop and Grunge
East Coast Rap and Folk Rock
Rap rock and Glam rock
West Coast Rap and Pop-Rock
26
What is the difference between east coast rap and west coast rap?
East Coast is clean, West Coast is explicit
East Coast is slow, West Coast is fast
East coast is gangsta rap, West Coast is Manstream Rap
East Coast is fast, West Coast is slow
27
What is the backbone of blues and rock and roll?
12 bar blues
8 bar beat
10 bar groove
4 bar blues
28
Which of these groups did NOT work in "Hitsville, USA?"
Stevie Wonder
The Jackson 5
The Temptations
Run-DMC
29
What kind of rock was not represented in the 1970's?
Grunge
Punk Rock
Disco
Glam Rock
30
Which group was part of the British Invasion?
The Beach Boys
The Monkees
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
