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Music Appreciation Final Exam Review - Multiple Choice
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Chapters 1-13 in The World of Music with no listening questions
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1
Who helped lead the splitting of the Christian Church into Catholic and Protestant?
Martin Luther
Hildegard of Bingen
Thomas Morley
Orlando Di Lasso
2
13 stringed instrument from Japan. Having one in your home suggests an artist's upbringing.
Shakuhachi
Cello
Klezmer
Koto
3
These were put together to improve the "deplorable" state of psalm singing.
Conservatories
Singing Schools
Singing Tea Parties
Screaming Schools
4
One of the most famous Russian composers. Best known for his Ballet Music.
Bach
Gabrieli
Tchaikovsky
Schubert
5
A chant which
one note
is given to
each syllable
of a text.
Syllabic Setting
Melismatic Setting
Modal Setting
Polyphonic Setting
6
The illegal downloading or copying of music.
Piernocy
Pirate - C
Pirannaucy
Piracy
7
A theatrical work containing songs, dances, and drama....like Phantom of the Opera.
Big Band
Ragtime
Rumba
Musical
8
This American Composer created prepared piano, chance music, and electrified cactus.
Palestrina
Chopin
Handel
Cage
9
A harmony with 3 or more simultaneous sounds.
Chord
Chordetta
Chard
Cloister
10
Someone who performs in any medium with creativity/sensitivity/communication with the audience.
Artist
Fashionista
Paint-by-number
Anamorphus
11
Who is the "King" of R&B? (The old kind)
R. J. Prince
Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix
B.B. King
12
Call and Response singing....
Antiant
Antiphonal
Antigone
Motet
13
This term describes rate of speed in which a piece of music is played.
Cadenza
Tempo
Word Painting
Symphony
14
The composers symbols which can be translated into musical sounds....they are on paper!
Scribbling
Writings
Notation
Sketching
15
This Classical form has 3 distinct sections: exposition, development, and recapitulation.
Concerto Form
Chamber Form
Minuet and Trio Form
Sonata Form
16
These are the hymn books that contain psalms to be sung during worship.
Psalters
Pslammers
Psalmers
Psaminama
17
Earliest music = Classical Style, but his later works = Romantic Style. Who is he?
Beethoven
Mozart
Handel
Palestrina
18
When America first took shape, whose culture did Americans borrow to help shape their own?
Native American Culture
Australian Culture
European Culture
African Culture
19
Type of motet written for more than one choir.
Polychoral
Polychordal
Pollywannacracker
Polyscientifical
20
The Easy Instructor introduced this system , where each pitch of a is notated on a staff.
Shape-note
Shape-written
Shape-letter
Shape-song
21
A suite of dances.
Opera
Dance Suite
Oratorio
Aria
22
1890's-1950's - Greatest period of American songwriting...also a street in NYC.
The Nashville Sound
Ragtime
Rockabilly
Tin Pan Alley
23
Berry Gordy founded Motown Records.
True
False
24
Who is the legendary Folk Singer and Songwriter that headed the Urban Folk Revival?
Bob Dylan
Bob Newhart
Boba Fett
Bob Dole
25
A madrigal is a sacred composition typically with 8-10 parts.
True
False
26
Minstrel Shows and Vaudeville were variety shows containing many different acts.
True
False
27
We put music into these categories to help us understand it better.
Geometrics
Geocaching
Genomes
Genres
28
The bass line used in a continuo.
Bow Down Continuo
Basso Continuo
Bassist Continuo
Low Continuo
29
It is a dramatic stage production that involves soloists who sing arias and recitatives.
Sonata
Opera
Concerto
Symphony
30
Changing keys. Shifting the tonal center from one pitch to another.
Monophonic
Moldy
Mogality
Modulation
31
Which of these is not an element of sound?
Assimilation
Loudness
Pitch
Duration
32
It is a sacred composition intended for concert performance. G. F. Handel’s
"Messiah"
is one.
Oratorio
Overture
Opera
Oprah
33
This is the indigenous music of North America.
Celtic Music
Mariachi Music
Native American Music
Popular Music of India
34
He was a child prodigy who received a superior education from his father Leopold.
Beethoven
Handel
Mozart
Palestrina
35
Oldest documented orchestra music in the world.
Ginzu
Gagaku
Goku
Ginkkubiji
36
The roots of Rap and Hip-Hop can be traced to this area.
New York City
Los Angeles
Nashville
Chicago
37
Popular Mexican-based dance music, originating on the border of Mexico and Texas. Accordion!!!
Tex-Mex (Tejano)
Gagaku
Mariachi
Rockabilly
38
Vocal Genre, choral, Bach wrote one about Coffee....
Concerto
Carols
Cinnamon
Cantata
39
St. Mark's Cathedral is shaped like...
An Ark
A Circle
A Cross
A Hexagon
40
Mexican folk music - Violins, Guitars (big and small), trumpets..and sometimes voice and harp!
Mariachi
Dangdut
Kabuki
Rockabilly
41
Who developed Ragtime in St. Louis?
Benny Goodman
Ornette Coleman
Clifford Brown
Scott Joplin
42
This form is used quite a bit in Jazz Music.
12-Bar Blues
Metric Style
Melodic Turn-Around
Rhythmic Enhancement
43
Early chants tend to be....
Polyphonic
Monophonic
Counterpoint
Chamber Music
44
A steady beat. The "heartbeat" of the music.
Melody
Instrumentation
Harmony
Pulse
45
Music styling where an artist will slightly lower the pitch and return to the same pitch.
Tone Arching
Tone Altering
Tone Bending
Tone Blending
46
The words to an opera.
Cadenza
Symphony
Libretto
Lieder
47
Schubert wrote over 600 Italian Art Songs.
True
False
48
What does MIDI stand for?
Musical Instrument Digitized Instruments
Musical Instrument Data Interface
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Musical Insanity Diggity Instrumentation
49
Instrument that displaced the harpsichord and was used for solos during the Classical Period.
Harp
Pianoforte
Oboe
Turntables
50
All of these are traditional Jazz instruments except...
Bass
Cello
Piano
Saxophone
51
Afro-Cuban dance that has been popular since the 1970's.
Techno
The Electric Slide
Country
Salsa
52
Time period: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci....other ninja turtles...
Baroque
Medieval
Classical
Renaissance
53
This instrument was NOT present in the Baroque Era.
Violin
Piano
Oboe
Harpsichord
54
This city hosts one of the best known Folk Festivals AND Jazz Festivals.
Newport
Nashville
Quahog
Moses Lake
55
A system of visual symbols which was developed to reinforce the singer's memory of a melody.
Opera
Notation
Flotation
Sonata
56
Music created for its own sake, without any extra musical connotations...no feels.
Chamber Music
Absolute Music
Program Music
Nationalistic Music
57
A type of folk song that promotes union organization, patriotism, and political candidates.
Rally Songs
Narrative Ballads
Lyric Songs
Children's Songs
58
This term describes the level of loudness.
Rondo
Dynamics
Tonality
Strophic
59
Changing from one tonal center to another (key change).
Modality
Major-Minor Tonal System
Modulation
Mode
60
A song that has sustained popularity through decades and generations. A staple!
Sequence
Standard
Sonata
Symphony
61
A better term for what we used to consider "Classical Music".
Pop Music
Art Music
Artist Music
Sound Music
62
Baroque composer, wrote a cantata about coffee, 20 children, master of fugues. Who is he?
Beethoven
Bach
Palestrina
Di Lasso
63
The blending of cultures.
Acculturation
Acoustics
Accusations
Aesthetics
64
The shape or structure of a piece of music. How it is organized.
Dynamics
Melody
Rhythm
Form
65
He was one of the great composers of the Renaissance. Wrote innovative motets.
Handel
Mozart
Bach
Des Prez
66
Who is NOT a contemporary country artist?
James Brown
Garth Brooks
Carrie Underwood
Kenny Chesney
67
Which of these is NOT a type of Folk Music.
Comedic Songs
Lyric Songs
Work Songs
Children's Songs
68
The science of sound.
Immunology
Chemistry
Acoustics
Biology
69
Soul is....
cookies.
an extension of Popular Music of India.
an extension of R&B.
an extension of Country.
70
Chamber music is typically written for 10 or more musicians.
True
False
71
This is done when one listens attentively in an attempt to understand the musical process.
Partition Listening
Perspoctive Listening
Perceptive Listening
Personal Listening
72
Radio station WSM in Nashville started a hillbilly program that became the Grand Ole Opry.
True
False
73
Where did traditional gospel music come from?
Spanish immigrants and their influence on Mariachi Music.
Western Europeans and the way they played.
African-American worshipers and the way they worshiped.
Native Americans and the way they prayed.
74
Instruments whose material of contruction is the sound producing agent. Hit it or Shake it!
Membranophone
Aerophone
Idiophone
Chordophone
75
Worldwide point of view that requires an awareness and respect for other nations and cultures.
Global Community
Glacial Perspective
Global Eradication
Global Perspective
76
Which of these genres is NOT from Latin America?
Salsa
Rumba
Bossa Nova
Klezmer
77
Classical Genre - Solo instrument playing with orchestra
Concerto
Concerto Grosso
Opera
Chamber Music
78
After Gospel Music, Elvis Presley crossed into commercial genres like Rock and Roll.
False
True
79
This is a job that makes music a business.
Sheet Music Publishers
Instrument Manufacturers
Copyright Attorneys
All of the Above
80
She was a nun, abbess, mystic, poet, writer, and composer.
Linda Belcher
Tina Morely
Theresa Tallis
Hildegard of Bingen
81
A succession of musical tones, usually varying in pitch and rhythm. Horizontal.
Rhythm
Melody
Tempo
Harmony
82
R&B stands for...
Rum and Butter
Reds and Blues
Rhythm and Buicks
Rhythm and Blues
83
An unstable feeling in music. It doesn't feel good.
Cadence
Tension
Dynamics
Loudness
84
A resurgence or return to a popularity of an existing style of music.
Altvival
Survival
Archrival
Revival
85
This German Romantic composer of EPIC operas was a self-taught musician. Very Brassy!
Beethoven
Gabrieli
Wagner
Mozart
86
Who is the father of modern black gospel music?
Thomas A. Dorsey
B.B. King
Elvis Presley
James Brown
87
A chant that was used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; "fixed melody".
Cantstop Wontstop
Cantus Firmus
Canticle
Coloratura
88
This composition technique used in the Baroque Era; keyboard improvised based on chord symbols.
Contrast
Continuo
Counterpoint
Contour
89
He was a friend to Mozart and Beethoven's teacher.
Haydn
Des Prez
Palestrina
Bach
90
The part of the Catholic liturgy that has produced the most important sacred music.
Concerto
Modes
Cantata
Mass
91
Which of these is NOT a genre of music?
Corndog
Cantata
Concerto
Chamber Music
92
Usually occurring before an aria, it is narrative singing in a free tempo; the dialogue part.
Fugue
Cadenza
Recitative
Oratorio
93
The loudness of softness of music. Varies in intensity.
Notation
Dynamics
Harmony
Melody
94
I think I did well in this class.
False
True
95
What does A Cappella mean?
No Instruments
No Voices
No Words
Free Rhythm
96
One of the most influential Rock and Roll artists...
George Gershwin
Bob Marley
Elvis Presley
Ricky Skaggs
97
Over 600 compositions - 25 piano concertos, 41 symphonies, 23 string quartets, etc; died at 35.
Mozart
Dzbenski
Haydn
Beethoven
98
Born in Germany, Produced Italian Operas in England, Wrote Oratorios... Who is he?
Palestrina
Verdi
Haydn
Handel
99
The Classical Period was restrained, balanced, and clear when compared to the Romantic Era.
False
True
100
This Classical Genre is for a small group of instruments playing with full orchestra.
Theme and Variation
Counterpoint
Sonata
Concerto Grosso
101
When music is passed down generations without the use of notation. Word of mouth.
Annual Tradition
Oral Tradition
Indigenous Tradition
Exact Tradition
102
This is a sacred polyphonic composition, usually sung in Latin without accompaniment.
Sonata
Concerto
Madrigal
Motet
103
Relatively short pieces used in the Roman Catholic Church; established by Pope Gregory I.
Gregorian Chants
Sonatas
Concertos
Counterpoints
104
The rate of speed of a piece of music.
Tempo
Tempist
Tempilla
Tempretta
105
Scholars in music culture. They research, write and teach about music of a particular culture.
Harry Potter
Ethnomusicrockagist
Ethnomusicanalyst
Ethnomusicologist
106
Jazz Style pioneered in the 1950's and 1960's by Ornette Coleman. Pure Improv!
Ragtime
Sweet Swing
Hard Bop
Free Jazz
