Midterm Review Movement 1 (Unit 1-3) + Midterm Review Movement 2 (Classical Period Specifically

Question 1

Who was Haydn’s principal patron?

Accepted Answer

Prince Esterházy

Question 2

The Classical movement has a clear beginning delineated by leaders arguing for radical change.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

The melismatic style of Gregorian chant descended from the elaborate improvisations heard in which type of music?

Accepted Answer

Middle Eastern Music

Question 4

A Motive can be characterized as

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Both Rhythmic and Melodic

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Neumatic

Question 6

Which of these singing types does not feature any words

Accepted Answer

Scat singing

Question 7

The text of an opera is called the:

Accepted Answer

Libretto

Question 8

Richard the Lionheart was a troubadour composer in addition to being king of England.

Accepted Answer

True(badour)

Question 9

________ is traditionally associated with collecting and organizing the chants of the church.

Accepted Answer

Pope Gregory the Great

Question 10

A succession of pitches that form a cohesive unit is called:

Accepted Answer

Melody

Question 11

The Classical symphony had its roots in the

Accepted Answer

Opera Overture

Question 12

Which term describes a melody that moves by small intervals?

Accepted Answer

Conjunct

Question 13

Vivaldi was primarily known as a composer during his time

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

The Renaissance saw the rise of amateur musicians and home music-making.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What texture best describes Gregorian chant? (Hint: How many distinct melodies/vocal parts can you hear?)

Accepted Answer

Monophonic

Question 16

Women’s roles in Baroque music :

Accepted Answer

expanded into professional performance careers, including as opera singers.

Question 17

The Frankish emperor who encouraged education and the concept of a centralized government was:

Accepted Answer

Charlemagne

Question 18

Consonance can be described as:

Accepted Answer

Notes that sound nice together

Question 19

If you arrive at a concert after the performance has begun, you should

Accepted Answer

wait until there is a break in the music and then enter and find your seat.

Question 20

Which one of these is strophic song form?

Accepted Answer

Has different text for the same melodic line

Question 21

A metric pattern that is in groupings of 2 can be called:

Accepted Answer

Duple

Question 22

The audience claps:

Accepted Answer

after complete works such as a symphony, a concerto, or a song cycle.

Question 23

A drama that is sung is called a(n):

Accepted Answer

Opera

Question 24

A female troubadour was known as a

Accepted Answer

Trobaritz

Question 25

During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach held the position of

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All of the answers shown

Question 26

A good source to find out more about works to be performed at a concert is

Accepted Answer

all of the answers shown here.

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

Recitative

Question 28

The Tonic in a piece of music can be described as:

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The "home base" in music in which the primary scale is based off of

Question 29

The scale patterns used from Gregorian chant through music of the Renaissance are called

Accepted Answer

Modes

Question 30

The system in which the aristocracy sponsored musicians during the Classical era is called:

Accepted Answer

Patronage

Question 31

The element of music that organizes movement in time is:

Accepted Answer

Rhythm

Question 32

During the Middle Ages, men and women took shelter in a monastery or convent because of

Accepted Answer

All of the answers shown

Question 33

The first performance of Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas took place at

Accepted Answer

a girls’ school in London.

Question 34

How long has music been linked with mathematics and geometry?

Accepted Answer

Always has been, always will (aka: since antiquity)

Question 35

Which of these tempi is very fast

Accepted Answer

Presto

Question 36

In Machaut’s secular works, he favored French courtly love poems known as

Accepted Answer

Chansons

Question 37

Johann Sebastian Bach lived a short, unhappy life and had no children.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 38

Which cultural center rejected Italian opera?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 39

Our first records of “singer-songwriters” in Western music come from the American counterculture of the 1960s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 40

Dido’s Lament from Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas is composed:

Accepted Answer

Over a ground bass

Question 41

Which institution(s) supported music in Renaissance society?

Accepted Answer

All of the answers shown

Question 42

Troubadours represent a continuation of unwritten traditions of musical storytelling that began before their own time.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

What musical style appeared in the early 1300s in France?

Accepted Answer

Ars Nova

Question 44

Music that is based off of poetry and/or has a story associated with it can be described as:

Accepted Answer

Programatic Music

Question 45

Musical notation has defined the development of Western music.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 46

Which of the following religions use(s) music extensively in its/their worship?

Accepted Answer

All of the answers shown

Question 47

________ earned the nickname “father of the symphony.”

Accepted Answer

Haydn

Question 48

Notre Dame in Paris became one of the first centers in which polyphony was notated and integrated into musical worship.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

A ________ punctuates the music in the same way that a comma or period punctuates a sentence.

Accepted Answer

Cadence

Question 50

Because of the clarity of the notation, multiple performances of medieval song sound nearly identical to one another

Accepted Answer

False

Question 51

Which one of these is the building block of a theme?

Accepted Answer

Motive

Question 52

A form in which the same melody is repeated with every stanza of poetry is called

Accepted Answer

Strophic

Question 53

The troubadour tradition was primarily a phenomenon of the lower classes in medieval France.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 54

During a concert, it is appropriate to leave your seat

Accepted Answer

only during intermission and at the end.

Question 55

Which of these dynamics means 'loud'?

Accepted Answer

Forte

Question 56

Baroque composers used dissonance for emotional intensity and color.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 57

A theme is:

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A motivic unit of the piece of the music that is expanded upon

Question 58

The different sections of a symphony are called

Accepted Answer

Movements

Question 59

Which of the following best describes musical life in the Classical era?

Accepted Answer

The rise of public performances gave composers new venues to play works

Question 60

What language is traditional Sacred music sung in?

Accepted Answer

All of the answers shown

Question 61

The three main sections of sonata-allegro form are the exposition, the development, and the

Accepted Answer

Recapitulation (Recap)

Question 62

Which type of text setting is a many:1 ratio between notes and text syllables?

Accepted Answer

Mellismatic

Question 63

What is the difference between Troubadours and Trouvères

Accepted Answer

Their location in France

Question 64

Which element of music denotes its loudness or softness?

Accepted Answer

Dynamics

Midterm Review Movement 1 (Unit 1-3) + Midterm Review Movement 2 (Classical Period Specifically

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