Fine Arts Music Quarter Review

Which of the following are the building blocks of harmony?

Making a musical "picture" of the text is

A musical scale associated with happiness, joy, and confidence.

The element of music that has to do with pitches organized into a cohesive unit, the tune.

Music with only one line of music is called _.

What form of entertainment was invented in the Baroque period?

Pitch is

Which composer lost his hearing?

The accompaniment to a melody

A musical sentence is called a _.

Jazz was probably started in

The texture of Renaissance music is

Melodies in the Middle Ages

Music with long singable melodies, flexible rhythm, and a wide range of pitches and dynamics

Music with short, tuneful melodies, balanced phrases, stop and go rhythms, and homophonic.

Which of the following is NOT a jazz musician?

Music NOT played in church is called

The composer thought to be the greatest composer during the Baroque period.

Playing two different rhythms at the same time is

When jazz players create music on the spot and change a melody, it is called _.

What is the main reason Classical composers preferred the piano over the harpsichord?

What instruments make up the rhythm section of a jazz band?

What are dynamics?

A sudden shifts in dynamics is

Jazz music is an example of _ because multiple lines happen at the same time.

The four sections of a symphonic orchestra are

Which keyboard instrument has a mechanism that plucks the string when a key is pressed?

An interval is

Which of the following is NOT a property of musical sound?

The steady underlying pulse in music is called the _.

Music that is very disjunct, chromatic, and, dissonant with irregular rhythm and changing meter

The traveling musicians of the Middle Ages were _.

An opera without acting, scenery, and costumes is

An accent on an unexpected beat is a

Using colorful materials, such as melodies and rhythms, from foreign lands is

What texture is music from the Middle Ages?

Identify the double reed instruments.

Which of the following is NOT a brass instrument?

Music that uses everyday sounds, electronic sounds, and new types of notation.

Music is

A musical scale associated with sadness, fear, or despair.

Which is the correct order of voices from highest to lowest?

Music with a melody and an accompaniment has a _ texture.

What was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church?

Using folk songs, legends, and history of a country is

A type of scale that uses all twelve notes within an octave is _.

A person who writes music is a