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music final
final questions for music
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is melody? | a basic musical element consisting of a series of pitches of particular duration that sound one after another |
| What is form? | the aspect of music involving the overall structuring and organization of music is known |
| What is harmony? | a composite sound made up of 2 or more pitches that sound simultaneously |
| What is texture? | the relationship between the melodic and harmonic aspects of a piece of music |
| What is the Italian word for "Medium Soft"? | mezzo piano |
| What does "mezzo forte" mean? | medium loud |
| What is the Italian word for "Loud"? | forte |
| What is the Italian word for "very loud"? | fortissimo |
| What is the Italian word for "very soft"? | pianissimo |
| What is the Italian word for "soft"? | piano |
| What are the dynamics from loudest to softest? | ff f mf mp p pp |
| What are the three musicals Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote in the 1940s and 1950s? | Oklahoma, South Pacific, and Sound of Music |
| What was controversial about the musical "Showboat"? | there was interracial couples |
| Who composed "Showboat"? | Jerome Kern |
| Who wrote the musical for the Westside Story? | Leonard Bernstein |
| What shakespeare play was the Westside story based on? | Romeo and Juliet |
| The music of Les Miserables was composed by who? | Claude-Michele Schoenberg |
| What are the musicals composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber called? | Jesus Christ Super Star, Evita, Cats, Phantom of the Opera |
| European operettas and American musicals are different in all of the following ways except? | There are no chorus parts in musicals |
| Where were most early musicals composed and performed? | Broadway, New York |
| Gilbert and Sullivan's musical works are known as what? | operettas |
| Who wrote Over There, I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Grand Old Flag, and Give My Regards to Broadway? | George Gershwin |
| Which 1920s musical is the exception to the normal light fare that was common at the time? | Jerome Kern's Show Boat |
| The name of George Gershwin's folk opera is what? | Porgy and Bess |
| Which popular music style did Gershwin use in Porgy and Bess? | african american jazz |
| When did musicals begin to tour the United States? | in the 1940s |
| Which composer of musicals was also a famous conductor and successful composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic works? | Leonard Bernstein |
| Which two musical theater composers were also very important in the world of serious concert music? | George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein |
| What musicals were composed by Stephen Sondheim? | Sweeney Todd, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Little Nigh Music |
| What is not a characteristic that separates modern musicals from opera? | they have elaborate staging, costuming and dancing |
| What musical was not a rock-based musical? | Sweeney Todd |
| Which musical is Andrew Lloyd Webber's most operatic work? | The Phantom of the Opera |
| The first classical composer to write a film score was who? | Camille Saint-Saens |
| A film score most closely resembles what? | incidental music |
| Who designed the cue sheets used by accompanists of early films? | Max Winkler |
| The Vitaphone system allowed producers to do what? | music recorded on phonographs to be played in sync with films |
| Which was the first film to use the vita phone system? | Don Juan |
| Which of the following was the first used vita phone system for both music and spoken dialogue? | Gone with the Wind |
| Which was one of the first movie composers? | Max Steiner |
| Which was the first major movie for which Max Steiner composed the score? | King Kong |
| What three movies did Max Steiner write the scores for? | Gone with The Wind, Casablanca, King Kong |
| What composer did Alfred Hitchcock choose to write music for several of his films? | Bernard Hermann |
| What score won Aaron Copland an Academy Award? | The Heiress |
| Who composed the score for star wars? | John Williams |
| What was the first movie with a synthesized score to win an Academy Award? | Midnight Express |
| John Corigliano wrote what three films scores for? | Altered States, Revolution, and The Red Violin |
| Who wrote the music for Titanic? | James Horner |
| The music for 2001: A Space Odyssey is a good example of a movie score that did what? | compiled from carefully chosen classical complications |
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