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Music Appreciation
Mid-Term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Beat in music is the regular and consistent rhythm of the music. | False |
| Syncopation are beats occurring after the accented beat. | True |
| Tempo is the grading of speed in a composition. | True |
| Speeds vary from slow to very fast. | True |
| Notation is the system of writing music so that specific pitches and rhytmns can be heard. | True |
| Notated notes on a staff can have a stem and flag. | True |
| A chord played broken with separated notes is an Arpeggio. | True |
| The key of a composition is the tonal center of that piece. | True |
| Keys are used to give variety, flexibility, and tonal color, another word for key is tonality. | True |
| There are major and minor keys in music. | True |
| Monophonic texture means having one sound, or unison. | True |
| Polyphonic texture means one single, primary melody. | False |
| The using of one melody with accompanied harmony is called Homophonic texture. | True |
| Most medieval music was dominated by the church. | True |
| Women were not allowed to sing or perform in church liturgy. | True |
| The 14th C was an age of disintegration, plagues, and a weakening of the feudal system. | True |
| Most medieval music was intended for the voice. | True |
| Medieval instruments were used primarily for accompaniment. | True |
| For over 1,000 years the official music of the Roman Catholic Church was the Gregorian Chant. | True |
| Gregorian Chant was polyphonic in texture. | False |
| Women were used as virtuoso singers in the Italian Court. | True |
| The main texture of Renaissance music was polyphonic. | True |
| Choral music unaccompanied is in concerto form. | False |
| The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music, that are the same in style, are the motet and the mass. | True |
| A troubadour, like Guillaume IX came from Southern France. | True |
| A trouvere, Chastelain de Couci came from Northern France. | True |
| The most important Italian Renaissance composer was Giovani Palestrina (1525-1594). | True |
| Gradually music shifted from the Church to the Courts. | True |
| Music of the trouvere and troubadours differ from the chant in that they have a clear and defined rhythm and beat. | True |
| Renaissance music was fuller because of the use of the stringed instruments. | True |
| Early Baroque style favored homophonic over polyphonic texture, more typical of Renaissance music. | True |
| 32)The violin family of instruments became one of the most popular instruments starting in the Renaissance. | False |
| During the Baroque period, instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time. | True |
| The main keyboards of the Baroque were the organ and harpsichord. | True |
| The dominant texture of the Baroque was polyphony. | True |
| Bach composed more consistently with homophonic texture. | False |
| Handel contrasted more between polyphony and homophony. | True |
| A towering figure of the late Italian baroque was Vivaldi. | True |
| The high point of the baroque period was found in the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach. | True |
| 40)Bach was almost forgotten for his genius, until 1829, Felix Mendelssohn presented his St. Matthew Passion. | True |
| Opera is a drama that is sung to orchestral accompaniment. | True |
| The cornerstone of baroque music is the fugue. | True |
| Opera demands performers to sing and act simultaneously. | True |
| Opera began in Florence, Italy around 1575 among a small group of nobles, poets, and composers. | True |
| A groups from Italy, known as the Camerata, began a new form of secular music called "Opera". | True |
| Chief among baroque virtuoso singers were the castrato, a male singer who is castrated before puberty. | True |
| One of the most important composers of the early baroque was Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643). | True |
| The greatest English composer was Henry Purcell (1659-1695). | False |
| Together with the opera and cantata, oratorios stand as a major development in baroque vocal music. | True |
| 50)The oratorio, a large scale composition, has narrative text, vocal solos, large choruses, with acting, scenery, and costumes. | False |
| Handel's first opera, Rinaldo, was a triumph when performed in England. | True |
| George Fredric Handel, master of Italian opera and English oratorio, was born in Halle, Germany. | True |
| Handel's triumph oratorio was "Messiah", composed in 1741. | True |
| In music history there was a transition period form the baroque to the classical called the Rocco, was from 1730-1770. | True |
| Classical music stresses the balance of clarity and structure. | True |
| The classical style includes unexpected pauses, syncopation and frequent changes from long to shorter notes. | True |
| Contrasting with the baroque, classical texture is basically monophonic. | False |
| Textures in the classical period can change from homophonic to polyphonic equally as well. | True |
| Haydn started in music at the age of six. He was recognized for his talent, but not until he was 29 did he enter the service of the Esterhazy's. | True |
| 60)The desire for more gradual dynamic changes in music led to the replacement of the harpsichord with the piano. | True |
| 61)Four elements of Music: | D) pitch, timbre, dynamics, duration |
| 62)Distance between two pitches: | A) octave |
| 63)The four major sections of the orchestra are; | A) All are correct [strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion] |
| 64)Rhythm has: | A) beat |
| 65)Notation includes: | All) notes, staff, clef, accidentals |
| 66)A grand staff has: | C) Treble and bass |
| 67)Rests in notation are: | D) Silence |
| 68)Ars Nova in Latin means: | C) New Art |
| 69) A revolutionary form used from 700-900 with Gregorian Chant: | C) Organum |
| 70) A motet is: | C) polyphonic |
| 71) The Madrigal was: | B) Secular vocal |
| 72) Italian Opera stressed: | C) drama and text |
| 73) the development of printed music help spread: | D) secular music |
| 74)Baroque expressions of emotion were called: | D) Affections |
| 75) Basso Continuo in Italian means: | C) Continuous bass. |
| 76) A Catrato singer is a: | D) a male castrated at puberty. |
| 77) Figured bass in the baroque was: | D) numbered bass part. |
| 78)Concerto Grosso belongs to what period: | C) baroque |
| 79) the fugue is a complex composition in what texture: | C) Polyphonic |
| 80)During the classical period the basso continuo became: | A) extremely popular |
| 81) Moteverdi's music bridged with the: | B) 17th & 18th C |
| 82) A chorale of the Baroque was a: | B)Hymn tune |
| 83) Mozart broke away from: | C) the patronage system |
| 84)the group called the camerata rejected: | D) polyphony |
| 85) A baroque oratorio is: | C)Large choral Work |
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