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Music Midterm
Midterm Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The ___________ is the main worship service of the Catholic church. | The Mass |
| The twelfth- or thirteenth-century English piece "Sumer is icumen in" is an example of a | Canon |
| The chromatic scale divides the octave into | Half Steps |
| The use of musical devices to dramatize descriptive words or phrases is called word | Painting |
| Both the works promoted by the Florentine Camerata and the Venetian polychoral style implied a new texture of music eventually known as | Homophony |
| The loudness or softness of a pitch is called its __________ level. | Dynamic |
| The __________ is an instrument that helps composers indicate the tempo of a composition. | Metronome |
| All of the following are characteristics of the Renaissance except | many important works of antiquity were despised or ignored. |
| The distance from any note on a keyboard to its nearest neighbor in either direction is a(n) | Half Step |
| In his ninety-five theses presented to the Catholic church, Martin Luther suggested all of the following except | Latin should be eliminated from the service entirely. |
| The relationship between dissonance and consonance in tonal music may be summarized as: | consonance resolves the tension created by dissonance. |
| The fourth step of a diatonic scale is called the | subdominant |
| The "king of instruments" is the | pipe organ |
| The Greek mathematician Pythagoras discovered that | plucking two strings, one twice as long as the other, produced tones an octave apart. |
| The cult of Dionysus was associated with all of the following except | the lyre |
| The term cantata originally meant a piece to be | sung |
| The Netherlands composer, _____________, was considered by his contemporaries to be the greatest composer who had ever lived. | Josquin des Prez |
| Rhythm refers to the arrangement of | long and short sounds. |
| Keyboard players improvised the harmonies using a system of musical shorthand called | figured bass |
| Sixteenth-century Italy introduced a new type of song to the secular repertoire, the | madrigal. |
| _______, who lived in Greece during the sixth century B.C., was the first to make important discoveries concerning the scientific basis of music. | Pythagoras |
| A five-tone scale within the range of an octave is called the | pentatonic. |
| The "second practice" of music, as identified by Monteverdi, is described by all of the following except that | music dominates the text. |
| The quality of sound that is characteristic of a particular voice, instrument, or ensemble is called its | Timbre |
| The adjusting levers, buttons, or handles on an organ are called | Stops |
| Music in the Protestant services established by John Calvin consisted only of _____________ tunes. | psalm |
| The composer who suggested that the old and new styles represented the "first" and "second" practices of music was | Claudio Monteverdi. |
| It was not until the _______ century that composers customarily wrote music for specific voices or instruments. | seventeenth |
| _____ was ordained a priest, but spent most of his life as a professional musician. | Vivaldi |
| The Renaissance motet had all of the following features except | the parts were usually played on instruments as well as sung. |
| The world's best-known and best-loved oratorio is Handel's | Messiah. |
| Gregorian chant was usually sung in _________, so that all of the voices sang the same melody at the same time unaccompanied by instruments. | unison |
| The Greek doctrine of ____________ concerns the moral and ethical aspects of music. | ethos |
| The "first practice" of music, as identified by Monteverdi, is described by all of the following except that | text expression is more important than the music. |
| All of the following were Baroque-era multimovement works except | the fugue. |
| The __________ is an imitative polyphonic composition with two to six melodic lines or "voices." | fugue |
| The Medieval Era is referred to as the Dark Ages because | it was a chaotic period of social and political unrest. |
| A piece to be played or sounded upon instruments rather than sung was called a | sonata. |
| Which of the following was a type of piece intended for performance in a church? | sonata da chiesa |
| The highness or lowness of a sound is called its | pitch |
| The term __________ means the science of sound. | acoustics |
| Johann Sebastian Bach wrote several large choral works based upon the events leading to the crucifixion of Christ called | Passions |
| When two or more simultaneous pitches create a sense of stability or rest, they are said to be | consonant. |
| The ascending major scale pattern is | W W H W W W H |
| Metered music is notated in units called | Measures |
| In the Baroque system of tonality, all of the pitches of a major or minor scale were specifically related to the first note of the scale, or the | Tonic |
| The first complete setting of the entire Ordinary of the Mass by one composer is thought to be the Missa Notre Dame, by ____________, a fourteenth-century poet and musician. | Guillaume de Machaut |
| The madrigal was like the motet in all of the following ways except | both had religious texts. |
| The four families of instruments within an orchestra are the | strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. |
| The most common subject matter for Medieval art is | religious subjects |
| Medieval melodies were based upon modal scales | each of which has a unique pattern and distinctive character |
| The sign placed at the beginning of the staff to fix the position of all of the pitches on the staff is the | Clef |
| We refer to specific pitches or tones with letter names, using the letters __________ of the alphabet. | A through G |
| The short sets of stylized dance pieces for lute or keyboard popular during the Renaissance were expanded in the Baroque to multimovement works called | Suites |
| The most prolific composer of Baroque concertos, including solo concertos as well as concerto grossi, was | Vivaldi. |
| The harpsichord was of great importance during the | sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. |
| Many Western musicians define music as | Organized sound |
| Abbess Hildegard of Bingen was | a twelfth-century composer of sacred song and chant. |
| A B-flat pitch is __________ in pitch than a B pitch. | Lower |
| During the Baroque period, composers developed the ___________ system, in which every note of the major or minor scale bears a specific relationship to every other note. | Tonal |
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