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Music 1st Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| (T/F) The Folk Song Yankee Doodle is centered around a tonic note | False |
| (T/F) Organum is a term applied to a style of Medieval music that consists of Gregorian Chant and One or more additional melodic lines | True |
| (T/F) La Fenice, one of Europe's oldest opera houses, was built in Venice | True |
| (T/F) Guillaume de Machaut was a priest and courtier, as well as a poet and musician | True |
| (T/F) The melody added to the Gregorian chant to create organum was usually much slower than the origional chant | False |
| (T/F) Organum is a term applied to a style of Medieval music that consists of Gregorian Chant and one or more additional melodic lines | True |
| (T/F) Secular music gained in status during the Renaissance | True |
| (T/F) Antonio Vivaldi lived in Venice, a city of around 125,000 people during the 1700's | True |
| (T/F) Benjamin Britten, the British composer, lived in the 1600's | False |
| (T/F) The Baroque Concerto Grosso features two contrasting sound sources | True |
| (T/F) For most of his life, Vivaldi was a violin teacher, composer, and conductor at the music school of the Pieta | True |
| (T/F) Henry Purcell wrote the great English opera Dido and Aenas | True |
| (T/F) Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church | true |
| (T/F) The Renaissance period is sometimes called the "golden age" of a capella choral music because the music did not need instrument accompaniment | True |
| (T/F) Josquin de Perez's compositions strongly influenced other composers during the Middle Ages | True |
| (T/F) Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass sounds fuller than Josquin's Ave Maria because it employs six vocal parts instead of four | True |
| (T/F) Baroque composers favored homophonic textures over polyphonic texture associated with Renaissance music | True |
| (T/F) A concerto grosso involves two or more soloists, and anywhere from eight to twenty or more musicians for the tutti. | True |
| (T/F) Many castrati singers became very popular as opera soloists during the 18th century. | True |
| (T/F) The words Kyrie Eleison are part of the text for the mass even though they are in greek | True |
| (T/F) The musical form of the Kyrie can be described as Ternary (A-B-A). | True |
| (T/F) Hildegard’s Alleluia, O virga mediatrix was sung in honor of the Pope Gregory IV. | False |
| (T/F) Greek, Jewish and Byzantine musical practices merged to create the music favored by the Catholic Church during the early Middle Ages. | True |
| (T/F) The Italian word for refrain is ritornello. | True |
| (T/F) In the early part of the middle ages dividing everything into 3 was most important | True |
| (T/F) Music Manuscripts from the Middle Ages indicate that music from that era regularly employed all kinds of brass instruments | False |
| (T/F) During the middle ages dividing everything into 3 was most important | True |
| A motet, a vocal piece in which several people sing the same melody but each singer starts at a different time is a good example of A. homophonic texture B. monophonic texture C. polyphonic imitation | C. Polyphonic Imitation |
| An appropriate way to think about music is A. a system of symbols which performers learn to read B. sounds produced by musical instruments C. an art based on the organization of sounds in time | C. An art based on the organization of sounds in time |
| Pitch is defined as A. the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound B. degrees of loudness or softness in music C. the quality that distinguishes musical sounds | A. The relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound |
| Vibration frequency is measured in ________. A. cycles per minute B. cycles per second C. dynamic levels | B. Cycles per second |
| Timbre is synonymous with A. sound B. amplitude C. tone color | C. Tone Color |
| When tones are separated by the interval called a(n) ________, they sound very similar A. pitch range B. diad C. octave | C. Octave |
| The Italian term ________ is a tempo marking to indicate a lively pace A. andante B. allegro C. adagio | B. Allegro |
| The musical staff is a A. piece of wood used by a conductor B. symbol indicating silence rather than sound C. set of five horizontal lines used to write pitches. | C. Set of five horizontal lines used to write pitches |
| The rate of speed at which a piece of music is played is called A Tempo B Mood C Meter | A. Tempo |
| The distance between the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce is called its A. pitch range B. timbre C. dynamic accent | A. Pitch range |
| A cadence is A. the emotional point of a melody B. a resting place at the end of a phrase C. a melody | B. A resting place at the end of a phrase |
| The smallest interval used in the equal temperament tuning system A. quarter step B. whole step C. half step | C. Half step |
| The ______ is a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time. A. beat B. rhythm C. tempo | A. Beat |
| Monophonic texture consists of A. a single melodic line without accompaniment B. one main melody accompanied by chords C. two or more melodies of relatively equal interest performed simultaneously | A. A single melodic line without accompaniment |
| The composer whose style followed the guidelines of Council of Trent was A. Vivaldi B. Palestrina C. Hildegard von Bingen | B. Palestrina |
| Homophonic texture consists of A. a single melodic line without any accompaniment B. one main melody accompanied by chords C. two or more melodies of relatively equal interest performed simultaneously | C. Two or more melodies of relatively equal interest performed simultaneously |
| Form in music is achieved by A. a statement followed by a contrasting statement B. combining many sounds into rhythms C. endlessly repeating a metrical idea | A. Statement followed by a contrasting statement |
| Gregorian Chant melodies can be described as A. wide ranging and sloppy B. disjunct C. narrow range, slowly expanding | C. Narrow range, slowly expanding |
| The trombone is a good example of a ______________ instrument. A. wooden B. brass C. percussion | B. Brass |
| Gregorian Chant aimed to A. put listeners in a trance-like state to worship foreign spirits B. convey a calm, otherworldly quality C. excite the listener so that he would contribute a lot of money to the church | B. Convey a calm, otherworldly quality |
| The first step in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began when A. a second melodic line was added to the original Gregorian Chant line B. the church organ was fixed C. music for different instruments became exclusively vocal. | A. A second melodic line was added to the original Gregorian Chant line |
| In the Middle Ages, the most important musicians were also A. priests B. traveling entertainers C. peasants | A. Priests |
| Leonin and Perotin are notable because they A. were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame and indicated precise rhythms and pitches in their scores B. are the first important composers known by name C. all of the above | C. All of the above |
| The printing press was adapted for musical purposes during the ______________. A. Renaissance B. Baroque Era C. Middle Ages | A. Renaissance |
| The following composer wrote madrigals as well as church music A. Guillaume de Machaut B. Hildegard C. Josquin Desprez | C. Josquin Desprez |
| A section that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition is called a A. movement B. Phrase C. song | A. Movement |
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