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FINAL EXAM FOR MUSIC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A piece of chamber music scored for two violins, one viola, and a cello is called a: | String quartet |
| What made Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 so unique? | The last movement has singing |
| Name the german composer who lived during the classical era but is known for starting many of the styles used in the romantic era | Beethoven |
| A large work composed for orchestra that is divided into movements is called a: | Symphony |
| The romantic period goes from: | 1825 - 1900 |
| Name 3 characteristics of romantic music | Fantasy, Nature, Self-expression |
| A musical setting of a german text, usually a poem, for solo singer and piano accompaniment is called an | Art Song |
| A form of art song where the same music is used for each stanza of the poem is called: | Strophic Form |
| Name an austrian early romantic composer who was well-known for his many art songs | Franz Shubert |
| An instrumental piece, often for piano, that is specifically written to develop a specific technique is called an | Etude |
| Name the polish romantic composer who wrote almost exclusively for piano | Frederic Chopin |
| Name the hungarian romantic composer who was known as a virtuoso pianist who sought to be the paganini of piano | Franz Lizst |
| A long, complex orchestral work in one movement that develops a poetic idea, creates a mood, or suggests a scene is called a | Tone poem (symphonic poem) |
| List the 5 different types of program music and briefly define each one | symphonic poem: evokes the content of a poem ballade: a short, lyrical piece of music, especially for piano suite: set of instrumental compositions to be played in succession overture: program symphony: |
| A theme that is transformed in various places in a composition and is used to represent a particular person or object is called | Fixed Idea (idee fixe) |
| The composer who invented this idea (in the previous question) with his work symphonie fantastique is named | Hector Berloiz |
| The style of romantic italian opera which emphasized vocal technique and beautiful opera is called | Bel Canto |
| Name at least one italian romantic opera composer | Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, George Bizet |
| Name the german romantic composer who wrote operas with a continuous flow of music rather than using the traditional aria, recitative, duet forms | Richard Wagner |
| The funeral mass of the roman catholic church is called a | Requiem |
| The term that richard wagner termed which was a brief, recurrent musical theme associated with a person, an object, or a thought in a drama was called a | Leitmotif |
| The idea of composers writing music that reflected their own country through folk songs, dances, and using history and landscapes from their homeland is called | Nationalism |
| The czech romantic composer who wrote a nationalistic piece of music called the moldau is | Bedřich smetana |
| Name the russian romantic composer who wrote the music for the ballet the nutcracker | Pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky |
| A movement centered in austria and germany from about 1905 to 1925 which emphasized disturbing emotions and often used art as protest against world war I was | Expressionism |
| A vocal technique which is a combination of speaking and singing is called | Sprechstimme |
| The austrian composer who studied with arnold schoenberg and wrote the expressionistic opera called wozzeck is named | Alban berg |
| A movement in the 20th century in which music evoked primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds is | Primativism |
| The russian composer who composed the famous ballet the rite of spring was | Igor Stravinsky |
| A movement where composers sought to emulate techniques from the classical period was | Neoclassicism |
| A system of music based on a row of pitches which uses all twelve chromatic tones is called | Twelve tone (tone row) music |
| Which composer invented the twelve-tone music system? | Schoenberg |
| Music in which the sounds are party or entirely the result of chance is called | Chance (aleatory) music |
| The most famous american creator of chance music was | John Cage |
| Music which is created through the splicing together of different recorded sound effects is called | Music concrete |
| The practice of combining what the composer thought was the best features of several different styles of music was called | Eclecticism |
| What film composer, who scored the music for the movie gone with the wind, was known as "the father of film music"? | Max Steiner |
| What american film composer and conductor is known for his film scores such as star wars, E.T., and indiana jones? | John Williams |
| An american composer who liked to incorporate hymns, folk songs, and patriotic songs into his music was | Aaron Copland |
| A reaction against the technical complexities of music from the previous eras where composers wanted to see how little they could do in their music and still create something satisfying was a movement called | Minimalism |
| One of the american composers of minimalist music was | John Adams |
| The idea that music of the romantic era was not big enough was called | Post Romantism |
| The french impressionist composer who wrote claire de lune and prelude to afternoon of a faun was | Claude Debussy |
| The french artistic movement which favored vague, blurry images intended to capture an impression of an image was called | Impressionism |
| What austrian-born film composer likes to incorporate electronic music with traditional orchestral music and is known for his scores for interstellar, batman, and gladiator? | Hans Zimmer |
| Music in two or more keys sounding simultaneously is | Polytonality |
| Music in no particular key or tonal center is | Atonality |
Created by:
Angel Guerrero