Music Appreciation Final

cumulative

When did the dance suite originate?

Baroque

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a …

Mozart

Song that starts with timpani and strong piano

Grieg piano concerto in A minor

In the unanswered question, what asks the question?

Trumpet

What piece begins with a flute solo?

Prelude to the afternoon of a fawn from Debussy

A recital typically consists of …

A soloist or small group

What is musicology?

Study of music history

What is a fugue?

uses imitative polyphony

What is the difference between a concerto and a sonata?

Concerto typically has orchestral accompaniment

Who established the string quartet?

Haydn

What is chamber music?

Written for a small group in a small venue

Another name of Beethoven’s piano sonata no. 14 in C# minor?

Moonlight sonata

What would it be called if a song were changed to be played by violin but everything else about it is the same?

Transcription

What is an edition of a piece that seeks to reprint music as closely to the original as possible?

Urtext

When music originally written for a pit orchestra is refined to be played only by piano?

A piano reduction

Basso continuo in its simplest form in the Baroque era consisted of what?

Harpsichord and cello

What is included in a standard string quartet?

2 violins, viola, and cello

What brass instrument is often included in a wind quintet?

French horn

T/F: In crossover, pop and classical influence each other.

True

What is NOT true about ragtime music?

It had origins in Texas in the 1890s

Which composer is most associated with ragtime?

Scott Joplin

Rock and Roll originated from?

All of the above

How is a calliope operated?

Steam

Who is the French composer who incorporated American jazz in his work?

Milhaud

Why does popular music quote from classical but not vice versa?

Copyright restrictions

The Imperial March was heavily influenced by?

Holst

What compositional technique is a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation?

Leitmotif

Sampled sounds use?

Recorded sounds

Who are film composers?

All of the above

The cowboy whistle?

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Who was the writer of music for spaghetti westerns?

Ennio Morricone

Which is NOT a good reason for movie music?

To cover for bad acting

What do leitmotifs represent?

All of the above

What does NOT describe a song?

Universal understanding

T/F: Folk songs are primarily transmitted aurally.

True

What are examples of common themes in folk songs?

All of the above

What is the study of music in its cultural context?

Ethnomusicology

What is Sumer is Icumen in?

13th Century English

T/F: Art songs are primarily transmitted aurally.

False

What is a German art song called?

Lied

Which is not listed as a common theme of an art song?

Oppression

T/F: Art songs change a lot over time.

False

Which are NOT Medieval poet musicians?

Troubaduns

Who is considered the master of the art song?

Franz Schubert

What is Der Erlkonig about?

A child who dies

T/F: A folk song cannot become an art song.

False

T/F: Popular music is written primarily for financial profit.

True

T/F: Steven Foster is considered to be the first writer of American pop music.

True

T/F: The beginnings of pop music is bc people had money and time to get sheet music and play it/buy recordings

True

What is the world’s bestselling pop song?

White Christmas

Which pope is the namesake of a form of chant?

Gregory I

What is the texture of plainchant?

Monophonic

What does kyrie eleison mean?

Lord, have mercy

What is the first Christian hymn with musical notation?

The Oxyrhynchus hymn

Early Christian worship music was?

All of the above

Ephesians and Colossians list what?

All of the above

What is chant that uses one note per syllable?

Syllabic

The chorus of Angels We Have Heard on High is a good example of what?

Melisma

What does A Cappella mean?

As in the chapel

Scary-sounding piece

Dies Irae

What is NOT true about the great schism?

It was a North/South split

What does Dies Irae mean?

Day of wrath

Who wrote the oldest mass?

Machauld

What is it called when two voices are moving together in octaves?

Organum

In Martin Luther’s time, worship music didn’t use?

Polyphony

What group in the 1500s rejected polyphony?

Florentine Camerata

What is speech like singing?

It starts with an R

German word for “song play”

Songspiel

Who wrote the Magic Flute?

Mozart

What is NOT a difference between operas and musicals?

Musicals are set in 20th/21st century

Who wrote You’ll Be Back?

Miranda!

How is Les Miserables similar to opera?

All sung

What was the first Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?

Oklahoma!

T/F: Music can be universally understood.

False

What is learning about music via cultural experiences?

Enculturation

What was NOT included in Greek education?

Decameron

What are the first known example of written musical notation?

Delphic hymns

What is music that incorporates nontraditional sound?

Music concrete

Who wrote the Typewriter?

Leroy Anderson

Who wrote 4’33”?

John Cage

What is music with no program or story?

Absolute music

What is NOT a component of music?

orchestra

What is relatively constant like a pulse?

Beat

What is rhythm?

Events that happen over time, duration of sounds in music

What is meter?

The recurring patterns of strong and weak beats

What is a meter with three subdivisions?

Compound

What meter is Holst’s Mars?

5/4

What is melody?

• the “theme” of a piece of music

• comprised of pitches set in rhythm

What is pitch?

• the highness or lowness of musical sound

• sound waves measured in cycles per second – “hertz”

When notes move smoothly between?

Conjunct

Bring Him Home is a good example of?

Disjunct

Atonal?

Has no tonal center

When Johnny Comes Marching Home is?

Minor

Why do people singing the same thing sound different?

Timbre

What is another word for timbre?

tone color

What is the tam tam?

percussion

What is the English horn?

Woodwind

What isn’t a string instrument?

Celesta

What is an indefinitely pitched percussion?

Snare

What is a definitely pitched instrument?

Timpani