Music Appreciation Final Exam Review

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms and facts for the Music Appreciation final exam.

Build an ascending sequence if given four notes

In an ascending sequence, the notes progress upward alphabetically: A, B, C, D, E, F, G (lower-letter notes sound lower, later letters sound higher).

The order of sections in sonata form

The typical order of sections is Exposition → Development → Recapitulation, often followed by a Coda.

Find the dominant key if given the tonic key

The key built on the 5th scale degree of a given tonic (e.g., tonic C major → dominant G major).

The order of chords in a blues progression

12-bar blues: I / I / I / I // IV / IV / I / I // V / IV / I / I.

The tempo of movements in a concerto

Fast – Slow – Fast.

The tempo of movements in a symphony

Fast (Allegro) – Slow (Adagio/Andante) – Dance-like (Minuet/Scherzo) – Fast (Allegro/Presto).

The name of two masses we looked at in class by Dufay

Guillaume Dufay’s Missa Se la face ay pale and Missa L’homme armé

Mozart’s birthplace

Salzburg, Austria.

The number of periods in Beethoven’s musical career

3: Early, Middle (Heroic), Late

Two expositions in classical concerto first movement

Orchestral exposition and a solo exposition

The names of the 3 classical composers we studied

Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

The order of the musical periods

Medieval → Renaissance → Baroque → Classical → Romantic → 20th Century → Contemporary.

Charlemagne standardized Gregorian chant/plainchant

True

Leonin applied rhythmic modes to plainchant

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True

An episode in a fugue does not feature the subject

True

Many fugues by Bach are preceded with a prelude

True

Meaning of a strophic song

The same music repeats for each stanza (verse) of the poem

Schumann injured his hand

True

Schubert wrote songs set to German poems called lieder

True

Three features of a Chopin nocturne

Ornamentation, homophony, song-like melody