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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 -Piano Violin and Cello | *A piano trio consists of: |
| Manneheim | *Quick crescendos and the four-movement cycle in symphonies were developed in: |
| 30-40 | *The number of players in a Classical orchestra was typically: |
| a four note motive | *Which of the following best describes the opening idea of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5? |
| Mozart | *Which composer rebelled against the patronage system and struggled to achieve financial independence? |
| 9 | *How many symphonies did Beethoven compose? |
| False | *The patronage system failed to support Haydn, and he was forced to live by teaching and performing? |
| Requiem | *A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called a: |
| Symphony | *The most important instrumental genre of the Classical period is: |
| ostinato | *A short repeated musical pattern is called: |
| Prince Esterhazy | *Who was Haydn's principal patron? |
| Violin, Violin, Viola, Cello | *A string quartet consists of: |
| Requiem | *Mozart dies while composing: |
| Recapitulation | *The three main sections of sonata-allegro form are the exposition, development, and: |
| Cyclical Form | *Using material from an earlier movement in a symphony is called: |
| Symphony no 9 | *Which work by Beethoven is called the Choral Symphony? |
| Deafness | *Beethoven suffered perhaps the most traumatic of all maladies for a musician. What was it?- |
| Motives | *A theme may be fragmented by dividing it into smaller units called: |
| Music without a story | *Which of the following best describes absolute music?- |
| Chamber music | *Music for a small ensemble of two to about ten players with one player to a part is called:- |
| French revolution | *Beethoven belonged to a generation of artists who were influenced by the full impact of:- |
| True | *Mozart's melodies are simple, elegant, and songful. |
| the orchestra | *The typical first movement of a Classical concerto begins with- |
| Bach | *Of the following, who is NOT a major composer of string quartets?- |
| False | *Mozart is known only as a composer of instrumental music |
| A musical idea that is used as a building block | *In musical composition, a theme is:- |
| the most gifted child prodigy in the history of music | *Mozart is remembered today as:- |
| Strings | *In the Classical orchestra, which group of instruments serves as the ensemble's nucleus? |
| Vienna | *Haydn served as a choirboy in: |
| Explosive and Independent | *Beethoven's temperament could be best described as:- |
| It ends with harmonic resolution | *Which of the following does NOT describe Schumann's "In the lovely month of May"?- |
| Louis Moreau Gottschalk | *Who was the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music? |
| Smetana's finest achievement in orchestral music | *The Moldau represents: |
| Love, longing and nature | *The favorite subjects for the Romantic poets were: |
| A song cycle | *A group of Lieder unified by some narrative thread or a descriptive or expressive theme is called:- |
| The song | *The short, lyric piano piece is the instrumental equivalent of:- |
| A second keyboard was added | *Which of the following was NOT a technical improvement in the nineteenth-century piano? |
| Short lyric piano pieces | *Titles such as Prelude, Impromptu, and Intermezzo are used for: |
| She was a woman | *Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was discouraged from pursuing a career as a composer because: |
| Concerto | *Which of the following is NOT a type of orchestral program music?- |
| Lied | *The German term for art song is:- |
| Through-composed | *A song structure that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called: |
| Poland | *Chopin in considered to be the national composer of: |
| Piano | *The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:- |
| In an asylum, the result of mental illness | *Robert Schumann ended his career and life: |
| Camptown Races | *The familiar tune heard at the end of The Banjo is:- |
| Strophic | *A song form in which the same melody is repeated with every stanza of text is called:- |
| His range and dissonance | *Which musical devices help to portray the child's terror in Erlking? |
| Borrowed time | *The term tempo rubato means:- |
| Paris | *Chopin spent most of his productive life in:- |
| The galloping of a horse | *In Schubert's Erlking, the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano represents:- |
| String quartet in B-flat major | *Which of the following compositions is LEAST likely to be an example of program music?- |
| It relies on traditional forms | *Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Berlioz's music?- |
| The United States | *Dvorak composed his New World Symphony while living in: |
| Wagner | *Which composer has been considered to be the single most important phenomenon in the artistic life of the latter half of the nineteenth century? |
| Bizet | *What French composer wrote Carmen? |
| Opera Buffa | *Italian comic opera is called:- |
| It opens with a flute solo in a velvety low register | *What is unusual about the opening of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?- |
| Claude Debussy | *Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of: |
| Verismo | *The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism called: |
| The first movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony | *The melody of the African-American spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is suggested by the third theme in:- |
| Clara Schumann | *Brahms maintained a lifelong close relationship with:- |
| Bayreuth | *A special theater was built at ________ for the presentation of Wagner's music dramas.- |
| Schubert | *Of the following, who did NOT write a major concerto in the Romantic Era? |
| Bach | *Felix Mendelssohn played an important role in the revival of music by which Baroque composer?- |
| Rossini | *Who composed The Barber of Seville and the overture to William Tell?- |
| Java | *Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of the gamelan from:- |
| She sacrificed her career for her family until her husband died | *Of the following, which describes Clara Schumann's balance between family and career?- |
| Wagner | *What composer's musical language was based on chromatic harmony?- |
| a style of singing that features agility and purity of tone | *The term bel canto refers to: |
| The nutcracker | *Tchaikovsky's fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is:- |
| The aristocratic palace to the public concert hall | *By the Romantic Era, concerts had moved from: |
| Traditionalist | *Brahms is often described as a(n) ____________, because of his use of forms of the Classical masters.- |
| Piano | *Clara Schumann was a virtuoso performer on:- |
| 4 | *Brahms composed _____ symphonies- |
| a cadenza | *A fanciful solo passage in an improvisational style that is interpolated into a concerto movement is called:- |
| true | *The Impressionists turned to the open intervals and church modes of medieval music for inspiration.- |
| fast, slow, dance, fast | *The scheme of a traditional symphony is: |
| spiritual | *While teaching in America, the Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak developed a particular fondness for:- |
| It is not concerned with pagan rituals | *Which of the following is true of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?- |
| 4'33" | *Which work by John Cage has no musical content and can be performed by anyone on any instrument? |
| Stravinsky | *Of the following, who was the Russian-born composer that wrote post-Impressionist, primitivist, Neoclassical, and serial styles?- |
| Disregarding the basic metrical pattern of the past | *The element of rhythm in 20th century music is best characterized as: |
| Sousa | *America's greatest bandmaster is: |
| John Cage | *Who invented the prepared piano? |
| Diaghilev | *Who was the Paris-based Russian ballet impresario that commissioned Stravinsky to write ballets? |
| Barktok | *What Hungarian composer combined native folk music characteristics with main currents of European music?- |
| Harmony | *The element that most decisively separated 20th century music from that of the past was:- |
| Big Band | *What kind of jazz is Duke Ellington known for?- |
| Minimalist | *Music that features the repetition, with little variation, of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns is known as: |
| The Nazis | *The "interruption" in Bartok's Interrupted Intermezzo represents:- |
| A tone row | *The arrangement of tones in 12 tone music is called:- |
| Klangfarbenmelodie | *Schoenberg experimented with tone-color melody, or shifting each note of a melody to a different instrument. He called this:-Klangfarbenmelodie |
| Sprechstimme | *Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as:- |
| The musical | *What is considered to be America's unique contribution to theater?- |
| particularly innovative | *Bartok's use of rhythm was: |
| revolutionized composition in the twentieth century | *The 12 tone method:. |
| Titanic | *Which of the following film scores was not composed by John Williams?- |
| Trumpet | *Which instrument did Louis Armstrong play?- |
| Schoenberg | *The composer most closely associated with 12 tone music is:- |
| Romeo and Juliet | *West-Side Story is a modern-day musical setting of Shakespeare's:- |
| Scat singing | *A style of jazz singing that sets syllables without meaning to an improvised vocal line is known as:- |
| Porgy and Bess | *What American folk opera by George Gershwin was far ahead of its time? |
| A wedding in the appalachains | *Copland's Appalachian Spring depicts;- |
| Tod Machover | *Which composer developed an electronic glove for playing the cello?- |
| A near riot | *The Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to: |
| The United States | *Stravinsky immigrated to _______ just before World War II. |
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