Music Appreciation Final Exam Review

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Music Appreciation Final Exam Review. ( Answers are in red ) 1. List the five properties of music, as studied in the lecture notes. Rhythm, melody, dynamics, timbre, and harmony 2. List the 6 families of instruments. Strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, keyboard, voice 3. What does the key of a work represent? The tonal center of home pitch of a piece. 4. The terms monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic are associated with what musical aspect. Texture 5. Define Tempo- the speed of pace of the music. 6. Form in music is the organization of musical elements in time forming a larger musical structure. 7. The only instrumental group to use a bow is the strings. Medieval 1. Chant music consists of sacred Latin text set to a single monophonic melody; there is no musical accompaniment for chant . 2. Chant was used during two types of services throughout the day the mass and the office . 3. List the parts of the Mass Ordinary. Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei 4. Hildegard von Bingen was inspired to compose music because of vivid dreams and visions from God. 5. The name of her morality play is Ordo Virtutum, 6. An Estampie is a medieval dance form. 7. The Troubadours and Trouvères were musicians of the Medieval period that were lyric poets (poet musicians from medieval times) associated with secular music. Renaissance 1. A Cappella is a term used to describe music that is without instruments, voices only . 2. A Motet is a polyphonic choral composition with a sacred text. 3. What invention during the Renaissance made music widely available? The printing press. 4. Word Painting is a musical technique of depicting the meaning of the lyrics through music. 5. The Chief genre for secular vocal music was called Madrigal. 6. The lute , a very prominent instrument at this time, was often used to accompany singers during Madrigals. 7. Madrigals, unlike Motets, are written with text in the vernacular.
Baroque 1. The Basso Continuo consists of which two types of instruments? Keyboard and low melodic instruments (cello) 2. Ritornello form is a musical form where a recurring section alternates with contrasting sections (orchestra/ soloist) 3. The Florentine Camerata was a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama. 4. Opera is a drama that is sung with orchestral accompaniment. 5. The libretto of an Opera is the text or script of an opera. 6. Most Operas during the Baroque base their stories on Mythology, history, or ancient literature. 7. A Castrato is a male singer castrated before puberty to preserve their high vocal range. 8. The word cantata originally meant a piece that was sung . Later, it became the name of a large-scale work for one or more voices and orchestral accompaniment. 9. Unlike Opera, cantatas derive their text form from other sources such as poetry or religious texts. 10. Oratorios are large-scale musical compositions for orchestra, choir, and soloists, usually based on religious texts. Classical 1. Exposition, Development and Recapitulation are terms associated with what musical form? Sonata – Allegro form. 2. Which form can be expressed A B A C D A, if the letters represent sections? Rondo form. 3. Which composer worked for the Esterházy family and is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these genres. Joseph Haydn 4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy. 5. Beethoven suffered from an extreme form of tinnitus (ringing in the ears), which eventually lead him to become deaf. During this time, he wrote a letter to his brothers confessing his ailment and his desire to commit suicide. This letter is known today by what name. The Heiligenstadt Testament.
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