When did secular music first begin to flourish in the America?
1700s
A type of singing developed in which the preacher would sing each phrase of the song aloud, and the congregation would repeat back what was just sung is called:
Lining out
The theremin is a(n)....
Electronic Instrument
What was the first book published in America?
Bay Psalm Book
I wrote beautiful music and my Adagio for Strings has become an unofficial anthem of mourning.
Samuel Barber
Much of the roots of American music were born in this city:
Boston
In America the first art of the seventeenth century was the singing of hymns and psalms in the church.
True
Who started the educational series The Young People's Concerts?
Leonard Bernstein
Who composed Rodeo?
Aaron Copland
When does the word "aleatoric" come from?
A Latin word
Who did Arnold Schoenberg say would never compose and didn't have an ear for music?
John Cage
Staged musical play with acting & music that reached its peak between 1930-1960.
Broadway Musical
I am called “the march king” and as considered to be one of the great American composers.
John Philip Sousa
Which march is Sousa's most famous?
The Stars and Stripes Forever
Who is the author of The Joy of Music?
Leonard Bernstein
I am a controversial composer who wrote 4 minutes and 33 seconds.
John Cage
Who composed Applachian Spring?
Aaron Copland
Who composed West Side Story?
Leonard Bernstein
I conducted the NY Philharmonic and composed West Side Story.
Leonard Bernstein
Who composed Chester?
William Billings
Who established music education in the schools?
Lowell Mason
The following listening example is:
Quiz 6, example 1.mp3
Adagio for String
The following listening example is:
Quiz 6, example 2.mp3
Applachian Spring
The following listening example is:
Exam 6, example 3.mp3
Stars and Stripes Forever
The following listening example is:
Exam 6, example 4.mp3
West Side Story
The following listening example is:
Quiz 6, example 5.mp3
KoKo
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Legato Learning - Introduction to Music Exam #5
Who composed The Rite of Spring?
Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso were close friends and were arrested for urinating on the Louvre.
True
Political events, wars, and technology greatly influenced 20th-century music.
True
Artistically, the twentieth-century was a time of anything goes.
True
Technique of composition in which all material is derived for a 12 tone row.
Serialism
Which term describes the bend of ethnic-flavored music from across the globe?
World Music
A Russian composer associated with primitivism
Stravinsky
Art or music that is marked by emotional restraint, balance, and clarity, inspired by the forms and traditions of 18th century art?
NeoClassicism
An electronic instrument invented in 1919, which bears the name of its inventor.
Theramin
I was born in Vienna and am associated with 12 tone/serlialism
Schoenberg
Who composed Variations for Orchestra?
Schoenberg
Primitivist influences also made their way into the work of Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avigon.
True
Who composed Poeme electronique?
Varese
The tormented feeling of people stuck in a world of pain and conflict.
Expressionism
I was born in France and came to music through engineering and mathematics
Varese
Artists associated with France who weren’t happy with the direction of the Germanic style were associated with which movement?
Impressionism
Fascination with the art and music of non-western and nonliterate societies
Primivitism
Who composed Concerto for Orchestra?
Bartok
Which term refers to the manipulation of timbre?
Klangfarbenmelodie
The technique which used any sounds from street noises, to people talking, to abstract sounds of chains clanging or a car door slamming is called?
Musique concrete
Developed in Germany in the 1930s for wartime and espionage use was magnetic tape recording called the Magnetopone.
True
The following listening example is
Quiz 5, example 1.mp3
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
The following listening example is
Quiz 5, Example 2.mp3
Poeme electronique
The following listening example is
Quiz 5, example 3.mp3
Concerto for Orchestra
The following listening example is
Exam 5, example 4.mp3
The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso were close friends and were arrested for urinating on the Louvre.
True
Political events, wars, and technology greatly influenced 20th-century music.
True
Artistically, the twentieth-century was a time of anything goes.
True
Technique of composition in which all material is derived for a 12 tone row.
Serialism
Which term describes the bend of ethnic-flavored music from across the globe?
World Music
A Russian composer associated with primitivism
Stravinsky
Art or music that is marked by emotional restraint, balance, and clarity, inspired by the forms and traditions of 18th century art?
NeoClassicism
An electronic instrument invented in 1919, which bears the name of its inventor.
Theramin
I was born in Vienna and am associated with 12 tone/serlialism
Schoenberg
Who composed Variations for Orchestra?
Schoenberg
Primitivist influences also made their way into the work of Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avigon.
True
Who composed Poeme electronique?
Varese
The tormented feeling of people stuck in a world of pain and conflict.
Expressionism
I was born in France and came to music through engineering and mathematics
Varese
Artists associated with France who weren’t happy with the direction of the Germanic style were associated with which movement?
Impressionism
Fascination with the art and music of non-western and nonliterate societies
Primivitism
Who composed Concerto for Orchestra?
Bartok
Which term refers to the manipulation of timbre?
Klangfarbenmelodie
The technique which used any sounds from street noises, to people talking, to abstract sounds of chains clanging or a car door slamming is called?
Musique concrete
Developed in Germany in the 1930s for wartime and espionage use was magnetic tape recording called the Magnetopone.
True
The following listening example is
Quiz 5, example 1.mp3
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
The following listening example is
Quiz 5, Example 2.mp3
Poeme electronique
The following listening example is
Quiz 5, example 3.mp3
Concerto for Orchestra
The following listening example is
Exam 5, example 4.mp3
The Rite of Spring
Legato Learning - Introduction to Music Exam #4
I was a music critic, composer and conductor. Who am I?
Berlioz
Along with Beethoven, who was considered one of the first Romantic composers?
Schubert
Romanticism began at the end of the 18th century as an art concept?
False
Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western art music, encompassed the years
1820-1900
Instrumental music that is associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene is called:
Programmatic
Which musical term refers to a melodic fragment associated with a particular person or object?
Idee fixe
Who composed Symphony No. 9 “The New World”?
Dvorak
Compositions that embody a strong and distinctive spirit from a homeland.
Nationalism
I primarily wrote compositions for the opera and am considered one of the greatest ever to do so
Puccini
Who composed Symphonie Fantastique?
Berlioz
Which composer of the period is best known for their lieder/art-songs?
Schubert
Who composed La Boheme?
Puccini
Who was the 1844 Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration was written by?
Berlioz
I am Polish and was known as the “poet of the piano”. Who am I?
Chopin
Who composed the Nutcracker?
Tchaikovksy
Which musical term is associated with realism and opera?
Verismo
The opera La Boheme takes place in what city?
Paris
Who composed Die Walküre?
Wagner
Who composed Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2?
Chopin
Richard Wagner’s music is best described as being
Nationalistic
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, Example 1.mp3
La Boheme
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, example 2.mp3
Symphonie Fantastique
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, example 3.mp3
Die Walküre
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, example 4.mp3
The Nutcracker
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, example 5.mp3
Erlkonig
Berlioz
Along with Beethoven, who was considered one of the first Romantic composers?
Schubert
Romanticism began at the end of the 18th century as an art concept?
False
Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western art music, encompassed the years
1820-1900
Instrumental music that is associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene is called:
Programmatic
Which musical term refers to a melodic fragment associated with a particular person or object?
Idee fixe
Who composed Symphony No. 9 “The New World”?
Dvorak
Compositions that embody a strong and distinctive spirit from a homeland.
Nationalism
I primarily wrote compositions for the opera and am considered one of the greatest ever to do so
Puccini
Who composed Symphonie Fantastique?
Berlioz
Which composer of the period is best known for their lieder/art-songs?
Schubert
Who composed La Boheme?
Puccini
Who was the 1844 Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration was written by?
Berlioz
I am Polish and was known as the “poet of the piano”. Who am I?
Chopin
Who composed the Nutcracker?
Tchaikovksy
Which musical term is associated with realism and opera?
Verismo
The opera La Boheme takes place in what city?
Paris
Who composed Die Walküre?
Wagner
Who composed Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2?
Chopin
Richard Wagner’s music is best described as being
Nationalistic
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, Example 1.mp3
La Boheme
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, example 2.mp3
Symphonie Fantastique
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, example 3.mp3
Die Walküre
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, example 4.mp3
The Nutcracker
The following listening example is
Quiz 4, example 5.mp3
Erlkonig
Legato Learning - Introduction to Music Exam #3
The Classic period roughly encompassed the years:
1750-1820
A term used by European intellectuals to show they were fully free from the restrictions of the Middle Ages. : Age of Enlightenment
Which of the following composers is not considered a master of the classical period?
J. S. Bach
The new “classical” style was essentially homophonic rather than polyphonic.
True
The center of music moved from Venice in the Baroque to what city in the Classic period?
Vienna
Classical composers’ interest in expressing shades of emotion led to the widespread use of gradual dynamic changes (crescendos and decrescendos).
True
Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life working for who?
Esterhazy
Sonata form consists of three main sections: exposition, development, and
Recapitulation
The typical orchestra of the period consisted of:
Strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and percussion
In the early years of the Classical period, the German city of Mannheim was the most important center for symphonic composition and performance.
True
The usual order of movements in a classical symphony are:
Fast, slow, dance-related, fast
Which of the following statements is not true in regard to Mozart?
He was wealthy and loved by his fellow composers
Which of the following statements is not true in regard to Haydn?
He was a freelance musician
Which of the following statements is not true in regard to Beethoven?
He was born deaf
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 3, Example 1.mp3
Mozart
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 3, Example 2.mp3
Haydn
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 3, Example 3.mp3
Beethoven
Who composed Le nozze di Figaro?
Mozart
Who composed Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”?
Beethoven
Who composed Sonata Pathetique?
Beethoven
Who composed Trumpet Concerto in E-flat?
Haydn
Who does the term “bourgeoisie” refer to?
Middle Class
The word for symphony comes from the Italian word for overture called the:
Sinfonia
Which term describes themes fragmented into small melodic or rhythmic pieces?
Motive
The classical sonata is a multi-movement work of one of two schemes, either of which has or movements.
3 or 4
1750-1820
A term used by European intellectuals to show they were fully free from the restrictions of the Middle Ages. : Age of Enlightenment
Which of the following composers is not considered a master of the classical period?
J. S. Bach
The new “classical” style was essentially homophonic rather than polyphonic.
True
The center of music moved from Venice in the Baroque to what city in the Classic period?
Vienna
Classical composers’ interest in expressing shades of emotion led to the widespread use of gradual dynamic changes (crescendos and decrescendos).
True
Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life working for who?
Esterhazy
Sonata form consists of three main sections: exposition, development, and
Recapitulation
The typical orchestra of the period consisted of:
Strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and percussion
In the early years of the Classical period, the German city of Mannheim was the most important center for symphonic composition and performance.
True
The usual order of movements in a classical symphony are:
Fast, slow, dance-related, fast
Which of the following statements is not true in regard to Mozart?
He was wealthy and loved by his fellow composers
Which of the following statements is not true in regard to Haydn?
He was a freelance musician
Which of the following statements is not true in regard to Beethoven?
He was born deaf
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 3, Example 1.mp3
Mozart
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 3, Example 2.mp3
Haydn
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 3, Example 3.mp3
Beethoven
Who composed Le nozze di Figaro?
Mozart
Who composed Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”?
Beethoven
Who composed Sonata Pathetique?
Beethoven
Who composed Trumpet Concerto in E-flat?
Haydn
Who does the term “bourgeoisie” refer to?
Middle Class
The word for symphony comes from the Italian word for overture called the:
Sinfonia
Which term describes themes fragmented into small melodic or rhythmic pieces?
Motive
The classical sonata is a multi-movement work of one of two schemes, either of which has or movements.
3 or 4
Legato Learning - Introduction to Music Exam #2
Who was the music director at St. Marks Cathedral in Venice?
Monteverdi and Gabrieli
What is the order of the five sung prayers of the mass ordinary?
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
In the early 600’s, who gave the order for music to be codified?
Pope Gregory
A dramatic work for chorus, solo voices, and orchestra.
Oratorio
Who composed Ordo virtutum?
Bingen
Who is considered to be the most influential composer of the Renaissance?
Josquin
Which years does the Baroque Period roughly span?
1600-1750
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
Madrigal
The Pope Marcellus Mass saved polyphony for the Roman Catholic Church.
True
Sonata pian’e forte is a vocal composition using soft and loud dynamics that many believe is the first composition to indicate dynamic markings.
False
In most sacred music of the period, what language was the text in?
Latin
Wachet auf by J.S. Bach is an example of what type of composition?
Cantata
One of the first writings, concerning music, comes to us from the Greek philosopher Plato who wrote that he considered music an essential part of the education of all citizens.
True
Which of the following are examples of the earliest musical instrument(s)?
All of these instruments
Monophonic, unaccompanied melodies sung in Latin by a single voice or by a choir of priests or monks in unison is known as:
Gregorian Chant
The Council of Trent marked the beginning of a hundred-year movement known as the?
Counter-Reformation
A group of scholars and musicians who sought to recapture the spirit of Greek drama by writing melodies for the actors to sing as they played dramatic roles.
Camerata
A popular dance in France and Italy from the twelfth through fourteenth centuries.
Estampie
Renaissance is a French term that means what?
Rebirth
The earliest polyphonic textured compositions were called see options below and date from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries.
Organa or Organum
What type of music is the following listening example?
Quiz 2, Example 1.mp3
Gregorian Chant
Copy of Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 2, Example 2.mp3
Handel
What type of music is the following listening example?
Quiz 2, example 3.mp3
Mass
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 2, example 4.mp3
Bach
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 2, example 5.mp3
Vivaldi
Monteverdi and Gabrieli
What is the order of the five sung prayers of the mass ordinary?
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
In the early 600’s, who gave the order for music to be codified?
Pope Gregory
A dramatic work for chorus, solo voices, and orchestra.
Oratorio
Who composed Ordo virtutum?
Bingen
Who is considered to be the most influential composer of the Renaissance?
Josquin
Which years does the Baroque Period roughly span?
1600-1750
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
Madrigal
The Pope Marcellus Mass saved polyphony for the Roman Catholic Church.
True
Sonata pian’e forte is a vocal composition using soft and loud dynamics that many believe is the first composition to indicate dynamic markings.
False
In most sacred music of the period, what language was the text in?
Latin
Wachet auf by J.S. Bach is an example of what type of composition?
Cantata
One of the first writings, concerning music, comes to us from the Greek philosopher Plato who wrote that he considered music an essential part of the education of all citizens.
True
Which of the following are examples of the earliest musical instrument(s)?
All of these instruments
Monophonic, unaccompanied melodies sung in Latin by a single voice or by a choir of priests or monks in unison is known as:
Gregorian Chant
The Council of Trent marked the beginning of a hundred-year movement known as the?
Counter-Reformation
A group of scholars and musicians who sought to recapture the spirit of Greek drama by writing melodies for the actors to sing as they played dramatic roles.
Camerata
A popular dance in France and Italy from the twelfth through fourteenth centuries.
Estampie
Renaissance is a French term that means what?
Rebirth
The earliest polyphonic textured compositions were called see options below and date from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries.
Organa or Organum
What type of music is the following listening example?
Quiz 2, Example 1.mp3
Gregorian Chant
Copy of Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 2, Example 2.mp3
Handel
What type of music is the following listening example?
Quiz 2, example 3.mp3
Mass
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 2, example 4.mp3
Bach
Who composed the following listening example?
Quiz 2, example 5.mp3
Vivaldi
Legato Learning - Introduction to Music Exam #1
Music composed and descending from classical tradition, which is intended as serious art is referred to as:
Art Music
What term describes the regular pulse found in music?
Beat
What is a sound that has a definite pitch called?
Tone
What term describes the vertical aspect of music in which tones are sounded together?
Harmony
Which of the following is NOT a member of the string family?
Piano
What is the highness or lowness of a sound called?
Pitch
What term describes the organization of beats into patterns?
Meter
Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
English Horn
Match the following terms with the correct definition:
Presto Very Fast
Vivace Fast
Forte Loud
Cresendo Gradually Louder
Allegro Moderately Fast
What term describes the flow of music through time?
Rhythm
Length, Range, Contour and Cohesiveness are all features of what?
Melody
What term describes the group of more than 3 pitches sounded together?
Chord
What is the distance in pitch between two tones is called?
Interval
Which of the following is NOT a member of the woodwind family?
French Horn
The association of music and a set of personal or cultural events or experiences
Musical Meaning
Which of the following is NOT a member of the percussion family?
Euphonium
What term describes the unique arrangement of whole and half-steps within an octave?
Scale
Instrumental music that is free of any explicit verbal reference or program.
Absolute Music
Which of the following IS considered an ensemble?
They all are
What term describes an organized linear succession of tones?
Melody
What term describes the quality and character of a tone?
Timbre
Art Music
What term describes the regular pulse found in music?
Beat
What is a sound that has a definite pitch called?
Tone
What term describes the vertical aspect of music in which tones are sounded together?
Harmony
Which of the following is NOT a member of the string family?
Piano
What is the highness or lowness of a sound called?
Pitch
What term describes the organization of beats into patterns?
Meter
Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family?
English Horn
Match the following terms with the correct definition:
Presto Very Fast
Vivace Fast
Forte Loud
Cresendo Gradually Louder
Allegro Moderately Fast
What term describes the flow of music through time?
Rhythm
Length, Range, Contour and Cohesiveness are all features of what?
Melody
What term describes the group of more than 3 pitches sounded together?
Chord
What is the distance in pitch between two tones is called?
Interval
Which of the following is NOT a member of the woodwind family?
French Horn
The association of music and a set of personal or cultural events or experiences
Musical Meaning
Which of the following is NOT a member of the percussion family?
Euphonium
What term describes the unique arrangement of whole and half-steps within an octave?
Scale
Instrumental music that is free of any explicit verbal reference or program.
Absolute Music
Which of the following IS considered an ensemble?
They all are
What term describes an organized linear succession of tones?
Melody
What term describes the quality and character of a tone?
Timbre
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