Music Final Study Guide PDF

MUL1010 Music Appreciation Study Guide for Proctored Final Exam Please find answers within the course text or your own research from the Assignments to the following questions. Occasionally a statement is provided to you that is a fact you should know and memorize. The Final Exam...

MUL1010 Music Appreciation Study Guide for Proctored Final Exam Please find answers within the course text or your own research from the Assignments to the following questions. Occasionally a statement is provided to you that is a fact you should know and memorize. The Final Exam will be a randomized set of 50 questions based on this Study Guide. No two exams will be exactly alike. Give yourself plenty of time to look up answers and then study them a bit each day until you know the material thoroughly. 1. According to the text, art of the Romantic period valued emotional restraint and what else? 2. Notes that don't belong to the traditional scale are known as ______________. 3. The dance-like characteristics of a piece indicate that it was written during which period? 4. Which of the following composers envisioned operas as “musical dramas”? 5. Were changes in tempo rarely found in music of the Romantic period? 6. According to the text, who/what were the Traditionalists of the Romantic era? 7. Which characteristics help you identify a composition by Paganini? 8. Which Romantic Period composer was considered a national hero in his homeland? 9. Who were the most prominent composers from the Romantic period? 10. What kinds of jobs did composers have during the Romantic period, as opposed to the Medieval, Baroque, and Classical Periods? 11. What were the important artistic products of the Romantic period? 12. Identify accelerando and ritardando by listening. 13. What are the characteristics of the “mood” of the Romantic Period? 14. Identify, through listening, Chopin's Revolutionary Etude. 15. Identify through listening Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique. 16. Know the characteristics of musical form in the Romantic Period. 17. Know the characteristics of Romantic Period Music 18. Know who The Five were and their objective(s). 19. Know about Chopin’s life, through the text. 20. Know what kinds of dynamics may have best expressed music of the Romantic period. 21. Who were the nationalist composers of the Romantic Period? 22. Identify the Romantic Composers by their photos—Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Bartok... Final Exam Study Guide Page 1 of 7  MUL1010 Music Appreciation 23. Who was the Romantic composer who was a musical genius, but with strong anti- Semitic views? 24. Who was an important Romantic composer who founded the New Journal of Music? 25. Identify the sound of a Renaissance consort through listening. 26. What was a Renaissance madrigal? Was it a sacred music form or secular music form? 27. The course places the Romantic period in music between the years____ and ____. 28. During the Renaissance, what was the name composers gave to the original chant used as the basis for the main melody in a composition? 29. Know who was Josquin Desprez (Renaissance) and his importance in music history. 30. Know the features and characteristics of polyphonic texture. Be able to identify these by listening. 31. Know which events occurred in Europe and America during the Renaissance. 32. According to the text, the Renaissance period was known as a period of what? 33. Know the names of the important composers from the Renaissance period 34. Usually, folk tunes, songs, spirituals, and hymns ARE good examples of strophic form. Know strophic form and be able to identify it by listening. 35. Identify Binary, Ternary, Rondo, and Theme and Variation forms by listening to examples provided in the text. 36. What is the textbook definition of form? 37. Which form is not based on the principle of repetition? 38. Which form is not based on the principle of contrast? 39. Can composers and arrangers introduce some elements of variation in a piece of music without altering form? 40. What are the musical terms for "increasing the tempo" and “decreasing the tempo”? 41. Define syncopation and when one might hear it used. Identify it by listening. 42. Define terms rhythm, beat, tempo. How do they differ from one another? 43. Identify triple meter and duple meter by listening. 44. What do the top number and bottom numbers of the time signature represent? 45. What is the Italian term for at ease? 46. Tempo is an Italian universal musical term that refers to ________? 47. Which Italian term describes moderately fast tempo? 48. Which Italian term describes very fast tempo? 49. Describe Meter in music. Final Exam Study Guide Page 2 of 7  MUL1010 Music Appreciation 50. Define Rhythm. 51. Define and identify by listening: disjunct, conjunct, or repeated tones melodies. 52. What is it called when a melody acquires significant importance within a given composition? 53. Identify ascending and descending melodic direction by listening. 54. Know which characteristics of a melody best describe it. 55. Identify by listening a melody without harmonic accompaniment, harmony with accompaniment, consonant harmony and dissonant harmony. 56. The term harmony refers to the vertical aspect of music. 57. What are double stops on the violin? (Harmony Class) 58. What are two simultaneous pitches of the same letter name and pitch (e.g., C, G, or D)? 59. Do consonant harmonies usually provide a feeling of tension? 60. What is an arpeggio? (Harmony class) Identify one by listening. 61. According to the text, in rondo form, the repeating themes are separated by__________? 62. What are the characteristics of a Baroque suite? 63. What are Baroque rhythmic characteristics? Identify them by listening. 64. What is a recitative? Identify by listening. 65. Which Baroque group was credited with inventing the recitative? 66. What is a Baroque oratorio? 67. What is a Baroque sonata? 68. What is a Baroque concerto? 69. Identify a piece of Baroque music by texture. 70. Who was Farinelli? 71. What kinds of features may be found in Baroque music? 72. Who are the most renowned Baroque composers? 73. Be able to identify a Mass, oratorio, aria and recitative from the Baroque period by listening to examples. 74. In the Renaissance, vocal and choral music took center stage. Contrastingly, what kind of music took center stage in the Baroque era? 75. Who wrote the earliest surviving opera—then called dramma per musica? 76. Name and identify the styles of recitative by listening. 77. In the Baroque period, the term sonata was used for musical works _______. 78. The dates given in the course for the Baroque Period place it between: ______ and ______. Final Exam Study Guide Page 3 of 7  MUL1010 Music Appreciation 79. What were the basso continuo and Doctrine of Affections in the Baroque period? 80. Identify monophonic texture by listening. 81. Identify homophony by listening. 82. Identify polyphony by listening. 83. In general, operatic arias of the Romantic period, for example those by Giacomo Puccini use what type of texture? 84. What is a defining characteristic of polyphony? 85. Are tempo and rhythm interchangeable terms? 86. Does musical texture refer to how melody and harmony relate to each other? 87. What are the basic terms we use to define musical texture? 88. Which musical texture consists of a single melody without accompaniment? 89. Be able to recognize accelerando and ritardando by listening to examples 90. Be able to identify a fast tempo, slow tempo, and rubato tempo by listening. 91. Identify a weak beat and strong beat by listening. 92. Identify duple meter by listening. 93. According to the text, what was the significance of Debussy's work? Identify these characteristics by listening to his music. 94. What are the trends in contemporary music? Identify these by listening to examples. 95. Which composer used Hungarian folk music in his music? Identify by listening to examples. 96. Which of the following best describes aleatory music. 97. Who was Nadia Boulanger? 98. Identify features of Contemporary music by listening. 99. Which composer most heavily influenced the music of the French post-WWI school of musicians known as Les Six? 100. Which composer catapulted to the top of the 20th-century avant-garde after composing Firebird, Petrushka, and Le Sacre du Printemps? 101. Which of the 20th-century trends sought to restore order, harmony, and emotional restraint to music? 102. Identify atonal music by listening to examples. 103. Which one of the following composers' style is most closely associated with that of the commercial music world known as Tin Pan Alley? 104. Which composer wrote music for prepared piano? Identify the sound of prepared piano by listening. 105. Who were the famous Contemporary Period French composers? Final Exam Study Guide Page 4 of 7  MUL1010 Music Appreciation 106. In 20th-century music, traditional harmony and tonality were redefined or rejected in favor of_________? 107. Who invented the twelve-tone system of composition? 108. Which composers developed the concept of total theater? 109. According to the text, who had a strong influence on Beethoven’s music? 110. Which aesthetic movements are associated with Debussy and Ravel? 111. The composers Samuel Barber, Thea Musgrave, and Ned Rorem resisted the 20th-c. trend of serialism. 112. From the Classical period onward, sonata-allegro form became the basis for most instrumental music. 113. Define chamber music and identify it by listening to examples. 114. Identify a large choral work from the classical period by listening. 115. Who were the important composers of the Classical period? 116. Which characteristics are associated with the rococo style? 117. Which Classical period composer composed many piano concerti? 118. The dates given in this course for the Classical period are_____ to_____. 119. Identify two famous arias from Mozart's operas Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, by listening. 120. What are the names of the sections of the Classical sonata-allegro form? 121. Identify an aria from an opera buffa by listening. 122. Identify a classical period piece of music by listening. Be able to tell it apart from Baroque, Medieval or Renaissance compositions by listening. 123. Know the characteristics of a Classical Period melody. 124. Be able to identify a symphony, chamber music and concerto (a soloist and orchestra) by listening to examples. 125. Beethoven is sometimes referred to as "The Father of the Symphony." 126. What kind of the harmony is typical of the Classical Period? 127. What global historical events occurred during the Classical period? 128. Define an overture. 129. During the Classical period, on what kinds of subject matter were opera buffa (comic opera) plots based? On what kinds of subject matter were opera seria plots based? 130. A string ________________ is composed of two violins, one viola, and a cello. 131. Identify melismatic singing by listening to examples. (Baroque Period) 132. Define terraced dynamics and identify by listening to an example. 133. Identify a composition for an orchestral ensemble by listening 134. Identify a recitative and be able to tell it apart from an aria by listening. Final Exam Study Guide Page 5 of 7  MUL1010 Music Appreciation 135. What important historical events took place during the Baroque period? 136. Identify the lute by photo and by listening to an example. (Baroque Period) 137. Which time period is generally considered the Renaissance period (dates)? 138. What elements of the musical style indicate a piece of music is of the Renaissance period rather than the Medieval Period? 139. Be able to tell apart a Mass (Latin text), Madrigal and Motet from one another by listening to examples.. (Renaissance Period) 140. Identify a vihuela by listening example. (Renaissance Period) 141. What were the popular forms during the Renaissance period? 142. Composers became aware that instrumental music was important to express emotions as vocal music during the Renaissance period. 143. Describe the age of the Renaissance—its characteristics. 144. Did Renaissance composers care very much if their work appealed to the public? 145. Describe the inventions and developments that came about in the Renaissance period. 146. Describe how Renaissance harmony and polyphony changed from the strict rules of the Medieval Period. 147. Which 8th- and 9th-century ruler had a profound influence on Church music? 148. Were the great European churches and cathedrals of the Medieval Period were important to the development of music? 149. Who were regarded as leading composers of the Ars Nova style? (Medieval Period) 150. What are the names of the chants of the Proper of the Mass? (Medieval Period) 151. Be able to identify by listening sacred music examples and secular music examples and distinguish one from the other. 152. What are the names of the secular genres in the Medieval Period? 153. Which were the sacred genres in the Medieval Period? 154. Who were the important composers in the Medieval Period? 155. The dates for the Medieval Period are generally considered to be from _____ to _____. 156. What was the unifying factor for social, political, and cultural life in the Medieval Period? 157. What are the distinguishing characteristics of Gregorian Chant? 158. Identify a troubadour song by listening example. 159. Identify dance music from the Medieval Period. 160. Identify the music of Hildegaard von Bingen by listening example. 161. Identify Gregorian chant (plainsong or plain chant) by listening example. Final Exam Study Guide Page 6 of 7  MUL1010 Music Appreciation 162. Identify an example from a Mass by listening. 163. Distinguish sacred and secular music by listening example. 164. For what are Goliards famous? (Medieval Period) 165. Who were Léonin and Pérotin and with what famous church are they associated? 166. Who were two most important French composers of organum and discant during the Medieval Period? 167. Who was Guido d'Arezzo? (Medieval Period) 168. Who was Anicius Boethius? (Medieval Period) 169. Who is credited with the creation of plainsong? (Medieval Period) 170. In the early days of the church, the only music allowed during the service was___________. 171. Who were important composers in the Contemporary Period? 172. Which composers did NOT employ total serialism in his work? 173. Did audiences immediately embrace the dodecaphonic work of Arnold Schoenberg? 174. Most of the notated music that survives from the Medieval Period is sacred music. 175. Identify the music of John Cage by listening to an example. (Contemporary Period) 176. Contemporary composers found new ways to manipulate traditional instruments. 177. Many composers in the contemporary period sought alternatives to tonality, or key-centered music by using serialism. 178. Identify some music by Arnold Schoenberg by listening to an example. 179. Aaron Copland was a composer known for using folk-based fiddle tunes in his music. (Identify by listening example). 180. Identify the music of George Gershwin by listening example. 181. Identify the music of Claude Debussy by listening example. Final Exam Study Guide Page 7 of 7