Music Appreciation Exam

Succession of single pitches perceived by the ear as a unity

The controlled movement of music in time

The simultaneous combination of notes and the ensuing relationships of intervals and chords

Combination of tones that sounds discordant and unstable, in need of resoultion

Series of pitches in ascending or descending order, comprising of the notes of a key

The creation of a musical composition while it is being performed

Principle of organization around a tonic, or home, pitc, based on a major or minor scale

The interweaving of melodic and harmonic elements in the musical fabric

Structure and design in music, based on repetition, contrast, and variation; the organizing principle of music

The rate of speed or pace of music

Element of musical expression relating to the degree of loudness or softness, or volume, of a sound

Nonreligious music; when there is text, it is usually in the vernacular

Instrument that produces sound from a vibrating string stretched between two points; may be set in motion by bowing, striking or plucking

The quality of a sound that distringuishes one voice or instrument from another

Monophonic melody with a freely flowing, unmeasued vocal line; Roman Catholic Church

Musical pictorialization of words as an expressive device

Baroque concerto concerto type based on the opposition between a small group of solo instruments

Music that has no literary, dramatic, or pictoral program

Instrumental genre in several movements for soloist or small ensemeble

Roman catholic Mass for the Dead

Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations especially popular in the nineteenth century

Musical style in which rhythms, melodies, or instruments evoke the color and atmosphere of far-off lands

"Fixed idea: term coined by Berlioz for a recurring musical idea that links different movements of a work

Fair Phyllis

Dido's Lament

Hallelujiah by Handel

Spring by Vivaldi

La donna e mobile by Verdi

Swing low, Sweet Chariot

A film score to a horror movie may include a great deal of ____________.

Instrumemts of the Western orchestra are categorized into four groups:________, _________, ________, and ________.

Standard ranges of the human voice

Approximately ________ of a symphony orchestra constists of strings

She could see into the future and wrote music about it

The ________ era was the first in Western music history in which intrumental music was as imprtant as vocal music

The death of _____ represents the end of the Baroque era

The _______ arose as one of the principle instrumental traditions during the Classical era

Who is remembered today as the most gifted child prodigy in the history of music?

Who is credited with originating the modern piano style?

________ composers enjoyed native songs and dance in their works

Who is considered to be the most important phenomenon in the artistic life of the latter half of the 19th century?

Elfking by Schubert

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Debussey