Music Appreciation Final 2022
Syncopated Correct Answer: notes run against the regular pulse of the music meter, accented beats on
normally unaccented beats
Counterpoint Correct Answer: 2 or more melodies played simultaneously, means "note against note"
Word Painting Correct Answer: music that imitates, describes, or conjures images of the text being sung
A Capella Correct Answer: to be sung alone w/o instrumental accompaniment
Ostinato Correct Answer: a short pattern of notes repeated over and over
Recitative Correct Answer: a style of singing that lies somewhere between lyrical song and speech, also
the opratic number that is sung in this style
Melody Correct Answer: a single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent unit
Acoustics Correct Answer: the science of sound
Sharp Correct Answer: a note raised by a half step
Flat Correct Answer: a note lowered by a half step
Genre Correct Answer: the category of a given work determined by a combination of its performance
medium and its social function
Texture Correct Answer: a function of the number and general relationships of musical lines to one
another
Form Correct Answer: the structure of a musical work
Timbre Correct Answer: the color of music, the character of sound
Homophonic Texture Correct Answer: melody performed with a supporting accompaniment
Syllabic Correct Answer: one note per syllable
Melismatic Correct Answer: more than one note per syllable
Cantata Correct Answer: Italian for "that which is sung," a type of vocal genre that is typically sung
during a service of worship
What are the sections of sonata form? Correct Answer: exposition, development, recapitulation
Modulate Correct Answer: to move to a different key area
, Cadenza Correct Answer: in a concerto, an elaborate improvisation by the soloist with no orchestral
accompaniment, often written down
Overture Correct Answer: a purely instrumental work, opening movement that introduces a larger work
Program Music Correct Answer: an instrumental work that is in some way associated with a story,
event, or idea
Heterophonic Texture Correct Answer: 2 melodies at once, but one performs a more embellished form
of it
2 leading composers of the Classical Era? Correct Answer: Haydyn, Mozart
Renaissance Years Correct Answer: 1425-1600
Middle Ages Years Correct Answer: 476-1425
Baroque Years Correct Answer: 1600-1750
Classical Years Correct Answer: 1750-1800
William Byrd Correct Answer: greatest English composer of the Renaissance, "Sing Joyfully"
Josquin des Prez Correct Answer: Italian, international celebrity in his time, greatest composer of the
early Renaissance, "The Cricket"
Francesco Landini Correct Answer: most famous and prolific Italian composer of the 14th century,
"Behold Spring"
Printing Press Correct Answer: allowed music to be more rapidly reproduced, invented by Johannes
Gutenberg around 1440
Henry Purcell Correct Answer: recognized as the greatest of all 17th century composers, wrote
instrumental and vocal works, "Dido and Aeneas"
Language seen as the best for singing in the Baroque and Classical eras? Correct Answer: Italian
Professional prospects of women composers? Correct Answer: royals or nobles, published works
possibly from their own wealth
Antonio Stradivari Correct Answer: greatest of all violin makers, "Stradivarius" worth millions of dollars,
Northern Italian
J.S. Bach Correct Answer: German, one of the greatest composers of all time, wrote at least one work in
every genre except opera, had several sons
Syncopated Correct Answer: notes run against the regular pulse of the music meter, accented beats on
normally unaccented beats
Counterpoint Correct Answer: 2 or more melodies played simultaneously, means "note against note"
Word Painting Correct Answer: music that imitates, describes, or conjures images of the text being sung
A Capella Correct Answer: to be sung alone w/o instrumental accompaniment
Ostinato Correct Answer: a short pattern of notes repeated over and over
Recitative Correct Answer: a style of singing that lies somewhere between lyrical song and speech, also
the opratic number that is sung in this style
Melody Correct Answer: a single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent unit
Acoustics Correct Answer: the science of sound
Sharp Correct Answer: a note raised by a half step
Flat Correct Answer: a note lowered by a half step
Genre Correct Answer: the category of a given work determined by a combination of its performance
medium and its social function
Texture Correct Answer: a function of the number and general relationships of musical lines to one
another
Form Correct Answer: the structure of a musical work
Timbre Correct Answer: the color of music, the character of sound
Homophonic Texture Correct Answer: melody performed with a supporting accompaniment
Syllabic Correct Answer: one note per syllable
Melismatic Correct Answer: more than one note per syllable
Cantata Correct Answer: Italian for "that which is sung," a type of vocal genre that is typically sung
during a service of worship
What are the sections of sonata form? Correct Answer: exposition, development, recapitulation
Modulate Correct Answer: to move to a different key area
, Cadenza Correct Answer: in a concerto, an elaborate improvisation by the soloist with no orchestral
accompaniment, often written down
Overture Correct Answer: a purely instrumental work, opening movement that introduces a larger work
Program Music Correct Answer: an instrumental work that is in some way associated with a story,
event, or idea
Heterophonic Texture Correct Answer: 2 melodies at once, but one performs a more embellished form
of it
2 leading composers of the Classical Era? Correct Answer: Haydyn, Mozart
Renaissance Years Correct Answer: 1425-1600
Middle Ages Years Correct Answer: 476-1425
Baroque Years Correct Answer: 1600-1750
Classical Years Correct Answer: 1750-1800
William Byrd Correct Answer: greatest English composer of the Renaissance, "Sing Joyfully"
Josquin des Prez Correct Answer: Italian, international celebrity in his time, greatest composer of the
early Renaissance, "The Cricket"
Francesco Landini Correct Answer: most famous and prolific Italian composer of the 14th century,
"Behold Spring"
Printing Press Correct Answer: allowed music to be more rapidly reproduced, invented by Johannes
Gutenberg around 1440
Henry Purcell Correct Answer: recognized as the greatest of all 17th century composers, wrote
instrumental and vocal works, "Dido and Aeneas"
Language seen as the best for singing in the Baroque and Classical eras? Correct Answer: Italian
Professional prospects of women composers? Correct Answer: royals or nobles, published works
possibly from their own wealth
Antonio Stradivari Correct Answer: greatest of all violin makers, "Stradivarius" worth millions of dollars,
Northern Italian
J.S. Bach Correct Answer: German, one of the greatest composers of all time, wrote at least one work in
every genre except opera, had several sons
