Music Praxis- 5113 Exam with Complete Solutions
American Nationalist - ✔✔Ives, Harris, Gershwin, Copland
Program Music - ✔✔tells a story (vivladi 4 seasons)
Absolute Music - ✔✔No story, music for the sake of music
Impressionism - ✔✔soft instrumental colors
constant movement without distinct sectional borders. Melodies are featured around a single
pitch
Impressionist Composers - ✔✔Ravel, Bartok, Oliver Messiaen, Gyorgy Ligeti, George Crumb
Schoenberg - ✔✔Austrian
12-tone technique music
Neoclassical - ✔✔19th century romantic era large scale works of program musics
music returned to order, restraint, and formal balance
Neoclassical composers - ✔✔Hindemith, Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, Prokofiev, de Falla,
Aaron
Copland
,Minimalism - ✔✔minimal amount of notes minimal instruments wall of sound rather than
goal
Minimalist composers - ✔✔Reich, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, John Adams, La Monte Young
Bossa Nova - ✔✔
Blues - ✔✔A genre of African American music that often expresses frustration,sadness, or
longing
Charley Patton - ✔✔"Father of the Delta Blues"
Muddy waters - ✔✔Hoochie coochie man
Blues
B.B. King - ✔✔King of Blues guitar player
T-Bone Walker - ✔✔Among the first musicians to use the electric guitar as a solo blues
instrument.
Leitmotif - ✔✔a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular
person,
, situation, or idea. (like jaws)
Organum - ✔✔Medieval polyphony that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more
additional
melodic lines
Opera Seria vs Opera Buffa - ✔✔Seria- Serious
Buffa- Funny
Musical Modes - ✔✔I Do Proclaim Lyrical Music Against Lorraine
Sonata Form - ✔✔Exposition, Development, Recapitulation, Coda
Symphonic Form - ✔✔Classical Era
1st movement: fast
2nd: slow
3rd: dance
4th: fast
Oratorio - ✔✔religious or ethical subject
American Nationalist - ✔✔Ives, Harris, Gershwin, Copland
Program Music - ✔✔tells a story (vivladi 4 seasons)
Absolute Music - ✔✔No story, music for the sake of music
Impressionism - ✔✔soft instrumental colors
constant movement without distinct sectional borders. Melodies are featured around a single
pitch
Impressionist Composers - ✔✔Ravel, Bartok, Oliver Messiaen, Gyorgy Ligeti, George Crumb
Schoenberg - ✔✔Austrian
12-tone technique music
Neoclassical - ✔✔19th century romantic era large scale works of program musics
music returned to order, restraint, and formal balance
Neoclassical composers - ✔✔Hindemith, Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, Prokofiev, de Falla,
Aaron
Copland
,Minimalism - ✔✔minimal amount of notes minimal instruments wall of sound rather than
goal
Minimalist composers - ✔✔Reich, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, John Adams, La Monte Young
Bossa Nova - ✔✔
Blues - ✔✔A genre of African American music that often expresses frustration,sadness, or
longing
Charley Patton - ✔✔"Father of the Delta Blues"
Muddy waters - ✔✔Hoochie coochie man
Blues
B.B. King - ✔✔King of Blues guitar player
T-Bone Walker - ✔✔Among the first musicians to use the electric guitar as a solo blues
instrument.
Leitmotif - ✔✔a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular
person,
, situation, or idea. (like jaws)
Organum - ✔✔Medieval polyphony that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more
additional
melodic lines
Opera Seria vs Opera Buffa - ✔✔Seria- Serious
Buffa- Funny
Musical Modes - ✔✔I Do Proclaim Lyrical Music Against Lorraine
Sonata Form - ✔✔Exposition, Development, Recapitulation, Coda
Symphonic Form - ✔✔Classical Era
1st movement: fast
2nd: slow
3rd: dance
4th: fast
Oratorio - ✔✔religious or ethical subject
