Introduction to Music

Test #4 Question 1 5 out of 5 points Writers of the Enlightenment recognized the structural parallels between instrumental music and ____________________. Answer Correct Answer: language. Question 2 5 out of 5 points The first state-run conservatory of music was established where, in the year 1795? Answer Correct Answer: Paris, France Question 3 5 out of 5 points The period between about 1720 and 1790 is known as ____________________. Answer Correct Answer: the Age of Enlightenment. Question 4 5 out of 5 points During the Classical Era there were rapid advances in technology, including ____________________. Answer Correct Answer: the steam engine, the cotton gin, and manufacturing. Question 5 5 out of 5 points Throughout the Classical Era, artists in every field looked to _________ as a model and source of inspiration. Answer Correct Answer: nature Question 6 5 out of 5 points Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is an example of opera buffa , a genre known for ____________________. Answer Correct Answer: including believable characters who behave as individuals, not as symbols. Question 7 5 out of 5 points Although a sharp distinction between vocal and instrumental parts emerged during the Baroque Era, it is in the Classical Era that the full _________ developed. Answer Correct Answer: orchestr a Question 8 5 out of 5 points Haydn did more than any other composer to establish which genre? Answer Correct Answer: string quartet Question 9 5 out of 5 points The typical string quartet, like the symphony, consists of _________ movements. Answer Correct Answer: four Question 10 5 out of 5 points Half cadences create the feeling of closure. Answer Correct Answer:  False Question 11 5 out of 5 points What do Billings's "Chester"; Mozart's Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550, first movement; and Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, op. 76, no. 3, second movement, have in common? Answer Correct Answer: They all use periodic phrase structure. Question 12 5 out of 5 points Ludwig van Beethoven was one of Haydn's composition pupils. Answer Correct Answer:  True Question 13 5 out of 5 points Listen to excerpt 1. As the Count narrates past events, the full orchestra plays, which is a musical feature called ____________________. Answer Correct Answer: accompanied recitative. Question 14 5 out of 5 points Listen to excerpt 2. The section you hear is common to standard sonata form and double-exposition concerto form, and it features a strong sense of return and arrival. Which section is it? Answer Correct Answer: recapitulation Question 15 5 out of 5 points Although William Billings's "Chester" begins and ends with praises of God, the primary subject of the song is ____________________. Answer Correct Answer: the struggle for American independence. Question 16 5 out of 5 points

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Exam #2 Question 1 5 out of 5 points Renaissance is the French word for ____________________. Answer Correct Answer:   rebirth. Question 2 5 out of 5 points The rift among Christians began in 1517 when an obscure German monk named __________ nailed a long list of complaints on the doors of a church in Wittenberg. Answer Correct Answer:   Martin Luther Question 3 5 out of 5 points In contrast to Middle Ages music, Renaissance music captured human emotions in ways that seem far more personal in tone to us today. Answer Correct Answer:  True Question 4 5 out of 5 points The intellectual and cultural movement that explored human interests and values is called ____________________. Answer Correct Answer:   humanism. Question 5 5 out of 5 points Josquin des Prez's song "The Cricket" imitates the playful song of a cricket, which is an example of ____________________. Answer Correct Answer:   word painting. Question 6 5 out of 5 points What Renaissance-era invention changed forever the way information could be transmitted? Answer Correct Answer:   the printing press Question 7 5 out of 5 points Listen to excerpt 1. The texture of this excerpt is __________ with _________ equal voices. Answer Correct Answer:   polyphonic; four Question 8 5 out of 5 points ___________ is a style of writing in which every voice is a melody; it literally means "note against note." Answer Correct Answer:   counterpoint Question 9 5 out of 5 points Ternary form consists of ____________________. Answer Correct Answer:   three parts (ABA). Question 10 5 out of 5 points Which of the following is true of Renaissance composers and musicians? Answer Correct Answer:   They benefited from the enormous economic growth throughout Europe that began in the fifteenth century. Question 11 5 out of 5 points Listen to excerpt 1. When the text speaks of the cricket's ability to "hold a long line" of music (" longo verso "), the top and bottom voices ____________________. Answer Correct Answer:   sing very long notes. Question 12 5 out of 5 points Martin Luther declared: Answer Correct Answer:   "Josquin is the master of the notes, which must do as he wishes, while other composers must follow what the notes dictate." Question 13 5 out of 5 points "Since Robin Hood" is a madrigal, or musical setting of a text in a single strophe, taken from a poem about dancing. Answer Correct Answer:  True Question 14 5 out of 5 points The texture of a Renaissance madrigal is typically ____________________. Answer Correct Answer:   polyphonic throughout. Question 15

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