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Besides his musical achievements, Mendelssohn was a
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Besides his musical achievements, Mendelssohn was a
1. talented painter. 2. fine writer. 3. brilliant conversationalist in four languages
The ____________ is a stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane.
passamezzo
The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly
Polyphonic
The "king of ragtime" is acknowledged to be
Scott Joplin
Striking a group of adjacent keys on a piano with the fist or forearm will result in
a tone cluster
A collection of compositions that displays all the resources of fugue writing is Johann Sebastian Bach's
Art of the Fugue
The solo instruments in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 are the ____________, violin, and harpsichord.
flute
Neoclassical composers modeled many of their works after the compositions of
Js Bach
The central tone around which a musical composition is organized is called the
Tonic
The poetic and musical form of the blues was popularized in the early years of the twentieth century through the publication of Memphis Blues and St. Louis Blues, composed by
William C. Handy
The most important form of classical chamber music is the
string quartet
The German master _____________ recommended DvoYák's music to his own publisher, resulting in a rapid spread of DvoYák's fame.
Johannes Brahms
Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations is called _______ music.
Program
A folk-like, guitar-based style associated with rural white Americans is known as
country and western
The typical form of a swing composition is
32bar AABA
The double bass in the classical orchestra, as in Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, usually
doubles the cello part an octave lower.
Tchaikovsky participated as a conductor in a concert inaugurating
Carnegie Hall
Which of the following was not among the leading performers of rhythm and blues in the 1950s?
Aretha Franklin
Dynamics in music refers to
volume (how loud or how soft)
The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is
fast, slow, dance-related, fast
The melody added to the Gregorian chant to form organum around 1100 was usually ______________ the original chant.
more independent and moved in shorter notes than
Many of the bands in the second British invasion (1980s) used electronic technology and often featured
outlandish costumes
The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except
naturalistic
A Cappella
without musical accompaniment
The ______ is similar in shape to the trumpet, but its tone is more mellow.
Cornet
The French secular songs of the Middle Ages usually dealt with
spinning, the Crusades, and love
Movie soundtracks can contain
Original music and previously existing compositions
A symphony is a
sonata for orchestra
Terpsichore, a collection of over 300 dance tunes, was arranged for instrumental ensemble by
Michael Praetorius.
In the Middle Ages the organ
gradually evolved into a flexible instrument that could play intricate polyphonic music
The relative highness or lowness of a sound is called
pitch
A jazz sound results from
A jazz sound results from Its variety of pitch inflections, the type of vibrato employed, and the particular way tones are attacked and released.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's
one of the greatest composers of the late Renaissance
A dissonance is a combination of tones that
is considered unstable and tense
Bach's personal musical style was drawn from
Italian concertos, French dance pieces, and the German Church
Since the 1960's most film music is composed by
freelance musicians
Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as
Exoticism
Treemonisha is a(n) _______________ by Scott Joplin.
opera
One of the leading figures in the history of jazz, and the composer of such compositions as Black, Brown, and Beige and Sophisticated Lady, is
Duke Ellington
Liszt created the ______________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
symphonic poem
During the last few years, moviegoers have
have taken a greater interest in film music
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, the ballet used in the climax of On Your Toes, was choreographed by
George Balanchine
Symphonic bands differ from symphonic orchestras in that they
do not contain a string section
A classical concerto is a three-movement work for
3 movements (fast, slow, fast)
The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during the
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was
Franz Liszt
The piano trio is a musical composition for
violin, cello, and piano.
Porgy and Bess is a(n)
Opera
Haydn was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable relationship with the noble Hungarian family of
Esterhazy
An important trend of the 1980s was
World Music
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