Deck 4: Music and Opera

Question 1

This form of popular music grew from an increased impatience with progress toward equality among black Americans in the 1990's.

A) rap
B) rock and roll
C) blues
D) jazz

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The MIDI (musical instrument digital interface)became an important development in what kind of music?

A) electronic
B) orchestral
C) rock and roll
D) rap

Answer 2

A

Question 3

African American pianist Scott Joplin (1868-1917)played this form of music.

A) ragtime
B) blues
C) free jazz
D) Response

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In a musical composition a notation of pianissimo indicates what kind of dynamic level?

A) loud
B) very soft
C) very loud
D) moderately soft

Question 5

In this form of classical music (from the Greek word for "a sounding together")the composer explores the full dynamic and tonal range of the orchestral ensemble in a lengthy composition usually in four movements.

A) concerto
B) symphony
C) fugue
D) mass

Question 6

The requiem mass is a special mass often comprising a musical program for

A) a baptism
B) a wedding ceremony
C) the theater

Question 7

This form of music blends elements from diverse musical cultures including West Africa,America and Europe.

A) jazz
B) blues
C) fusion
D) groove

Question 8

In this form of music it is the listener's task to remember the beginning theme and to follow it through the various manipulations that follow.

A) fugue
B) concerto
C) symphony
D) mass

Question 9

George Frederick Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah is what form of music?

A) art song
B) mass
C) oratorio
D) cantata

Question 10

This form of music was typified by the Lutheran Church of the Baroque period,often including chorales and organ accompaniment,exemplified by Johann Sebastian Bach..

A) oratorio
B) mass
C) symphony
D) cantata

Question 11

Franz Schubert's "The Erlking" is an excellent example of this form of music.

A) concerto
B) symphony
C) art song
D) oratorio

Question 12

What classical form of music uses chorus,vocal soloists and orchestra in a large scale setting a narrative text?

A) oratorio
B) cantata
C) art song
D) mass

Question 13

This form of classical music grew out of the Romantic style of the nineteenth century having an emotional tendency.

A) art song
B) fugue
C) cantata
D) concerto

Question 14

Bessie Smith (1894-1937)was a vocalist of this kind of music.

A) blues
B) jazz
C) fusion
D) ragtime

Question 15

New Orleans style music with a variety of substyles including swing,Dixieland and bebop is a form of

A) blues
B) groove
C) jazz
D) rock and roll

Question 16

Music is often described as the purest of the artforms because

A) it is free from physical restrictions of space
B) it places significant responsibility on the listener
C) it plays a natural and ever-present role in our lives
D) it constantly changes

Question 17

The well-known song "Do-Re-Mi" is an arrangement of pitches defined as

A) tone
B) timbre
C) scale
D) rhythm

Question 18

What form of music is a sacred choral composition consisting of five sections?

A) cantata
B) mass
C) oratorio
D) art song

Question 19

This form of popular music grew out of a dramatic confrontation to the smooth character of music dating back the mid-nineteenth century.

A) jazz
B) rap
C) groove
D) rock and roll

Question 20

This form of music developed out of a variety of venues,including street,bars,brothels and dancehalls.

A) jazz
B) blues
C) ragtime
D) rap

Question 21

This style of opera treated theme,characters,and events from life in a down-to-earth fashion.

A) verismo
B) buffa
C) comique
D) operetta

Question 22

Describe tone color (timbre)in music.Identify three instruments and the tone colors they produce.

Question 23

Monophony,polyphony,and homophony describe what musical element?

A) harmony
B) rhythm
C) tone
D) texture

Question 24

Compare the different treatment of dynamics in "Han Ya Xi Shui" with that of Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune." How are they different?

Question 25

Explain how Hildegard of Bingen's "O Viridissima Virga" illustrates freedom from strict metrical development.

Question 26

Describe the four basic types of opera.Give an example of each.

Question 27

This musical element consists of beat,meter and tempo.

A) melody
B) harmony
C) rhythm
D) texture

Question 28

What element of music is defined when two or more tones sound at the same time?

A) harmony
B) melody
C) rhythm
D) beat

Question 29

Explain the elements of rhythm.

Question 30

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro is an example of what type of opera?

A) comique
B) buffa
C) grand
D) seria