Study guide for MUSI 1306
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| 2060852746 | What years did the classical period encompass? | 1750 - 1830 | 0 | |
| 2060852747 | What are the characteristics of the music of the classical period? | End of bass continuo, singable, gradual dynamics, flexible rhythm, monophonic texture, classical forms + movement: fast, slow, dance fast | 1 | |
| 2060852748 | What was the social organization of the classical period? | Rise of the middle class, enlightenment | 2 | |
| 2060852749 | What instruments made up the typical orchestra of the classical period? | Percussion: timpani, Brass: 2 trumpets, 2 french horns, String: violas, cello, double bass, Woodwind: 2 flutes, 2 oboe, 2 clarinet, 2 bassoon | 3 | |
| 2060852750 | What was the usual order of movements in a classical symphony or string quartet? | Fast, slow, minuet, fast | 4 | |
| 2060852751 | What is sonata form? | Exposition(Tonic Key), Bridge, 2nd theme(New Key), Closing material (in 2nd Key theme), repeat sign, Development: conflict created through new treatment of themes, rapid modulation, recapulation | 5 | |
| 2060852752 | What is minuet form? | Triple meter, menetto allegreto, ternary form | 6 | |
| 2060852753 | What is rondo form? | Finale movement, lively and easy to remember, ABACA, ABACABA | 7 | |
| 2060852754 | What did Beethoven expand in the sonata form? | Reapiculation | 8 | |
| 2060852755 | Why does the classical concerto differ from the symphony? | It does not have a dance (minuet) movement | 9 | |
| 2060852756 | What is a solo section in a concerto that is designed to display the performers virtuosity? | Cadenza | 10 | |
| 2060852757 | How is sonata form adapted for the concerto in the classical period? | Double exposition | 11 | |
| 2060852758 | What do you call a play that is set to music, sung to orchestra, has scenery, costumes and action? | Opera | 12 | |
| 2060852759 | What is a song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment? | Aria | 13 | |
| 2060852760 | What refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pattern of speech? | Recitative | 14 | |
| 2060852761 | Who was Don Giovanni? | Hated by many, killed and raped | 15 | |
| 2060852762 | What was the plot of Mozarts opera, Don Giovanni? | He rapes girl and kills her father, then he lures a wife to be away from her fiancé, has dinner with dead father and refuses to apologize so he dies | 16 | |
| 2060852763 | What years did the romantic period encompass? | 1825 - 1900 | 17 | |
| 2060852764 | What composer was a model for many romantic composers? | Beethoven | 18 | |
| 2060852765 | What were the characteristics of the music of the romantic period? | Chromatic harmony, rubato, expressive tone color, unity, program music, nationalism, feelings, individuality of style and personal fufillment | 19 | |
| 2060852766 | Hod did the orchestra change in the romantic period? | Strings doubled in size and harpsichord; woodwinds and english form, eb clarinet, piccolo; percussion all brass and 3 trombones | 20 | |
| 2060852767 | What was inspiration from the composers own homeland called? | Nationalism | 21 | |
| 2060852768 | What is music associated with a story, poem, idea or scene that was popular during the romantic period called? | Program music | 22 | |
| 2060852769 | What is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on literary or pictorial ideas called? | Program symphony | 23 | |
| 2060852770 | What is a one movement orchestral composition in several movement based to some extent on literary or pictorial ideas called? | Symphonic poem | 24 | |
| 2060852771 | What word is commonly used for a romantic art song with german text? | Lied | 25 | |
| 2060852772 | An art song is a musical composition for what instruments? | Voice and piano | 26 | |
| 2060852773 | What is it called when the same music is repeated for each stanza of the poem? | Strophic form | 27 | |
| 2060852774 | What is it called when a composer writes new music for each stanza of a poem? | Through composed form | 28 | |
| 2060852775 | Franz Schuberts songs number more than? | 600 | 29 | |
| 2060852776 | What poem did Schubert compose the Erkling too? | Wolfgang Van Goethe | 30 | |
| 2060852777 | What form is the Erkling? | Through composed | 31 | |
| 2060852778 | The pianos relentless rhythm in the Erkling unifies the episode of the song and suggests the____? | Galloping of the horse | 32 | |
| 2060852779 | The Erkling is a personification of what? | The grim reaper | 33 | |
| 2060852780 | What are the characteristics of the 20th century? | Experimenting with tone color (prepared piano), percussive sounds, extreme pitch ranges, the emancipation of dissonance, polychord, tone clusters, irregular and unpredictable, impressionism | 34 | |
| 2060852781 | The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913, at the first performance of what piece of music? | Igor Stravinskys Rite of Spring | 35 | |
| 2060852782 | What is a fourth cord? | Chord made up of fourths | 36 | |
| 2060852783 | A chord made up of tones only a half or a whole step apart is known as? | Tone cluster | 37 | |
| 2060852784 | The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as? | Atonal | 38 | |
| 2060852785 | Impression as a movement originated in what country? | France | 39 | |
| 2060852786 | Name an important impressionist painter | Monet | 40 | |
| 2060852787 | Name an important impressionist composer | Debussy | 41 | |
| 2060852788 | Name an important symbolist poet | Stephane Mallarme | 42 | |
| 2060852789 | Igor Stravinskys life took a sudden turn in 1909, when he met the director of the Russian Ballet. What was his name? | Sergel Diaghilev | 43 | |
| 2060852790 | Stravinskys second phase is generally known as? | Neoclassical | 44 | |
| 2060852791 | Le sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring) is an example of what musical style? | Primitivism | 45 | |
| 2060852792 | What is an ostinato? | Constantly recurring melodic, rhythmic or harmonic motive | 46 | |
| 2060852793 | Igor Stravinsky dramatically changed his style in the 1950 to favor what musical style? | Serialism | 47 | |
| 2060852794 | What terms are used to describe the special ordering of the 12 chromatic tones n a 12 tone composition? | Tone row, set, series | 48 | |
| 2060852795 | Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called? | Sprechstimme | 49 | |
| 2060852796 | What new directions did music take after 1945? | Increase 12 tone system and tonal music, chance music, minimalist music, liberation of sound, and electronic music | 50 | |
| 2060852797 | What is chance or aleatoric music? | Where the composer chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythm by random method | 51 | |
| 2060852798 | What are the characteristics of minimalist music? | Simple rhythmic and melodic, slow pace of change over period of time | 52 | |
| 2060852799 | What is a prepared piano? | A grand piano whose sound is altered by objects such as screws, rubber bands, paper and plastic inserted between the strings of some of the keys | 53 | |
| 2060852800 | Who invented the prepared piano? | John Cage | 54 |
