MUSIC APPRECIATION FINAL Flashcards

Study guide for MUSI 1306

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