Music Appreciation Midterm

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A cadential point brings the musical phrase to a resting point, which may or may not be followed by a pause.

The term timbre refers to the different sound sources used in a composition.

Which of the following excerpts from See Here the Conqu'ring Hero Comes uses loud dynamics?

Dynamic variety refers to the use of different sound sources.

Two of the most obvious musical elements that composers use to achieve variety are dynamics and timbre.

Handel uses different combinations of dynamics and timbre to achieve unity and variety in See Here the Conqu'ring Hero Comes. Which of the following two excerpts combines more instruments and louder dynamics?

Handel uses different combinations of dynamics and timbre to achieve unity and variety in See Here the Conqu'ring Hero Comes. Which of the following excerpts combines ensemble playing and soft dynamics?

Listen to the following excerpts of Idea A from G. F. Handel's See Here the Conqu'ring Hero Comes. Which one is played by a solo instrument?

Unity alone sustains interest and appeals to our need and enjoyment of the new, different, and unexpected.

The following is an example of solo performer

The following features instrumental, string, vocal, or percussion?

The following features a musical ensemble

The performer acts as a bridge between the composer and the listener.

Interpretation is one of the composer's most important tasks.

The following excerpt features a musical ensemble (Hallelujah)

Deep River is an example of Jazz

The following features a solo performer

According to Booker T. Washington, plantation songs have nothing to do with religious fervor.

Great performers possess outstanding technique but may not have deep musical understanding.

A referential listener is a person that relates to music mainly through extra-musical connections or associations.

Referential listeners are most common types of listeners

Music not associated with particular story, image, object, or event is called

Musical themes cannot represent real or fictional charecters

This is a short excerpt from J.S. Bach's Air from the Suite No. 3 in D major. Listening to that excerpt, a casual listener would be more inclined to do which of the following?

The critical listener combines the characteristics of all types of listeners.

The casual listener regards music mainly as a mood enhancer or as a pleasant part of the environment.

Perceptive listeners are mainly concerned with judging the quality of the performance of a piece of music.

Music that follows an explicit story is often called program music.

Which of the following is NOT true of the perceptive listener?

Which of the following excerpts was used in the text as an illustration of program music?

Jazz incorporates elements of folk music.

Art music is superior to folk or popular music

According to the text, all critics agree that jazz is a subcategory of art music.

Composers of art music create works that are passed on from generation to generation by listening, remembering, and imitating.

Folk music belongs to the community even though it may have been created by individual

According to the text, Folk music, jazz music, and art music are not mutually exclusive genres.

In jazz, performers have wide, creative freedom, even when they are playing from a score.

According to the text, it is a simple task to define the category of folk music.

Art music has traditionally been created by trained professional musicians.

A piece of folk music typically remains unchanged throughout the years.

Which of the following excerpts is an example of folk music?

Which of the following excerpts is an example of jazz?

Which of the following excerpts is an example of art music?

According to the text, the folk song Dark Eyes reflects the Romanian national character.

Which of the following most likely contains an improvised solo?

Riff

short segments played by piano alone

A rest symbol indicates:

In the Western music tradition, a note symbol (i.e., its shape) indicates both duration and pitch.

Time values are expressed in absolute terms

A notes duration is indicated by

Text states that________ is essential element in music

in western tradition, note symbol indicates pitch

Just as there are quarter notes, there are quarter rests

Which of the two following statements is true? Time values in music are expressed in absolute terms. Time values in music are expressed in relative terms.

Value of a ___ note serves as basis for relative value of all other notes

IN western tradition, sound is represented in written form through musical _____

The frequency of the lowest sound that the normal human ear can perceive ranges between 16 and 20 Hertz.

A long string, if plucked really hard, will vibrate faster and thereby produce a higher pitch than a shorter string.

The audible frequency spectrum in humans ranges between:

The following excerpt from Pictures at an Exhibition features low pitches.

Vibration may be represented in terms of frequency. The basic unit of frequency is called the Hertz. What does one Hertz represent?

Which of the following excerpts suggests increasing tension in the music?

It is very important to recognize that pitch is a relative concept.

In musical notation, pitch is indicated exclusively by:

Each line and space on the staff represents a different:

The collection of parallel lines and spaces on which notes are written is called notation.

The staff is a system of:

In the Western music tradition, a note symbol (i.e., its shape) indicates duration

A note at the bottom of the staff has a higher pitch than a note at the top of the staff.

The black key to the right of the A on this keyboard can be called A sharp or B

The name of the white key in between the group of two black keys on the keyboard is:

If you take any pitch on the keyboard, the next occurrence of the same letter name going towards the right (up) will vibrate:

The interval between any two adjacent C's on the keyboard is called a/an

We refer to specific pitches or tones with letter names using the letters A through G

The black key to the right of G is called G

The key indicated by the arrow above is correctly labeled.

If the frequency of the C in the middle is 256 Hz, the corresponding frequencies on either side of that C are

The pitch letter names correspond to:

When keys that correspond to consecutive letter names are played sequentially they create a

Which of the following is a true statement?

The distance between two pitches is called a/an

The two notes of an octave sound exactly the same due to the simple relationship of their frequencies

The distance between D and A (above that D) is a:

Ascending and descending intervals are calculated:

Percussion players produce more or less volume by changing bow pressure and speed.

The volume of this excerpt is an example of crescendo.

Aside from Carmina Burana (1937), Carl Orff is widely known for:

Volume of Beethovens Pastoral Symphony is decrescendo

Musical excerpt is an example of piano volume

Music excerpt is an example of forte

This volume excerpt is an example of

A pianist's skill in manipulating volume is usually referred to as the performer's____

Despite being a great composer, Richard Wagner did not succeed in creating great operas.

For the most part, pianists and harpsichordists don't have direct contact with the strings of their instruments. Therefore, they manipulate sound through a ____mechanism.

Which of the following factors that influence dynamic change is at work in the following example?

As a musical concept, dynamics covers only the overall loudness or softness of a piece of music.

The volume of this excerpt is an example of which of the following

volume of this excerpt is loud

Which of the following two excerpts uses soft dynamics?

volume and dynamic are interchangeable terms

Composers started marking their scores with instructions about dynamic

composers starterd writing dynamic markings in scores bc

instrument played in this excerpt

instrument played with flute

instrument played : synthesizer

According to the classification of instruments by sound source, the one in this example is a/an:

The electric guitar can be considered as both a chordophone and a/an:

snare drum

traditional drum set. According to instrument classification by sound source, which of the following groups are represented here?

Timbre is often referred to as _________ color.

Listen to this excerpt from Midsummer Night's Dream. Which instrument classification is represented?

instrument playing: tapping of chutes

range most prominent from Listen to these two excerpts from Carmina Burana

super deep male

super high female

The song Dark Eyes is sung by a choir without instrumental accompaniment. This type of vocal group is called:

soprano register lies between alto and tenor ranges

High male voice

The aria Lucevan le Stelle is from the opera Gianni Schicci by Giacomo Puccini

The English madrigal is characterized by:

The aria Lucevan le Stelle is composed for a/an:

The Entry Chorus from Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi is sung by a chamber choir.

triumph music

sole function of conductor is beat time

viola players sit

Listen to the following excerpt from Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Which of the following is not a decision about interpretation that the conductor of a symphony orchestra makes?

Listen to the following excerpt from Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

What is NOT the role of the conductor in a traditional symphony orchestra?

According to the text, traditional symphony orchestra musicans are permited to improvise their parts

A traditional symphony orchestra can sometimes have more than 100 players.

What do you call a piece of music where a violin soloist plays with an orchestra?

The text states that guitars are strummed or __________.

Which of the following is NOT a way to produce sound in string instruments?

The harp may be a part-time fifth member of the orchestral strings.

which instrument carries melody

____ is an instrumental technique that, in the case of string players, consists of a quick back and forth movement or rocking of the finger that is in contact with the string, with the intent of producing a fluctuation in pitch.

The main orchestral string instruments are:

The sound of string instruments is produced by a _______ stretched between two points.

How does a violinist control dynamics?

Listen to this excerpt from Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Which string instrument is featured in this excerpt from Paganini's 24 Caprices?

In Prokofiev's: "Peter and the Wolf", which instruments represents the Peter?

The French technical term for "mouthpiece" is la bouche.

The energy with which a player produces the air stream determines __________.

The four main orchestral woodwind instruments are:

Identify the woodwind instrument in this excerpt by the contemporary composer Aulis Sallinen.

Which woodwind instrument is featured in the following excerpt from Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf?

Identify the single reed instrument:

Identify the correct pair of double reed instruments:

Which woodwind instrument plays along with the strings in this Mozart excerpt?

Which woodwind instrument is the soloist playing in this example?

Listen to this excerpt by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.

In Prokofiev's: "Peter and the Wolf", which instrument represents the "duck"?

In Prokofiev's: "Peter and the Wolf", which instrument represents the "grandfather"?

In Prokofiev's: "Peter and the Wolf", which instrument represents the "cat"?

In wind instruments, sound is produced by setting a column of air in motion inside the body of the instrument.

Which instrument, along with the orchestra, plays this example?

This example comes from a concerto for __________ and orchestra.

The four most common brass instruments in the traditional symphony orchestra are:

Which instrument of the brass family plays the melody in this example?

Which brass instrument plays the melody in this example?

Listen to the following excerpt from Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6. There is a dialogue between a high-sounding part and a low one.

Which of the following is a member of the brass family?

The name trombone is derived from the Italian term for trumpet.

Listen to this excerpt from Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.

Which of the following factors contribute to brass instruments having a "brassy" timbre?

In brass instruments, pitch depends on the ______of the air column.

This example comes from a concerto for __________ and orchestra.

Castanets are non-pitched instruments.

Which of the following instruments does NOT belong in the definite pitch group:

Scholars have been able to determine the origin of the xylophone with absolute certainty.

Percussion instruments where two similar objects are clapped together to produce a sound can be further classified under the ____ group.

Which of the following instruments does NOT belong in the indefinite pitch group?

Kettledrum is another name for timpani.

Listen to this excerpt from Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss.

The synthesizer is a very easy instrument to categorize.

Keyboard instruments are sometimes part of the orchestra.

The term concerto refers to a performer playing by her/himself.

The type of music event where a soloist plays by her/himself is called a __________.

Construction and sound production are the same among keyboard instruments.

The term controller refers to:

The first known instance of a harpsichord dates from:

When a harpsichordist depresses a key, a simple mechanism causes a __________ to __________ a string.

Upon its invention, the fortepiano eclipsed the popularity of the harpsichord:

All harpsichords use one string per key to produce sound.

The harpsichord was used as an accompanying instrument in opera only in the 16th century.

There are___keys in a full size piano keyboard.

When performing, pianists are in direct contact with the source of the sound.

The upright piano was first developed in:

The one-piece cast-iron frame, a crucial development in the history of the piano, was invented by:

The pedals are a crucial component of the piano. The function of the soft pedal is to reduce the amount and quality of the sound. On an upright piano, the soft pedal:

In the organ, volume is determined by:

The organ is a ____________instrument, whose tone is produced by wind flowing through ____________.

The function of the organ's stops is to:

The first organ used water to control wind pressure.

In the organ, pipe length determines:

function of amplifier

The synthesizer has virtually no standard repertoire.

Identify the false statement:

The sound source of a the synthesizer is an oscillator.

Since the synthesizer is an electronic instrument, oscillation is not a factor in sound generation.