Music Final

The Portuguese word for Baroque means which of the following?

Composers during the Baroque period where thought of as which of the following?

What modern instrument was created during the Baroque period?

The word opera means what in Italian?

What was the first dance in a Baroque suite?

Which composer was a transitional figure between Renaissance music and Baroque music?

Which composer wrote The Four Seasons?

Which composer wrote The Messiah?

Handel was nicknamed "The Red Priest." (True or false)

The music of the Baroque period is the first to be among the musical pieces that people today are generally familiar with. (True or false)

Monteverdi went blind before his death.

Bach's family included over 50 notable composers and musicians.

Bach composed only secular works.

Handel composed Music for the Royal Fireworks.

The Classical era began about what year?

Which of the following occurred at around the same time as the Classical era?

In the Classical period, composers sought to create what type of music?

A sonata form typically has what pattern in it?

The term "fantasia" has been used to describe which part of the sonata form?

Which composer experienced hearing loss during his lifetime?

Which composer was known as the "Father of the Symphony"?

What describes a typical opening to a sonata?

Mozart was best known for which of the following?

The Age of Enlightenment overlapped with the Classical period.

Bach, Handel, and Mozart make up the Viennese School.

A sonata is a large scale composition that is played (rather than sung).

Almost all of the works of the Classical era included vocal parts.

Moonlight Sonata was composed by Haydn.

Mozart began composing music by the age of five.

What aspect of instruments improved during the Romantic period?

What is often accompanied by a strong sense of pride and connection with one's particular group?

The music of the Romantic period is all about what?

Early Romantic music was influenced by which composer?

Who is an example of a Nationalist Romantic composer?

Choral symphonies add what the traditional symphony?

Programme music does which of the following?

Who created the symphonic poem?

Who was known as the "Waltz King"?

Whose funeral march was played at the funeral of JFK?

During the Romantic period, composers often included elements from the folk music of their culture.

Mendelssohn was known as the "Waltz King."

Chopin wrote the famous ballets The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty.

Jazz began where?

Jazz was mostly created by which group?

Which of the following was the first type of jazz to develop?

Changing a melody to a jazz melody is known as which of the following?

Classic jazz is also called what?

King Oliver pioneered the use of what in jazz?

Hot Five was the famous band of which musician?

Swing jazz was popular during which period?

Bossa nova mixed jazz with what?

It is easy to define jazz music, since the music has a set group of characteristics.

There are over two dozen different forms of jazz music.

Duke Ellington wrote over 1,000 different compositions during his lifetime.

Free jazz relies on traditional structures and forms.

Louis Armstrong is known for his scat singing.

Modal jazz was much more popular than swing/big band music.