A unit of distinctly ordered pitches (or tones) sounding successively through time.
What is melody?
100
The dates that span the Classical Period
What is 1750-1820?
100
A famous song performed by Judy Garland from "The Wizard of Oz"
What is "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"?
100
A 21-string chordophone used by a West African storyteller (jail)
Kora
100
What is the name of a school devoted to music?
Conservatory
200
Tone Color
What is timbre?
200
The period in Western Art Music history meaning "misshapen pearl"
What is the Baroque period?
200
A traditional hymn (from the text) that uses homophonic texture
What is "Amazing Grace"?
200
One of this singer's greatest commercial hits represents the antithesis of "girl group" dependency.
Aretha Franklin
200
What is the name of the leader of the orchestra/band?
Conductor
300
I-IV-V Chord progression
What is Harmony?
300
The period in which Giovani Palestrina proved to the Catholic Church that polyphonic texture could still allow the text to be clear and understandable
What is the Renaissance Period?
300
A popular song by The McCoy's that uses a traditional I-IV-V harmonic chord progression
What is "Hang on Sloopy"?
300
An important African-American composer of symphonic music who incorporated elements of the blues into his first symphony
Who was William Grant Still
300
What is considered the most acoustically perfect venue in the U.S?
Carnegie Hall
400
Italian term for "walking tempo"
What is Andante?
400
The dates that span the Medieval Period
What is 400-1430?
400
The name of the piece that J.S. Bach gave to his development of a melody composed by King Frederick II of Prussia
What is "A Musical Offering"?
400
Béla Bartók collected and incorporated music from this country into his music
Hungary
400
What is the highest voice type in a choral ensemble?
Soprano
500
"His First Hunt" by Native Canadians features this kind of texture in which the same melody is performed slightly differently by two or more performers.
What is Heterophony?
500
In this period, composer Arnold Schoenberg explored atonality, music without a tonal center
What is the Twentieth Century Period?
500
The name of the Hindu work which explores the Natakuranji Raga of India
What is "Manasu Visaya"
500
This opera features a 19th-century seductive woman who lived outside conventional gender roles of the time.
Carmen
500
What is called when two musicians play/sing at the same time, generally with harmony?