Vocab
Song form is
What is aaba?
Blues form
32 bar blues
Who is the father of 12 tone technique?
Arnold Schoenberg
All sound is made up of
What is vibrations?
The smallest group of notes with an identifiable character is known as
What is a motive?
An ascending or descending series of tones organized according to a specified pattern of intervals
What is a scale?
When the structure is the same for each stanza (verse) of a ballad, hymn, or song, the form is:
What is strophic?
Avoidance of a tonal center
Atonalism (serialism)
A group of like-sounding instruments playing together in the Renaissance period was known as
What is a consort?
Also known as traditional music, this music is usually transmitted by oral tradition. This music, created for, performed by, and enjoyed by the general population of a given people is known as:
What is folk music?
A piece of music that consists of two or more melodies sounding together is said to be
What is polyphonic?
A fugue is an example of
What is Polyphonic
Impressionism in music was a reaction against the intellectual Germanic music of Brahms, Wagner, and Mahler, and the most notable composer of Impressionistic music was:
Hallmarks of the Baroque period included
New musical forms
Development of opera and orchestra
Great innovation in science and exploration
Musical Characteristics
A solo work for voice, often heard in opera or oratorio, with a well-developed melody and strong sense of meter is
What is an aria?
What are idiophones?
What are the parts of sonata form?
Introduction (sometimes)
Exposition
Development
Recapitulation
Coda (sometimes)
The most prominent nationalistic American composer was probably
Who is Aaron Copland
Who were the giants of the baroque era?
Who is Bach and Handel?
The main liturgy in the Catholic Church is the
What is mass?
Sitting still and focusing all of one’s attention on the music is what type of listening?
What is active listening?
What is integral to rondo form?
Principal of contrast and return
The most important writer of the free compositional style known as chance music is
Who is John Cage?
The most memorable music for ballet in the Romantic era was composed by
Pyotr l’yich Tchaikovsky
Please put the music eras in order from earliest to most recent.
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
20th Century