What are the 2 words we used to define melody in class?
What is recognizable and horizontal
100
Who wrote Dance of the Hours?
What is Amilcare Ponchielli.
100
What is the genre of the larger work Dance of the Hours comes from?
What is an opera.
100
Sing 5 seconds of the melody of the Star Spangled Banner.
What is oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light...
200
What part of a song or piece would you sing to a friend?
What is the melody.
200
What country is the composer of Dance of the Hours from?
What is Italy.
200
What part of the larger work is Dance of the Hours? Clue: what happens while this work is performed?
What is a ballet.
200
What are 2 instruments you would expect to play the accompaniment in a rock band?
What is drums, rhythm guitar, keyboard, bass, etc.
300
What do we call the "road map" of the piece?
What is form.
300
Name the musical period from which this composer comes from?
What is the Romantic period.
300
What is the name of the larger work Dance of the Hours comes from?
What is La Giaconda.
300
Sing 5 seconds of the melody of a Christmas song you like.
What is answers vary.
400
What are the 2 words we used to define accompaniment in class?
What is background and usually instrumental.
400
List one musical period that comes BEFORE the musical period of the composer of Dance of the Hours.
What is Baroque, Classical, Medieval, or Renaissance.
400
True or False: La Giaconda is the only regularly performed work of the composer who wrote it.
What is TRUE.
400
Give an example of a song or piece that DOES NOT use voice for the melody.
What is answers vary.
500
List 3 characteristics of an opera.
What is (could include many additional answers) singing or music as the primary feature, can be in languages other than English, has a plot, can be very long, has multiple acts, features an orchestra, etc.
500
The composer of Dance of the Hours wrote the first concerto for which instrument?
What is the euphonium.
500
What are the four "hours" depicted in Dance of the Hours?
What is dawn, day, night, and morning.
500
Name one instrument who had the melody and one instrument who had accompaniment in Dance of the Hours.
What is melody: flute, oboe, violins, clarinet. accompaniment: any of the string family, piccolo, triangle, bells.