Fill in the blank: The required number of pitches in order to make a chord is ______.
What is three (3)?
100
This terms means "the overall speed or pace of the music."
What is tempo?
100
This type of texture occurs when there is only one melody presented with no accompaniment.
What is monophony (monophonic texture)?
100
This repetition-based song form has the same music for each verse of poetry (lyrics).
What is strophic form (AAAAA)?
100
This German Baroque composer is most famous for playing the organ and writing fugues.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
200
This interval represents a frequency doubling (or halving).
What is an octave?
200
This is the term for a gradual increase in volume in a piece of music.
What is a crescendo?
200
A ____ is a simple type of canon that can be repeated indefinitely, like the nursery rhyme "Row, row, row your boat".
What is a round?
200
This terms refers to the specific group that plays a piece of music.
What is medium?
200
This Italian Renaissance composer wrote many contrapuntal compositions such as the motet "Sicut cervus"
Who is Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina?
300
These are known as the "home key" chords.
What are tonic chords?
300
This term means to slow down the tempo gradually.
What is ritardando?
300
______ describes the relationship between different lines of melody in polyphonic texture.
What is counterpoint?
300
Which of the following musical time periods occurs earliest in history:
Classical, Romantic, Medieval, Renaissance
What is Medieval?
300
This German Medieval composer is considered one of the first renowned female composers in music history.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
400
The use of chords (triads) in specific sequences to construct musical works is called _____.
What is functional triadic harmony?
400
Which of these dynamic markings is the loudest:
piano, forte, mezzo piano, fortissimo
What is fortissimo?
400
Texture considers the number of pitches and melodies present from which two directional considerations?
What are horizontal (melodic) and vertical (harmonic) considerations?
400
Name the three parts that occur in sonata form?
What is exposition, development, and recapitulation?
400
This Austrian Classical composer is considered the father of both the string quartet and symphony, having written over 100 of them, including the "Surprise" Symphony.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
500
This type of scale divides the octave into twelve (12) equal half-steps.
What is the chromatic scale?
500
Which of these tempo markings is the slowest:
Allegro, Andante, Lento, Adagio
What is Lento?
500
When a melody is harmonized with the same rhythms, the resultant texture is ____
What is homorhythmic?
500
This basic type of form is "through composed" in that each section of music does not share significant thematic or hierarchal relationship to the previous section.
What is paratactic?
500
This German Baroque composer's "Canon in D" is famous for its chord progression and often played at weddings.