Music Appreciation REVIEW

Fill in the Blank

100

Because people in the United States come from all different parts of the globe, American music represents many __________.

Cultures

200

Different types of music have different characteristics. Another name for musical characteristics is_______.

Genre

300

Rock, heavy metal, top 40, and reggae are types of ___________________________ music.

Popular music

400

_______________________________ was the birthplace of Jazz.

New Orleans

500

Composers in the Classical period were inspired by the simple, uncluttered architecture of ancient ____________________________________________.

Greece

True or False

100

African dances expressed brotherhood, pride, and tribal unity. They were often prohibited by colonial rulers.

True

200

The requinto, jarana, guitarron, and vihuela are types of guitars used in Mexican music.

True

300

Two external characteristics of music are means and order.

False

400

Classical music is a popular style of music that developed in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

False 

Jazz

500

Empathy is the ability to discern musical characteristics and describe them.

False

Perceptive listening

Multiple Choice

100

This prolific Austrian composer was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio.

1. Wynton Marsalis

2. Franz Haydn

3. Wolfgang Mozart

4. Louis Armstrong

3 - Mozart

200

As discussed in class, perceptive listening is the ability to discern musical ______________________ and _______________________ them. 

1. words, play

2. styles, improvise

3. characteristics, describe

4. harmonies, improvise

3 - Characteristics and Describe

300

Music in the classical period would have been composed during which span of years? 

1. 1708-1902

2. 1725-1810

3. 1650-1705

4. 1475-1698

2 - 1725-1810

400

The ability to look at the world from another person’s perspective.

1. empathy

2. culture

3. sympathy

4. identity

1 - Empathy

500

Professionals who study the music of different cultural groups

1. conductors

2. jazz musicians

3. ethnomusicologists

4. psychologists 

3 - Ethnomusicologists 

Multiple Choice Continued

100

One line of music sounding at one time.

1. Homophony

2. Monophony

3. Polyphony

4. Imitation 

2 - Monophony

200

Two or more independent lines of melody happening simultaneously 

1. Polyphony

2. Monophony

3. Imitation

4. Homophony 

1 - Polyphony

300

___________________________ refers to harmony that is stable, non-active, agreeable, free of tension, blending and resolved.

1. Dissonance

2. Imitation

3. Harmony

4. Consonance 

4 - Consonance

400

Gradual increase in the sound.

1. Forte

2. Crescendo

3. Piano

4. Decrescendo

2 - Crescendo

500

The speed of the BEAT.

1. Timbre

2. Texture

3. Rhythm

4. Tempo

4 - Tempo

Miscellaneous

100

Which term can be defined as the quality of sound?

1. tempo

2. volume

3. timbre

4. dynamic

3 - Timbre

200

Which term can be defined as a single melody with chordal accompaniment?

1. homophony

2. a cappella 

3. texture 

4. sonata 

1 - Homophony

300

Which composer composed music during the classical time period? 

1. Ella Fitzgerald

2. W.A. Mozart

3. Louis Armstrong

4. J.S. Bach 

2 - Mozart

400

The musical form having two contrasting sections, a first statement followed by a contrasting statement; diagrammed as AB for the national anthem. 

1. Binary

2. Strophic

3. Ternary

4. Through-composed 

1 - Binary

500

The musical form having one section only with the same music played or sung on each repeat; diagrammed as A.

1. Binary

2. Strophic 

3. Ternary

4. Through-composed 

2 - Strophic