A symphony had this number of movements (two correct answers)
What is 3 or 4?
This postmodern topic of music involved the composer giving as little information to musicians as possible.
What is minimal control?
This was the societal change that led to the themes of the Romantic period
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The example played is from which musical era
What is the Classical era?
This is a work for a solo instrument, like violin or piano
What is a sonata?
This postmodern musical topic includes electronic music and serialism
What is total control?
True or False: Composers were allowed to use music from previous pieces in their new compositions
What is FALSE?
This piece is an example of what modern genre
What is primitivism?
These are the three sections of sonata form
What are exposition, development, and recapitulation?
This postmodern musical genre returned to the emotional expression and lack of forms popular in an earlier musical genre
What is neoromanticism?
This word refers to chords or notes that do not sound pleasing when played together (ex. the Tristan chord)
What is dissonance?
This piece is an example of which musical era
What is Romantic era?
This is the theme of the second movement of a symphony
What is slow and lyrical (also would accept theme and variations)?
This type of music replaced live musicians primarily with recorded sounds
What is electronic music?
This term refers to music that tells a story without props or costumes
What is programmatic music?
This piece is an example of which modern musical genre
What is Impressionism?
This is the form of the fourth movement of a symphony
What is rondo (would also accept fast and furious for half points)?
This genre of music, part of minimal control, involves composers writing short, repetitive melodies for musicians
What is minimalism?
This is the term for musicians that were incredibly talented at their instruments
What is virtuosic?
This piece demonstrates what Classical composition technique
What is a repeated theme?