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Test Bank for Music A Social Experience, 3e by Steven Cornelius, Mary Natvig (All Chapters)

CHAPTER 1: Musical Foundations

• The term Renaissance means
• ancient
• rebirth
• legend
• artistic

• Music can facilitate speech recovery and ease pain.
• true
• false

3. All of the following are considered Romantic Era composers except:

• Franz Schubert
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Clara Wieck Schumann

• Opera began to develop during the Classical period.
• true
• false

• Most scholars divide Western art music into six historical periods in the following order:
• Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Twentieth-century (to the present).
• Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Classical, Twentieth-century (to the present)
• Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Twentieth-century (to the present)
• Medieval, Baroque, Renaissance, Romantic, Classical, Twentieth-century (to the present)

• Which of the following does not usually apply to popular music?
• Its popularity is long-lived.
• It is distributed through the mass media.
• It generally appeals to a wide audience.
• It is closely associated with the music industry.

• Which of the following does not usually apply to world music?
• It is transmitted orally or aurally.
• It may be commercial or non-commercial in its local usage.
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• It is composed and notated by a known person.

• Cultural identities are not fixed and can be negotiated.
• true
• false

9. Music’s power over death is seen in the myth of:

• Demeter and Persephone
• Orpheus and Euridice
• Zeus and Hera
• Perseus and Medusa

• Atonality refers to music written in a specific tonality or key.
• true
• false

• Which of the following is characteristic of a concerto?
• it features a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra.
• it was developed during the Renaissance period.
• it is a strictly sacred genre.
• it is written for a solo instrument and piano accompaniment.

• Which of the following does not apply to Western Art Music?
• It is also called “classical music.”
• It is composed by individuals and notated (written down).
• It died out at the end of the 20

th century.

• It is composed mostly by Europeans or people of the European diaspora.

• Humanism, Greek philosophy, and church patronage are generally associated with this

period of music.

• Classical
• Twentieth-century (to present)
• Baroque
• Renaissance

• The symphony and the string quartet became important genres in which period of

Western art music?

• Romantic
• Medieval
• Classical
• Baroque

• A rock concert in England would be categorized as world music.
• true
• false 2 / 4

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• Music helps the brain develop.
• true
• false
• Cultural appropriation is when a minority culture adopts features of a majority culture

that results in trivializing, exploiting, “exoticizing” or stealing cultural identity from the majority culture.

• true
• false

• Which of the following is true about program music?
• It developed in the Classical period and tells a story in music.
• It features a solo instrument accompanied by a symphony orchestra.
• It is performed by a small chorus.
• It developed in the Romantic period and uses themes from visual art and literature.

• Theremin and synthesizer are electronic instruments associated with musical

experimentation in the 1950s and 1960s.

• true
• false

• Which style began to develop at the turn of the twentieth century by French painters and

musicians?

• impressionism
• expressionism
• polyphony
• program music
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CHAPTER 2: Listening to Music

• A melody that has many skips and leaps is in conjunct motion.
• true
• false

• An octave …
• is the distance from one tone in a scale to its upper or lower repetition.
• consists of 8 half steps.
• is a dissonant interval.
• is dissonant in Western culture.

• Why do classical Indian ragas sometimes sound peculiar to Western ears?
• Individual pitches have particular tendencies and personalities.
• Ragas are based on specific emotions.
• The distance between the tones may be slightly larger or smaller than a half or whole step.
• The tones have intricate rhythmic patterns associated with them.

4. The six elements or fundamentals of music are:

• monophony, homophony, heterophony, harmony, cadence, timbre
• melody, harmony, rhythm, dynamics, instruments, tempo
• melody, rhythm, harmony, timbre, texture, form
• pitch, duration, chord, rhythm, tempo, beat

• To figure out the meter of a piece, you must first find
• the beat and the pickup note.
• the beat and the downbeat.
• the beat and the rhythms.
• the number of notes in a measure.

• The overall shape or structure of a piece of music is its
• form.
• harmony.
• genre.
• texture.

6. The term “chord” can be defined in Western music as:

• a group of strong and weak beats.
• a harsh or clashing sound.
• three or more pitches that sound at the same time.
• the way different musical parts fit together.

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