FREE MUSIC AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSIC

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FREE MUSIC AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSIC

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-Guarantee passing score -53 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: An art song is a musical composition for what "instruments"?

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Solo voice and piano Question 2: The pianos relentless rhythm in the Erlking unifies the episodes of the song and suggest the...

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galloping of the horse

Question 3: How did the orchestra change in the Romantic Period? (3)

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-Grew in size -Double amount of instruments -Much larger brass and percussion section Question 4: A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performers' virtuosity is called...

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cadenza

Question 5: ______ refers to a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pattern of speech.

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Recitative

Question 6: What is the plot of the opera Don Giovanni?

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Don Giovanni was a legendary hero, hits on any woman, he creeps in Donna Anna's room rapes her and she screams her father comes, Don kills him and at the end the father comes back to life and drags Don to hell because he refuses to repent his sins.

Question 7: The form of the Erlking is...

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through-composed

Question 8: Romanticism in western music roughly encompassed the years...

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1820-1900

Question 9: Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing called...

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Sprechstimme Question 10: Stravinsky met director of a Russian ballet in 1909, his name was...

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Sergei Diaghilev Question 11: The Erlking, in Schubert's song of the same name, is a personification of what?

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Death

Question 12: Components of Minuet form

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ABA, or scherzo (too fast to dance to), triple meter, moderate tempo

Question 13: Who is Don Giovanni?

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Character in an opera by Mozart who happens to be a 'man whore' and narcissistic.Question 14: Classicism, as a stylistic period in western music, roughly encompassed the years...

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1750-1820

Question 15: What are characteristics of minimalist music? (3)

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-Simplicity -tonal -repetition of musical cells Question 16: The word _____ is commonly used for a romantic art son with German text.

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Leid Question 17: What is the usual order of movements in classical symphony string quartets?

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Fast, slow, dance, fast Question 18: What term is used to describe the special ordering of the 12 chromatic tones in a 12 tones composition?

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Polychord Question 19: A ______ is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on literary/pictorial ideas.

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Program Symphony

Question 20: Important impressionist composer?

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Claude Debussy Question 21: What instruments made up the orchestra in the classical period? (5)

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String, pair of woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani Question 22: When the same music is repeated for each stanza of the poem the form is known as...

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Strophic

Question 23: Social organization of the classical period

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Rise of the middle class Question 24: Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of what musical style?

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Primitivism Question 25: An _____ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes and action.

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Opera

Question 26: Franz Schubert's songs number more than..

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600 Question 27: The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of what piece of music?

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The Rite of Spring