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Music performed during a theatrical play.: Incidental Music
A "musical signature" associated with a specific characters and ideas in Wagner's stage works.: Leitmotif
The term used to describe the recurring transformable melody in Berlioz' "Fantastic Symphony": Idee fixe
Music that does not intend to tell a specific story.: Absolute Music
Music that attempts to tell a story or "paint a picture" without words.: Program Music
The relative loudness/quietness of musical sound.: Dynamics
The element of "time" in music.: Rhythm
The horizontal presentation of pitch.: Melody
The vertical relationship of pitches.: Harmony
The interrelationship of simultaneously-sounding musical lines.: Texture
The characteristic sound of an instrument/voice.: Tone Color
The structural design of a musical work.: Form
[True or False] In the majority of non-Western cultures there is no such thing as "art music" [formal concert music]?: True
a long-necked stringed instrument of India.: Sitar
A Japanese plucked instrument with 13 strings and moveable bridges.: Koto
A Middle-Eastern pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument.: 'Ud
A melodic pattern used in the music of India.: Raga
A rhythmic pattern used in the music of India.: Tala
A small clay Middle-Eastern drum that changes pitch by the player's finger pressure.: Darabukkah
A pair of drums used to accompany the music of India.: Tabla
The native-African tradition of a leader's improvised phrases alternatingly "answered" by a larger group.: Call and Response
Creating new music "on-the-spot" (at the same time it is being performed).: Improvisation
Several independent rhythms sounding at the same time.: Polyrhythm
A bronze "pot"-like instrument used in the gamelan.: Bonang
A 3-stringed Japanese "banjo".: Shamisen
A traditional Mexican group comprised of guitars, violin, trumpet, etc.: Mariachi
Syllables of chanted prayers used in American Indian music.: Vocable
A 5-note family of pitches (often used in Japanese music).: Pentatonic scale
India's best-known guru/sitarist.: Ravi Shankar
Composed most of the Medieval chants.: Anonymous monks
French composer (c. 1200) known for writing organum.: Perotin
The most important composer of the late Middle Ages (French, c. 1350).: Machaut
A multi-faceted German nun and composer.: Hildegard of Bingen
Monophonic, Latin, Catholic liturgical music in a free rhythm.: Chant
An early type of Medieval POLYPHONY (uses chant in long-held notes in the lowest voice).: Organum
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei.: Mass Ordinary
These prayers change every day to reflect the particular day of the church calendar.: Mass Proper
A sacred vocal work NOT based on a prayer from the Mass.: Motet
A Medieval dance with a strong triple meter.: Estampie
Many notes sung to one syllable of text.: Melisma
The most famous composer of the MID-Renaissance.: Josquin Desprez
The greatest composer of LATE Renaissance sacred music.: Giovanni da Palestrina
One of the leading English madrigalists at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.: Thomas Weelkes
This Italian madrigalist was a transitional figure between late-Renaissance and early Baroque styles.: Carlo Gesualdo
A Renaissance bowed string instrument.: Viol
Music designed to symbolize the specific meaning of its text.: Word-painting
A secular piece written for a small group of unaccompanied singers.: Madrigal
A sacred vocal work NOT based on a prayer text from the Mass.: Motet
A melodic or harmonic punctuation at the end of a musical phrase or section.: Cadence
A pear-shaped, guitar-like plucked string instrument.: Lute
A compositional approach when all voice-parts are conceived together phrase-by-phrase.: Simultaneous composition
A compositional technique in which lines are layered one-at-a-time.: Successive composition
Flexible echoing of material from voice-to-voice.: Imitation
Strict echoing of material from voice-to-voice.: Canon
A Renaissance philosophy intended to reconcile theological practice with scientific inquiry.: Humanism
A work that alternates a GROUP OF SOLOISTS vs. an orchestra.: Concerto grosso
A work that alternates ONE SOLOIST vs. an orchestra: Solo Concerto
A Baroque chamber work requiring 4 players.: Trio Sonata
A complex polyphonic technique of manipulating a musical "subject.": Fugue
A short melodic or harmonic pattern that repeats exactly over and over.: Ostinato
An Italian term indicating for all performers to play together.: Tutti
Tutti, solo, tutti, solo, tutti, solo, tutti, etc.: Ritornello Form
A theatrical work performed by costumed solo singers/chorus and orchestra.: Opera
A long, sacred work for singers and orchestra that is not staged/costumed.: Oratorio
A short religious composition for solo singers, chorus and orchestra.: Cantata
Speech-like singing in free rhythm with sparse accompaniment.: Recitative
A tuneful manner of singing with a steady meter.: Aria
The "back-up" band of the Baroque (usually harpsichord and cello).: Basso continuo
A set of contrasting instrumental dance movements.: Suite
Ironically, Mozart died while writing this work.: Mozart: Requiem
This comic opera is based on a French play that boldly attacked the aristocracy.: Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
A dead commander comes back from the grave to condemn a vicious aristocrat to Hell.: Mozart: Don Giovanni
This work uses the same 4-note motive as the basis for the main ideas in all movements.: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
This symphony broke tradition by using solo singers and chorus.: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
This work features a programmatic reference to Napolean Bonaparte.: Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
Exposition, Development, Recapitulation (the usual 1st-movement Classic form): Sonata Form
Theme, Var.1, Var.2, Var.3, Var.4, etc.: Theme & Variations
After 1800, this was the usual 3rd-movement design of a Classic 4-movement work.: Scherzo & Trio
Before 1800, this was usual 3rd-movement design of a Classic 4-movement work.: Minuet & Trio
A-B-A-C-A-B-A (or A-B-A-C-A); commonly used in last movements of Classic instrumental works.: Rondo
A small musical fragment used to build a larger idea.: Motive
The Latin term for a "work.": Opus
A multi-movement work for a solo pianist (or solo instrument with piano accompaniment).: Sonata
A multi-movement work for 2 violins, viola, and cello.: String Quartet
A multi-movement work for orchestra.: Symphony
A "Mass for the Dead.": Requiem
A 3-movement work for a soloist vs. an orchestra.: Solo Concerto
An aristocratic dance in triple meter.: Minuet
A Classic instrumental chamber work usually performed for social entertainment of the upper classes.: Serenade
Gods and mortals battle over the magic gold of the Rhine.: Wagner: Ring of the Nibelungs
Count Almaviva needs Figaro's help to win the hand of Rosina.: Rossini: Barber of Seville
A nationalistic tone poem that portrays the programmatic images of a Czech river.: Smetana: The Moldau
A sick young boy is scared to death by figments of his imagination.: Schubert: Erlkonig
A suicidal man hallucinates five "dreams" about his lost lover.: Berlioz: Fantastic Symphony
A colorful ballet based on a child's Christmastime fantasy.: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
This work chronicles the bitter-sweet romance of a dying seamstress and a struggling writer.: Puccini: La Boheme
Modern music that has no tonal center.: Atonality
An ultra-shocking, dissonant style fostered by Schoenberg.: Expressionism
An understated, static style promoted by Debussy.: Impressionism
The compositional technique besed on a pre-arranged series ("row") of 12 notes.: Serialism
A compositional style in which aspects of the work are left to chance.: Chance Music
Modern music based on the hypnotic repetition/distortion of short patterns.: Minimalism
Music that sounds in two or more keys at the same time.: Polytonality
A half-spoken, half-sung style of singing on approximate pitches.: Sprechstimme
A language that allows computers and digital music devices to communicate together.: MIDI
The process of attaching objects to the strings of a piano to create unusual new sounds.: Prepared Piano
Cowell: The Banshee: Tone clusters
Cage: 4'33": Chance Music
Varese: Poeme Electronique: Musique concrete
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun: Symphonic Poem
Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire: Song cycle
Copland: Appalacchian Spring: Ballet
Glass: Einstein on the Beach: Minimalist opera
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw: Serialism
Bernstein: West Side Story: Jazz-Influenced Musical Theatre
[TRUE or FALSE?] The audience rioted during the premiere performance of Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring"?: FALSE

(It was the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" that caused a riot in Paris in 1913)
Hot Jazz: Louis Armstrong
Swing: "Duke" Ellington
Ragtime: Scott Joplin
Bebop: Charlie Parker
Cool Jazz: Dave Brubeck
Free Jazz: Ornette Coleman
"Classic" Blues: Bessie Smith
Soul Music: James Brown
"Acid" Rock: Jimi Hendrix
Techno: The Prodigy
A "Big Band" jazz style prominent in the 1930s-50s.: Swing
An early 20th-cdeveloped around the turn of the 20th century.: Ragtime
A style of improvised jazz singing on colorful nonsense syllables.: Scat singing
A 1980s/90s popular style that focused on nature sounds, acoustic instruments, etc.: New Age Music
A "mellow"developed in the 1950s.: Cool Jazz
A lively early style of "Dixieland" jazz developed in the 1920s/30s.: Hot Jazz
A combination of Jazz and Rock styles.: Fusion
An intensely improvisatory/virtuosic style of jazz developed in the 1950s.: Bebop
A style created by the merging of Country-Western and Rhythm-and-Blues.: Rock and Roll
A modern popular style that focuses on driving, repetitive rhythms and textual clarity.: Rap (Hip-hop)

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