Transcript Music Appreciation Midterm Review

Chapter 1
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1.What is a steady, recurring pulse called?
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2.What is a question and answer pattern
in which a group responds to a leader?
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3. What is the highness or lowness of
sound determined by its vibration?
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4. What is an intentionally organized
succession of musical tones called?
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5. Who is a contemporary trumpeter from
a musical family?
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6. Johann Sebastian Bach was famous for
playing and improving on which
instrument?
Chapter 2
 10. Instruments that produce music by vibrating a
column of air are called ____________.
 11. The xylophone is an example of what type of
instrument classification?
 12. Which characteristics are commonly
associated with classical music?
 13. What is another term for folk music?
 14. What term is the distinct tonal quality of an
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7. True or False: Once a person establishes
musical preferences it never changes
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8. Who fused West African music with
American styles of rhythm and blues, funk,
and jazz ?
 15. Which genre of music began in Detroit,
9. What is the term for the structure and
design of a composition, incorporating
repetition, contrast, unity, and variety?
 16. Define rhythm: ___________
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instrument or voice?
Michigan?
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
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1. Perceptive listening means:
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1. A unit of musical times is
called a ______________
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2. A sequence of tones
arranged in rising pitches
_______
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2. What is a “found instrument”?
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3. What are characteristics of
improvistation?
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4. What word means deliberate
shifts of the accent so that I
goes against the steady beat?
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5. What is a repeated musical
figure called?
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6. The Bamileke people perform
highly rhythm music to
accompany their _________
dance.
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3. What is the definition of a
music ensemble?
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4. What are characteristics of
effective musical critiques?
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5. Virtuoso is another word for:
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6. Mariachi bands play a style of
music from what country?
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7. Luciana Pavarotti sings what
voice part? (tenor or bass?)
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8. What is the distance in pitch
between two tones called?
Chapter 5
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1. What word designates a dance music
created by Mexicans in Texas? ________
2. ___________ refers to a dance in which foot
movements produce audible rhythms
emphasized by small metal plates on the
soles of the dancer’s shoes.
3. A twenties-century musical form that
radically changed the course of popular
music was: ______
4. The Nutcracker is an example of _______
5. The music for the Rite of Spring was
composed by _________
6. Riverdance created a renewed interest in
______
7. A dance that features the breakaway,
when dance partners separate to improvise
movement before coming back together, is
called ________
8. What new profession did disco create?
Chapter 6
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9. Soprano refers to which range of the
female voice (low, medium, high)
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10. The lowest male voice classification is
called _______.
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11. What term refers to the capacity to
think sound?
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12. What is singing a melody without
accompaniment or harmony called?
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13. What term is used to describe a genre
of African American music that often
expresses frustration, sadness, or longing?
Chapter 7
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1. An extended work for orchestra with several contrasting
movements is called a __________.
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2. What is a musical form in which a melodic idea is stated and then
varied successive statements?
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3. What term refers to a musician who reworks existing musical
material?
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4. Melodies are almost always built on a _______.
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5. The director of an orchestra, choir, or other performing group is
called a __________.
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6. True or False: the root of a chord refers to the tone on which the
chord is build (I’ll just tell you this one, it is TRUE).
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7. An aspect of music that control’s the listener’s sense of how much
time is passed is called ______ time.