Final Study Guide with Verified Answers
1. Music is universal, but in each culture music has a differ-
ent meaning.
2. Today, the greatest influence on music around the
world is exerted by
3. Which is the largest class of instruments in the
world?
4. How did the focus of European music chang...
Final Study Guide with Verified Answers
1. Music is universal, but in each culture music has a differ-
ent meaning.
2. Today, the greatest influence on music around the Western classical
world is exerted by and popular music.
3. Which is the largest class of instruments in the percussion
world?
4. How did the focus of European music change after Harmony began to
the Middle Ages? take precedence
over melody.
5. In many cultures, percussion is produced without in- the hands and feet
struments. Rhythmic sounds and complex rhythmic of the human body.
patterns, therefore, are made by
6. What are the three basic elements of music? melody, rhythm,
harmony
7. Which of the following is the slowest tempo indica- largo
tion?
8. Which of these terms means to grow louder? crescendo
9. The keynote of a piece of music is also known as its tonic.
10. What is the most intuitive way of describing a by using the
melody? metaphor of light
and dark
11. What does the 3/4 time signature indicate? There are three
beats in a mea-
sure, and the quar-
ter note is equal to
one beat.
12. If the horizontal placement of a note in musical nota- its pitch
tion corresponds to its placement in time, what does
its vertical placement represent?
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13. What is the term for a long, self-contained unit of a movement
larger work?
14. In which form would a theme be presented before theme and varia-
being repeated with slight changes? tions
15. What is the lowest type of women's voice? alto
16. Which part of a stringed instrument is used to make the bow
the strings vibrate?
17. What are the four main types of instruments? strings, wood-
winds, brass, per-
cussion
18. In terms of music, the Romantic era spanned approx- 1800-1900
imately
19. The most important part of the musical experience is learning to read the
notes.
20. What are the three types of listening? passive, uncon-
scious, and active
21. Who was Aaron Copland? a twentieth-century
American compos-
er
22. What is an important reason for listening to pieces Repeated hearings
of music multiple times? allow for greater
understanding of a
piece of music.
23. What is unconscious listening? hearing but not
noticing music
24. One of the most important musicians in the history Duke Ellington.
of jazz was
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