MUS 121 Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest Update 2024 Already Passed
Mezzo forte means - Answers medium loud
The term "dynamics" refers to what aspect of music - Answers the volume of music
What term does "crescendo" reference to - Answers dynamics that gradually get louder
Dissonance ...
The term "dynamics" refers to what aspect of music - Answers the volume of music
What term does "crescendo" reference to - Answers dynamics that gradually get louder
Dissonance adds variety and a sense of tension to be resolved within the music. T/F - Answers true
Adding "issimo" to a dynamic indication, such as piano, means to change the dynamic to less than itself.
(Piano means soft and pianissimo means less soft, forte means strong and fortissimo means less strong.)
T/F - Answers false
Consonant harmonies create a sense of purity and lack tension T/F - Answers true
A combination of notes that is considered unstable and tense is called a consonance. T/F - Answers false
Pitch is determined by the frequency of its vibration: the faster the vibration, the higher the pitch. T/F -
Answers true
If the notes of a melody are short, disconnected, and jumpy, those notes are _____. - Answers stacatto
What does the term "decrescendo" reference? - Answers dynamics that gradually get quieter
Which of the following correctly orders tempi moving from fastest to slowest? - Answers Allegro,
Moderato, Andante
If melody is the horizontal aspect of music, what is the vertical? - Answers harmony
In music, what do we call the pulse in a musical work? - Answers beat
Which statement best defines music?
A. Music is an art based on the organization of sounds in time.
B.Music is an art based on the science of acoustics.
C. Music is the combination of melody and rhythm.
D. Music is the combination of melody, harmony, and rhythm. - Answers Music is an art based on the
organization of sounds in time.
What do we call a melody with smooth and connected notes? - Answers legato
Which of the following is not a dynamic indication? - Answers presto
A tone is a musical pitch. T/F - Answers true
, Which term describes a series of notes that add up to a recognizable whole? - Answers melody
When discussing the speed of a piece of music, you are discussing the _____. - Answers tempo
Definite and steady vibrations create a - Answers tone
The term madrigalism was often synonymous with what other term? - Answers word painting
A secular vocal genre containing a short poem set in the vernacular, this type of music was for multiple
voices, found during the renaissance period, and used word painting so frequently that the genre's title
became synonymous with the word painting technique. What is this describing? - Answers mandrigal
Music that is sung with no instrument accompaniment is called a capella. (T/F) - Answers true
What is word painting? - Answers A musical concept in which melodies depict specific words that are
sung (like notes going higher in pitch on the word "ascend").
1450-1600 marks the years of which musical period? - Answers Renisance
This medieval period composer was an advocate of the ars nova (which brought great change to music).
He was a well-educated poet-musician. Because of his preservation of music manuscripts (mainly by
gifting them to patrons), his music was preserved. This helped push the music scene forward into the
next musical period. Who was this composer? - Answers Guillaume de Machaut
In the medieval period, it was common to hear secular music from troubadours, trouvères, and
minnesingers. Who were these people? - Answers Poet-musicians of France and Germany who created
the first secular songs of which we have record. They're like the singer-songwriters of the medieval
period.
When a second melodic line was added to Gregorian chant, the song was then referred to as _____. -
Answers organum
Who was Hildegard of Bingen? - Answers The main documented female composer of the medieval
period.
Which musical period took place from 450-1450? - Answers Medieval
The sections of the Mass that contains texts that vary with the day of the church year are called the
Proper. (T/F) - Answers true
The Ordinary of the Mass is the part that varies with each day. (T/F) - Answers false
Medieval motets used sacred language rather than secular. (T/F) - Answers false
Church doctrine during the Middle Ages encouraged celebrating life on earth and living it to its fullest.
(T/F) - Answers false
Check all musical characteristics that correctly define early Gregorian Chant?
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