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Music 101 Final Exam Questions withCorrect Answers
Pitch - Answer-relative highness or lowness that we hear in sound
Tone - Answer-definite pitch
octave - Answer-interval between tones
Register - Answer-part of the total range
Strings - Answer-Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Pizzicato - Answer-pluck the string
double stop - Answer-playing 2 notes at once
tremolo - Answer-rapidly repeating tones by quick up and down strokes
harmonics - Answer-high-pitched tones
Woodwinds - Answer-piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxaphone (single reed)
oboe, English horn, bassoon, contrabassoon (double reed)
Brass - Answer-Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
Percussions (Defined Pitch) - Answer-Timpani, Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Celesta,
Chimes
Percussions (Indefinied Pitch) - Answer-Snare drums, bass drums, tambourine, triangle,
cymbals and gong
Keyboard Instruments - Answer-Harpsichord, organ, accordion, piano
Electronic Instruments - Answer-Tap Studio, Synthesizers
Analog Synthesis - Answer-earliest one, uses a mixture of complex sounds shaped by
filtering. based on sound waves in terms of measurable physical quantities
Digital Frequency Modulation Synthesis - Answer-based on representing physical
quantities, points on sound waves as numbers
Effect Devices - Answer-reverberates, echo devices, splitters
,Music Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) - Answer-allows device actually played to be
separated from tone generation, standard adopted by manufacturers for interfacing
synthesizers equipment
theme - Answer-a melody used as the basis for musical composition
variation - Answer-varied repetitions of the theme
rhythm - Answer-flow of music through time
Beat - Answer-regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time
syncopation - Answer-when an accented note comes when we normally would not
expect one
Melody - Answer-series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole
Cadence - Answer-a resting place at the end of a phrase
Sequence - Answer-a repetition of a melodic pattern at a higher or lower pitch
triad - Answer-3 note chord
cadence - Answer-a progression from dominant chord to tonic chord
chromatic scale - Answer-12 tones of the octave
Counterpoint - Answer-combining several melodic lines into a meaningful whole
Middle age time span - Answer-450-1450
Renaissance time span - Answer-1450-1600
Baroque time span - Answer-1600-1750
Classical time span - Answer-1750-1820
Romantic time span - Answer-1820-1900
20th century time span - Answer-1900-1945
Gregorian chant - Answer-melody set to sacred Latin texts, sung without
accompaniment, monophonic, flexible rhythm, no beat, without meter
the mass - Answer-the highlight of the liturgical day, a ritual reenactment of the Last
Supper
, church modes - Answer-consist of 7 different tones and an 8th tone that duplicates the
first an octave higher, basic scales of western music in the middle ages/renaissance era
Drone - Answer-consists of one or more long, sustained tones accompanying a melody
trouveres, troubadours - Answer-french nobles who composed the first large group of
secular songs survived
estampie - Answer-a medieval dance
organum - Answer-gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines
School of Notre Dame - Answer-measured rhythm
Music city of the Middle Ages - Answer-Paris, center of polyphonic music
Mass Ordinary - Answer-consists of texts that remained the same from day to day
throughout the church year. 5 sung prayers are kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus, and angus
dei
Machaut - Answer-french musician of middle ages, wrote Angus Dei is based on a
gregorian chant, ABA
renaissance means - Answer-rebirth
Humanism - Answer-focus on human life and it's accomplishments
lifelike representation vs. religious symbolism - Answer-middle ages - religious
symbolism
renaissance - lifelike representations
music city of the renaissance - Answer-Italy
characteristics of renaissance music - Answer-words more important than instruments,
word painting, polyphonic, gentle flow, golden age of acapella, no extreme contrasts of
dynamics
Motet - Answer-polyphonic choral music set to sacred latin text in renaissance
Josquin Desprez - Answer-Flemish, Belgium, spent life in Italy, worked for Louis the XII
of France and held several church posts, wrote Ave Maria
Palestrina - Answer-devoted himself to music for the Catholic Church. It includes 104
masses and 450 other sacred works. most famous piece Pope Marcellus mass
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