Final Exam Review

Music with literary or pictorial associations is called:

• Program Music

• Absolute Music

• Underscore

• Background Music

A musical idea that is the building block for a composition is called:

• Rhythm

• Theme

• Fragment

• Harmony

The most common chamber ensemble studied in this course was:

• Brass Quintet

• Orchestra

• String Quartet

• Piano Trio

Wagner

• Used minimally sized orchestras in his operas

• Wrote all the libretti to his operas

• Based his operas on Ancient Greek ideas

• Only wrote the music to his operas

The composition most original to the Romantic period is

• The opera

• The symphonic (tone) poem

• The oratorio

• The symphony

The text of an opera is called:

• Script

• Libretto

• Play

• Lyrics

Who is associated with organizing Medieval chants?

• Hildegard of Bingen

• Pope Gregory the Great

• Charlemagne

• Machaut

What comes before and after the Classical Period?

• Medieval, Baroque

• Baroque, Romantic

• Medieval, Renaissance

• Renaissance, Baroque

Music for oratorios are drawn from:

• Greek mythology

• the Bible

• Contemporary life

• Medieval history

A composer can divide themes into smaller units called:

• Codas

• Modulations

• Sequences

• Motives