Music Appreciation Midterm Quiz

 A texture of music that has one main melody line with a chord structure underneath

• monophonic

• polyphonic

• homophonic

Which letter is not included in the musical alphabet?

• I

• B

• E

George Frideric Handel’s Messiah belongs to this large-scale genre:

• German music drama

• Oratorio in English language

• French ouverture

The musical theme that represents a character or an idea:

• aria

• chant

• motif

Instrumental music that is composed to be specific to a given story, topic, or concept:

• Programmatic music

• Absolute music

• Motivic development

The era of music roughly 1750-1820, defined by order, proportions, balance, and rules:

• Baroque

• Classical

• Romantic

The era of music roughly 1600-1750, whose name translates as ‘bizarre’:

• Baroque

• Notre Dame

• Renaissance

Georgian Chant is featured the most throughout which musical era?

• Classical

• Medieval/ Middle Ages

• Romantic

Viennese circle composer Franz Schubert was a pioneer of this musical genre:

• German music drama

• German Lieder

• English polyphonic motet

Female Italian composer famous for Baroque arias:

• Hildegard von Bingen

• Fanny Mendelssohn

• Barbara Strozzi