Music Appreciation Midterm Quiz Review

The musical theme that represents a character or an idea:

• aria

• chant

• motif

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

• monophonic

• polyphonic

• homophonic

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

• Baroque

• Notre Dame

• Renaissance

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

• German music drama

• Oratorio in English language

• French ouverture

Georgian Chant is featured the most throughout which musical era?

• Classical

• Medieval/ Middle Ages

• Romantic

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

• Programmatic music

• Absolute music

• Motivic development

Compared to Medieval music, Renaissance music sounds:

• More Monophonic

• More Polyphonic

• Less Polyphonic

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

• Baroque

• Classical

• Romantic

These instruments all belong to the woodwinds group:

• Oboe, horn, clarinet

• Saxophone, bassoon, flute

• Oboe, flute, celeste

The era of music roughly 1450 - 1600 is?

• Classical

• Romantic

• Renaissance