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WorksheetsMusic Appreciation Final
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What is tempo?
how loud or soft
how fast or slow a song is played
how high or low
how many beats
What is pitch?
how loud or soft
how fast or slow
how high or low a note is
how many beats
Who devised solfege (singing standard syllables for certain notes of the scale (do, re, mi))?
Palestrina
Monteverdi
Guido of Arezzo
Leonardo Da Vinci
What is a musical drama, invented by Monteverdi?
dances
consorts
opera
choirs
Which answer has the musical characteristics of the Baroque era?
energetic and bouncy
complex, flowery, and emotional
flowing and simple
boogie woogie
Which composer was nicknamed the Red Priest?
Vivaldi
Bach
Pachelbell
Handel
What did critics say about Vivaldi's work?
They were boring
They were too long
They were all the same
They were stolen from Bach
Handel's most famous oratorio was called _____.
The Messiah
Kyrie eleison
Four Seasons
Judas Maccabaeus
A piece written for soloists, chorus, and orchestra and based on the Bible is called a _____.
fugue
oratorio
cantata
concerto
During life, how did Bach make his money?
Conducting Orchestras
Playing Organ
Composing Music
As a Servant
Why will we never know what Bach's organ playing was really like?
No one knew how to write music
He didn't actually play the organ
He improvised as he played
He was a recluse so no one heard him play
Choose 2 of the 3 forms from the Classical Era.
Symphony
Cantata
Oratorio
Sonata
Concerto
Which composer was lifelong friends with Mozart and a teacher to Beethoven?
Bach
Berlioz
Haydn
Vivaldi
Where was the center of music in the Classical Era.
London, England
Vienna, Austria
St. Petersburg, Russia
Paris, France
Which Classical composer began composing at age 4?
Mozart
Beethoven
Haydn
Mendelsohn
Which Classical composer only wrote 9 symphonies?
Mozart
Beethoven
Haydn
Brahms
Select 3 of Weber's 4 famous contributions to the orchestra. (check 3 boxes)
Held sectional rehearsals
Arranged the sections on stage
Added the string bass
He removed the oboe
Used a baton to conduct
Romantic composers got their inspiration from...
the rigid structures of the Classic Era.
nature, especially thunderstorms and sunsets.
trying to recreate the Greek muses.
dancing and going to parties.
Which composer "ignored the rules" so much that he had to write notes to convince the orchestra they were "on purpose"?
Chopin
Weber
Berlioz
Paganini
Which composer wanted to strengthen his ring finger but paralyzed it instead?
Strauss
Liszt
Schumann
Chewbacca
Which pianist had published music by age 7, and was a concert pianist at age 8?
Chopin
Weber
Berlioz
Schumann
What 2 inventions from 1900 and 1877 changed music forever?
iPhones and mP3
Morse code and the telephone
piano and guitar
radio and phonograph
Which answer describes Tin Pan music?
emotional and complex
a combination of blues and folk
easy to sing and sentimental
loud and shouting
What was Vaudeville?
stage shows with a variety of acts rotating nightly
a movie where a hero needs to save the day
when white people put on black paint to do a show
a radio show with 2 hosts
How was a song's popularity measured during the Tin Pan Alley Era?
the number of iTunes downloads
the amount of sheet music that was sold
how many people requested it on the radio
how many movies it was featured in
Where did the name Tin Pan Alley come from?
it was so easy to make money that people often dropped change in the streets and someone wrote a song about it
a man whose last name is Tin wrote a song about a pan handler that lived in an alley
the sound of many pianos being played at once sounded like people banging pans
there was a parade and a bunch of famous musicians decided to play tin pans
To whom were the Tin Pan songs marketed?
baseball players
adults
teenagers
artists
Where did jazz start?
New Orleans, Louisiana
Atlanta, Georgia
Kansas City, Missouri
Tupelo, Mississippi
What group made the first jazz recording?
Benny Goodman Quartet
Original Dixieland Jass Band
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Original Morton Band
Which answer has the 4 types of music that blended to make jazz?
pop, rock and roll, and country
sonatas, cantatas, oratorios, and symphonies
spirituals, blues, marches, and ragtime
folk, blues, Irish jigs, and classical western music
What mix of people brought about jazz?
Irish fiddlers, Spanish guitarists, and southern banjo players
There was a conference that specifically brought together clarinet, saxophone, and trumpet players.
Jelly Roll Morton was tired of playing classic music and so he started playing more emotional music.
French, Native Americans, blacks, and Cubans living in an area started merging their musical ideas.
Who had the first integrated band to play professionally?
Jelly Roll Morton
Benny Goodman
Glenn Miller
Count Basie
By the 1940s musician were tired of playing the same old swings songs so the invented a new kind of fast and challenging jazz. What was it called?
Hip-hop
Bebop
Hot Jazz
the J.A.W.
In what U.S. region did country music start?
the South
the North
the Pacific Islands
Canada
What was the FIRST important city of country music? (It lasted about 20 years)
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Atlanta, Georgia
Nashville, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Who was the first significant African American country singer?
Darius Rucker
Charley Pride
DeFord Bailey
Louis Armstrong
What was the Bakersfield sound?
when country bands first stated using electric guitars
the sound of the band created by Charles Bakersfield
a special kind of amplifier developed in Bakersfield, California
a gritty and rebellious kind of country music developed by Merle Haggard and Buck Owens
What were the traditional instruments of country music?
trumpet, piano, saxophone, string bass
electric guitar, drums, piano
banjo, guitar, fiddle
violin, cello, timpani
What was one of the styles that contributed to Rock 'n' Roll?
Funk
Pop
Rhythm and Blues
Bebop
Rock 'n' Roll features...
high drive and energy
laid back, relaxed philosophy
off-beat rhythms
extremely fast tempos
Choose 2 Rock 'n' Roll performers.
Chuck Berry
Johnny Cash
Bill Haley and the Comets
Susan B. Anthony
Jelly Roll Morton
What movie was the song "Rock Around the Clock" used in?
Jailhouse Rock
Blackboard Jungle
Hello Dolly
La La Land
Rock 'n' Roll was aimed at which demographic?
Adults
1st time home buyers
Teenagers
The Elderly
What young artist added significantly to the popularity of rock and roll, because of his dancing flare and movies?
Elvis Presley
The Platters
The Beatles
Diana Ross
