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MUSIC SUMM TEST 1.1

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 58mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

is a product of revolution, a response to the need of the revolutionary times that gave birth to it

(a)  

2.

Any vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beaty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion



(a)  

3.

It is a combination of pitch and duration. A series of pitches that makes a tune



(a)  

4.

The instruments that support the melody with chords

(a)  

5.

It describes how loud or soft the music is.

(a)  

6.

These are the layers of sound, how sparse or dense the music is.



(a)  

7.

The unique sound quality of an instrument or sound

(a)  

8.

The order and arrangement of the parts or sound.



(a)  

9.

How long or short the sound is

(a)  

10.

Overall sound of the music as pleasant or unpleasant



(a)  

11.

This is the speed of music

(a)  

12.

Forte, pianississimo, forte

(a)  

13.

One tune

(a)  

14.

One tune with accompaniment

(a)  

15.

One melodic line with many variants



(a)  

16.

Many voices with separated melodic lines and rhythms



(a)  

17.

A piece based on a single melodic line (Verse only)

(a)  

18.

A piece of music with two main sections (Verse-chorus)

(a)  

19.

A piece of music with three sections, the third is a return to the first (Verse-Chorus-Verse)



(a)  

20.

A piece of music with a return to the first section with a different section in between (VCVC)



(a)  

21.

It is a short, musical idea

(a)  

22.

It is composed of 5 horizontal lines where notes are placed.



(a)  

23.

A vertical line that separates staffs



(a)  

24.

It is placed at the end of the staff that means repeat

(a)  

25.

Sacred, Secular and Monophonic Music During this Period

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

26.

Music was for entertainment and edification, and expressed in moderate and balanced way. This is the birth of polyphony (golden age). Imitation of voices were done. One of its early music was the Madrigal (poetic text).

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

27.

In this period of music, the sound was elaborate and ornamental. The texture was homophonic while the dynamics were terrace (loud and soft). Its early music was used in operas, oratorio, suites, and concerto grosso Harpsicord and keyboard were the early instruments.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

28.

In this period, the collapse of the western roman empire happened, there was widespread of literary, churches monopolized in creation of music, music was passed verbally and composed anonymously.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

29.

Traces of images of people singing and playing instruments found in Greek vases provides evidence that music was used for ancient theater, dance and worship

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

30.

It was an era of absolute monarchy

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

31.

Revival of interest in ancient Greek and Roman culture

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

32.

Man discovered that the world is round

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

33.

Its art forms reflected with aspects of grandeur.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

34.

The invention of printing press allowed the disbursement of this knowledge in an unprecedented manner.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

35.

Aristocracy has a different culture from the middle class.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

36.

Opera was created as new form and performed for the public.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

37.

The invention of compass permitted the navigation of the world’s oceans.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

38.

Pythagoras might be thought of as the father of the modern study of acoustics.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

39.

Prominent personalities were Galileo and Copernicus in Science; Michealangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael in Arts

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

40.

Great thinkers like Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Locke tackled big questions of existence.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

41.

Geniuses (Rubens, Shakespeare) offered perspectives through their art

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

42.

Mosaics are one off the greatest achievements of this period’s art.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

43.

“Thirty Years of War” (Protestant-Catholic)

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

44.

Stained glass

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

45.

Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

46.

Beginning of Michelangelo’s painting and sculpture and Shakespeare’s plays

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

47.

Invention of telescope and other advances in technology

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

48.

In this period, they had more detailed documentation of improvisational practice. Singers and instrumentalists improvise melodies over chord patterns. Keyboard players performed extempore, freely.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

49.

In this period, they embellish an existing part or create an entirely new part. They ornament it and the improvisation played a smaller role because western art music performance became institutionalized.

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Baroque

50.

He was a French-born trouvere, musician and poet. He was known for uniqueness and versatility. He was a self-proclaimed genius, often describing himself as Master. He explored and mastered the monophonic composition.

(a)  

51.

Adam De La Halle's musical composition

(a)  

52.

An Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and best known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He composed more than 100 mass settings and over 250 motets. Before he achieved his fgoals, he was an organist and a choirmaster.

(a)  

53.

One of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's musical composition

(a)  

54.

He is anther famous composer in his era. He was an organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Together with Robert Johnson, they are the only composers who survived contemporary setting of verse by Shakespeare.

(a)  

55.

Whose Musical Composition is Sing We and Chant It and Now is the Month of Maying?

(a)  

56.

He was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist, organist and expert on organ building. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. He was “completely blind” after the operations, and he died less than 4 months after the final opration

(a)  

57.

Who composed Minuet in G and Air on the G String?

(a)  

58.

He is a German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, was known particularly for his operas, oratorios and instrumental compositions. One of the well-known chorus in the Messiah is Hallelujah Chorus were the audience is being stand up while it is being sung.

(a)  

59.

George Frideric Handel's Composition

(a)  

60.

He was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso vionilist, teacher, impresario and Roman Catholic Priest.

(a)  

61.

Vivaldi's most popular sacred piece, dramatic, uplifting and joyful

(a)  

62.

It consists of four concerti and each one in a distinct form containing three movements with tempos in the following order: fast-slow-fast



(a)  

63.

It is a creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique.

(a)  

64.

Another term for Musical Improvisation

(a)  

65.

It is a style in the Medieval period that adds another melody to a pre exi



(a)  

66.

It is a fixed voice that the improvised counterpoint is placed over.



(a)  

67.

Sound are produced by vibrating air.

(a)  

68.

Sound is produced by the vibration of a string or strings that are stretched between fixed points.



(a)  

69.

Sound is produced by the vibration of a tightly stretched membrane.



(a)  

70.

Sound is produced by the body of the instument vibrating.

(a)