I cant use google because I have a virus, but im sure if you type in one of the questions all of the answers for the exam will come up.... Here are all the questions.

1) The earliest type of polyphonic compositions, dating from around 900 A.D., are called __________.

2) Who is traditionally associated with collecting and codifying the chants of the Church? ____________

3) Single line melodies sung in unison from the early Christian Church are known as ___________.

4) Which is not true of Gregorian chant?

a. It is monophonic in texture

b. It is accompanied with harmony

c. It is generally non-metric

d. It is generally in conjunct motion

5) Wandering poets, singers and songwriters from southern France were known as __________.

6) The fretted string instrument similar to the guitar but with a pear-shape and extremely popular during the Renaissance was the __________.

7) A vocal work without instrumental accompaniment is said to be performed __________.

8) The expressive devise used by Renaissance composers to musically pictorialize words from a sung text is called __________.

9) What was the primary vocal genre of secular music in the Renaissance? ___________

10) What was the most widespread of the Renaissance instrumental genres?

a. the madrigal

b. dance music

c. organ music

d. instrumental music to accompany voices in church

11) The pavane and galliard were:

a. different types of Renaissance chansons.

b. forms used in Renaissance masses.

c. a pair of Renaissance dances in the same meter

d. a pair of Renaissance dances in the contrasting duple and triple meter.

12. In Opera when dramatic dialogue is half sung and half spoken it is called _____________.

13. A Baroque instrumental piece based entirely on a systematic procedure of imitative polyphony based on a single theme is called _____________.

14. Which part of music history is applied to the period 1600 to 1750? __________________

15. The opening section of a fugue is called ___________.

16. The theme of a fugue is called the ______________.

17. A passage in a fugue that doesn’t contain any complete entries of the fugue subject and occurs between restatements of the fugue subject is called ________________________.

18. The word Baroque has at various times meant all of the following except:

a. elaborately ornamented

b. flamboyant

c. excessive

d. naturalistic

19. The two giants of Baroque composition were George Frederic Handel and ______________________.

20. The text, or book, on which an opera is based for its story line is called _________________.

21. An opera-like composition on a religious subject is called ____________________.

22. Which two instruments would most likely have played the basso continuo in the Baroque era? _________________

23. How many players are necessary to perform a trio sonata? _______________

24. Handel’s Messiah is what type of piece or genre? _______________

25. The greatest composer of fugues during the Baroque period was ___________.

26. A sonata is? _______________________________________________.

27. The Classical period flourished in music during the years____________.

28. Which of the following is not part of a sonata form movement:

a. recapitulation

b. rondo

c. exposition

d. development

29. Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are often developed within a composition are called _________________.

30. In sonata form, a modulatory section that leads from one theme to the next is called ____________.

31. The psychological climax of sonata form appears when the tonic returns at the:

a. exposition

b. development

c. recapitulation

d. coda

32. The finale section of a movement in a classical symphony, which rounds it off with vigorous closing cadences, is called _______________.

33. Which form is a common characteristic of the second movement of a symphony? ______________

34. The rondo may be schematically outlined as __________________.

35. Because of its liveliness, regularity, and buoyancy, the rondo most often serves as which movement in a classical symphony, string quartet or other work? ____________________________________________.

36. A highly lyrical song like section sung by a soloist mulling over his or her thoughts and feelings during an opera is called ___________________.

37. An operatic number sung by two or more people is called an ______________.

38. Music for a small ensemble of two to about ten players with one player per part performed in small rooms is called ________________.

39. A string quartet consists of __________________.

40. By the age of seven Mozart could:

a. read music perfectly at first sight.

b. improvise fugues and compose minuets.

c. play the harpsichord (and eventually the piano) and the violin.

d. all of the above.

41. Which of the following Italian operatic masterpieces was written by Mozart?

a. Don Giovanni

b. Rigoletto

c. Madame Butterly

d. Tristan and Isolde

42. The instrument that Mozart played and that he wrote many concertos for was __________________.

43. Which describes the relationship between the soloist and the orchestra in the Classical concerto?

a. the soloist’s part never played alone.

b. the orchestral parts were more important

c. the woodwinds parts were more important

d. the soloist and orchestra were equally balanced in importance

44. Italian comic opera was called _____________.

45. Early jazz blended elements from many musical cultures, including _________________________________________.

46. A style of African American vocal music involving “bent” notes and slides of pitch refers to ________________________.

47. This style of jazz of composed piano music that flourished from the 1890’s to about 1915 refers to __________________.

48. Blues grew out of African American folk music, such as work songs, spirituals, and ______________________________________.

49. New Orleans style of jazz is also referred to as __________________.

50. Louis Armstrong popularized a vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables that was known as ___________________.

Matching: 1 point each

1) Match the following words with the correct equivalents (keep in mind that their could me more than one answer associated to each style of jazz):

A. Ragtime 1. Louis Armstrong

B. Blues 2. Miles Davis

C. Dixieland 3. Swing Band

D. Swing 4. Bessie Smith

E. Bebop 5. Scott Joplin

F. Cool 6. 1890s to 1915

G. Fusion 7. King Oliver

8. Chicago

9. Sedalia, Missouri

10. Jelly Roll Morton

11. Benny Goodman

12. Frank Sinatra

13. Duke Ellington

14. Charlie “Bird” Parker

15. Miles Davis

True or False: 2 points each

1) Monks in monasteries held a virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages.

2) Music manuscripts during the Middle Ages indicate that most medieval music was instrumental.

3) Gregorian chant is homophonic in texture.

4) Gregorian chant melodies tend to move by leaps over a wide range of pitches.

5) During the Renaissance, educated people were often trained in music, literature, theatre, and art.

6) Texture of Renaissance music is primarily homophonic.

7) Much of the instrumental dance music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church use.

8) Troubadours were Medieval poets and musicians.

9) The Renaissance saw the growth of solo instrumental music, especially the lute.

10) The text of a madrigal is religious and the texture is homophonic.

11) The Renaissance madrigal was highly expressive through such devices as word painting.

12) The invention of the printing press in Western Europe was a Renaissance development.

13) Organum was freely composed and had no pre-conceived or pre-determined basis.

14) The two most distinctive features of jazz are syncopation and rhythmic swing.

15) In jazz, each statement of the basic harmonic pattern or melody is called a chorus.

16) The “king of ragtime” was Jelly Roll Morton.

17) New Orleans style evolved during the 1920s, but mainly in Chicago.

18) A new jazz style developed in the 1920s and flourished from 1935 to 1945, a decade nicknamed the “swing era.”

19) Bebop was a rebellion by creative improvisers against the commercialism and written arrangements of the swing bands.

20) Bebop was a complex style of music usually for large jazz groups.