Gace Music Content Exam Questions
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Waltz form places rhythmic emphasis on which beat? - ✔✔First Beat
Italian term meaning "to hurry" - ✔✔Affretando
Typical Rondo form - ✔✔ABACABA
Compound musical Form - ✔✔sontata, string quartet, minuetto & trio
The Ballade refers to a musical form originally based on - ✔✔Narrative
Opera form with three acts with alternating arias and recitatives with usually 6, 7
characters - ✔✔Opera Seria
Stylistic of the African musical tradition? - ✔✔Dialogue
When group of closely spaced notes played simultaneously usually in intervals of
adjacent seconds and groupings it's called - ✔✔Tone Cluster
Jazz improvisational style can be compared to what Classical musical style? -
✔✔Baroque music
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, Early form of polyphony during the Medieval period in which voices were sung in
parallel motion - ✔✔Organum
Movement of the 19th century featured music that evoked a place through the use of
folk melodies - ✔✔Nationalism
The Twelve-tone technique of music was created by - ✔✔Arnold Schoenberg
Program music - ✔✔representational music
Absolute music - ✔✔non-representational music
Period of classical western music featured heavy ornamentation and improvised
embellishment of aa musical line - ✔✔Baroque
composer who wrote music that featured brass with large orchestrations and
increasingly powerful orchestral sound - ✔✔Igor Stravinsky
Typical instrument of appalachian folk music - ✔✔Dulcimer, banjo, mandolin
First complete Broadway musical with a beginning to end plot - ✔✔Show Boat by Kern
and Hammerstein
Earliest forms of Jazz music - ✔✔New Orleans Jazz
The black church heavily influenced this type of musical genres through improvisation,
storytelling, and call and response - ✔✔Blues
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Waltz form places rhythmic emphasis on which beat? - ✔✔First Beat
Italian term meaning "to hurry" - ✔✔Affretando
Typical Rondo form - ✔✔ABACABA
Compound musical Form - ✔✔sontata, string quartet, minuetto & trio
The Ballade refers to a musical form originally based on - ✔✔Narrative
Opera form with three acts with alternating arias and recitatives with usually 6, 7
characters - ✔✔Opera Seria
Stylistic of the African musical tradition? - ✔✔Dialogue
When group of closely spaced notes played simultaneously usually in intervals of
adjacent seconds and groupings it's called - ✔✔Tone Cluster
Jazz improvisational style can be compared to what Classical musical style? -
✔✔Baroque music
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, Early form of polyphony during the Medieval period in which voices were sung in
parallel motion - ✔✔Organum
Movement of the 19th century featured music that evoked a place through the use of
folk melodies - ✔✔Nationalism
The Twelve-tone technique of music was created by - ✔✔Arnold Schoenberg
Program music - ✔✔representational music
Absolute music - ✔✔non-representational music
Period of classical western music featured heavy ornamentation and improvised
embellishment of aa musical line - ✔✔Baroque
composer who wrote music that featured brass with large orchestrations and
increasingly powerful orchestral sound - ✔✔Igor Stravinsky
Typical instrument of appalachian folk music - ✔✔Dulcimer, banjo, mandolin
First complete Broadway musical with a beginning to end plot - ✔✔Show Boat by Kern
and Hammerstein
Earliest forms of Jazz music - ✔✔New Orleans Jazz
The black church heavily influenced this type of musical genres through improvisation,
storytelling, and call and response - ✔✔Blues
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