MUSC 1000 Exam 1 questions with
correct answers 2025/2026
Material aspects - ANS ✔✔things we use
social aspects - ANS ✔✔the way people act and organize communities
intellectual aspects - ANS ✔✔webs of meaning to guide individuals and communities
musical culture - ANS ✔✔a group of people who share values about how to make music, listen
to music together, and use music in their lives
world music - ANS ✔✔local or regional music traditions that are transmitted orally/aurally and
non-commercial in everyday use
categorized by geographic region or ethnic origin
popular music - ANS ✔✔associated with the music industry, distributed through mass media,
and appeals to a wide audience
western art music - ANS ✔✔composed by individuals (europeans and people of european
descent), written down with a system of notation, and has six historical periods
world, popular, western art - ANS ✔✔three categories of music
medieval period - ANS ✔✔400-1430
development of western musical notation
, music composed for the church and nobility
early church music was plainchant using words of the Catholic sacred liturgy
secular entertainment music for dancing, love songs, and stories sung in local dialects
plainchant and secular music: single, free-flowing melodic line with no harmony
renaissance period - ANS ✔✔1430-1600
"rebirth" of interest in writings and art of ancient Greece and Rome
complex, intertwining melodies
mostly vocal music survives
instrumental music often improvised
church music: elaborate, multi-voices works for the Catholic mass
Secular music: French chanson, Italian and English madrigal
Baroque Period - ANS ✔✔1600 to 1750
named for ornamented, complex visual art and architecture
music unified by basso continuo
opera: staged musical entertainment, sung throughout, invented at the end of the 1500s
new instrumental genres: suite, sonata, concerto
basso continuo - ANS ✔✔Baroque accompaniment made up of a bass part usually played by
two instruments: a keyboard plus a low melodic instrument.
a continuous bass line
classical period - ANS ✔✔1750 to 1820
musical style based on architectural ideals of classical Greece: clarity, symmetry, and formal
balance
new instrumental genres: symphony and string quartet
correct answers 2025/2026
Material aspects - ANS ✔✔things we use
social aspects - ANS ✔✔the way people act and organize communities
intellectual aspects - ANS ✔✔webs of meaning to guide individuals and communities
musical culture - ANS ✔✔a group of people who share values about how to make music, listen
to music together, and use music in their lives
world music - ANS ✔✔local or regional music traditions that are transmitted orally/aurally and
non-commercial in everyday use
categorized by geographic region or ethnic origin
popular music - ANS ✔✔associated with the music industry, distributed through mass media,
and appeals to a wide audience
western art music - ANS ✔✔composed by individuals (europeans and people of european
descent), written down with a system of notation, and has six historical periods
world, popular, western art - ANS ✔✔three categories of music
medieval period - ANS ✔✔400-1430
development of western musical notation
, music composed for the church and nobility
early church music was plainchant using words of the Catholic sacred liturgy
secular entertainment music for dancing, love songs, and stories sung in local dialects
plainchant and secular music: single, free-flowing melodic line with no harmony
renaissance period - ANS ✔✔1430-1600
"rebirth" of interest in writings and art of ancient Greece and Rome
complex, intertwining melodies
mostly vocal music survives
instrumental music often improvised
church music: elaborate, multi-voices works for the Catholic mass
Secular music: French chanson, Italian and English madrigal
Baroque Period - ANS ✔✔1600 to 1750
named for ornamented, complex visual art and architecture
music unified by basso continuo
opera: staged musical entertainment, sung throughout, invented at the end of the 1500s
new instrumental genres: suite, sonata, concerto
basso continuo - ANS ✔✔Baroque accompaniment made up of a bass part usually played by
two instruments: a keyboard plus a low melodic instrument.
a continuous bass line
classical period - ANS ✔✔1750 to 1820
musical style based on architectural ideals of classical Greece: clarity, symmetry, and formal
balance
new instrumental genres: symphony and string quartet
