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Music Appreciation Final Exam Study Guide 10

The document provides study guide information for a music appreciation course including vocabulary terms and important people related to units on rhythm and dance, voice and texture, the Romantic period and form, music theory and the piano. Key terms defined include beat, tempo, dynamics, canon, fugue and motife. Important composers mentioned include Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Strauss and Joplin. Songs and pieces highlighted include the 9th Symphony, Firebird Suite, Magic Flute and Maple Leaf Rag.

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Music Appreciation Final Exam Study Guide 10

The document provides study guide information for a music appreciation course including vocabulary terms and important people related to units on rhythm and dance, voice and texture, the Romantic period and form, music theory and the piano. Key terms defined include beat, tempo, dynamics, canon, fugue and motife. Important composers mentioned include Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Strauss and Joplin. Songs and pieces highlighted include the 9th Symphony, Firebird Suite, Magic Flute and Maple Leaf Rag.

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Music Appreciation Study Guide 2011

Unit 2 Beat, Rhythm, and Dance Vocabu ary


Beat Steady Pulse Rhythm the way music paces itself through time (the long and shorts of music) Accent Emphasis placed on a beat Meter rgani!ation of rhythmic pulses by means of accents Measure ne complete set of pulses "empo Speed of the beat Accelerando gradually get faster Ritardando gradually slower A "empo original tempo #mpro$isation Spontaneous musical in$ention Syncopation %eliberate shifts of the accent to a wea& beat "he Suite set of instrumental pieces each in the character of a dance "he Minuet rather slow and charming old 'rench dance in triple meter "he (alt! %ance in triple meter) Social dance with the minuet

!mportant "eop e
*icolai Rims&y+,orsa&o$ Russian "aught himself music theory Paid Attention to combination of instrumental sounds Scott -oplin (./0/ .1.2) Early "wentieth 3entury American 3omposer 'ather of Ragtime Maple 4eaf Rag Entertainer 4eonard Bernstein American 3omposer ne of the most recorded conductors in history (rote (est Side Story #gor Stra$ins&y Russian 3omposer Studied with *icolai Rims&y ,orsa&o$ Rite of Spring 'irebird Suite

Peter "chai&o$s&y Russian composer (rote "he *utcrac&er and Swan 4a&e (illiam 5rant Still American 3omposer Afro+American Symphony(.16.) %e$eloped a classical style that incorporated African American tradition

Unit # Voice, Dynamics, and $e%ture


Vocabu ary
Audiation the ability to imagine or hear in hour heads7 music) 8ocal Range "he highest and lowest pitches you can sing Phrase a complete musical thought %ynamics the $olume of sound 3rescendo gradually get louder %ecrescendo gradually get softer 8ocal Register how low or high someone spea&s Aerophone instruments that produce sound by $ibrating air #diophones + instruments that produce sound by $ibrating something solid Membranophones + instruments that produce sound by $ibrating s&in or membrane 3hordophones + instruments that produce sound by $ibrating a string or chord Electrophones + instruments that produce sound through electricity "e9ture how sounds are wo$en together 3all and Response :uestion and Answer ;omophonic "e9ture a te9ture where a single melodic line is accompanied by a chordal accompaniment Monophonic one sound Polyphonic Many sounds 3anon E9act imitation 3ounterpoint system of countering one note against another

!mportant "eop e
-ohn 3age American 3omposer <=6== Belie$e music should be disco$ered in e$eryday life 'ocused on timbre7 loudness7 and duration of sound

Unit & Romantic, 'orm


Vocabu ary
Romantic Period period during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century when composers created music that often e9ploded with emotion) Music %ramas peras in the romantic period written by Richard (agner 4ibretto te9t of an opera Moti$e a short7 distincti$e musical pattern or figure ;oo& the musical moti$e that generally accompanies the words to the title of the song stinato a repeated musical figure7 usually in the bass part 'ugue a polyphonic composition consisting of a series of successi$e melody imitations) Rondo a instrumental form based on alternation between a repeated section and contrasting episodes

!mportant "eop e
(olfgang Amadeus Mo!art 3hild Prodigy 'irst symphony at age .> 'irst opera at age .. "he Marriage of 'igaro %on 5io$anni "he Magic 'lute %ied in po$erty at age 6? 4udwig $an Beetho$en Austrian 3omposer Became %eaf in the later years of his life (rote 'ur Elise7 ?th and 1th Symphonies Richard (agner 5erman Romantic composer "he Ring 3ycle

-ohann Sebastian Bach 5erman 3omposer Bach was famous for his organ playing7 not his compositions when he li$ed (rote o$er .7>>> pieces

Unit ( $heory and "iano


;ow to 4abel *otes on the Staff o "reble 3lef and Bass 3lef o 5rand Staff o 4edger 4ines ;ow to 4abel notes on a piano o 4eft of the two blac& &eys is 3 ;ow to write a ma@or scale o Start and End on the same note o %raw / notes using e$ery line and e$ery space o 'ollow the formula for a ma@or scale + wwhwwwh

Son)s *ou +eed $o ,no- and -ho -rote them


.) *inth Symphony A) 'irebird Suite 6) <) ?) 0) 2) /) Maple 4eaf Rag "he Blue %anube "occata and 'ugue in % Minor "he Magic 'lute ;allelu@ah 3horus *utcrac&er a) B%ance of the Sugar Plum 'airy 1) %ynamite .>) "he Ride of the 8al&yrie 4udwig $on Beetho$en #gor Stra$ins&y Scott -oplin -ohann Strauss -r) -ohann Sebastian Bach (olfgang Amadeus Mo!art 5eorge 'redric ;andel Peter "chai&o$s&y "aio 3ru! Richard (agner

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