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Intro to Listening
True/False Midterm
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Music
Undergraduate 2
03/22/2012

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A Staff has four lines and 5 spaces.
Definition
False
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Rhythm is the ordered flow of music through time, also another word for beat, for a piece of music.
Definition
False
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If melody is the horizontal aspect of music, then harmony in the vertical aspect.
Definition
True
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Tonal music is characterized by the presence of tonic, which is the central note at which a musical composition is organized.
Definition
True
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Texture only refers to the horizontal composition of music.
Definition
False
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Monophony, Polyphony, and Homophony are the three basic types of musical texture found in Western Music.
Definition
True
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The organization of musical ideas in time is called form.
Definition
True
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A piece of music in ternary form will only have two parts.
Definition
False
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The birth of opera, generally believed by scholars, was 1750 in Florence, Italy.
Definition
False
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A piece of music in ternary form will have two parts.
Definition
False
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The libretto is the text of an opera.
Definition
True
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Retative is spoken dialogue in the Baroque opera.
Definition
False
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Contata will never include a chorus; it is only for a group of soloist.
Definition
False
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J.S. Bach was born in 1685 and he died in 1730.
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False
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Handel was born in 1685 and he died in 1759.
Definition
True
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"A Passion" due to its content was strictly forbidden to be performed in churches during the Baroque Era.
Definition
False
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By the late Baroque Era "Passion" was being performed outside of religious service.
Definition
True
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The pace or speed of a composition of music is known as the tempo.
Definition
True
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The riternello is the repetition or return of an instrumental section concerto grosso.
Definition
True
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A fugue is always polyphonic.
Definition
True
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A fugue is never polyphonic.
Definition
False
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A concerto is always performed by a soloist accompanied by an ensemble.
Definition
False
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A librettist provides musical material to the composer of an opera.
Definition
False
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A cadence may be defined as a definite ending of a portion of music.
Definition
True
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The art of improv was known as taboo during the Romantic Period.
Definition
False
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The Romantic period preceded the classical period.
Definition
False
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