Tonal harmony Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NBCT Music Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Antiquity - Answer- 476-1450; marked by fall of Rome monophonic - Answer- one line with one sound homophonic - Answer- melody with harmony polyphonic - Answer- multiple melodies Pythagoras - Answer- weighed hammers to discover intervals Doctrine of Ethos - Answer- music has power to determine human behavior musica mandana - Answer- cosmic music musica humana - Answer- movement of spirits inside humans musica instrumentalis - Answer- music...

During the Baroque period many genres and forms were developed and remain in use today - correct answer True Polyphonic music was an essential ingredient in the development of opera. - correct answer False Baroque music is music of contrasts. - correct answer True Recitative was used to carry the dramatic action forward. - correct answer True The trio sonata consisted of four performers. - correct answer True The fugue represents the highest form of Baroque homophonic music. - cor...

Baroque Music ()Two Giants of baroque composition - correct answer George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach's death in 1750 marks death of the period) Opera - correct answer drama sung to orchestral accompaniment; melodic lines imitated the rhythms and inflections of speech Early baroque composers favored... - correct answer homophonic texture (unlike the renaissance); characterizes early period; by the latter period they favored pholyphonic texture Tonal basis of most c...

Music Content Knowledge (5113) Praxis II Exam Latest 2023 Graded A Characteristics of Medieval Era Dominated by vocal music. Sacred Music: Gregorian Chant and Masses. Secular Music: for dance and entertainment (Troubadours/Trouvères) Gregorian Chant melodies that were free flowing with no distinct meter, melismatic, largely monophonic, and sung by unaccompanied voice or choir Organum an early form of polyphony in which voices are sung in parallel motion Masses important religious ritual and ...

Baroque Music ()Two Giants of baroque composition - correct answer George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach's death in 1750 marks death of the period) Opera - correct answer drama sung to orchestral accompaniment; melodic lines imitated the rhythms and inflections of speech Early baroque composers favored... - correct answer homophonic texture (unlike the renaissance); characterizes early period; by the latter period they favored pholyphonic texture Tonal basis of most c...

Traditionalist - Using the style of today, and combining the style of the pervious 200 years Modernist - A name givien to music which was more cutting edge Avant-Garde - Ahead of the times, especially in the arts Impressoinism - lack of detail, haziness Claude Debussy - Father of 20th century music, modernist Prelude to the afternoon of a faun - -Ground breaking piece -Complicated rythems -Quiet dynamics Maurice Ravel - -Studied piano -Meticulous composer -Impressionism Orchestration ...

Performance - Praxis 5114 Questions and Answers Already Passed Relationship between frequency and perceived pitch Frequency: # of waveform oscillations per second (Hz); Pitch: Human perception of sound wave frequencies; Can be affected by distance, amplitude, physiology, mental expectation Determining the number of beats to conduct based on tempo Faster tempi = fewer beats indicated; Slower tempi = more beats indicated; also consider style & meter Tessitura Most comfortable and aesthetically p...

2024 Materials and Techniques of Post Tonal Music 5th Edition Kostka Solutions Manual WITH CORRECT AND DETAILED ANSWERS GRADED A+ C1 cycle - ANSWER-0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (chromatic scale) C4 cycle - ANSWER-0 4 8 or 1 5 9 (augmented triad) C3 cycle - ANSWER-0 3 6 9 or 1 4 7 10 (fully diminished seventh chord) post-tonal - ANSWER-music that does not follow the traditional conventions of tonal harmony chromatic mediant relationship - ANSWER-when two triads or chor...

Prelude 3 Music as Exploration and DramaThe term "Baroque" means misshapen, extravagant, or even distorted. - correct answer True Artists such as Bernini and Peter Paul Rubens created works that demonstrate the absence of dramatic gestures in the Baroque era. - correct answer False Absolute monarchy, exemplified by Louis XIV of France, was the main form of European government during the Baroque. - correct answer True The Baroque era was characterized by peaceful relations between Prot...

TEXES Exam Music EC-12 Latest 2023 Rated A+ pitch the specific frequency or tuning of a tone - the highness or lowness of a sound frequency a measurement of how fast air molecules are vibrating solfeggio a method of naming musical tones using a set of symbols ledger lines the lines you add above or below a staff clef a graphical symbol placed at the beginning of a staff or piece of music that establishes the pitch of a specific line or space on the staff the grand staff links together the t...