Music appreciation ch 1-5
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Script
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Listening to music and imaging a specific story or short event to go with the music is characterized by which level?
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Mezzo forte
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Medium loud
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Grave
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Very slow
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Fortissimo
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Very loud
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Musically aware
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Utilizing all or several of the levels of listening to music would be listening to the....
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Crescendo
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Gradually louder
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Concertogrosso
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A work contrasting several soloists with a chamber orchestra
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Hectorberlooe
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Added tubas English horn and saxophones to the orchestra
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Prestissimo
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As fast as possible
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Andante
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Medium walking pace
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Accelerando
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Gradually faster
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Allegro
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Fast, lively
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Rubato
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Robbing time, a subtle device in which the performer deviates slightly from the exact execution of the Rhythm or tempo for emotional effect (robbing time)
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Maestoso
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Majestically
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Organ
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Often called the king of instruments
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Polyphonic
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2 or more musical ideas played simultaneously defines what texture?
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Piano
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Soft
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Expressivo
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Expressively
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Forte
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Loud
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Virtuoso
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Highly skilled performer
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Vibrato
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Pulsating on a note for expressive effect
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Pianissimo
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Very soft
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Listener
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Composers create their music primarily for the________.
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Acapella
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Unaccompanied choir or voices
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Confuoco
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With fire
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Staccato
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Short detached
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French horn
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The classical woodwind quintet consists of a flute, oboe, clarinet bassoon and a__________
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Drecresendo
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Gradually softer
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Pissicato
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Plucked strings
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Harpsichord
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The most important instruments of the baroque period are the violin, the cello, and the _____________.
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Contextual
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When Music supplies a background for familiar events such as a football game or a patriotic holiday we tend to listen at the________level
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Sequence
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Repetition of a musical idea at a different pitch level
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Glissando
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Sliding from one note to the other
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Notation
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The process of writing musical ideas on paper is called_____
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Tremolo
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Rapid alternation between notes or chords
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Piccolo
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Highest pitched woodwind instrument
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Mezzopiano
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Medium soft
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Ostinato
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A short repeated music idea which is used in rock and classical music
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Ritardando
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Gradually slower
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Sensory
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Listening to music passively rather than actively
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Conmoto
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With motion
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Legato
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Smooth
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Cantabile
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In a singing style
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Homophobic
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A texture in which a single musical idea takes over the main melodic part while the other ideas accompany
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Sostenuto
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Sustained
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Stradivari
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Famous violin maker
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Monophonic
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A single unaccompanied Music idea to find what temperature
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Pissicato
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A performance technique in which strings are plucked with the finger
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Clarinet
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Instrument Stephens is classically trained on
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A viola
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String Quarted usually consists of two violins a cello and a_____
