Music Final True or False – Flashcards
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Opera seria puts a greater emphasis on the experienced and masterful singer.
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True
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Beethoven was one of the first composers to write music specifically for the ballet.
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True
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Almost all of the works of the Classical era included vocal parts.
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False
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Handel was nicknamed "The Red Priest."
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False
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Louis Armstrong is known for his scat singing.
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True
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Miles Davis is known for being a swing jazz musician.
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False
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Chromaticism is the use of notes outside the scale that the music is using.
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True
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A sonata is a large scale composition that is played (rather than sung).
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True
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It is easy to define jazz music, since the music has a set group of characteristics.
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False
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The modern orchestra developed during the Baroque period.
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True
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Tchaikovsky wrote 1812 Overture.
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True
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Johann Strauss I pushed his son to become a composer and musician.
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False
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The music of the Baroque period is the first to be among the musical pieces that people today are generally familiar with.
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True
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Bach, Handel, and Mozart make up the Viennese School.
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False
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Brahms often used conventional and traditional forms and techniques in his work.
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True
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Beethoven is a transitional figure between the Classical era and the Romantic era of music.
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True
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None of the composers of the Baroque period are well-known today.
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False
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The only form of music that Beethoven composed in was piano concertos.
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False
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Bach's family included over 50 notable composers and musicians.
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True
