Question 7: Musical and Historical Concepts
Match each term in the left column with one definition in the right
column. (Not all of the definitions in the right column have matches
from the
left.)
(Click on each
example to see its correct answer. Hitting your browser's "Reload" button
will remove the answer images.)
| binary
form |
 |
- the best-known Italian
opera composer of the 19th century
- music in which elements
are left to chance
- an upsetting of the
normal metre or beat
- two-part (A-B) form
with each part normally repeated
- an 18th-century Italian
composer of symphonies
- a polyphonic form
in which one or more themes are developed using imitation
- a single-movement
orchestral piece inspired by an extra-musical subject
- the form, alternating
verses with a refrain, found in many popular songs
- principle of musical
organization around a tonic or home pitch
- the quality of sound
that distinguishes one instrument from another
- early 19th-century
Viennese composer, famous for his songs
- the highness or lowness
of a tone
- piece played at the
beginning of an opera
- German-born 18th-century
English composer
- musical texture of
a single unaccompanied melodic line
- The composer of the Fantastic
Symphony
|
| fugue |
|
| syncopation |
|
| Giuseppe
Verdi |
|
| symphonic
poem |
|
| George
Frideric Handel |
|
| tonality |
|
| pitch |
|
| monophonic |
|
| Franz Schubert |
|
|
