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MU111: Review for Final Exam

Prepare for your music history final exam with detailed review of composers, works, listening examples, and exam format. Test your knowledge of music periods, genres, and stylistic features.

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MU111: Review for Final Exam

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  1. MU111: Review for Final Exam

  2. Final Exam Format I. 10 listening (list provided) composer work period

  3. A. Composers B. Works Schoenberg Appalachian Spring Brahms Un di felice Perotinus Mazurka in B-flat Liszt Die Walkure: Wotan’s Farewell Beethoven Aguns Dei from the Pope Marcellus Mass Adams Voiles (Sails) Schubert Symphony #5: 3rd Movement Mahler Trancendental Etude: Wild Hunt

  4. Final Exam Format I. 10 listening (list provided) composer work period Choice of 2 binary terms: justify answer Examples: Baroque/Classical Symphony/Concerto Organum/Gregorial Chant III. 2 Objective Sections Questions from reading and lecture IV. 2 Essay Questions

  5. Essays: • Opportunity to show command of the big-picture sweep • of music history. What were the periods? Composers? • Genres? Important stylistic features? • Opportunity to reflect on different ways that composers have • structured their musical ideas via compositional technique • (e.g. Pachelbel Kanon)

  6. Possible Objective Question Types • (oriented to recognition/identification): • Matching • Given definition, provide term • __________ The formula marking the end of a phrase. • Short Answer/Fill in the blanks • _________ composed 4’33” in 1952, providing an early example of an approach to composition called _________ music. • 4. True/False • Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 is his most famous song.

  7. Selected terms for Final Exam (NB: List is NOT comprehensive: use as a test of where you are in your studying.) monody Medieval (isorhythmic) motet program music minimalism musique concréte Madonna from Pierot Lunaire basso continuo chorale concertino melismatic concerto grosso ritornello a cappella singing strophic form row or series retrograde madrigal Alban Berg minut and trio Josquin Point of imitation Art of the Fugue cadenza retransition col legno Well-Tempered Clavier Lutheran cantata Walking bass rubato Gesamtkunstwerk Gregorian chant Handel classical era basso ostinato Whole tone scale aleatory music Erlkönig rounded binary form Marriage of Figaro Liebestod binary form Viderunt omnes Eroica Symphony cabaletta recitative recapitulation rondo double exposition form finale Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel absolute music dissonance aria serial composition exposition ritornello form Diminution madrigalism Ring cycle figured bass Counter-Reformation Liebestod variations Sprechstime London Symphonies through-composed Leonin Brandenburg Concertos polychoral motet The Seasons contrapuntal leitmotif Idée fixe Ordinary of the Mass Lied Heroic Period Renaissance motet Sprchstimme Surprise Symphony Alberti bass Aria dance suite organum cori spezzati surprise return Così fan tutte timbre Second Viennese School

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