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What music followed ancient Egyptian art music?
early Christian liturgical music,
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Which ancient society developed individual tones and scales?
ancient Greeks
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Who helped codify musical notation?
Pythagoras
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The Medieval period begins with the fall of what city?
Rome
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What can Plainsong or Gregorian chant also be called?
Monophonic chant
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What does Polyphonic mean?
multi-voiced
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When did Monophonic chant stop being the dominant form?
1100
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Polyphonic music included more complex voicing of what?
motets
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When was the Renaissance era?
from 1400 to 1600
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What era was from 1400 to 1600?
Renaissance
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The use of the first ass instruments occurred in what era?
Renaissance
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What became widespread in the Renaissance era?
Social dancing
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Musical forms for dance began to standardize during what era?
Renaissance
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The notation of music on a what began to take shape at this time?
staff
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How was music transmitted before the invention of musical notation?
oral
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What was oral music subject to every time is was transmitted?
change
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What can a musical scored be performed without?
the composer's presence
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When was the movable-type printing press invented?
the 15th century
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The record is part of what wind family?
the flute family
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The sahwm was an early family member of what instrument?
the oboe
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Where were the first pipe organs confined to?
churches
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When had the viol emerged by?
the 16th century
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What enabled descriptions and specification of instruments?
Printing
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When did many of the ideas that make up western classical music take shape?
The common practice period
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What began with the Baroque era?
The common practice period
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What era did the classical era follow?
Baroque era
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When did the classical era end?
around 1820
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When did the romantic era end?
about 1910
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Basso continuo and complex tonal counterpoint characterize what type of music?
Baroque
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What does basso continuo mean?
a continuous bass line
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What did music become during the Baroque era in comparison with earlier periods?
more complex
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What form began to take shape during the Baroque era?
the sonata form
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Major and minor what are means for managing dissonance and chromaticism?
tonalities
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Keyboard music became popular during what era?
Baroque
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The violin family is what type of instrument?
stringed
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Opera began to differentiate itself from earlier forms as what?
staged musical drama
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What became more common during the Baroque era?
vocal forms
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What did vocalist add to melodies beginning in the Baroque era?
embellishments
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What theories began to be put in wider practice?
equal temperament
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What does equal temperament enabled in hard to tune keyboard instruments?
a wider range of chromatic possibilities
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What did Bach not use?
equal temperament
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A modern piano is generally what?
tuned
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What system of temperaments was common during Bach's time?
meantone
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When was the Classical era?
1750 to 1820
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What instrument became the predominant keyboard during the classical era?
the piano
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What became more standardized during the classical era?
The basic forces required for an orchestra
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How many muscians, at most, could make up a chamber ensemble during the classical period?
10
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What is an opera buffa?
a form of comic opera
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What type of instrument became more refined during the classical era?
Wind
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What is the single reed family called?
the clarinet family
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What type of instrument was somewhat standardized int eh Baroque era?
double reeded
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Who expanded the single reeds role?
Mozart
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Increased attention to extended melodic lines characterized what era?
Romantic
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When did the Romantic era end?
the early 20th century
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Free-form pieces like nocturnes and preludes were a break from what era?
Classical
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Tensions about what increased during the Romantic era?
key signatures
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What is a name for an art song?
Lied
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Who controlled musical institutions before the 19th century?
wealthy patrons
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Composers and musicians began to construct lives independent of what in the 19th century?
the nobility
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What class increased it's interest in music during the 19th century?
middle classes
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What instrument became widely popular in the middle class in the 19th century?
The piano
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The 19th century marks the foundation of many what?
symphony orchestras
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To what number did the size of the orchestra grow to?
100
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What size of choirs have performed Gustav Mahler's 1906 Symphony No. 8?
over 400
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What size orchestras have performed Gustav Mahler's 1906 Symphony No. 8?
over 150
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What allowed Brass instruments to play a wider range of notes?
rotary valves
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What array of instrument grew wider?
percussion
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What did European cultural ideas follow?
colonial expansion
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What type of music rose toward the end of the era?
nationalism
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What did nationalism in music sometime echo?
political sentiments of the time
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Edvard Grieg and Antonin Dvorak used what kind of music in their compositions?
traditional music of their homelands
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What style does 20th century classical music encompass?
post-Romantic
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When did modernism take place?
1890–1930
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Composers rejected the traditions of the common practice period during what era?
Modernism
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Neo-classical music emerged during what era?
high-modern era
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Postmodern music is also know as what?
contemporary music
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What gender are most composers described in music textbooks?
male
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Who asked why is music composed by women so marginal to the standard 'classical' repertoire?
Musicologist Marcia Citron
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Why were women composers deemed not notable?
did not write many symphonies
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Who is one of the only female composers mentioned?
Clara Shumann
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What type of music did women composers typically write?
art songs
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What type of view is that classical music is primarily written musical tradition?
modernist
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Musical notation is effective for what?
transmitting classical music
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Why is written musical notation effective?
contains the technical instructions for performing the work
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Did student who actively listen to classical music before studying have higher or lower scores?
higher
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What happened to the scores of students who listened to rock and roll or country?
moderately lower
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Who experience a significant leap in their academic performance?
students who used classical during the course of study
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Who conducted the research study?
University of Colorado
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What years was the study conducted in?
1996–1997
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Which composer had an effect named after him?
Mozart
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Who wrote a book on the Mozart effect?
Don Campbell
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Where was the experiment originally published?
Nature
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How many IQ points of a students' does the Mozart effect temporarily boost?
8 to 9 points
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How much did the Governor of Georgia budget per year to provide every child with a CD of classical music?
$105,000
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What harmed the music industry in the 20th century according to Shawn Vancour?
the commercialization of classical music
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Who argued that the commercialization of classical music was harmful to the music industry?
Shawn Vancour
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Why was the commercialization of classical music harmful to the music industry according the Shawn Vancour?
inadequate representation.
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Works from the Golden Age of music matches action to what?
classical music
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Who produced Fantasia?
Walt Disney
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Who starred in Johann Mouse?
Tom and Jerry
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