What to prepare for the
Final Exam:
(Exam will be on Wed, April 24 after Listening Quiz #2--Final Exam class
session goes from 12:30-2:30PM)
You must
bring a No. 2 pencil
There will be 80
multiple-choice/matching/true-false questions on this exam. Each question is
worth 2.5 points towards your final course grade. (The final exam is worth 200
possible points --20% of your final course grade).
The exam is cumulative, but
the primary focus will be on material since the midterm exam. All previous
terms/material that will appear on the final exam is referenced on this review
page (no need to review the midterm study guide)
Be able to match the following terms with their definitions: (take the online "Practice Quiz for Final Exam Preparation")
- Musical Elements
(textbook, Chapter 1 + lecture notes):
Timbre, Texture
- Medieval (textbook
Chapter 3 + lecture notes):
organum, Mass ordinary, isorhythm,
musica ficta, Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova, rhythmic
modes
- Renaissance
(textbook Chapter 4 + lecture notes):
word-painting, point of imitation, madrigal
- Baroque (textbook
Chapter 5 + lecture notes):
Basso continuo, recitative, aria, cantata, oratorio, trio sonata, suite, solo
concerto, concerto grosso, tutti
prima practica, seconda
pratica
- Pre-Classic/Classic
(textbook Chapter 6 + lecture notes):
opera seria, opera buffa,
ballad opera, symphony, sonata, serenade, string quartet, the
Classic 4-movement design (see p. 7 of the MUS1700 Resource Guide p. 50)
- Romantic (textbook
Chapter 7 + lecture notes):
absolute music, programmatic music, program symphony, idee
fixe, symphonic poem, character piece, Lieder, verismo,
Musikdrama, Leitmotif, ballet
- 20th century "art
music" (textbook Chapter 8 + lecture notes):
impressionism, expressionism, Sprechstimme, atonality, serialism,
neo-Classicism, minimalism, chance music, prepared piano, tone cluster
- Jazz (textbook
Chapter 9 + lecture notes):
12-bar blues; "Hot" Jazz: (Armstrong); Swing: (Ellington/Goodman);
Bebop: (Parker, Gillespie); Cool" Jazz: (Brubeck); "Free" Jazz:
(Coleman)
- Forms and
Compositional Techniques (textbook + lecture notes):
binary, ternary, canon, fugue (chapter 5), ostinato, ritornello (chapter 5),
sonata form (chapter 6), theme and variations (chapter 6), minuet and trio
(chapter 6), scherzo and trio (chapter 6), rondo (chapter 6),
Be able to match the
following composers to their historical era or to their brief description:
- Machaut (online textbook, chapter 3, p.15)
- Josquin des Prez.
Palestrina (online textbook, chapter 4, p.26)
- Monteverdi, Vivaldi, JS Bach, Handel (online textbook, chapter 5, pp.32-33)
- Mozart, Beethoven (online textbook, chapter 6, p.46)
- Schubert, Wagner, Brahms, Berlioz, Chopin (online textbook, chapter 7,
pp.69-70)
- Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Copland, Cage, Glass, Penderecki
(online textbook, chapter 8, pp.94-96)
- Armstrong ("Hot" Jazz"), B. Smith (Blues), Ellington/Goodman
(Swing), Bebop (Parker/Davis), Brubeck ("Cool" Jazz), Coleman
("Free" Jazz)
Be able to match the
following titles with the musical concept they relate to (these may also be
used as the basis for true/false questions):
- Vivaldi: "Spring" movement 1 from The Four Seasons (Baroque
3-movement programmatic solo concerto with idiomatic violin writing)
- Mozart: Symphony No. 40 (Classic 4-movement symphony lambasts the
aristocracy, especially in 3rd movement "Minuet")
- Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 (Classic 4-movement symphony, reference to
the symbolic death of Napoleon as a socio-political hero)
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (Romantic 5-movement program Symphony with
German-titled movements ennobling the common class)
- Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
(5-movement program symphony, idee fixe, distraught
man hallucinates a series of five orchestral dreams about his former lover)
- Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat Op. 9 No. 2 (Romantic character piece)
- Schubert: Erlkonig (Lieder, a young boy dies
in his father's arms)
- Wagner: Die Walkure from The Ring of the Nibelungs (Musikdrama,
Leitmotif, Brunnehilde, Wotan, world destroyed by
lust for the magic Rhine gold)
- Smetana: The Moldau (Symphonic poem,
symbolic political statement about the freedom of a Czech river)
- Puccini: La Boheme (verismo
opera, Rodolfo, Mimi, poverty-stricken writer falls in love with a seamstress
dying from tuberculosis)
- Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (20th century symphonic
poem, impressionism)
- Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
(atonality, expressionism, Sprechstimme, 20th century song cycle about a
lunatic)
- Copland: "Simple Gifts" from Appalachian Spring (20th
century ballet, Theme and Variations, neo-Classicism)
- Bernstein: West Side Story (20th century musical theatre, modern
gang-war adaptation of Romeo and Juliet incorporating jazz elements)
- Cowell: The Banshee (20th century avant-garde
character piece in which the main performer plays directly on the strings of a
piano)
- Varese: Poeme electronique
(20th century "electronic poem", musique
concrete)
- Cage: Perilous Night (20th century avant-garde, prepared piano)
- Cage: 4'33" (20th century avant-garde, chance music)
- Babbitt: Ensemble for Synthesizer (2oth century, total serialism)
- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (an experimental early 20th century
ballet that caused a riot during its premiere performance)