SHOSYS ACADEMY 12 TEST: TRENDS IN WESTERN MUSIC

SHOSYS ACADEMY 12 TEST: TRENDS IN WESTERN MUSIC

Kelvin Sholar

1 Introduction To The Blog Series

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2 Testing Recall Of TITLE

In Lesson 12, we learned about trends in western music. Here in this Test, remembrance is assessed; the primary task for the student is to find cues in test questions that make it easy to remember answers. There may be more than one correct answer for a given test question. Correct answers are given at the end of this test.

2.1 Test Questions

1. Knowledge of trends and sequences concern:

a). processes

b). specifics

c). directions

d). movements of phenomena

 

2. Alban Berg was an:

a). American composer

b). German composer

c). Austrian composer

 

3. Listeners try to sum complex compositions up into a single simple:

a). melody

b). title

 

4. Western melodies were composed by the exact repetition of phrases; which creates____

a). symmetry

b). sequence

 

5. Long melodies (themes) often take place over the course of an ____ number of bars:

a). odd

b). even

 

6. In Western music, themes were developed ____ over ____ numbers of bars:

a). slowly, few

b). slowly, many

c). quickly, few

d). quickly, many

 

7. In Western music, themes were developed through:

a). exact repetitions

b). sequences

 

8. In Western music, relations of tempo and note-values derive from:

a). mechanical movement

b). bodily movement

c). old dance forms

 

9. In Western music, the music of the nineteenth century is almost always:

a). monophonic

b). polyphonic

c). homophonic

 

3 Test Answers

1. Knowledge of trends and sequences concern:

a). processes

c). directions

d). movements of phenomena

 

2. Alban Berg was an:

c). Austrian composer

 

3. Listeners try to sum complex compositions up into a single simple:

a). melody

 

4. Western melodies were composed by the exact repetition of phrases; which creates____

a). symmetry

 

5. Long melodies (themes) often take place over the course of an ____ number of bars:

b). even

 

6. In Western music, themes were developed ____ over ____ numbers of bars:

b). slowly, many

 

7. In Western music, themes were developed through:

a). exact repetitions

b). sequences

 

8. In Western music, relations of tempo and note-values derive from:

a). mechanical movement

b). bodily movement

c). old dance forms

 

9. In Western music, the music of the nineteenth century is almost always:

c). homophonic

 

4 Bibliography

Berg, Alban. Why Is Schoenberg’s Music So Difficult To Understand?. Vienna: Musikblaetter des Anbruch, 1924

Bloom, B. S.; Engelhart, M. D.; Furst, E. J.; Hill, W. H.; Krathwohl, D. R. Taxonomy Of Educational Objectives: The Classification Of Educational Goals. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. New York: David McKay Company, 1956

Kamien, Roger. Music: An Appreciation. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2018

Reich, Willi. The Life and Work of Alban Berg. New York: 1982