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Music Theory Advanced Quiz 5
1. What is 'total serialism'?
Applying serial techniques to all aspects of music (pitch, duration, dynamics, timbre)
Serializing only pitch
Writing music in a series of books
2. What is 'spectral music'?
Music based on the acoustic properties of the sound spectrum (overtones)
Music about ghosts
Music played with light
3. What is 'just intonation'?
A tuning system based on simple whole number ratios
Tuning to a piano
Singing just in time
4. What is 'equal temperament'?
A tuning system where the octave is divided into 12 equal semitones
A system where everyone is happy
Tuning based on nature
5. What is a 'quodlibet'?
A musical composition that combines several different melodies—usually popular tunes—in counterpoint
A question in Latin
A type of flute
6. What is 'isorhythm'?
A musical technique using a repeating rhythmic pattern (talea) and a repeating melodic pattern (color)
Rhythm that stays the same
One rhythm
7. What is 'musica ficta'?
Unwritten accidentals performed by singers in early music to avoid tritones or create leading tones
Fake music
Written music
8. What is 'fauxbourdon'?
A technique of musical harmonization used in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, often involving parallel 6/3 chords
False bass
A low drone
9. What is 'stretto'?
A passage in a fugue where the subject entries overlap
Playing strictly
A fast scale
10. What is 'Klangfarbenmelodie'?
Sound-color melody; splitting a musical line or melody between several instruments
A melody about colors
Singing in German
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