Music 111 - Music Appreciation » Winter 2021 » Chapter 3 Listening Activity

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Question #1
Let's return to the song Tonight and consider its rhythmic and metric characteristics. Is this song in: Bernstein: Tonight, from West Side Story Is this song in:
A.   duple (or quadruple) meter
B.   sextuple meter
C.   triple meter
Question #2
Let's return to the song Tonight and consider its rhythmic and metric characteristics. Is this a: Bernstein: Tonight, from West Side Story Let's return to the song Tonight and consider its rhythmic and metric characteristics. Is this a: Bernstein: Tonight, from West Side Story
A.   compound meter
B.   simple meter
Question #3
Let's return to the song Tonight and consider its rhythmic and metric characteristics. Does the song begin on a(n): Bernstein: Tonight, from West Side Story
A.   downbeat
B.   upbeat
Question #4
Let's return to the song Tonight and consider its rhythmic and metric characteristics. Which syllable of the first word is the accented beat? Bernstein: Tonight, from West Side Story
A.   night
B.   To-
Question #5
Let's return to the song Tonight and consider its rhythmic and metric characteristics. How would you characterize the accompaniment? Bernstein: Tonight, from West Side Story
A.   having regular beats that match the meter
B.   having syncopations and offbeat accents
Question #6
Let's return to this slow movement from Haydn's Surprise Symphony and determine how expressive devices like tempo and dynamics affect our response to the music. Which best describes the tempo of this work? Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G major (Surprise), second movement
A.   presto
B.   andante
C.   adagio
Question #7
The march from the popular ballet The Nutcracker allows us to test our musical memory in listening for form, or structure, of a composition. Which element below doesn't seem to change? Tchaikovsky: March, from The Nutcracker
A.   instruments
B.   mood
C.   tempo
D.   meter

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