MUS 1500 Final Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025
John Philip Sousa - ANSWERSDirector of the US Marine Corps band who composed many famous American patriotic military marches
Gustav Holst - ANSWERSBritish late-Romantic composer who wrote the first notable and influential concert works for b...
John Philip Sousa - ANSWERSDirector of the US Marine Corps band who composed many famous
American patriotic military marches
Gustav Holst - ANSWERSBritish late-Romantic composer who wrote the first notable and influential
concert works for band
Frederick Fennell - ANSWERSProfessor at the Eastman School of Music in New York who created the first
modern wind ensemble in 1952
Commission - ANSWERSAn honorary/paid invitation for a composer to write a new work that will be
premiered by the commissioning group
Transcription - ANSWERSA basic adaptation a pre-existing work so it can be performed by a medium
other than the one it was originally written for
Arrangement - ANSWERSA substantial reworking of a pre-existing work, often requiring as much
compositional ingenuity as a writing a completely new work
Janissary Band - ANSWERSAn elite corps of Turkish musician-soldiers who formed the personal guard of
Turkish sultans, and had an enormous impact on European band music
Concert Band - ANSWERSA large indoor concert ensemble of woodwinds, brass, and percussion
instruments
Marching Band - ANSWERSA large outdoor ensemble of woodwinds, brass, and percussion instruments
that moves in choreographed routines
, Wind Ensemble - ANSWERSA smaller ensemble of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments
Verismo - ANSWERSA more realistic type of Italian opera promoted by Puccini
Ballet - ANSWERSA staged programmatic work for dancers and orchestra
Musikdrama - ANSWERSA type of German "opera" promoted by Wagner
Character Piece - ANSWERSA 1-movement programmatic work for piano
Lied - ANSWERSA German art-song
Symphonic Poem - ANSWERSA 1-movement programmatic work for orchestra
Program Symphony - ANSWERSA multi-movement programmatic work for orchestra
Song Cycle - ANSWERSSeveral songs combined into a single work, usually based on the same poetic
source
Absolute Music - ANSWERSMusic that does not intend to tell a specific story
Program Music - ANSWERSMusic that attempts to tell a story or "paint a picture" without words
Leitmotif - ANSWERSA "musical signature" associated with a specific characters and ideas in Wagner's
stage works
Incidental Music - ANSWERSMusic performed during a theatrical play
Idee Fixe - ANSWERSThe term used to describe the recurring transformable melody in Berlioz' "Fantastic
Symphony"
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