Study Guide for the Music Appreciation Final Exam—Fall 2013
Types of questions on the final exam:
*Be able to match composers to their correct historical era. Composers you may need to know are: -Medieval: Hildegard, Mauchaut,
Leonin, Perotin –Renaissance: Desprez, Palestrina, Weelkes, Gesualdo Baroque: Vivaldi, JS Bach, Handel, Monteverdi, Purcell -Classic: Mozart,
Beethoven, -Romantic: Schubert, Berlioz, Wagner, Chopin, Clara & Robert
Schumann, Tchaikovsky
*Listening Examples (some of them are clickable):
-ANONYMOUS: Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam -HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: O
Successores -ANONYMOUS: Haec dies -MACHAUT: "Agnus Dei" from
Missa Notre Dame -As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill Descending by Thomas
WEELKES -Agnus Dei (I)" from Pope Marcellus Mass by Giovanni da
PALESTRINA -Moro, lasso by Carlo GESUALDO -Ave Maria . . . virgo serena
by Josquin DESPREZ -Tu sei morta from L'Orfeo by Claudio MONTEVERDI Dido's Lament" from Dido and Aeneas by Henry PURCELL -Vivaldi:
"Spring" movement 1, from The Four Seasons
-Handel: "Hallelujah" from
Messiah
-Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major -Mozart: Eine kleine
Nachtmusik, movement 3-Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, movement 1 (play
00:20 to 07:30)
-Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, movement 4
-Schubert:
Erlkonig
-Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat
-Wagner: "Die Walkure" from The Ring
of the Nibelungs
-Tchaikovsky: The Nutcraker