ACTIVITY IN MUSIC 9

Name ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________

Grade & Section _______________________________________________

I.IDENTIFICATION. Write the answer on the space provided before each number.

Libretto Score Aria Recitative A Capella

Vibrato Glissando Capo Falsetto Dolce
Cantabile Tessitura Rubato Coloratura Contralto

_________________1. Sliding quickly between 2 notes

_________________2. The most comfortable singing range of a singer
_________________3. Sweetly singing
_________________4. Head, the beginning
_________________5. In a singing style
_________________6. Declamatory singing, used in the prose parts and dialogue of opera
_________________7. An air or solo singing part sung by a principal character
_________________8. The book that the composer and librettist put together
_________________9. The text of an opera
_________________10. One or more singers performing without instrumental accompaniment
_________________11. Closing section appended to a movement or song
_________________12. Rapidly repeated slight pitch variation during a sustained note
_________________13. A weaker and more airy voice usually in the higher pitch ranges
_________________14. Highest soprano voice
_________________15.Lowest female voice and most unique among female

II. FILL IN THE BLANKS

The parallelism of (1) _____________ and (2) ________________were clearly evident in almost all forms of vocal music during
the Romantic period.
Vocal Music in this period requires singers to perform a greater range of (3)______________, (4)_____________ and (5) ____________.
The proper name for Franz Schubert songs is actually (6) _____________ which is the German word for songs.
(7) ___________________is now one of the most popular operas ever written.
(8) ___________________completed 25 operas throughout his career.
(9) _____________________ introduced new ideas in harmony and in form, including extremes of Chromaticism.
Composers interpret poems, mood, atmosphere and imagery into (10) __________.
(11) _______________ became an important source of musical expressions.
The birth of the (12) ___________________ came. It was the place where all the arts converged.
Puccini belonged to a group of composers who stressed (13) _______________ while Wagner explored the limits of traditional
tonal system that gave keys and chords own identity which paved way for the rise of (14) _________________.
Vocal embellishments and (15) ________________ were used to further affect the way singers sing.
The other term for Opera is (16) _______________________.

III. ENUMERATION (In any order)

A. Male Singing Voices B. Female Singing Voices C. Types of Soprano Voices

1. 4. 7.
2. 5. 8.
3. 6. 9.