Vocabulary
Don't be a "phony"
Composers and their Compositions
Musical Developments
Famous Non Musicians
100
A Pearl of Irregular Shape
What is Baroque?
100
A musical composition using only one melody.
What is Monophonic?
100
This composer of "Moonlight Sonata" lived a very difficult life and ended up going deaf.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
100
The years from 1910 until the present has seen an exponential growth in this, practically allowing us to have hand held computers
What is technology?
100

He is credited with inventing calculus. He also had a bump on his head after the apple hit.

Who is Isaac Newton?

200
A secular story that is acted out and sung. Le Nozze Di Figaro is a famous one written by Mozart.
What is Opera?
200
When two or more instruments play different notes in the same rhythm, it is known as this.
What is homophony?
200
Tchaikovsky's story of a mouse king is told through this ballet.
What is the nutcracker?
200
When playing baseball the object is to score runs by crossing home plate. In music, this word refers to having a central tone to come home to. It was a development in the Baroque period.
What is tonality?
200
The term "Renaissance Man" is considered to have been created for this man, who was an artist, inventor, sculptor, among other trades.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
Rebirth.
What is Renaissance?
300
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was known for this style of writing, in which many different independent melodies sounded at the same time.
What is Polyphony?
300
Messiah, one of the world's most famous oratorios was written by this man.
Who is George Frederic Handel?
300
Exposition, development, and recapitulation are all part of this.
What is Sonata Allegro Form?
300
His observation into the night sky through his newly designed telescope was the first time mankind saw beyond the earth's atmosphere
Who is Galileo Galilei?
400
Comic opera.
What is Opera Buffa?
400

A large piece of music that is generally played by an orchestra. Sometimes a chorus would be added into the mix

What is a symphony?

400
Impressionism, while mostly an artistic movement was also seen in music such as "Claire de Lune" and "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" written by this French composer
Who is Claude Debussy?
400
12 tone writing is a compositional technique that orders the 12 notes in music in a row and was made famous by likes of Arnold Schoenberg. This is what it's called when the row is played in reverse.
What is Retrograde?
400
The idea that human beings evolved over time is one that is credited to this man, who studied on the Galapagos Islands and wrote "The Origin of Species".
Who is Charles Darwin?
500
Compositional technique that puts "note against note".
What is counterpoint?
500

This type of writing occurs when a melody is played many different ways at the same time.

What is heterophonic?

500
Aaron Copland's "Rodeo" was meant to sound like it was set here.
What is the American West?
500
In the Romantic era, this was used in compositions to express emotions. An example of it is going note to note on a piano.
What is chromatics?
500
While music was continuing to advance, America was doubling its size when this man made the Louisiana Purchase
Who is Thomas Jefferson
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