Composers
The first composer associated with Atonal Expressionism.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
The orchestral genre developed in the Classical period that features ensemble playing and typically employs the Sonata Cycle.
What is Symphony?
The form described by the following scheme: ABACABA.
What is Rondo?
African American artistic movement based in New York in the early 1910's and 20s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Lorenzo da Ponte and Mozart worked together in this genre of opera.
What is Opera Buffa?
The English Madrigal composer we studied.
Who is Thomas Morley?
The term for a set of stylized dances.
What is suite?
What is a Cantus Firmus?
The literary movement focused on creating a purely sensory experience.
What is Symbolism?
What is Ballad Opera?
The female French Baroque composer who primarily wrote for keyboard.
Who is Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre?
This genre employs a formal structure that includes the following elements: Subject, Answer, Episode, Exposition, Stretto.
What is Fugue?
The term used in the Ars Antiqua for the method of notating rhythm.
What are the Rhythmic Modes?
Artistic movement that delves into the darker side of the psyche, creating a deep emotional response through distortion.
What is Expressionism?
The German sacred genre created during the reformation by Martin Luther and Johann Walter.
What is Chorale?
The Baroque composer most influential to the development of the Baroque Trio Sonata.
Who is Corelli?
This form of program music is written in several movements, is not associated with live theatre, and emerged during the Romantic period.
What is program symphony?
The term for the concept that governed Wagner's operatic writing, resulting in his complete control of all operatic elements.
What is Gesamtkuntswerk (total artwork)?
Richard Strauss's opera Salome is an example of this musical movement.
What is Post-Romanticism.
The name for Romantic French opera that combined elements of Grand Opera and Opéra Comique.
What is Lyric Opera?
The composer who incorporated elements of the commedia d'ell arte into his Verismo Opera.
Who is Leoncavallo?
This is the term for a style of dance that emerged with Isadora Duncan in the early 20th century.
Copeland uses this type of harmony in his Americana Style to create a feeling of open space.
What is quartal harmony?
The singing style used to evoke insanity in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.
What is sprechstimme.
This is the only musical genre studied in this class that began in the early Middle Ages and is still composed today.
What is Mass?