Composers
Most important Franco/Flemish composer.
Who is Josquin?
Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz is an example of this genre.
What is Program Symphony.
Style used to evoke "Gypsy" music.
What is style hongroise
Art song is an intimate chamber genre typically written for this ensemble.
What is voice and piano?
This style often employs the Siciliano.
What is pastorale?
First composer to consistently substitute the scherzo and trio for the minuet and trio in sonata cycle.
Who is Beethoven?
Often featuring a descriptive title, this solo keyboard genre is frequently programmatic and sometimes incorporated into a piano cycle.
What is character piece?
Schaueroper, the wolf's glenn scene in Der Frieschütz, and Mendelssohn's incidental music for Midsummer Night's Dream all demonstrates this Romantic fascination.
What is the fascination with the supernatural?
The composer who developed and implemented the idea of Gesamtkuntswerk.
Who is Richard Wagner?
Mensural notation was developed in this period.
What is ars nova?
Italian composer and violinist who was important to the development of the Baroque Concerto.
Who is Vivaldi?
Liszt's Hunnenschlacht is an example of this single movement orchestral genre.
What is tone poem/symphonic poem?
These two newly developed musical styles are often used to evoke the Ancient.
What are Bardic, and Chivalric?
The genre of opera developed by composer Meyerbeer and librettist Scribé that features extensive use of chorus, ballet, and spectacle.
What is Grand Opera?
This style developed in the Classical Period and mimics the music of the Janissary band.
What is alla turca/turkish style?
Most important composer of the ars nova?
Who is Machaut.
Echoes of Ossian by Niels Gade is an example of this genre.
What is concert overture?
Art songs, solo keyboard, and chamber music were often performed in this type of intimate venue.
What is salon?
Marenzio and Monteverdi were two of the composers who wrote this type of through-sung polyphonic secular song, which featured graphic text painting.
What is madrigal?
Handel made a living composing these choral genres that draw their stories from the Bible, but are performed in concert halls.
What is Oratorio?
The composer who worked closely with Apostolo Zeno to develop Opera Seria.
Who is Scarlatti?
Sometimes programmatic, this collection of dances often features descriptive titles and is commonly seen in the music of Couperin.
What is suite?
This popular Romantic idea was often manifested in music through the use of a country's myth and legends as plot devices and through the incorporation of folk music and folk idioms.
What is Nationalism?
This genre is written in stile antico and exploits the technique of stile concertato.
What is polychoral mass/motet.
This Italian secular vocal genre was popular in the Middle Ages.
What is Ballata?