Medieval
The Medieval Period are also known as the...
Dark ages
A plucked string instrument, popular in homes, resembling a guitar.
What is the lute?
A small string instrument, central to Baroque ensembles.
What is the violin?
This instrument replaced the harpsichord as the main keyboard instrument in the Classical era.
What is the piano (or fortepiano)?
pieces told a story or painted a picture (inspired by literature, art, or nature).
what is Program music?
This was the main language of church music during the medieval period.
What is Latin?
Music became more about... Instead of religion.
what is Human emotion?
This short repeated musical idea in the bass line forms the foundation of many Baroque works.
What is a basso continuo (or ground bass)?
The orchestra in the Classical era grew mainly with this family of instruments, adding horns and trumpets.
What are the brass instruments?
Music that uses folk tunes and rhythms to reflect a national identity.
What is nationalism?
Music in the medieval period was split into two main types.
What are sacred and secular music?
Palestrina wrote songs about..
Morley wrote about....
what is Religion/ people and relationships?
This instrumental form has one soloist with orchestra accompaniment.
What is a solo concerto?
This form, usually the first movement of symphonies, featured exposition, development, and recapitulation.
What is sonata form?
This instrument expanded in size and range during the Romantic era, becoming the centerpiece of the concert hall.
What is the piano?
Traveling poet-musicians of southern France.
Who were troubadours?
Renaissance music was mostly written in this texture, using multiple independent melodies.
What is polyphony?
This large-scale dramatic work for voices and orchestra, usually on a religious subject, is like an unstaged opera.
What is an oratorio?
Known for bridging the Classical and Romantic eras, this German composer wrote nine symphonies, including the famous Fifth Symphony.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
Romantic music often shifted suddenly in this element, moving between very soft and very loud.
What are dynamics (or extreme dynamic contrasts)?
A bowed string instrument, considered the ancestor of the violin.
What is the vielle?
The Renaissance was inspired by a “rebirth” of this ancient culture’s art and ideas.
What is Greco-Roman culture (or classical antiquity)?
This texture, featuring a single melody with accompaniment, dominated the Baroque period.
What is homophony?
This important event in America (1776) happened during the Classical era.
What is the American Revolution?
Romantic music coincided with this 19th-century movement in literature and art that valued nature and emotion over reason.
What is Romanticism?