This period featured the birth of Opera and the emergence of homophony while instrumental music increased significantly.
What is the Baroque period?
100
Renaissance composers liked a few melodies all at the same time!
What is polyphonic?
100
This composer was a jazz pianist in the New York scene before he returned to Los Angles where he started his film composing career.
Who is John Williams?
100
This composition was influenced by the war between Serbia and Turkey and features traditional folk songs.
What is Marche Slave?
100
This composer established the clarinet as a standard instrument of the orchestra during the classical period.
Who is Mozart?
200
Monks sang melodies in unison and almost all music was for the greater glory of God.
What is the Medieval period?
200
No singers, no performed words, only an instrumental performance that tries to create a specific mood or story.
What is program music?
200
This composer had a failed marriage, strings of depression, and eventually died of cholera (not suicide), but he still managed to write some sweet melodies.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
200
1984 Olympics
What is the Olympic Fanfare and Theme?
200
This composer solidified the standard 4-movement scheme for symphonies and wrote 106 of them.
Who is "Papa" Haydn?
300
From atonal music to rockabilly, this period had just about everything.
What is the 20th Century?
300
Melody likes her subordinate chords to accompany her in this type of texture.
What is homophonic?
300
This composer studied at the Helsinki Institute for music and then continued his education in Berlin and Vienna.
Who is Jean Sibelius?
300
This composition was originally an opera but we are performing parts of it with just instruments which is called a concert suite.
What is Carmen?
300
This composer has 5 Oscars.
Who is John Williams?
400
Instrumental music rose the greatest heights - even above vocal music.
What is the Romantic period?
400
A one-movement instrumental work that is programmatic, started as an opening to an opera, and eventually became the typical opening piece for a masterworks concert.
What is a concert overture?
400
A "sick" pianist but nobody knew it but Liszt...and maybe a few others.
Who is Bizet?
400
Some think of this composition as Finland's struggle for independence.
What is Symphony No. 2 by Sibelius?
400
This composer liked to play jokes on the ladies by sitting them in his rigged rocking chair.
Who is Brahms?
500
Powdered wigs and toddler geniuses were around for the development of the piano.
What is the Classical period?
500
Monks preferred to sing their melodies to God in unison.
What is monophonic?
500
This composer wrote 9 symphonies and was the master of thematic development.
Who is Beethoven?
500
This composition features a fast triple meter Spanish dance called an aragonaise.