Musical Styles
Featuring overblown brass playing the Dies Irae chant, this style best describes the following musical excerpt.
What is Demonic Style?
The Doctrine of Affections is the dominant aesthetic of this period.
What is the Baroque Period?
This term can be used to describe melodies that move predominately in stepwise motion or small intervals.
What is conjunct motion?
The following excerpt is an example of this type of music.
What is chant (Plainsong/plainchant).
Sorcerer's Apprentice is an example of this genre.
What is a tone poem (symphonic poem).
The style that evokes imagery of beautiful, romantic evening.
What is Nocturne Style?
Clarity, Symmetry, Simplicity, Balance, Order, and Objectivity are considered this period's sub-aesthetics.
What is the Classical Period?
The Habanera rhythm derived out of this popular rhythmic pattern.
What is the tressilo?
The musical form developed in the Classical Period that is constructed of an Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation.
What is Sonata Form?
The genre developed in the Baroque Period, which positions a soloists against a larger ensemble.
What is Concerto?
Scored in the upper register with shimmering orchestration, the following aural excerpt is an example of this style.
What is Fairy Music?
The period that placed emphasis on the innate dignity of humankind, looked back to Greek and Roman Art for inspiration, and created music that appealed to the senses.
What is the Renaissance?
Shifting the rhythmic accent from the strong beat of a measure to a weak beat is known as this.
What is syncopation?
The form suggested by the pattern ABA'.
What is Ternary?
Especially popular among the middle class, this genre for voice and piano was popularized by Franz Schubert and features an equal union between the text and music.
What is art song?
Horn calls combined with repetitive gestures redolent of horses galloping would likely be employed in this style.
What is Hunt Style?
This period applauded individualism and saw the artist as a being who could transcend the ordinary world through artistic self-expression.
What is the Romantic Period?
In his fifth symphony, Beethoven uses a 4 beat ________ to connect each movement.
What is motif?
The first Middle Age composer to whom we can assign a body of music. (Hint: it is a woman).
Who is Hildergard von Bingen?
The orchestral genre developed in the Classical period that features ensemble playing and typically employs the Sonata Cycle.
What is Symphony?
The style that frequently uses the Spondee rhythm (Long, long), often evokes the cimbalom, and features virtuosic violin lines.
What is Style Hongrois?
The period in which the motet emerged.
What is the Middle Ages?
In the Western European tonal tradition the first note of the scale is known as ________ (I) (Home-base) and the fifth note in the scale is called the ________ (V).
What is Tonic and Dominant?
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 Baroque genre features the contrast between a ripieno (whole orchestra) and a concertina (small group of instrumentalists).
What is Concerto Grosso?