Dates
450-1450
What are the dates of the Medieval Period?
This composer was known for going deaf in his 30s.
Who is Beethoven?
This word means you write something for a special occasion and get paid for it.
What is commission?
These musical forms developed during the Baroque Period.
What are orchestra and opera?
This piece is a famous composition by a composer from the Classical Time period.
What is Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven?
1450-1600
What are the dates of the Renaissance Period?
This composer died in poverty and was buried in a mass grave.
Who is Mozart?
This musical texture describes a single melodic line with voices or other instruments accompanying.
What is homophonic?
What are topics/themes of Romantic period music?
This piece is part of an oratorio written by this famous Baroque composer.
What is "Hallelujah" by Handel?
1600-1750
What are the dates of the Baroque Period?
This French composer was most known for composing in the Impressionism style.
Who is Claude Debussy?
What is word painting?
This event also coincided with the Romantic Period.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This piece is by Romantic era composer Schubert and the English translation describes Gretchen singing about her lover while she is doing this.
1750-1820
What are the dates of the Classical Period?
This composer is most known for composing atonal music, which is music that has no key signature.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
This phrase describes when the volume stays the same and then suddenly changes.
What is terraced dynamics?
This term meant the composer was free from service to the aristocracy and could compose what he wanted to.
What is emancipation?
This piece by Mozart is called Lacrimosa and is part of the mass Salieri tricked him into writing also known by it's Latin name (the mass for the dead).
What is a Requiem?
1820-1900
What are the dates of the Romantic Period?
This Baroque composer wrote a concerto based on the four seasons. We listened to "Spring".
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This genre attempted to convey shock and tension to the audience.
What is Expressionism?
This genre is borrowed from the art style of the same name in which the artists focused on light, color, and atmosphere.
What is Impressionism?
The technique used in this style of music by Expressionist composer Arnold Schoenberg refers to music which is lacking a key signature.
What is atonal?