MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE
Identify the texture commonly used in Gregorian chant.
Monophonic texture.
Name the keyboard instrument commonly used for continuo playing in the Baroque era.
Harpsichord or Organ
Identify the musical texture most associated with Classical-era writing.
Homophonic
German term for a Romantic-era art song
Lied
Debussy is linked to which artistic movement?
Impressionism
Name the Medieval composer who wrote Play of Virtues.
Hildegard von Bingen
Name the composer of the Hallelujah Chorus.
George Frideric Handel
The musical center of Europe during the Classical Era was what city?
Vienna
Composer of Erlkönig
Franz Schubert
Atonality means music without what?
A tonal center or key.
A singing style between speech and song in early opera is called what?
Recitative
Identify the musical form used in this piece.
Fugue
Classical-era form that consists of exposition, development, and recapitulation.
Sonata Form
He composed 9 famous symphonies despite his deafness.
Ludwig van Beethoven
This piece by Igor Stravinsky caused a riot at it’s premiere.
Igor Stravinsky
Listen to the excerpt. Identify the correct texture.
Polyphonic
Listen to the excerpt. Name the composer.
J.S. Bach
Classical composer known as the “Father of the Symphony"
Franz Joseph Haydn
Listen to the excerpt. Identify what the piano represents.
Galloping Horse
Listen to the excerpt. Identify the composer.
Charles Ives
This Renaissance technique describes music that reflects the literal meaning of the text — such as running lines for “running” or ascending pitches for “up.”
Word Painting
What Baroque dynamic technique involves sudden shifts between loud and soft?
Terraced Dynamics
Identify the type of ensemble playing this piece.
String Quartet
Chopin is most associated with which instrument
Piano
A “prepared piano” involves doing what to the instrument?
Placing objects inside the strings to alter the sound.