Definitions
Homophonic
A freelance musician who played music they wrote themselves for wealthy patrons
Troubadour
The invention of this device allowed sheet music to be widely distributed cheaply.
Printing press
Baroque composers are all about that
bass, basso
This composer died at 35 and wrote over 800 compositions.
Mozart
Polyphonic
Multiple voices - multiple melodies
A freelance musician who performed folk music - at the very least, music written by others
Minstrel
Renaissance music was much like medieval music...just now with more ______.
Polyphony
"barocco" means this in Italian
complex, bizarre, weird
How did Classical musicians approach form and dynamics?
Balanced
Orchestra
Renaissance/Baroque/Classical music ensemble - few brass/winds, mostly strings
Sacred medieval music was more focused on ________ than __________.
Rhythm than melody
Instrument like a guitar - but with a round body and shorter neck
Lute
Monarchs took all the power in government during this
Age of Absolutism
What form that takes themes, breaks them down, then puts them back together became extremely popular in the Classical era?
Sonata form
Symphony
A longer work written specifically for orchestra
William IX, Duke of Acquitaine was a ______.
Troubadour
This instrument shares features of brass and woodwind instruments
Cornetto/Serpent
Sing the intro to a piece written by J.S. Bach.
Kutay will check
This instrument was the preferred keyboard instrument of the Classical era.
Piano
Secular music
For primarily entertainment purposes.
One difference between medieval music notation and modern notation
Kutay will let you know!
______ musicians were more prevalent in the Renaissance because of a growing middle class and the wider availability of instruments/music.
Amateur
The "great-street artist"
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Full name of the piano
Fortepiano