Medieval/Renaissance
Features monophonic, nonmetric melodies set in one of the church modes or scales
What is chant?
Texture in which a single melody stands out with underlying accompaniment.
What is homophony?
When composers utilize ideas/music/scales/instruments from far-flung parts of the world.
What is Exoticism?
A combination of two chords played at the same time.
What is a polychord?
Located in Paris, this was the center for organum.
What is the Cathedral of Notre Dame?
A large scale drama that is sung.
What is opera?
Notable Lied by Schubert that embodied supernaturalism and contained multiple characters.
What is the lied "Erlkoenig"?
Developed the twelve-tone system.
Who is Schoenberg?
The foremost poet-composer of the ars nova. Wrote the Messe de Nostre Dame.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
Played by the orchestra at the beginning of most operas, which may introduce melodies from the arias that are performed later in the work.
What is an orchestral overture?
Instrumental music associated with a poem, story, idea, or scene.
What is program music?
Uses musical forms and stylistic features of earlier periods to organize twentieth-century harmonies and rhythms.
What is Neoclassicism?
The 3 M's (forms/genres) of the Renaissance era.
What are the mass, motet and madrigal?
The four sections of sonata-allegro form.
What are the exposition, development, recapitulation and coda?
Known as the "Father of the Symphony" he wrote 104 of them.
Who is Joseph Haydn?
Known for writing chance (aleatoric) music.
Who is John Cage?
Technique used by composers to depict specific words through music.
What is word painting?
This composer included a chorus at the end of his last symphony.
Who is Beethoven?
What are the five musical sections of the Mass Ordinary?
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei
Popular musical that combined music composed by Leonard Bernstein, lyricist Stephen Sondheim and choreographer Jerome Robbins.
What is West Side Story?