This religious institution held great sway in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
100
This system of government occurs when one person holds complete power over a sovereign state and its people.
What is an absolute monarchy?
100
This is instrumental music that has no specified meaning or relationship to a story.
What is absolute music?
100
These tuneful, sentimental, nostalgic, songs, many written by Stephen Foster, were meant to be played and enjoyed by “everyday” Americans.
What are parlor songs?
100
This Italian Renaissance composer saved polyphonic church music with his Pope Marcellus Mass.
Who is Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina?
200
This system of thought places primary focus on human values rather than supernatural or divine matters.
What is Renaissance Humanism?
200
This guiding principle of the Baroque period proposed that compositional elements were actual embodiments of emotion.
What is the Doctrine of Affectations?
200
Exemplified in Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, this non-functional harmonic system where chords can be combined in any sequence.
What is atonality?
200
Jazz was created in this southern city known more famously for its wild Mardis Gras celebrations.
What is New Orleans?
200
This German Baroque composer was known for writing very complex, contrapuntal fugues.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
300
This is when a preexisting tune or melody is taken and used as the structural basis for another work.
What is a cantus firmus?
300
This Baroque compositional practice established the prominence of singular melodic line over subordinate accompaniment
What is monody?
300
Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice is an excellent example of this, where the music represents an extra-musical story.
What is program music?
300
A true definitive difference between jazz and classical music is the emphasis on this practice, where musicians make up music in real time based on musical and performance cues.
What is improvisation?
300
This Austrian Classical composer is known as the father of the string quartet and the symphony.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
400
This is monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song.
What is Gregorian chant?
400
This 18th-century sociopolitical/cultural movement places secular logic and reason at the center of the human experience.
What is the Enlightenment?
400
This Modern style of composition uses brief musical ideas over long stretches of time with gradual changes.
What is minimalism?
400
This genre of American popular music known for its syncopated rhythms contributed to the development of jazz.
What is ragtime?
400
This famous American Modern composer was featured on South Park (the cartoon) for his minimalistic Christmas music.
Who is Philip Glass?
500
These traveling singer/songwriters performed at court, usually in the Occitan language.
What are troubadours/trouveres?
500
These three adjectives are closely associated with the musical aesthetics of the Classical period.
What are balance, symmetry, and restraint?
500
These three off-shoots of Romanticism were popular in visual and performing arts up until World War I.
What are (German) Expressionism, (French) Impressionism, and (Italian) Futurism?
500
Jazz became popular in this "roaring"ly successful decade.
What are the 1920s?
500
He is the first great figure of American jazz, known for his raspy voice and sick trumpet skills.