He was the leading English composer of the late 17th century.
Who is Purcell?
100
Name an irregular time signature.
What is 7/8 or 7/4 or 5/8 or 5/4, etc.
100
The “home pitch” on which a musical scale or key is based.
What is the tonic?
100
This is the main intellectual/philosophical/cultural movement associated with the Classical Period.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
Composers in this movement adopt stylistic idioms that imitated presumably primitive art.
What is primitivism?
200
He was the most famous and accomplished composer of the late Medieval period.
Who is Machaut?
200
The distinctive sound of an instrument or voice.
What is timbre?
200
The sequence of individual notes that make up the tune of a piece of music.
What is melody?
200
The earliest form of polyphony was called...
What is organum?
200
This style of operatic piece is sung quickly, as though spoken. It carries the dramatic action, moving the plot forward.
What is recitative?
300
He was the most well-known composer of the Counter-Reformation.
Who is Palestrina?
300
This type of texture describes two or more melodies being performed at the same time.
What is polyphony?
300
The sound created by multiple voices playing or singing together.
What is harmony?
300
This genre combines European-American with African-American and Afro-Cuban musical traditions.
What is jazz?
300
This piece is an opportunity for the orchestra to introduce operatic themes. In the early days of opera, it was a way of indicating that the audience should take their seats.
What is the overture?
400
This composer was the first professor of music at Harvard.
Who is John Knowles Paine?
400
In acoustics, the number of wavelengths per second determines the ___________ of the sound.
What is pitch?
400
This type of form presents a theme, then in subsequent iterations, it changes one or more important aspects of the theme.
What is theme and variations?
400
A previously composed chant melody used as the basis for a new piece of music.
What is the cantus firmus?
400
The essential feature of Schoenberg's expressionist music.
What is atonality?
500
This composer wrote the most famous and clear example of program music.
Who is Berlioz?
500
In melodic motion, this term describes pitches that are close together, one pitch following another is either directly above or directly below.
What is conjunct?
500
This form is often used in the first movement of multi-movement works such as symphonies or string quartets.
What is sonata form?
500
This musical accompaniment is performed by a melodic bass instrument and a harmonic instrument.
What is basso continuo?
500
The theme associated with "the artist's love" (or, autobiographically, Harriet Smithson) in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.