Elements of Music
Composers
Medieval-Baroque
Classical-Romantic
Modern-Post-Modern
100

How loudly or softly the music is played

What is/are dynamics?

100

One composer from the Baroque Era

Who is J.S. Bach, George Friederich Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, George Phillipp Telemann, or Johann Pachelbel?

100
The dates of the Baroque Era

What is 1600-1750?

100

The musical era which gave rise to the string quartet

What is the Classical Era?

100

the French translation of "advance guard"

What is avant-garde?

200

The tune, the most important musical line

What is melody?

200

The composer of Carnival of the Animals (Le Carnaval des animaux)

Who is Camille Saint-Saëns?

200

The number of musical eras which preceded the Baroque Era

What is two?

200
The dates of the Classical and Romantic Eras

What are 1750-1820 and 1820-1900?

200

Three events that occurred between 1900 and 1945

What are the Spanish Influenza, the Great Depression, and the World Wars?

300
The seven elements of music

What are Melody, Rhythm, Harmony, Dynamics, Texture, Form, and Timbre?

300

A composer from the Classical Era with the initials JH

Who is Joseph Haydn?

300
What you should think about when you hear Baroque Era

What is ornate and highly-detailed?

300

The most popular instrument of the Classical and Romantic Eras

What is the piano?

300

The composer of the Rite of Spring

Who is Igor Stravinsky?

400

ex. Counting and Clapping 

What is rhythm?

400

A composer from the Romantic Era with the initials FS

Who is Franz Schubert?

400

The four woodwind instruments of the Baroque Era

What are recorder, flute, oboe, and bassoon?

400
Two composers who were also virtuosos

Who are Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, and Niccolo Paganini?

400
The four categories of music during the Modern Era

What are Impressionism, Primitivism, Neoclassicism, and Atonality?

500
The "tone color"

What is timbre?

500

Two composers from every musical era (10 total). 

What are J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, W.A. Mozart, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Niccolo Paganini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Arnold Schoenberg, Arvo Part, and Ennio Morricone?

500

The composer of the oratorio called Messiah, which contains "Hallelujah."

Who is George Friedrich Handel?

500

The four instruments in a string quartet

What are two violins, one viola, and one cello?

500

The musical era that Arvo Pärt belongs to

What is the Post-Modern Era?

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