The language used for scared songs in the Middle Ages?
What is Latin
100
The two giants of Baroque composition.
Who were Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel.
100
This “new” instrument became prominent in the Classical era?
What is the pianoforte.
100
This prominent romantic composer was an editor and founder of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (The New Journal of Music).
Who is Robert Schumann.
100
This late nineteenth-century composer was recognized as the most important living French composer.
Who is Claude Debussy.
200
Focusing on human life and its accomplishments
What is humanism
200
Sudden, and not gradual, dynamics.
What is terraced dynamics.
200
Composers known today as The First Viennese School of the Classical Era.
Who were Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).
200
Romanticism was a rebellion against what these two eighteenth century movements.
What are "neoclassicism" and "the age of reason".
200
The scale that Debussy heard for the first time in Javanese music during the 1889 Paris International Exposition.
What is the whole-tone-scale.
300
In the early history of Western music, these two major developments' influence continued into the present day.
What is music notation and counterpoint.
300
The heart of the baroque ensemble, and typically played by at least two instruments (a keyboard such as a harpsichord or organ, and a low melodic instrument such as a cello, double bass, bass viol, or bassoon).
What is basso continuo.
300
From a historical context, the Classical Era is often referred to as this.
What is “The Age of Reason” or the “Enlightenment”.
300
Scholars observed in the fourth movement of Beethoven’s ninth symphony these three Romantic characteristics.
What are reminiscence, the combination of different art forms, and the idea of universal brotherhood.
300
The two non-musical French movements which became an incentive for many developments during the twentieth century.
What are impressionist painting and symbolist poetry.
400
Adding another part against an existing part.
What is organum.
400
A large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, that also includes a narrator. It involves no acting, scenery, or costumes, and is typically based on biblical stories.
What is an oratorio.
400
The four instrumental genres that were prominent during the Classical Era.
What are the symphony, the sonata, concerto, and the string quartet.
400
New music written for each stanza.
What is through-composed form.
400
The name of the twentieth-century movement that used musical forms and stylistic features of earlier periods, particularly of the eighteenth century.
What is neoclassicism.
500
This composer wrote the integrated/cohesive polyphonic mass.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut.
500
He is remembered today as the “father of opera”.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi.
500
Beethoven's compositional output is divided into three distinct periods, with his late works often described as extensively using this technique.
What is the technique of fugal counterpoint.
500
Wagner wrote the libretto and music over the course of about twenty-six years, from 1848 to 1874.
What is the Ring Cycle.
500
The name of Schoenberg's systematized form of atonality.