Musical Elements
This begins when an object is set into motion.
What is "sound"?
This musical period included Gregorian chant and the emergence of organum.
What is "the Middle Ages"?
This instrument is a high pitched brass and is played by buzzing lips on a mouthpiece.
What is a "trumpet"?
This composer from the Baroque Period wrote the famous oratorio Messiah.
Who is "George Friderich Handel"?
This musical form involves only two sections of music that are played A A B B or A A B.
What is "binary"?
Italian terms for degrees of loudness or softness in music.
What are "dynamics"?
This musical period included the emergence of word painting heard in motets and madrigals.
What is "The Renaissance Period"?
This woodwind instrument has only one reed and has a mellow, mid-tone range.
What is a "clarinet"?
This composer's death marked the end of the Baroque Period.
Who is "Johann Sebastian Bach"?
This kind of form involves two sections of music with an altered return to the first section; A B A'.
What is "ternary"?
This is the speed of the beat.
What is "tempo"?
This musical period included the emergence of terraced dynamics and basso continuo.
What is "the Baroque Period"?
This stringed instrument is played while sitting down and is common as the bass for basso continuo.
What is a "cello"?
This well-loved English composer from the Baroque Period wrote the opera Dido and Aeneas.
Who is "Henry Purcell"?
This Baroque musical form involves a soloist or small group alternating musical sections with an orchestra.
What is a "concerto"?
This is the organization of beats into regular groups.
What is "meter"?
This musical period had vocal music that was mostly polyphonic.
This large, booming percussion instrument is commonly known as "kettle drums."
What are "timpani"?
This Flemish composer from the Renaissance Period is known for his four-voice motet, Ave Maria ... Virgo Serena.
Who is "Josquin Desprez"?
This musical form from the Baroque period contains a "refrain" that recurs throughout the work.
What is "ritornello"?
This occurs when a note is accented that normally is not.
What is "syncopation"?
During this musical period, instrumental music grew in importance due to the development of the orchestra.
What is "the Baroque period"?
This woodwind instrument has two reeds and is so large that it doubles back upon itself.
What is a "bassoon"?
This composer from the Middle Ages is known for his Notre Dame Mass.
Who is "Guillaume de Machaut"?
This musical form from the Baroque period similar to a round involves a main theme (the subject) that is stated and restated by all of the voices throughout the work.
What is "fugue"?