Elements
X3 - This term refers to the frequency of vibration that determines how high or low a sound is.
Pitch
This type of sacred chant is characterized by monophonic texture and Latin text.
Gregorian Chant
-3X - This invention affected Renaissance music by making music more widely available.
Printing Press
-6X - This refers to serious opera on classical themes.
Opera seria
X5 - The Classical era is often associated with the ideals of this intellectual movement.
The Enlightenment
The use of folk melodies to express locational identity is called this.
Nationalism
-4X - This emphasizes repetition of short melodic patterns that slowly changes over time
Minimalism
The musical alphabet consists of these seven letters.
A-G
X2 - The Medieval period in music lasted approximately during these years.
450-1450
This term means without instrumental accompaniment.
X2 - This is sung dialogue that advances the plot in opera.
Recitative
X2 - This composer's music is often seen as a bridge between the Classical and Romantic eras.
Beethoven
True or False? The romantic era did not expand the range of dynamics, pitch, and tone color of the orchestra.
False
X3 - This is characterized by extreme emotion and dissonance to reflect the harshness of war.
Expressionism
X2 - This texture consists of a single, unaccompanied melody.
Monophonic
X3 - These were early musical notation symbols used in the Medieval period.
Neumes
This technique means musical representation of textual ideas in Renaissance music.
Word painting
The Baroque orchestra was based on this family of instruments.
Strings
This is the primary genre of the Classical era.
The symphony
This is a fixed idea - a recurring theme representing a character or idea.
Idée Fixe
X2 - Musical Impressionism is characterized by these qualities.
Lack of a strong pulse, fluidity, and tone color
This texture features one melody with background accompaniment.
Homophonic
The purpose of liturgical music was to do this for mostly illiterate people.
To teach church doctrine
This set of five horizontal, parallel lines serves as a sort of graph for written music.
Musical staff
These were male singers castrated before puberty to maintain their high vocal range.
Castrati
While the Baroque era was largely polyphonic, the Classical era was primarily this.
Homophonic
This is instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
Program music
This genre expresses ancient or primitive cultures through rhythm and dissonance.
Primitivism
his refers to the quality or color of sound that allows us to distinguish between a flute and a trumpet playing the same pitch.
Timbre
This type of chant has one note per syllable.
Syllabic
This precursor to opera developed during the Renaissance period.
Madrigals
The Baroque period began approximately in this year.
1600
This is a soloist's virtuosic improvisatory passage in a concerto.
Cadenza
Who was the originator of the leitmotif?
Wagner
This composer blended classical music with jazz
George Gershwin