Elements of music
The volume of music.
What are dynamics?
Vibrations moving through the air.
What is sound?
The major power throughout Europe that heavily influenced what music we have from this time period.
What is THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!
The time span of the Baroque Period.
What are the years 1600-1750?
What is an organ?
The speed of music.
What is tempo?
The measurement of the number of wavelengths completed in a second. This determines the pitch we hear.
What is frequency?
A monophonic song performed by monks during mass.
What is chant? (also acceptable Gregorian chant or plainsong.)
The most popular family of instruments during the Baroque Period.
What is the string family?
A woodwind instrument that is usually made from brass.
What is a saxophone?
A structure consisting of five lines and four spaces to write different pitches.
What is the staff?
The measurement of the intensity of the sound.
What is amplitude?
The predecessor of the trombone.
What is a sackbut?
Created by Jacobo Peri, it is a story told entirely through music.
What is opera?
An instrument family where something is hit, shaken, or scraped to produce sound.
What is the percussion family?
A musical sentence.
What is a phrase?
The unit used for frequency.
What are hertz?
He created the first version of the staff notation we use today.
Who is Guido D'Arezzo?
A series of preludes and fugues written by Bach to demonstrate how a well-tuned keyboard can play in any of the 24 scales.
The predecessor of the violin family.
What is the viola da gamba family?
The structure of music.
What is form?
The structure that houses the vocal folds.
What are numes?
A song comprised of many contrasting movements, often written as stylized dance.
What is a suite?
The part of a brass instrument where the player buzzes their lips to produce a sound.
What is a mouthpiece?