1500s
What is the Renaissance Era?
What is the Baroque Era?
The 1750s were the beginning of this musical era.
What is the Classical Era?
Because of this major event in US history, the Classical Era was of significant importance in the United States of America.
What is the Revolutionary War and our Independence from Great Britain.
Music consisting of two or more different melodies sung or played at the same time.
What is Polyphonic?
Another name for this era was the Age of ________ .
What is Reason? (Age of Reason)
A wave of thinking that brought about ideas for change.
What is the European Enlightenment?
This was a meeting consisting of representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies to write the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Continental Congress?
An example of polyphony used around the world.
What is a Canon or Round?
This instrument was the first keyboard style instrument to be able to play both loud and soft.
What is the Fortepiano?
This man invented the lightning rod in 1752.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This famous child prodigy helped shape this musical era.
This great invention in 1455 lead to a spread of art and knowledge.
What is the printing press?
Two scientific inventions in this era opened the world to more discovery.
This balanced musical form created for instrumental groups consists of an Exposition, a Development, and a Recapitulation.
What is the Sonata Form?
Though opera (and singing) was considered superior, this type of instrumental group began to grow in popularity.
What is the Symphony Orchestra?
Though much of the music written during this era was Sacred, this type of music is not religious.
What is Secular music?
A prolific composer in this era that wrote for the church and had a large family.
Who is J. S. Bach?
This composer wrote more than 500 sonatas for keyboard during this era.
Who is Scarlatti? (Domenico Scarlatti)
This composer is recognized as the father of the Symphony.