Composers
was a nun at a Women’s Convent who wrote most of the chant that survives today.
Who is Hildegard Von Bingen?
A musical setting of parts of the liturgy used in the Catholic Mass. In latin.
In the Renaissance music is now mainly ______________ meaning multiple lines of music.
What is Polyphonic
Baroque German composer whose most famous work is an Oratorio titled The Messiah.
Who is George Frederic Handel
is a single melodic line set to Latin text
What is Plainchant?
Most famous and sought-after Italian Catholic Composer during the Renaissance.
Who is Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina?
A musical composition for solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra.
What is a Concerto?
another name for Plainchant, named after the pope who collected and organized them.
What is Gregorian Chant?
German composer during the Romantic Period who wrote many Lieder, Art Songs for piano and solo voice.
Who was Franz Schubert?
Daily Double:
A piece of orchestral music which introduces a large-scale work such as an opera, an oratorio, or a musical.
What is an overture?
Well known Catholic English Renaissance Composer that had exclusive composition publishing rights under Queen Elizabeth I.
Who was William Byrd?
Daily Double:
A large-scale musical work for orchestra and voices, typically it tells a story from the bible.
What is an Oratorio?
Music in the Renaissance is now written with counterpoint using _______________ intervals that sound good together like 3rd, 5ths, and 6ths.
What is consonant?
German Romantic composer who wrote a famous Lullaby and Requiem and dominated the second half of the period.
Who is Johannes Brahms
A one-movement piece for orchestra which tells a story or maybe relates an experience from the composer’s life.
What is a Symphonic/Tone Poem?
Was the first crossover artist, bridging the time period transitioning from the Medieval Period to the Renaissance. His music being a fine example of the ars nova (new age).
Who was Guilliame de Machaut
Music for voices with instrumental accompaniment.
What is a Cantata?
Song form which repeats the same music for each stanza of a poem; easier to remember, used in folk songs.
What is Strophic form?
German Composer who composed over a thousand pieces in his lifetime. His death ends the Baroque Period.
Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?
A German word that refers to vocal music for solo voice and piano accompaniment.
What is an Art Song/Lieder?
German Romantic composer who rediscovered Johann Sebastian Bach
Who was Felix Mendelssohn
The evolution of Imitative Polyphony now on harpsichord and organ.
What is a Fugue?
The three types of motion in Organum
What are Parallel, Contrary, and Oblique motion?
Austrian Classical composer known as the Father of the Symphony.
Who was Franz Joseph Haydn?
A group of songs linked by a common theme or with a text written by the same author, usually accompanied by piano but sometimes small ensembles
What is a Song Cycle?