Middle Ages
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
100
The official music of the church that consists of a melody set to sacred Latin texts and sung without accompaniment.
What is Gregorian chant.
100
Music representation of specific poetic images.
What is word painting.
100
This composer is the largest figure of the baroque era and did much of his composing in Leipzig.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach.
100
This form can be spelled out A A' A'' A'''...
What is Theme and Variations.
100
A group of Russian composers who met in St. Petersburg with the aim of creating truly Russian music.
What is the Russian Five (The Mighty Handful)
200
This consists of one or more long, sustained notes accompanying a melody.
What is a drone.
200
A versatile plucked instrument with a body shaped like half a pear.
What is the lute.
200
A polyphonic composition based on one main theme, called a subject.
What is a fugue.
200
This form can be spelled out A B A C A B A.
What is Rondo Form.
200
Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea or scene.
What is Program music.
300
When there are more than one equally important melodic lines in a composition:
What is polyphony.
300
Unaccompanied choral music.
What is a cappella.
300
The final, epic movement of the Messiah.
What is the Hallelujah Chorus.
300
Music designed for the intimate setting of a room in a home or palace. (i.e. string quartet)
What is chamber music.
300
This composer was known as the poet for piano.
Who is Chopin.
400
In the fourteenth century there were changes so profound that music theorists referred to Italian and French music as this:
What is the Ars Nova.
400
A dancelike song for several solo voices in which the same music is repeated for each stanza of the poem.
What is the Renaissance ballett (fa-la)
400
In this type of composition, a small group of soloists is pitted against a larger group of players called the tutti.
What is a concerto grosso.
400
This is where the first theme in the tonic (home) key takes place in sonata form.
What is the exposition.
400
A composition set for solo voice and piano that is intimately fused with poetry.
What is the Art Song.
500
The composer of the Notre Dame Mass.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut.
500
This school of composers including Giovanni Gabrielli that focused their music for St. Mark's Cathedral.
What is the Venetian school.
500
The main attraction for many opera fans, a song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment.
What is an aria.
500
The virtuosic unaccompanied showpiece for a soloist towards the end of a concerto.
What is a cadenza.
500
The idea that music can stand alone as its own art form and does not need other art forms.
What is absolute music.
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