World Music
These are the two different types of classical music in India (and the geographic area they are associated with).
What is Carnatic (southern) and Hindustani (northern) music?
These are the two components of isorhythm.
What are color and talea?
This is the study of musical instruments.
What is organology?
This Baroque composer was instrumental in contributing to the development of opera in England.
Whoa was George Fridrich Handel?
This composer wrote over 350 concertos, most of which were for solo instrument (usually violin) and orchestral accompaniment.
Who was Antonio Vivaldi?
This term is used to describe something of mixed racial or cultural backgroundf.
What is mezistaje?
These are the five sections of the Ordinary Catholic Mass.
What are the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei?
This instrument creates sound by turning a hand crank.
What is the hurdy-gurdy?
She was the first woman to have composed a complete opera (La Liberazione di Ruggiero).
Who was Francesca Caccini?
This is the city, and the church, where Johann Sebastian Bach spent most of his career.
What is Leipzig and St. Thomas Church (Thomaskirsche)?
This music is from the Andean region of South America and was associated with protest movements in the late 20th century.
What is nueva cancion?
This composer wrote several Lutheran masses, but only one complete Catholic mass.
Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?
These are some of the instruments most closely associated with Klezmer music (name at least two).
What are the tsimbl, violin, clarinet, and drums?
This group of intellectuals included such names as Giulio Caccini and Pietro Strozzi and was credited with developing opera.
What was the Florentine Camerata?
This composer was known for his Abendmusik recitals.
Who was Dieterich Buxtehude?
This term literally translates to "alternating sixes" and relates to rhythmic groupings of either 3+3 or 2+2+2.
What is sesquialtera?
This type of mass borrows melodic material from existing pieces of music.
What is an imitation mass?
These are the categories of instruments in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system.
What are idiophones, membranophones, cordophones, and aerophones?
This was the first known opera and premiered in 1598 and its composer.
What is Dafne by Jacopo Peri?
This composer wrote what came to be known as "character pieces" and were intended to conve3y extramusical ideas.
Who was Francois Couperin?
This "mother scale" is comprised of all of the notes that make up the various ragas in Indian classical music.
What is the melakarta?
This type of mass was developed for the Lutheran church by Martin Luther and is chanted in German.
What is the Deutsche Messe (German Mass)?
This pair of medieval instruments was played by a single player.
What are the pipe and tabor?
This composer was known for making the most significant contributions to the early development of opera and was the first to compose operas largely for entertainment purposes.
Who was Claudio Monteverde?
This composer's greatest contribution to music was his treatise Traite de l'harmonie (Treatise on Harmony), published in 1722.
Who was Jean-Phillipe Rameau?