Famous People
Famous pieces of Music
Vocal Music Genres
Instrumental Music Genres
Vocabulary
100
This Baroque composer wrote multiple pieces for keyboard instruments such as Tocatta and Fugue in D, as well as The Coffee Cantata, and Brandenburg Concertos
Who is J.S. Bach
100
This Baroque work is a set of 4 concertos by Vivaldi, each of which represent Winter, Summer, Fall and Spring.
What is The Four Seasons
100
This is a collection of Lieder or Art songs by a composer that are often related to each other, either about the same topic, or which tell a story
What is a song cycle
100
This is a Baroque keyboard instrument where a key is struck 'causing a string to be plucked. It had little dynamic control and was later replaced by the Pianoforte
What is a harpsichord
100
Music that is meant for NON-Religious purpuses
What is secular
200
This Greek Mathemetician discovered the ratio between distance and pitch to create intervals
Who is Pythagorus
200
This Symphonic Poem by Russian Romantic Composer, Mussorgsky, tells the story of ghosts, witches and zombies meeting on top of a Mountain each Halloween.
What is "Night on Bald Mountain"
200
This is the form of music used for the Roman Catholic Church Service, originating from back in the Middle Ages and used by composers ranging from Palestrina in the Renaissance to Bernstein in the 20th Century
What is the Mass
200
This is the OPPOSITE of program music, or any type of music which does not represent any type of character or narrative, and is composed using shape and forms. Especially popular during the classical era
What is Absolute Music
200
A performance term from the Romantic era where a performer will slow down and speed up the tempo for dramatic effect. It translates into "Robbed Time"
What is Rubato
300
The Father of Modern Musical Notation. Invented the musical staff, as well as solmization: assigning different syllables to pitches within a scale.
Who is Guido D'arrezo
300
This is the first known example of written music ever uncovered by Archeologists
What is the "Ephitaph of Seikilos"
300
This is an American form of Theater where a story is told through dance, dialogue, and styles of popular music. Examples would be West Side Story, Wicked, and Rent.
What is a Musical.
300
A piece of music for orchestra in 3 movements, using fast, slow, and then fast tempos, as well as passages of music that feature either a SOLOIST or small GROUP OF SOLOISTS.
What is a Concerto
300
A musical texture in which there is more than one melody or voice playing at the same time. It literally translates into "Many Sounds"
What is Polyphonic
400
Russian Composer from the Romantic Era, who wrote program music such as the 1812 Overture, or Ballets such as the Nutcracker and Swan Lake
Who is Tchaikovsky
400
This famous Ragtime piece, by Scott Joplin, is often studied by piano students, and was featured in the movie 'The Sting.'
What is The Entertainer
400
What is a type of play, usually sung in Italian, where all of the dialogue is sung, and performed on a stage with sets and costumes?
What is Opera
400
This is a Baroque form of music, that is a set of 4 pieces for orchestra, meant to accompany dancing. Famous Examples are Handel's "Water Music" and 'Royal Fireworks Music"
What is a dance suite
400
A style of 20th century music popularized by Schoenburg, where melodies are written by a strict pattern of all 12 pitches in the chromatic scale.
What is Serialism
500
20th Century American Composer who wrote, "Fanfare for the Common Man." His music uses jazz rhythms, and chords as well as American folk music. His Ballets, "Rodeo," "Billy the Kid," and "Appalaichan Spring" deal with cowboy and pioneer culture within American History.
Who is Aaron Copland
500
This string quartet by Haydn is written in Rondo form, and has a 'false ending' intended to trick the audience into applauding early before the song actually ends.
What is "The Joke"
500
In an opera, oratorio, or cantata, this is the style of singing that imitates speech patterns, and is used as dialogue between characters, or to show the plot. It comes from the root word "To Recite"
What is recitative
500
This is a 4 movement work for orchestra which started in the Classical era. The first movement is in sonata form, the second movement is slow, the third is in minuet and trio, and the fourth is the composer's choice.
What is a Symphony
500
A term that means playing a melody backwards AND upside down
What is retrograde inversion
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