Terms
a term meaning "storm and stress" in the late 18th century in Germany
Sturm and Drang
This female composer was a nun who was said to have visions of poetry and music from God.
Hildegard von Bingen
What is a sonata
The composer imitates thunderbolts and Lightening, chirping birds, and rushing water in this piece.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Spring
Oral Tradition
rondo
a musical form in which the first section recurs, usually in the tonic.
This Baroque composer wrote in almost every genre except opera
J.S.Bach
This genre is polyphonic by nature and has multiple voices, a subject, an answer, and episodes.
Fugue
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a what?
Mozart's Symphony No. 40, Mvt. 1
A period in France in the 1300s that brought about new rhythmic innovations
Ars Nova
a method of composition in which various musical elements may be ordered in a fixed series, represented by numbers.
serialism
This Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer was a huge ladies man. His works include La campanella and the Transcendental etudes.
Franz Liszt
This is music performed by a small group of soloists and an orchestra, using ritornello form.
concerto grosso
This prayer to Mary is an example of imitative polyphony.
Josquin's Ave Maria
The first type of polyphony, which was two or more voices singing different notes in agreeable combinations
Organum
a type of Polish dance in triple meter
mazurka
The daughter of this Romantic composer's teacher later became his wife.
Robert Schumann
a polyphonic vocal genre, secular in the Middle Ages, but sacred or devotional thereafter.
Motet
This piece was a turning point in the study of orchestration.
Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique
This sacred genre has five major parts, sung throughout the service
Mass Ordinary
the term for the Baroque performance group that consists of a bass instrument, a chordal instrument, and one bass melody instrument.
basso continuo
This Romantic composer delayed writing his first symphony for years because he didn't want to live in Beethoven's shadow
late 19th-century piano style created by African Americans, characterized by highly syncopated melodies.
ragtime
This piece treats dissonance as the new consonance and uses the new technique called sprechstimme.
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
The earliest form of notation, which was symbols placed above the words to indicate the melodic gesture
neumes