Baroque and Before
What are solo vocal pieces?
This type of opera covered comical, everyday topics with humor and satire
What is Opera Buffa?
This composer wrote a symphony based on his life with elements of the supernatural incorporated
Who is Hector Berlioz?
The number of symphonies that Shostakovich wrote
What is 15?
This musical movement centered around repetition of limited material
What is Minimalism?
In what musical period did we see polyphony come about?
What is the Renaissance period?
This composer helped create many orchestral standards through his job as a court musician
Who is Johann Stamitz?
This new genre of vocal music emerged during the Romantic Era
What is the Song Cycle/Lied?
Composers were inspired by art and poetry in this musical movement
What is Impressionism?
This type of music focused on breaking away from Romanticism and embracing tradition
What is Neoclassicism?
This composer was a nun who was also a writer, seer, and mystic
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
This orchestra helped develop many orchestral traditions that we still see today
What is the Mannheim Orchestra?
These types of works that helped to tell stories grew in popularity during the Romantic Period
What are programmatic works?
The first composer to use and advocate for twelve-tone music
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
This composer wrote a string quartet that was meant to be performed in helicopters
Who is Stockhausen?
What musical era saw the use of a basso continuo in music?
What is the Baroque era?
These three types of vocal works became popular within Classical Opera
What are aria, recitative, and ensemble numbers?
Who composed the music to accompany Goethe's poem Erlkönig?
Who is Schubert?
This composer used indeterminacy and chance in his compositions
Who is John Cage?
This country is where Futurism was founded
What is Italy?
What period saw the use of court musicians the most?
What is the renaissance?
What is the typical orchestral instrumentation for the Classical era?
What is:
violins, violas, cellos, basses
pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons
pairs of horns and trumpets
timpani
What did Berlioz call his use of a repeated musical idea?
What is an idee fixe?
Who is Luigi Russolo?
These two composers were students of Schoenberg and used his compositional rules in their own works
Who is Alban Berg and Anton Webern?