Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
20th Century
100
The dates of the Renaissance.
What are 1400-1600?
100
The dates of the Baroque period.
What are 1600-1750?
100
The dates of the Classical period.
What are 1750-1825?
100
The dates of the Romantic period.
What are 1825-1900?
100
The dates of the Modern period.
What are 1900-?
200
This invention helped composers have their music performed by people that didn't even know them.
What is the printing press?
200
How music from the Baroque period was often described.
What is fancy?
200
This keyboard instrument was invented in this period and is widely popular today.
What is the piano?
200
Romantic composers wanted their music to express this.
What are feelings and/or emotions?
200
Famous 20th century composers (name four).
Who are Cage, Copland, Ives, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Debussy, Gershwin?
300
This word is the literal translation of Renaissance and is what was happening during this time.
What is Rebirth?
300
A dramatic work that combines music and theatre! Unlike the "musical", this was all music the entire time.
What is an opera?
300
Composers from the Classical period were known for writing music that was very ___________.
What is ordered and balanced or simple?
300
Some composers also had a deep appreciation for this, and wrote many songs to sound like music from there.
What is their native land/country?
300
Harsh, striking chords that are not pleasing to the ear. Composers started using a lot more of this in their music in the 20th century.
What is dissonance?
400
The names of instruments you would find in a consort from the Renaissance period.
What are viols or recorders?
400
The name for a type of song writing that is similar to a round.
What is a Fugue?
400
Famous classical composers (name 2).
Who are Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven?
400
Music of the Romantic period can be described as this.
What is dramatic, emotional, or symbolic?
400
During the 20th Century composers were looking to create this.
What are new sounds (something unique)?
500
This is a composer from the Renaissance period.
Who is Palestrina, DesPrez, Dowland, Byrd, Monteverdi?
500
During the Baroque period, these very NOT Baroque-like people came to a new land and settled in Plymouth?
Who are the Pilgrims?
500
During the Classical period, everyone was looking to make things reasonable. In America, they broke from England signing this.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
Famous Romantic composers (name 4).
Who are Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner?
500
Stravinsky's music sounded random, but was actually composed using this.
What is 12-tone matrix?
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