Time Periods
Included Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Hayden, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
What is the Classical period?
Impassioned, rhythmic, spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural African Americans in the American South
What is Gospel music?
The eight notes from which music is played and/or heard.
What is the Music Scale?
A deaf composer whose friends made conversation books to communicate.
Who was Ludwig Van Beethoven?
Toccata In d minor
Johann Sebastian Bach
What is the Romantic period?
Melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. Characterized by feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression.
What is Blues music?
Composed of five lines and four spaces.
What is the staff?
A copy of his New World Symphony was taken by Astronaut Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission in 1969.
Who was Antonin Dvorak?
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A rejection of certain values, such as traditional tonality, melody, instrumentation, and structure formed this.
What is the Modern or Contemporary time period?
Involves changing or copying existing (usually well known) musical ideas or lyrics.
What is Parody?
(Ex: "Weird Al" Yankovic)
What is Eighth Note?
Purchased a dress, wig, hat, and veil in an attempt to kill his fiancee.
Who was Hector Berlioz?
Fanfare for the Common Man, Billy the Kid, Rodeo
Aaron Copland
Instruments included the slide trumpet, cornet, sackbut, viol, rebec, lyre, hurdy-gurdy, lute, guitar, cittern, bandora, triangle, tamborine, and harpsichord among others.
What is the Renaissance period?
Originally written as part of the score of a musical stage show or musical. Can be extremely annoying or wonderfully witty.
What is Show Tune music?
2/4, 3/4, 4/4, etc.
What is Time Signature?
Called the "Dean of American Composers" and was once accused by the House of Representatives as being a Communist sympathizer.
Who was Aaron Copland?
The Planets: "Mars," "Jupiter," etc.
Gustav Holst
From the 500s to the 1400s, this time period included ars antiqua, ars nova, and ars subtilior.
What is the Medieval period?
Developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming.
Incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular."
What is Rap music?
Key signature using four sharps.
What is E Major?
"I've been all over the world, and I've never seen a statue of a critic." This person studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and received the only "A" grade that the famous conductor and teacher ever gave. Wrote the West Side Story among many notable other pieces.
Who was Leonard Bernstein?
Peer Gynt Suites: "Morning," "In The Hall Of The Mountain King"
Edvard Grieg