Composers
Film
Terms
Instruments
Genre
100
The composer in the classical era and who changed symphonies.
What is Beethoven?
100
This composer write with a creepy style
Who is Danny Elfman?
100
Playing the notes on sheet music, but either faster or slower.
What is cadenza.
100
A rhythmic musical instrument in the percussion group made of tightly stretched skin on a round frame.
What is a drum?
100
This means continuous bass
What is Basso Continuo?
200
Composer that had 20 kids, 2 wives and famous in the Baroque time period.
What is Bach?
200
This composer uses a dramatic and "swelling" type of style.
Who is John Williams?
200
Music set for an event or character.
What is motive or theme.
200
An instrument with a double reed that was used in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
What is a crumhorn?
200
This is an 18th century light, french comic opera, which used spoken dialogue instead of recitatives.
What is Opera Comique?
300
Composer that wrote "How to Train Your Dragon", "Bolt" and othe animated moives.
What is John Powell?
300
Tim Burton worked with this composer
Who is Danny Elfman?
300
Stretching the time on notes in a piece of music.
What is rubato.
300
A wind instrument mainly used in the early Renaissance made of ivory, with finger holes and a mouth piece, blown into like a brass instrument.
What is a cornetto?
300
This is a large work for orchestra that is usually done in four movements.
What is a Symphony?
400
This composer is known as the "Devil's Violinist".
What is Paginini?
400
This composer used a lot of strings as a driving force
Who is John Williams?
400
Playing on the off beats.
What is Syncopation.
400
A stringed instrument slightly bigger than a violin, but smaller than a cello with a deeper sound than the violin.
What is a viola?
400
This style of music was used in 1420-1600 and used one melodic line.
What is Monophony?
500
This composer was famous in the Mideval time period and big in polyphony.
What is Josquin Des Prez?
500
James Horner wrote for this type of movies
What is animated?
500
The 3 parts of a sonata.
What are exposition, development, and recapitulation.
500
A wind instrument used during the Renaissance period which uses a double reed enclosed in a cap so that the players lips do not touch the reed.
What is a shawm?
500
This is a leading music style of the late twentieth century, in which materials are reduced to a minimum and procedures simplified so that what is going on in the music is immediately apparent. Often characterized by a constant pulse and many repetitions of simple rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic patterns.
What is Minimalism?
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