Baroque Period
This term describes sudden changes between loud and soft that were common in Baroque music.
What is Terraced Dynamics
The Classical period emphasized simplicity, balance, and this (one-word) in musical structure.
What is Clarity?
The main theme of the Romantic period was focusing on intense feeling and telling these through music (one-word).
Emotion (or feeling/storytelling).
The Modern period is often described as "breaking the ____" (fill in the blank).
What is rules?
Name the strong, continuous bass line that provides the harmonic foundation in Baroque music.
What is Basso Continuo?
This form repeats a main theme (A) alternated with contrasting sections (B, C), often written as ABACA.
What is Rondo Form?
Music that tells a story or paints a picture without words is called this. Give the two-word term.
What is Program Music
This musical feature creates clashing or tense sounds and was used for dramatic effect in Modern music.
What is dissonance?
This composer wrote the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor and is a key Baroque composer.
Who is Bach?
Name one Classical composer from the study guide who wrote many clear, balanced melodies.
Mozart, Haydn, or Beethoven
This Romantic composer wrote expressive piano pieces like nocturnes that often use rubato.
Who is Frédéric Chopin?
Name one composer from the Modern examples who used impressionist or atonal ideas.
Who is Claude Debussy? Who is Igor Stravinsky?
Baroque music was often written for this institution and used in many ceremonies and services.
What is The Church?
This texture features a single main melody supported by chords and was common in Classical music.
What is Homophony
Name the Romantic work from the guide that tells the story of lovers and feuding families.
What is Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture?
This style (c. 1890–1920) focuses on tone color and is compared to blurry lines in a painting; name it.
What is Impressionism?
Describe in one sentence how terraced dynamics differ from gradual dynamics.
Terraced dynamics are sudden changes while gradual dynamics are not.
Explain why gradual dynamics were favored in Classical music compared to Baroque terraced dynamics.
Classical composers used smooth, gradual changes in volume (crescendo/decrescendo) to create balance and expression, rather than the abrupt shifts of Baroque terraced dynamics.
Define rubato and give one way it changes how a piece feels when performed.
Rubato is flexible timing where performers slightly speed up or slow down the tempo for expression; it makes the music feel more expressive and emotional.
Explain in one or two sentences what atonality means and how it differs from earlier periods that used a "home key."
Atonality means music that has no home key or tonal center; unlike earlier periods that revolve around a key (like C major), atonal music does not establish a central pitch or traditional harmonic progression.