Composers
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Pot-Pourri
100
He is an Austrian Classical Composer
Who is Mozart OR Haydn
100
The unstressed beat that occurs just prior to a down-beat.
What is an UP-beat?
100
One melody harmonized the same rhythms indicates this type of texture.
What is homophonic?
100
Between Medieval, Romantic, and Renaissance, this period is the earliest.
What is Medieval?
100
This English Modern composer wrote programmatic works like The Planets.
Who is Gustav Holst?
200
He is a German Romantic composer, famous for bridging the Classical and Romantic eras.
Who is Beethoven
200
The tempo marking Lento means this in English.
What is very slow?
200
A typical symphony or string quartet has this many movements.
What is 4?
200
The worship service associated with the Western Roman Catholic Church is called this.
What is Mass?
200
This is known as the first rock musical, premiering in the 1960s.
What is Hair?
300
This Italian Renaissance composer saved polyphonic church music with his Pope Marcellus Mass
Who is Palestrina?
300
The two most common musical scales are called these.
What are major and minor?
300
The tuba, trombone, and trumpet belong to this musical family.
What is the brass?
300
A large-scale (sacred) composition for chorus, orchestra, and soloists (e.g., Handel’s Messiah) is called this.
What is an oratorio?
300
“12/8”, “6/16” and “9/4” are all types of this kind of meter.
What is compound meter?
400
He is the father of French operetta
Who is Offenbach?
400
The deliberate imitation of pictorial images suggested by the text in a musical setting is called this.
What is text painting?
400
This is the vertical distance between two pitches
What is interval?
400
This term describes a tune/melody from another work used as a structural basis for a new composition.
What is cantus firmus?
400
Jazz became popular during this decade
What is the 1920s (roaring twenties)?
500
He is an American Modern minimalist composer.
Who is Philip Glass
500
The downbeat in a measure of 4/4 will occur on this beat.
What is beat one?
500
A “da capo aria” is an operatic song in this type of form.
What is ternary form?
500
After World War I, this group of composers attempted to return to the compositional practices associated with Mozart and others of his musical period.
Who are Neo-Classicists?
500
The “regular pulse” of the music is otherwise known as this...you can't stop it, but you can turn it around.
What is the beat.
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