Renaissance Music
1400-1600
1400-1600
The most popular form of singing (without instrumentation) during the Renaissance Period.
What is Acapella?
"The Red Priest" wrote The Four Seasons composed mostly for string instruments.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This keyboard instrument originated in the Classical Period.
What is the Pianoforte, or Piano?
Beethoven was born deaf. True or False.
False. He became deaf in his later years.
This classical period composer sawed the legs off of his piano in order to feel the vibrations of the strings.
Who is Beethoven?
How does one play a lute?
What is "by plucking the strings."
This ancestor of the piano was the preferred keyboard during the Baroque period and was very critical in the figured bass accompaniment with cello.
What is the harpsichord?
This Austrian composer's father was a well respected violinist and introduced he and his sister to the piano. When he was 12, he wrote his first opera.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Clara Schumann, a well known composer was the wife of this well known composer.
Who is Robert Schumann?
This German composer wrote the Toccata and Fugue in D minor for Organ.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This Italian composer who worked for the Medici family was also an accomplished singerand the first female to compose and publish an opera.
Who is Francesca Caccini?
This relative of Johann Sebastian Bach was Mozart's teacher.
Who is Johann Christian Bach?
This Symphony by Beethoven is his best known.
What is Fifth Symphony?
This well-known Romantic composer wrote mostly for the piano and had such pieces as Nocturne in B flat minor.
Who is Frederic Chopin?
This composer from the Classical Period wrote his first piece when he was four years old.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
The leading composer during this period from the England who was known for his acapella choral madrigals. (Hint: It's not Thomas Tallis)
Who is William Byrd?
This composer's first published collection of compositions was the Pièces de clavessin (1687; “Harpsichord Pieces”), noteworthy especially because publication of harpsichord music was still rare in France in the 17th century, even for male composers.
Who is Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre?
This Austrian composer was a good friend of Mozart's and his most celebrated student was Beethoven. He wrote over 106 Symphonies! (Keep in mind that each symphony has FOUR movements....that's crazy!)
Who is Josef Haydn?
Performed during the Christmas singer, this ballet is about a young girl and a mouse King. What are the names of the ballet and the composer?
What is The Nutcracker and Tchaikovsky?
This Baroque composer had 20 children, but only 10 of which survived and FOUR of them became notable composers.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
Where was Josquin des Prez born?
What is France?
A few composers attempted to compose operas, but in L'Orfeo, this Italian composer combined a dramatic story with perfectly matched musical accompaniment.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
These three composers were known as the Viennese School (You must get all three).
Who are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig von Beethoven?
This French composer won the Prix de Rome for composition, with his piece "L'enfant prodigue" at the age of 20. We listened to his famous piano piece in class (you must get the composer and the name of the piece.)
Who is Claude Debussy and Clair de Lune?
Mozart died while composing his Requiem which translates into this in English.
What is Mass for the Dead?