Musical Time Periods
The start and end dates of the postmodern era
What is 1945-present?
Name 2 composers from the Classical period
Who are Beethoven, Mozart, etc.?
This instrument replaced the harpsichord, mostly because it had the ability to play dynamics
What is the piano?
Music during the Romantic period pushed back at the Classical period's emphasis on form by focusing on this:
What is the emotions of the music?
This modern topic of music focused on driving rhythms and folk songs
What is primitavism?
The start and end dates of the classical era
What is 1750-1820?
Name 2 composers from the Romantic period
Who are Liszt, Chopin, Wagner, etc?
A symphony had this number of movements (two correct answers)
What is 3 or 4?
What is larger?
This postmodern topic of music involved the composer giving as little information to musicians as possible.
What is minimal control?
The start and end dates of the romantic era
What is 1820-1900?
This composer was considered the transitional composer between the classical and romantic eras
Who is Beethoven?
This type of ensemble popularized during the classical era contained two violins, a viola, and a cello
What is a string quartet?
These were the three major topics of music during the Romantic period:
This modern topic of music focused on a lack of rhythm and is named after a similar style of art
What is impressionism?
The start and end dates of the modern era
What is 1900-1945?
This Romantic composer wrote ballets, such as Swan Lake and the Nutcracker, and nationalistic music such as the 1812 overture
Who is Tchaikovsky?
This is the style of the second movement of a symphony
What is a slow and lyrical?
Music in the Romantic period broke the rules of form. This is one of the two sections that was traditionally added to music in the Romantic period:
What is an introduction or a coda?
This postmodern musical topic includes electronic music and serialism
What is total control?
This is the shortest of the musical eras
What is the modern era?
This postmodern composer wrote 4'33", where the pianist sits at the piano without playing for 4 minutes and 33 seconds
Who is John Cage?
These are the three sections of sonata form
What are exposition, development, and recapitulation?
What is leitmotif or idee fixe?
These are the two styles of music in the modern and postmodern eras that push back on modern concepts by returning to music from previous eras
What are neoclassicism and neoromanticism?