A Type of Music that was NOT written for the church. An example being madrigal or ballet
What is Secular?
100
A musical work that repeats the same melody on top of itself.
What is a fugue?
100
A child prodigy, died young and poor in a paupers grave
Who is Mozart?
100
Three of the characteristics of Romantic music. Everything is BIGGER in Texas...
What are Emotion, Larger Orchestras, Duration, Brass Sections, Dynamics
100
The March King
Who is Sousa?
200
The reason it is named Gregorian Chant
Who is Pope Gregory the Great
200
All __________________ is _______________, but not all _________________ is _________________.
counterpoint, polyphony
polyphony, counterpoint
200
Wrote his last 2 symphonies while he was completely deaf, was a perfectionist and slaved over his music?
Who is Beethoven?
200
An all encompassing artform.
What is Opera
200
The King of Ragtime
Who is Joplin?
300
The most prolific composer of counterpoint and polyphony
Who is Palestrina?
300
A small musical idea that would be sequenced or imitated.
What is a motive?
300
Uninfluenced by others, His patron was Prince Esterhazy and he lived in his palace with him. composed the surprise symphony.
Who is Haydn?
300
Wrote the Ring Cycle which is most characterized by his huge brass melodies.
Who is Wagner?
300
what two cultures came together to produce creole?
___________+__________= creole
What are african and french (european)
400
A texture with only One Sound.
What is monophonic?
400
Wrote several vocal works including oratorios.
Who is Handel?
400
Texture type where there is One melody supported by accompaniment.
What is Homophony?
400
The composer of Swan Lake and Sleeping beauty. Wrote ballets which differ from Opera becuase they didnt have words.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
400
Come out to show them. Come out to show them. Come out to show them. Come out to show them. Come out to show them. Come out to show them. Come out to show them. Come out to show them. Come out to show them. Come out to show them... is an example of?
What is minimalism?
500
The definition of Renaissance.
What is rebirth?
500
Was able to compose music on the spot, remember it as he started playing the same melody with the other hand. Wrote the "dracula sounding" song, Toccata and Fugue
Who is Pappa Bach?
500
The hippest place to be during the Classical Era.
Where is Vienna, Austria?
500
Fuzzy, Free-Flowing, unFocused, music written by the French composer Debussy. Very similar to the artwork in the same place and time.
What is impressionism?
500
Schoenberg composed music of this type, it was very strange sounding, almost mathmatical at times. There was no key signature or tonal center.