Impressionist
Impressionist music followed the trends of this art form, which had it's impressionist movement a little earlier
Visual Art
After the United States, this country had it's own Revolution during the classical period
France
Baroque roughly translates to this, from the Portuguese word "Barocco"
Misshapen Pearl
The Romantic Era followed this Era
Classical
This era focused a lot on this, which is when two or more sounds are grating together in an unpleasant way
Dissonance
Rather than strictly major or minor, impressionist music is often left intentionally this way
Ambiguous
Born in Austria in 1756, this composer became famous for his theme and variations, most famous of which being Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Mozart
Instead of modes, Baroque musicians used these to organize collections of notes
Keys
This Newer form of music from the Romantic Era was written for dancing. Swan Lake is an example.
Ballet
Music that actively avoids a tonal center is called this
Atonal
Featuring 5 tones in a scale, this pattern was very popular in the Impressionist Era
Pentatonic
Beethoven was born in this country.
Germany
Baroque musicians would make up music in the moment, a practice known as what?
Improvising
This is the idea of strong cultural identity and patriotism, which heavily inspired music of the time.
Nationalism
This method of writing is based on assigning numeric values to each chromatic pitch
12 Tone
Featuring evenly distanced pitches, this scale often sounds like a dream sequence
Whole Tone
Contrasting Mozart's over 40 symphonies, Beethoven only composed this many.
9
Small improvised changes seen as "musical decorations" were called what?
Ornamentation
Romantic Music often utilizes Rubato, meaning that the tempo of the song is this.
Flexible
Olivier Messiaen's Most famous work, written and premiered in a German Prison
Quartet for the End of Time
Claude Debussy's most famous piece for piano, whose name translates to "Moonlight"
Claire de Lune
Also known as A B A form, this song form was very popular in the classical era
Sonata Form
The principle of writing musing in a single key was known as what, though it was later shortened to just "tonality"
Common Practice Tonality
Swan Lake and the Nutcracker are two famous ballets by this Russian Composer
Tchaikovsky
When a 12 tone row is played backwards, it is called this.
Retrograde