Periods
of Music
of Music
The earliest period of music.
What is the Medieval period?
This type of note gets one beat.
What is a quarter note?
The pulse of the music, which is usually kept steady.
What is the beat?
Quarter + Quarter + Half =
What is 4?
The number of keys on a piano.
What is 88?
The period in which music became more expressive and dramatic.
What is the Romantic period?
This note looks like the note above, but isn’t colored in.
What is a half note?
This word tells us the speed of the music.
What is tempo?
Half + Quarter + Whole =
What is 7?
Ms. True’s second instrument.
What is the violin?
The lute became popular during this period.
What is the Renaissance period?
This note gets the whole measure of four beats.
What is a whole note?
The Italian word for loud.
What is forte?
Half + Half + Quarter + Dotted Half =
What is 8?
This is how Ms. True and Mrs. Dieth met.
What is a musical?
Bach was the most famous composer from this period.
What is the Baroque period?
This note has a dot and gets 3 beats.
What is a dotted half note?
The Italian word for quiet.
What is piano?
Two 8ths + Whole + Quarter =
What is 6?
The town where Ms. True is from (and why she’s so sweet).
What is Hershey?
Mozart and Beethoven composed during this period.
What is the Classical period?
There are two of these in one quarter note.
What is an eighth note?
The set of lines and spaces that music is written on.
What is a staff?
Half + Quarter + One 8th =
What is 3 and a half?
The all-school musical we’re doing in the spring.
What is Shrek?