Composers
This English composer is known for his composition "The Planets."
Who is Gustav Holst?
This rhythm is created by adding a half note and a quarter note.
What is a dotted half note?
Top space of the treble clef
What is E?
This is the term for gradually speeding up.
What is accelerando?
This time period lasted from approximately 500-1400.
What is Medieval?
This Austrian composer taught in California for many years and developed the "12 tone" method of composition.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
How many beats do you have if you tie a half note to a whole notes?
What are six beats?
What is an acronym for the spaces of the treble clef staff?
What is F-A-C-E?
This is a very slow tempo marking.
What is largo?
This time period was between Classical and Modern.
What is Romantic?
This French composer was involved in a Prix de Rome scandal and was known as an "impressionist."
Who is Maurice Ravel?
What are sixteenth notes?
Third line of the treble clef staff
What is B?
This tempo generally refers to "walking speed."
What is andante?
This time period began around 1400.
What is the Renaissance?
This Hungarian composer traveled across Europe collecting folk music and incorporated it into his own compositions.
Who is Béla Bartók?
This note value is twice as fast as a 32nd note
What is a 64th note?
The bottom line of the treble clef
What is E?
Allegro means...
What is quickly and cheerfully?
All of the composers we have studied have belonged to this time period.
What is Modern?
This American composer had a very successful career in insurance. He died in 1954.
Who is Charles Ives?
This many sixteenth notes can fit in a measure of 5/8 time.
What is ten?
The top line of the bass clef
What is A?
This is the difference between a slur and a tie.
A tie joins two notes of the same pitch together, and a slur smoothly connects two different pitches.
This time period lasted from approximately 1750-1820.
What is Classical?