Music Theory & Terms
When two or more similar melodies are played at the same time to give a pleasing effect.
What is harmony?
The time period of the Middle Ages.
What is the 13th century?
This composer composed Dream of a Witches' Sabbath.
Who is Hector Berlioz?
The piece that Anne Boleyn composed while awaiting execution.
What is "O Deathe, Rock Me Asleepe"?
This musical instrument is associated with the ayre genre.
What is lute?
Music intended for its own sake and does not tell a story or describe a specific scene or emotion.
What is absolute music?
This time period focused on imagination and subjectivity.
What is the Romantic Era?
This composer used ground bass in order to represent the sound of tolling bells.
Who is Anne Boleyn?
The first operatic masterpiece.
What is L'Orfeo?
The Greek God of music and medicine.
Who is Apollo?
The term used to describe the concept of making a word sound like what it means.
What is word-painting?
The era of experimental music.
What is the Modern Era?
Franz Schubert's age when he composed Erlkonig.
What is 18?
The number of movements in Hector Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique.
What is 5?
The first proper chant in a typical Mass.
What is the Introit?
The term used to slow down the tempo.
What is ritardando?
The order of the five main musical time periods.
What is the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic era?
This composer helped merge the Classical era with the Romantic era.
Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?
The composition that is most likely to be Western music's first classic.
What is Dies irae?
This Christmas carol provides an example of melismatic text-setting.
What is Angels We Have Heard On High?
The four modes that medieval composers typically used.
What is Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, and Mixolydian?
The time period of the Renaissance.
What is c. 1400 to 1600?
This composer used idee fixe in his movements.
Who is Hector Berlioz?
The female that Hector Berlioz refers to as the Beloved in his Symphonie fantastique.
Who is Harriet Smithson?
The Shakespearean play that Hector Berlioz saw that eventually led to the creation of Symphonie fantastique.
What is Hamlet?