Genres 1
Soloist + Orchestra
What is a concerto?
This genre is vernacular poetry set to music.
What are madrigals?
She was a nun in a Benedictine monastery.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
Who prompted the Protestant Reformation?
Who is Martin Luther?
What is the famous chant used in Requiem Masses?
What is the Dies Irae?
This genre is often in four movements and is played by one instrument.
What is a sonata?
This genre is monophonic, sacred music.
What is plainchant?
This composer was born in Germany and stayed there all his life.
Who is J.S. Bach?
What philosophy emerged during the Renaissance?
True or False: Plainsong was the dominant genre of sacred music until the ninth century.
What is true?
This genre is played before any subsequent music.
What is a prelude?
This genre is an unstaged-opera.
What is oratorio?
Bach is famous for writing this work, for 24 preludes and fugues.
What is the Well-Tempered Clavier?
What practice allowed boys to sing in choirs and maintain their high-pitched voices?
What is castrato/castration?
True or False: "A cappella" means "in the style of the chapel."
What is true?
Prelude + Dance Music
What is a suite?
This is an all-sung genre.
What is opera?
This composer was born in Germany but spent most of his career with the British Monarchy.
Who is Handel?
Who "saved" Church music?
Who is Palestrina?
This type of writing is a 1:1 syllabic ratio.
What is syllabic writing?
Polyphonic genre with subjects, countersubjects, episodes.
What is a fugue?
This genre is complex, polyphonic sacred music.
What is a motet?
He wrote Messe de Nostre Dame.
What mass "saved" Church music?
What is the Missa de Papae Marcelli?
This type of writing has multiple pitches to one syllable of text.
What is melismatic writing?