Composers
Important Words
Time Periods
Types of Music
Types of Instruments
100

This composer is well known for writing Mass during the Antiquity Period

Who is Guillaume de Machaut?

100

This term refers to a single melodic line by itself

What is Monophony?

100

This time period is the earliest period of music

What is the Antiquity period?

100

This classical music genre was written specifically for the Church

What is sacred music?

100

This instrument type requires you to use wind or air to create a sound

What is an aerophone?

200

This Baroque period composer is considered to be one of the great composers of Classical Music

Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?

200

Musicians performed this type of music specifically for worship in the Church

What is sacred music?

200

The Protestant Reformation, led by Martin Luther, occurred during this musical time period

What is the Renaissance Period?

200

This type of sacred music is very popular in the Catholic Church

What is the mass?

200

An example of this type of instrument is a Snare Drum

What is a Membranophone?

300

This composer utilized actual cannons in his music, specifically in the 1812 Overture, evoking emotions of patriotism leading into the Romantic Period

Who is Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky?

300

This period of music, full of dissonance and innovation, is the only music period named after the actual time period it occurs in

What is the 20th Century Period?

300

Orlande de Lassus translated an Italian madrigal into English and created this piece

What is The Nightingale?

300

The cello, violin, and harp are examples of this type of instrument

What is a Chordophone?

400

This Composer saw both saw the end of the Classical period and the beginning of the Romantic Period

Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?

400

This time period, characterized by emotions and individualism, coincides with the famous writer Edgar Allan Poe and artist Claude Monet

What is the Romantic Period?

400

This type of music originated in Italy during the Baroque Period and was highly influenced by the Florentine Camerata

What is the opera?

400

This type of instrument requires the instrument itself to vibrate to create the sound

What is an idiophone?

500

Some famous composers of this period are J.S. Bach, George Frederic Handel, and Antonio Vivaldi

What is the Baroque Period?

500

The percussion family is made up of these two types of instruments

What are membranophones and idiophones?