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MIDDLE AGES/RENAISSANCE
BAROQUE
CLASSICAL
ROMANTIC
20TH CENTURY
100
THE OFFICIAL MUSIC OF THE CHURCH FOR A MILLENIUM INCLUDES STEP-WISE MELODIES, MODES, BUT NO METER.
What is GREGORIAN CHANT?
100
This form is written to follow the rhythm of the text for a soloist and continuo and carries the drama between arias in an opera.
What is Recitative?
100
A three-movement work for solo instrument and orchestra.
What is a concerto?
100
Franz Schubert's Erlkonig is an early Romantic example of this form for piano and voice.
What is the art song?
100
Louis Armstrong performed on cornet as well as with this unique vocal technique.
What is scat singing?
200
THIS MOST IMPORTANT SERVICE OF THE LITURGICAL CHURCH INCLUDES A CELEBRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER.
What is THE MASS?
200
This Baroque accompaniment in music was written for a collection of instruments to play a figured bass line.
What is basso continuo?
200
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's end of life came while composing this work for a funeral mass.
What is Mozart's Requiem?
200
Romances, character pieces, etudes, preludes, nocturnes, polonaises, waltzes, mazurkas, ballads, scherzos, etc.
What are piano miniatures?
200
Inventor of the twelve-tone system and sprechtimme.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
300
MEDIEVAL MINSTRELS PROBABLY IMPROVISED MODEST ACCOMPANIMENTS TO MONOPHONIC MUSIC USING REPEATED TONES UNDER THE MELODY
What is A DRONE?
300
A Baroque cantata is intended for use in the Divine Service and may include this musical form from Lutheran worship.
What is a chorale?
300
A piece for orchestra with 4 movements: fast, slow, dance-related, and fast.
What is a symphony?
300
Italian opera composer of the late 19th century who wrote "Madame Butterfly" and "La Boheme" among other famous operas.
Who is Giacomo Puccini?
300
Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern wrote in a style associated with grotesque, distorted art, opposite to the vague pastel beauties of Impressionism.
What is Expressionism?
400
LUTE SONG COMPOSER FROM THE VERY END OF THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD IN ENGLAND.
Who is John Dowland?
400
The main theme of a fugue.
What is a Subject?
400
This occurs after the Exposition in Sonata Form.
What is the Development?
400
A Czech symphonist who used American musical inspiration in his 9th Symphony.
Who is Antonin Dvorak?
400
This style of music relies on short repeated ostinatos of pitch and rhythm to shape its form and tonality.
What is minimalism?
500
This famous Ars Nova composer wrote the first complete polyphonic setting of the Mass, dedicated to a famous cathedral.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
500
This form is commonly used in the first and last movements of a Baroque concerto, in arias, and in cantata movements.
What is Ritornello Form?
500
Music for one player per part.
What is chamber music?
500
Musical cameos in Wagnerian composition representing things like "sword" or "Valhalla."
What is leitmotif?
500
"Appalachian Spring," "Estancia," and "Rite of Spring" are all examples of nationalist compositions in this genre.
What is ballet?