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MIDDLE AGES/RENAISSANCE
BAROQUE
CLASSICAL
ROMANTIC
20TH CENTURY
100
MELODIC SETTINGS OF SACRED TEXTS USED BY THE CHURCH.
WHAT IS GREGORIAN CHANT?
100
THIS FORM IS WRITTEN FOR SOLOIST AND CONTINUO TO FOLLOW THE RHYTHM OF THE TEXT 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 SOLO VOICE AND PIANO.
WHAT IS ART SONG?
100
LOUIS ARMSTRONG PERFORMED ON CORNET AS WELL AS WITH THIS UNIQUE VOCAL TECHNIQUE.
WHAT IS SCAT SINGING?
200
THIS CENTRAL SERVICE OF THE HISTORICAL CHURCH FEATURES COMMUNION AND FIVE ORDINARY SUNG PARTS.
WHAT IS THE MASS?
200
A BAROQUE COMPOSITION IN MULTIPLE MOVEMENTS, ALL DANCE FORMS.
WHAT IS A SUITE?
200
HAYDN, BEETHOVEN, AND MOZART ALL WORKED AND LIVED IN THIS CITY DURING THEIR CAREERS.
WHAT IS VIENNA?
200
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BASED ON AN EXTRA-MUSICAL STORY, POEM, IDEA, OR SCENE.
WHAT IS PROGRAM MUSIC?
200
THREE COMPOSERS, LED BY ARNOLD SCHOENBERG WHO WORKED THEIR WAY THROUGH ATONALITY AND DEVELOPED TWELVE TONE MUSIC.
WHAT IS THE SECOND VIENNESE SCHOOL?
300
THIS RENAISSANCE COMPOSER WROTE SACRED POLYPHONY IN 16TH CENTURY ROME.
WHO IS PALESTRINA?
300
A WELL-KNOWN HYMN SUNG IN WORSHIP THAT MAY BE USED AS MATERIAL FOR MORE ELABORATE COMPOSITIONS.
WHAT IS A CHORALE?
300
A piece for orchestra with 4 movements: fast, slow, dance-related, and fast.
What is a symphony?
300
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE! THE COMPOSER OF THIS EXCERPT.
WHO IS RICHARD WAGNER?
300
THIS MUSICAL STYLE FEATURES IMPROV, CALL AND RESPONSE, AND SIMPLE FORMS SUCH AS 12-BAR BLUES.
WHAT IS JAZZ?
400
LUTE SONG COMPOSER FROM THE VERY END OF THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD IN ENGLAND.
WHO IS JOHN DOWLAND?
400
IN A CONCERTO, THE ORCHESTRA PAUSES WHILE THE SOLOIST PLAYS AN EXTENDED SOLO PASSAGE.
WHAT IS A CADENZA?
400
THIS OCCURS AFTER THE EXPOSITION IN SONATA FORM.
WHAT IS THE DEVELOPMENT?
400
A GERMAN ROMANTIC COMPOSER WHO WROTE RICH COMPLEX MASTERPIECES IN TRADITIONAL CLASSICAL FORMS, INCLUDING FOUR SYMPHONIES.
WHO IS JOHANNES BRAHMS?
400
THIS COMPOSER USED SHORT REPEATED OSTINATOS OF PITCH AND RHYTHM TO SHAPE THE FORM AND TONALITY OF HIS WORKS.
WHO IS JOHN ADAMS?
500
MIDDLE AGES COMPOSER OF THE FIRST COMPLETE POLYPHONIC MASS SETTING, "OUR LADY," OR NOTRE DAME.
WHO IS GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT?
500
THIS FORM WITH REPEATED SECTIONS 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
ROMANTIC COMPOSERS OFTEN USED THIS CONCEPT WHEN COMPOSING PIECES THAT REFLECT THEIR HOMELAND.
WHAT IS NATIONALISM?
500
"APPALACHIAN SPRING," "BILLY THE KID" AND "RODEO" ARE ALL NATIONALISTIC BALLETS WRITTEN BY THIS AMERICAN COMPOSER.
WHO IS AARON COPLAND?