Ancient
There are 4 types of clues we use to learn about music from the past. Old remains of physical instruments would fall under this category.
What are physical remains?
This person gets most of the credit for writing Gregorian chant.
Who is Pope Gregory I?
Baroque performers would try and be more impressive by making music sound like it was made up, or this word.
What is improvised?
This period of music had the most obvious rule-breaking.
What is the Modern Period?
A lot of Jazz finds its roots in this culture.
What is African American culture?
This is the first country we have real music theory from
Where is Ancient Greece?
This kind of music is religious, and a lot of it was written during the medieval period.
What is sacred music?
This style of music sounded simple, natural, and easy.
What is the galant style?
This Romantic Composer went deaf.
Who is Beethoven?
Jazz started in this city.
Where is New Orleans, Louisiana?
Sacred music is religious: this kind of music is not.
What is secular music?
This large organization controlled the rules for sacred music for over 1,000 years
What is the Catholic Church?
This genre of music started during the Baroque period, and it featured a single instrument or small group accompanied by a full orchestra.
What is a concerto?
This period of music shows composers breaking rules in smaller ways to be able to express themselves better.
What is the Romantic Period?
Records, and later radio, limited music to this length.
How long is 3 minutes?
This means having multiple melodies at the same time
What is polyphony?
This technique meant making the music you write sound like meaning of the words being sung.
What is word-painting?
This composer was said to have written Perfect Music.
This Romantic Composer permanently injured his hand.
Who is Robert Schumann
Country music is broken out into this many generations.
How many is 5 or 6?
This is the oldest country we have any written music from (but not any real music theory)
Where is Ancient Babylon?
This renaissance composer was so famous, people tried putting his name on their music to sell more.
Who is Josquin Des Prez?
This event is the reasons historians label the Baroque Period as ending in 1750.
Johann Sebastian Bach died.
This composer was the first to use "prepared piano," which students tend to call "destroyed" or "broken" piano.
Who is John Cage?
Most current genres of popular music came from this genre.
What is Jazz?