Which influential Flemish composer wrote masses, motets, and secular music pieces including Ave Maria...virgo serena
a. Hildegard vox Bingen
b. Thomas Weelkes
c. Josquin Desprez
d. Leonardo daVinci
Who is Josquin Desprez
100
What was the main type of music during the Middle Ages?
a. Troubadours
b. Gregorian Chant
c. Greek Chant
d. Fugue
What is Gregorian Chant
100
What invention led to the ease of the distribution of music during the Renaissance?
a. Neumes
b. Ars Nova
c. Moveable Type Printing (Printing Press)
d. The Sextant
What is Moveable Type Printing (Printing Press)
100
How many people are involved in a basso continuo?
What is 2 - explain your answer
100
Which of these is NOT a characteristic of the Classical style
a. Balance and symmetry
b. Variety and flexibility
c. Wider range of emotion
d. Basso Continuo
What is Basso Continuo
200
Flow My Tears is a piece by which composer?
a. John Dowland
b. Machaut
c. Palestrina
d. Von Bingen
What is John Dowland
200
What texture was early Medieval music?
a. Monophonic
b. Homophonic
c. Polyphonic
d. Timbre
What is Monophonic
200
What was the Age of Absolutism about?
a. Aristocracy exercising absolute power over their subjects
b. Explosion of the middle class which led to a division of wealth and power
c. Strict rules tied to musical composition
d. A new system of music notation our of the School of Notre Dame in France
What is Aristocracy exercising absolute power over their subjects
200
28. During the late Baroque period, which of these was NOT a major characteristic of the music?
a. Unity of Mood
b. Terraced dynamics
c. Balance and Clarity
d. Rhythmic drive with constant forward momentum
What is Balance and Clarity
200
What country was a center for music creativity during the Classical period?
a. Belgium
b. Vienna
c. France
d. Italy
What is Vienna
300
38. Orfeo was the first great opera during the baroque period. Who composed it?
a. Henry Purcell
b. Claudio Monteverdi
c. Antonio Vivaldi
d. J.S. Bach
Who is Claudio Monteverdi
300
Changes in musical styles so profound Italian and French music of the 14th Century referred to as what?
a. Trouveres
b. Ars Nova
c. Paris Special
d. Neumes
What is Ars Nova (New Art)
300
During the Renaissance period, which were two major types of polyphonic choral works?
a. Gregorian chants
b. Troubadours and Trouveres
c. Motets and Madrigals
d. Pavane and Estampie
What are Motets and Madrigals
-BONUS QUESTIONS - What's the difference?
300
The Baroque musical form which was a small group of instruments vs. a larger group of instruments (tutti) is known as what?
a. Ritornello
b. Fugue
c. Opera
d. Concerto Grosso
What is a Concerto Grosso
300
Which classical composer served a wealthy aristocratic family his entire life?
a. Joseph Haydn
b. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
c. Ludwig van Beethoven
d. Charles Darwin
Who is Haydn
400
40. Henry Purcell wrote which of the following:
a. Dido and Aeneas
b. La Primavera
c. The Red Priest
d. Don Giovanni
What is Dido and Aeneas
400
6. Which popular composers and music theorists began a new rhythmic notation system at the University of Paris during the Middle Ages?
a. von Bingen & Weelkes
b. de Machat & Pope Gregory
c. Trump & von Clinton
d. Leonin & Perotin
Who are Leonin and Perotin
400
Which of these techniques is a musical depiction of specific words?
a. Word or Text Painting
b. Text Conducting
c. Word Associating
d. Text Blending
What is Word or Text Painting
400
A polyphonic composition based on one main theme, called the subject is known as what?
a. Opera
b. Aria
c. Fugue
d. Camerata
What is a Fugue
400
What form is in 3 movements for a soloist and orchestra?
a. Sonata
b. Symphony
c. Concerto
d. Chamber music
What is a concerto
500
The oratorio THE MESSIAH was composer by whom?
Who is George Frideric Handel
500
What are Neumes?
What is a Medieval music notation system
500
Which of these composers was a large part of the Counter-Reformation?
a. John Dowland
b. Machaut
c. Palestrina
d. Von Bingen
Who is Palestrina
-BONUS QUESTION- What was the Counter-Reformation?
500
Orfeo was the first great opera during the baroque period. Who composed it?
a. Henry Purcell
b. Claudio Monteverdi
c. Antonio Vivaldi
d. J.S. Bach
Who is Claudio Monteverdi
500
Most often the 3rd movement to a symphony and a string quartet, what Classical period form is in ¾ time, originated as a dance, and has 3 sections?
a. Theme and Variation
b. Minuet and Trio
c. Sonata-Allegro
d. Scherzo