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Composer Connection
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A backbeat places accents on which two beats (out of four)?
What are beats 2 and 4?
100
This is the minimum number of pitches required to make a chord.
What is three?
100
Dodecaphonic music uses melodies that must contain this many pitches.
What is twelve?
100
This type of instrumental music represents or relates to some extra-musical idea or story.
What is program music?
100
He is an Austrian Classical composer famous for his Italian operas and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
200
This person is responsible for keeping time, leading the ensemble, and interpreting the music?
Who is a conductor?
200
This type of melodic motion features smaller, stepwise intervals of consecutive pitches.
What is conjunct melodic motion?
200
This term refers to the ritualistic reenactment of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ.
What is Mass?
200
This style of composition features frequent repetition and slow rate of change over time.
What is minimalism?
200
This German Baroque composer moved to England to write operas and oratorios like The Messiah.
Who is George Frederic Handel?
300
This term identifies the male voice type with the highest overall vocal range?
What is a counter tenor?
300
How many movements do most Classical and Romantic symphonies and string quartets have?
What is 4?
300
Ludwig van Beethoven is known for linking these two musical periods.
What are the Classical and Romantic periods?
300
This is the term that refers to the grid of five lines and four spaces on which music is written.
What is a staff?
300
This French Medieval composer was a master of the ars nova style.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
400
The top number in a time signature (e.g. 3/4) tells you this.
What is how many beats are in a measure?
400
This group of chords is know as the "home key" chords.
What are tonic chords?
400
This traveling singer/songwriters would have sung in the Occitan language.
What are troubadours/trouveres?
400
When two or more melodies are playing simultaneously, this is the resulting texture.
What is polyphony?
400
This Austrian Classical composer is known as the father of the string quartet and the symphony.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
500
This Italian term means "in the style of the church", that is, to be performed with voices only.
What is a cappella?
500
This type of form is "through-composed", meaning none of the sections repeat or share significant musical content.
What is paratactic form?
500
This is known as the oldest complete musical composition in Western civilization?
What is the Song of Seikilos?
500
The genre of opera was created in this century and country.
What is 1600s (17th-century) Italy?
500
This Italian Renaissance composer wrote pieces like "Sicut cervus" for the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina?