Leonardo Da Vinci was a famous painter, sculptor, mathmatician, among other trades, during this time period
What is the Renaissance?
100
Philosophical movement in the late 19th and 20th centuries that marked activities and tradition in the older style as outdated
What is Modernism?
100
Reverse
What is Retrograde?
200
Tone Quality in music is referred to as this
What is Timbre?
200
Moderato most closely means this
What is moderately?
200
These men were the educated ones during the middle ages
What is the clergymen?
200
The oldest surviving Opera.
What is L'Orfeo?
200
A sacred story that is told on stage
What is an Oratorio?
300
This marking connects two or more notes that are different
What is a slur?
300
This marking means very loud
What is fortissimo?
300
This keyboard instrument was extremely popular during the Romantic period because it could produce dynamics
What is the piano?
300
He wrote the musical for all seven chapters of the Star Wars saga
Who is John Williams?
300
Polyphonic music produces this
What is Harmony?
400
Gradually get softer
What is diminuendo/decrescendo?
400
Length of time in music is referred to as this
What is duration?
400
Charles Ives, Leonard Bernstein, and Anton Webern are all composers from this era.
What is modern?
400
Because of it's use of Southern Black Dialect and the American Jazz art form, this musical changed how musical theatre would be structured, written and performed in the future
What is Porgy and Bess?
400
Having multiple tonal centers at once
What is Polytonality?
500
In 4/4 time, this type of note is equal to three quarters of a beat
What is a dotted eighth note?
500
Describe articulation of the melody in the following: Pick up The Pieces by Average White Band
What is Staccato?
500
This Baroque non musician is credited with discovering gravity
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
500
The literal translation for Libretto
What is "little book"?
500
A musical texture having a melody and an accompaniment