Eras of Western Art Music
This period, preceding the Baroque and known for increased interest in humanism, produced both sacred motets and secular madrigals.
What is the Renaissance?
Composed the Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky
This note is worth 4 full beats.
What is a whole note?
A violin, viola, cello, and bass fall into this instrument family.
What is strings?
What is rhythm?
List the six commonly taught periods of Western music history in order from earliest to most recent.
What is renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, 20th century, and contemporary?
This celebrity musician emerged in the Romantic period and wrote a four part opera called the The Ring Cycle
Who is Richard Wagner?
This rhythmic symbol is read as Ta Ka Di Mi.
What are sixteenth notes?
Sound is produced on these instruments by buzzing the lips into a mouthpiece.
What is brass?
the arrangement of musical layers
What is texture?
True or False: Organum, featuring a chant with an added moving voice above it, developed during the Middle Ages.
What is true?
This composer was known as a child prodigy and was one of the first to begin writing operas in the German language.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This symbol mean very soft.
What is pp or pianissimo?
These instruments produce a specific pitch when struck. Examples include glockenspiels, xylophones, marimbas, and timpanis.
Many independent parts played simultaneously
Polyphony
ornate, complex harmonies and ornamentation
What is the Baroque period?
This composer wrote nine symphonies. The last symphony used a poem entitled "Ode to Joy."
This symbol means how fast or slow music is played or sung. It is often represented by BPM.
What is tempo?
These instruments create sound by blowing air across a reed.
What are Woodwinds?
One note sung per syllable, speech-like singing.
What is Recitational or recitative?
music that tells a story or follows an extra-musical idea.
What is program music?
This composer is famous for saying, “There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.” This quote is exemplified in his composition 4'33".
Who is John Cage?
This symbol raises a pitch by a half step.
What is a sharp?
This is the largest instrument in the string family.
What is the double bass or contrabass?
Music used to galvanize grass roots efforts to enact social or political changes.
What is Protest music?