Music Historical Periods

Dates

100

This Music Period lasted from around 1820 until 1900

Romantic

200

This Music Period was from 1400-1600

Renaissance

300

This Musical Period was from 1600-1750

Baroque

400

This Musical Period went from about 1750 to 1820 and is also a term for Western Art music...

Classical

500

Music earlier than 1400 is usually called this

Medieval

Composers

100

This composer wrote "Rondo Alla Turca" from his Piano Sonata #11

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

200

This composer wrote the choral piece "The Silver Swan" in the Renaissance Period

Orlando Gibbons

300

This composer wrote "Water Music" depicting the River Thames and "Messiah" featuring "The Hallelujah Chorus"

George Frederick Handel

400

The Baroque Period ended in 1750, the year that this famous composer died.

Johann Sebastian Bach

500

This is the name given to the composer of early music if we aren't sure who composed it...

Anonymous

Songs

100

This piece by Beethoven was the most popular entry in the homework you listened to

Moonlight Sonata

200

This song by Bach is named by how he appreciated pianos to be tuned

The Well Tempered Klavier

300

This song by Tchaikovsky is named for the bird that only sings just before it is about to die

Swan Lake

400

This song by Chopin we used to compare to Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca"

Nocturne in E-flat Major

500

This is the name of the 10 minute work by Franz Schubert we studied in depth by reading a small booklet about it

Quartettsatz

Ideas

100

In this Musical Period, choral music was King!

Renaissance

200

In this Musical Period, a high emphasis was put on order and form making it seem a bit lighter and less complicated

Classical

300

In this Musical Period, emotions were championed in highs and lows of expression in music

Romantic

400

In this Musical Period, the invention of the harpsichord flourished and music became more complex

Baroque

500

This Musical Period is well known for monophonic lines of singing and playing of flutes and string instruments

Medieval

Random

100

This composer had extremely large hands and could play the piano a little more virtuosic than most people

Franz Liszt

200

This is the Latin term for "false music" where sometimes a singer will sing an accidental instead of what is written

Musica Ficta

300

This is the fifth singing part in some early music that is labeled "Q"

Quintus (fifth part)

400

Name a composer that transitioned from one Musical Period to another

Beethoven / Schubert / etc.

500

Much of the chant in the Medieval period was named after this Pope

Pope Gregory I