Medieval/Renaissance
What is Renaissance
One of the Main composers from the Baroque Era who had may sons who were also composers.
Who Is J. S. Bach
Listening: this piece incorporates a lot of Dynamic contrast and has also been featured on popular TV programs
What is Beethoven's 5th Symphony
a compositional technique where the tempo appears to push and pull. (to steal time). Emphasized by composers like Chopin.
What is rubato
A chord or sound that clashes or sounds unpleasant, usually leading to a resolution.
What is Dissonance
Term to describe music written for primarily religious reasons.
What is Sacred
How long the Baroque era Lasted.
What is 150 years
This composer's music blurred the line between Classical and Romantic Era Music
who is Beethoven
Musicians such as Franz Liszt and Niccolo Paganini that have developed technical mastery of their instrument, creating new ways to play the instrument.
What is a virtuoso
Composers like Schoenberg made this type of music popular which uses a mathematical approach. May sound unconventional to most listeners.
What is twelve tone music
Music consisting of many, independent voice parts.
What is Polyphony
This piece has four sections, each dedicated to a specific time of year.
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
The easily recognizable theme of a song; such as this one, composed by Mozart.
What is a melody
Composers from foreign countries such as Poland or Russia using techniques, dances, or folk culture in their music.
What is Exoticism
A technique that takes a melodic figure and plays it in a different key. A way to TRANSform the music
Whit is transposition
Listening: What era is this music from?
Medieval
Listening: This piece utilizes a compositional technique that adds decoration to a phrase of notes.
What is ornamentation
Listening: These were the last notes that this composer ever wrote
What is Mozart's Lacrimosa
Listening: This German Lieder Tells the folk tale of the Elf King who steals young souls. (name composer and title)
What is Der ErlKonig by Franz Schubert
Listening: A 20th century work that uses a series of repetitions.
What is Islands by Phillip Glass
Listening: What type of music is this? What era is it from?
What is a Madrigal, from the Renaissance.
This composer's death signified the end of the Baroque Era
Who is J S Bach
This concept allowed music to be written for the sake of music, not just sacred or secular music as in the baroque style.
What is Composer's intent.
This Composer wrote some of the first Programmatic music that follows a written story and uses the Idee Fixe to recall the main character's Beloved just before his death.
(name Composer and work)
Who is Berlioz, Symphonie Fantasique, March to the scaffold.
Listening: genre of music composed to give the feeling of weightlessness with no established key or tonality. schoenberg.
What is Atonal Music?