Ancient/Medieval
This is music for worshipping in a religion
What is sacred music?
This major technology made it easier to make and sell music for a profit
What is Printing?
This is a musical work like a play sung the whole way through.
What is Opera?
This music style tried to sound simple, natural, and easy.
What is the Galant style?
This Romantic composer permanently injured his hand, preventing him from playing piano.
Who is Schumann?
This is music for non-religious purposes
What is secular music?
This is what we call the group of notes used to make music.
What is a scale or mode?
This composer's death in 1750 marks the end of the Baroque period.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
We sort Beethoven's music and career into these three categories
What are his Early, Middle, and Late periods?
This is instrumental music that tells a story or describes nature without words.
What is program music?
This group or organization controlled the rules that all sacred music had to follow
What is the Catholic Church?
This word describes a technique where the composer makes the notes of a song sound like the meaning of the lyrics.
What is word-painting?
This type of song in an opera is used to show emotions and beautiful music: the words are less important.
What is an Aria?
This Classical composer was a child prodigy who made a living without holding a long-term job.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
These were the important qualities for music during the Romantic period (there are three, name at least one)
What are original, expressive, and interesting?
This is what we call music with multiple melodies happening at the same time
What is polyphonic?
or What is polyphony?
This event led to more churches showing up, making the Catholic Church less important
What was the Protestant Reformation?
Old textbooks described this composer as a writer of "Perfect Music"
Who is Arcangelo Corelli?
This type of Opera used a traditional style, was enjoyed by rich people, and was often about mythology
What is Opera Seria?
or What is Serious Opera?
In Schubert's song Erlkonig, the singer plays this many characters.
How many is 4?
This is the oldest country we know of that had music theory, including today's modes.
Where is Ancient Greece?
This composer was so famous that people tried to write his name on their own music to sell more copies.
Who is Josquin des Prez?
This composer was born in Germany, became famous for his Italian operas, and invented the English Oratorio.
Who is George Frideric Handel?
Joseph Haydn worked for this rich family.
Who was the Esterhazy family?
Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique was the first time this melody was used to represent death.
What is the Dies Irae?
or What is *sings melody*?