Renaissance
The Renaissance era occurred between these dates.
What is from 1400 - 1600?
Johann Sebastian Bach's death in this year marked the end of the Baroque era.
What was 1750?
Name two inventions of the Classical era.
What are the flush toilet and the stethescope?
Franz Liszt was famous for playing this instrument.
What is the piano?
This famous historical figure explored for Spain and landed in the Bahamas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
While music and art was simple and balanced in the Classical era, it was _________ in the Baroque era.
What is fancy?
This composer was the first to make string quartets.
Who was Joseph Hadyn?
Who is Richard Wagner?
Before the Renaissance, all music was composed for the _____________.
What is the church?
These two keyboard instruments were popular during the Baroque era.
What were the harpsichord and the organ?
Ludwig van Beethoven was known for his bad _________.
What are manners?
This composer wrote the music for The Nutcracker ballet.
Who is Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
This famous Renaissance composer wrote over _______ vocal and instrumental works.
Who is Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina?
This composer wrote the infamous "Hallelujah" chorus.
Who is George Fredric Handel?
Although this composer went deaf later in life, he continued to write music.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
Romantic era music moved away from the fancy, away from the simple and orderly, and moved towards music that was full of __________, ____________, and imagination.
What is emotion and adventure?
This type of music is more than one instrument or voice playing independent melodies at the same time.
What is polyphony?
This composer, nicked-named the red priest, wrote the Four Seasons.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a theme and variations to this popular nursery rhyme.
What is Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?
This story - that uses leitmotifs - by Sergei Prokofiev is about a boy who finds himself in trouble after hunting for a wolf on his own.
What is Peter and the Wolf?