Early Music
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
20th Century
100
This is the time frame for the Renaissance Period.
What is 1450 - 1600 AD?
100
This is the time frame for the Baroque Period.
What is 1600 - 1750?
100
This is the time frame for the Classical Period.
What is 1750 - 1825
100
This is the time frame for the Romantic Period.
What is 1820 - 1910
100
This is the time frame for the 20th Century.
What is 1901 - 2000?
200
The name for music that is sung or played in church for worship.
What is sacred music?
200
This tactic was used to "decorate a musical line" and was prominent during the Baroque Period.
What is ornamentation?
200
This instrument came into wide use during the Classical Period and replaced the harpsichord.
What is the piano?
200
This was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.
What is Romanticism?
200
This item allowed music of all kinds to become increasingly portable and allowed people sitting next to each other to listen to different performances.
What are headphones?
300
Music in the early part of the Medieval Period was generally passed down by this method.
What is oral speech/orally?
300
This instrument underwent several changes during the Baroque Period, which made the tone sweeter. It is very similar to an instrument that elementary school children learn in music class.
What is a recorder?
300
Classical composers put an emphasis on these two items.
What are clarity and form?
300
These are traits of the Romantic Period. (Name 2)
What are a preoccupation with the past/a turn towards toward the mystic and supernatural/a new attention given to national identity?
300
The invention of musical amplification and electronic instruments, especially this instrument, revolutionized popular music and accelerated the development of new forms of music.
What is the synthesizer?
400
This Cornetto was the largest in the family and is a precursor to the tuba that is known today.
What is the Serpent?
400
The viol of the Renaissance Period was replaced by these Baroque instruments. (Name 3)
What are the violin/viola/cello/contrabass?
400
This word means two or more parts moving together in harmony or by an obvious melody with an accompaniment. It is a characterization of the Classical Period.
What is homophony?
400
This name is given to the movement in which machines changed peoples' way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. Romanticism is a reaction to this movement.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
This composer composed music that was performed in Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, etc. He is a very famous movie-score composer.
Who is John Williams?
500
Religious music invented by Pope Gregory of the Roman Catholic Church that wanted to standardize the Mass and Chant is called this.
What is Gregorian Chant?
500
This was one of the major forces in both the instrumental and vocal music of the period. It is defined as two melodies that are equally as beautiful but have different rhythms that could be played or sung at the same time and sound good.
What is counterpoint?
500
This famous Classical composer standardized the makeup of the orchestra by the musicians he called for his writing.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven.
500
This composition by Franz Schubert depicts the story of a young boy who is riding horseback with his father through the woods at night. It is based off of a poem by the same name.
What is Erlkönig/Elf-King?
500
Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and recording of these, which allowed for the possibility of global recognition.
What are music videos/concerts?