Medieval
This institution controlled most written music and did not use instruments.
What is the Catholic Church?
This genre of music describes a group of 4-12 singers singing SECULAR music, usually in English or Italian.
What is a Madrigal?
This common Baroque genre was fairly complicated, starting with a subject, then generating answers.
What is a fugue?
This era of music strived for high emotions, both for the composer and the audience listening.
What is the Romantic Era?
This term describes what we refer to as music of our homeland or home country.
What is Nationalism?
This term describes music that is NOT religious.
What is secular music?
This type of instrumental music was played for people to dance to, usually in circles around the musicians.
What is a Ronde?
This public style of music was often performed in theaters and acted out. It included singing, dancing, costuming, pit musicians, and more.
What is Opera?
The year that starts this period starts does not exactly begin when the Classical Period ended.
When is 1830?
This music is the first of its kind, developed in the late 1800's, and helped put the United States on the map for cultural significance.
What is Jazz and/or Blues?
You play this instrument by winding it and pressing keys.
What is a Hurdy Gurdy?
This term describes one's own native language, as opposed to Latin.
What is vernacular?
This composer is often compared to Michael Jackson, dying in his 30's with little money.
Who was Mozart?
This composer, if he could hear at all, helped bride the Classical and Romantic Eras.
Who was Beethoven?
Music after this tragic event(s) in the 30's and 40's made music take a darker, more bleak turn.
What is the Great Depression or World Wars?
The name of this medieval composer is odd, as it is a woman who also wrote for Botany.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
This style of music helped develop early polyphony and is a later version of Gregorian Chant. (Starts with the letter O)
What is Organum?
This composer is synonymous with the time period. Most music scholars end the Baroque period when he died, in 1750.
Who is Bach?
This composer famously took waaaay to long, sometimes decades, to finish his greatest works.
Who was Wagner?
This infamous piece, written by John Cage, has the performer stay quiet for the duration of the piece. Some argue that it should not even be called music.
What is 4'33?
This term describes a person who travels around playing music for the common people.
What is a troubadour?
This invention, made by Gutenberg, revolutionized how fast people could write and distribute music.
What is the printing press?
As opposed to its predecessor which strived for complicated formulas, this Era of music strived for "simplicity" and easier, big themes.
What is the Classical Period?
This composer wrote his most famous work "simping" over an actress he would feverishly work to marry.
Who was Berlioz?
This horrifying music was made by Arnold Schoenberg, using a mathematical formula to choose the next note.
What is 12 tone?