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This was a form of monophonic liturgical (used in the church) music from the early Medieval period.
What is Gregorian Chant?
100
This was a frequent topic of secular songs in the Renaissance.
What is love?
100
This composer was born in 1685 and died in 1750.
Who was JS Bach?
100
This composer was seen as the father of the string quartet.
Who was Haydn?
100
Symphonies developed to have 4 movements of this pattern.
What is fast (or sonata-allegro), slow, minuet, and fast?
200
This is the categorization of instruments that includes modern day marimbas, xylophones, and woodblocks.
What are ideophones?
200
The meaning of the word Renaissance.
What is rebirth?
200
The term for a group of musicians that includes a bowed string instrument and a keyboard instrument.
What is the basso continuo?
200
Though deaf or mostly deaf for his adult life, this composer still churned out a remarkable number of works, including 9 symphonies.
Who was Beethoven?
200
The string bass developed more directly from this instrument than did the rest of the orchestral string instruments.
What is the viola da gamba?
300
Of the following instruments, this was NOT an instrument found during the Middle Ages (Medieval period): transverse flute, harpsichord, shawm, viol.
What is the harpsichord?
300
The intellectual movement during the Renaissance.
What is humanism?
300
This is the term for a Baroque piece made up of a collection of dance movements, often including a gigue, sarabande, and minuets.
What is a Suite?
300
This is the descendant of the Baroque trio sonata, developed by adding a solo instrument and removing a harpsichord.
What is the string quartet?
300
This is the name that encompasses the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras.
What is the Common Practice Period?
400
This is the oldest surviving example of a complete written musical composition.
What is the Epitaph of Seikilos?
400
This is the technology that allowed music to start being distributed to more people.
What is the printing press?
400
While the name implies 3 parts, this type of piece actually had 4 instrumentalists.
What is the trio sonata?
400
The city which became a hub for music making in the 18th century.
What is Vienna?
400
This modern instrument developed from the shawm.
What is the oboe?
500
This ancient philosopher discovered intervals based on ratios of the length of strings. Also was someone you've probably heard about in math.
Who was Pythagoras?
500
According to legend, this composition by this composer convinced the Council of Trent to continue to allow music during the mass.
What is the Pope Marcellus Mass by Palestrina?
500
These were four kinds of pieces that used instrumentalists and singers.
What are cantata, opera, oratorio, and mass?
500
This composer wrote the cello concerto that Mr. Beder played in high school.
Who was Haydn?
500
The final one of these types of singers died in the early 1900s, ending a tradition of artificially keeping the high voices of virtuosic boy singers.
What is the castrato?