Middle Ages
A Medieval nun who was a seer and composer.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
Rebirth
What does Renaissance mean?
Non religious music
What is secular music?
Precedes the Classical Period
What is the Baroque Period?
One single line of music
What is monophonic music?
A stringed like guitar instrument
What is the lute?
A secular poetical musical form
What is a madrigal?
Who is George Frideric Handel?
This Classical composer was born Salzburg, Austria.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This composer wrote the first opera
Who is Monteverdi?
A musician who plays heroic poetry
What is a minstrel?
1400 - 1600
What is the Renaissance Period?
The most important composer in the Renaissance Period
Who is Palestrina?
This composer went deaf in his late twenties.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
The most important invention of humankind
What is the printing press?
The most popular type of music in the Middle Ages
What is Gregorian Chant?
Sackbut, shawm, and cornet
What are some instruments from the Renaisssance Period?
A distinguishing trait in the Baroque Period
What is embellishment?
This period birthed a major musical form.
What is the symphony?
Notation from the Medieval and Renaissance periods
What are neumes?
Non religious music
What is secular music?
Famous artists from the Renaissance Period
Who are Michelangelo and Da Vinci.
Italian musical term for "loud" that started being used in the Baroque Period
What is forte?
Became more important than vocal music
What is instrumental music?
Period when the Revolutionary War was being fought
What is the Classical Period?