Life in the Middle Ages
This institution was the center of daily life, learning, and music during the Medieval era.
What is the Church?
This philosophy focused on the value and potential of people rather than divine or supernatural authority.
What is humanism?
This keyboard instrument, not the piano, was a central part of Baroque orchestras and continuo groups.
What is the harpsichord?
A musical genius and child prodigy, this composer wrote over 600 works before dying at age 35.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This instrument became the most popular solo instrument of the Romantic era, thanks to composers like Chopin and Liszt.
What is the piano?
Music written for use in the church is called this.
What is sacred music?
During the Renaissance, music often shifted toward being created simply for this purpose.
What is enjoyment?
This Baroque composer wrote many organ works and chorales but wasn’t famous until after his death.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
Known as the “Father of the Symphony,” this composer helped develop the Classical style and even taught Beethoven.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
Composers of the Romantic era centered their music around these intense personal feelings, making them the defining feature of the period.
What are emotions?
Tchaikovsky (Nutcraker - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)
The most common form of sacred music during the Medieval period.
What is Gregorian chant?
In the Renaissance, educated people were expected to be able to do these two musical skills.
What are read and write music?
Baroque music typically expresses just one of these throughout an entire piece.
What is a mood/emotion?
This composer served as a bridge from the Classical to the Romantic era, known for his powerful symphonies such as Symphony No. 5.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This Romantic composer wrote Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, and Swan Lake, known for their emotional melodies and rich orchestration.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
Music performed outside the church, often by traveling musicians or minstrels, is known as this.
What is secular music?
Under this system, musicians were hired by wealthy families or royal courts to create and perform music.
What is patronage?
This major vocal form, a drama sung with orchestral accompaniment, became hugely popular during the Baroque era.
What is opera?
This term refers to a large work for orchestra, usually in four movements, that became the most important form of instrumental music in the Classical era.
What is a symphony?
Improvements in instrument design during this major 19th-century event allowed orchestras to grow louder and more powerful.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Members of this group held a monopoly on reading and writing in the Middle Ages.
Who were the clergy?
This large polyphonic sacred composition includes sections like the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
What is the Mass?
During the Baroque period, this large ensemble—made up of strings, woodwinds, brass, and harpsichord—was formally established.
What is the orchestra?
Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven all lived and worked in this European city, known as the musical center of the Classical period.
What is Vienna, Austria?
Wagner used these recurring musical themes to represent characters, objects, or ideas in his operas.
What are leitmotifs?