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Middle Ages
Renaissance
Baroque
Composers
100
The time period in which the Middle Ages took place
What is 450 - 1450?
100
The type of music that was performed most often in the Renaissance (hint: vocal or instrumental)
What is vocal music?
100
A style of music where musicians made up music as they played it
What is improvisation?
100
A composer who was famous for writing fugues in the Baroque period
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
200
Music that consists of "one sound"
What is monophonic?
200
A secular song written for a small group of singers
What is a madrigal?
200
A style of vocal music that developed in the Baroque period that was an entirely sung drama
What is opera?
200
The Renaissance composer who wrote several masses and motets, one of these being "Sicut cervus"
Who is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina?
300
A sacred, monophonic singing style that was sung by men only
What is Gregorian chant?
300
A long, sacred work consisting of several movements
What is a mass?
300
Two popular keyboard instruments of the Baroque period
What are the organ and harpsichord?
300
A Baroque composer of operas and oratorios who is most famous for his "Messiah"
Who is George Frideric Handel?
400
The man who Gregorian chant is named after
Who is Pope Gregory I?
400
A shorter, sacred piece for choir
What is a motet?
400
A popular form of the Baroque period that is similar to a round
What is fugue?
400
A Baroque composer who wrote primarily instrumental music, for example "the Four Seasons"
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
500
The type of music that was most prominent, means "of the church"
What is sacred music?
500
Two instruments that were used to accompany vocal music in the renaissance
What are the lute and recorder?
500
A technique used by Baroque musicians to dress up the music by adding extra notes
What is ornamentation?
500
An organist and highly regarded composer of church music who influenced composers like Handel and Bach
Who is Dietrich Buxtehude?