Overview of Eras

18th Century Classicism

100

This type of composition generally has 4 movements.

Symphony, String Quartet

200

Name two of the four instruments usually found in a string quartet. 

Violin, Viola, Cello

300

This type of music does not need words or programs to explain it. The music stands alone. 

Absolute music.

400

The Classical orchestra typically contained how many instruments?

30-40

500

What was Mozart doing at the time of his death?

Writing his Requiem

19th Century Part 1

100

This type of artwork helped shape the free-form of Debussy's compositions.

Impressionistic

200

The term for a group of Lieder unified by a common theme. 

Song Cycle

300

The form that repeats verse and chorus melodies. 

Strophic

400

A Lied is an art song sung in what language?

German

500

Novelist George Sand played a key role in this composer's career.

Chopin

19th Century Part 2

100

Stephen Foster wrote music that became a staple in what country?

the United States

200

European opera and art songs combined with what other kind of traditional music helped to develop popular tunes?

Folk songs

300

American brass bands were derived from what other country's military band?

British

400

The type of songs that white singers would sing in blackface.

Minstrel 

500

The operatic style popular for bringing realism to the stage.

Verismo

Modernism

100

True or false: Dissonances do not always resolve to consonance in the modernist music.

True

200

This composer invented a way to organize sound called the 12-tone method.

Schoenberg

300

In Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Pierrot holds what occcupation?

Clown

400

Pierrot Lunaire is a different kind of opera that presents the songs in this technique, when translated means "speak-sing".

Sprechtstimme

500

Which is not a type of music popular during the Great Depression? Organum, Broadway show tunes, or parlor songs.

Organum

Mixed Up

100

Mozart's opera took the opportunity to point out this about modern society.

separation of class and gender. 

200

The type of form that is composed from beginning to end with no repetition of sections. 

Through-composed.

300

Bel Canto is Italian for what kind of singing?

Beautiful

400

Name at least two subjects that are represented in musical Nationalism.

Scenery, Heroes, Shared history

500

The French song genre that paralleled the German Lied is...

Melodie