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Scales
Period of Music
Composers
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Italian for fast and lively.
What is Allegro?
100
Type of scale made of whole steps except for half steps between notes 3-4 and 7-8.
What is the major scale?
100
The period of music from 1600-1750.
What is the Baroque?
100
Composer who wrote 15 two-part and 15 three-part inventions.
Who is Bach?
200
Italian for slow.
What is adagio (or lento, largo)
200
Type of scale made of whole steps except for half steps between notes 2-3 and 5-6.
What is the natural minor scale?
200
Years of the Classical period.
What is 1750-1820?
200
Composer who wrote "The Messiah".
Who is Handel?
300
Type of rhythm with an accent on a weak beat or between beats.
What is syncopation?
300
Type of minor scale with different notes ascending and descending.
What is the melodic minor scale?
300
Period of music in which George Gershwin composed.
What is Contemporary?
300
Composer who wrote 32 piano sonatas.
Who is Beethoven?
400
Type of rhythm in a triple meter which temporarily changes to duple, or vice versa.
What is hemiola
400
Type of scale made entirely of whole steps.
What is the whole tone scale?
400
Period of music with prevalent use of Alberti bass.
What is Classical?
400
Composer who wrote the Surprise Symphony.
Who is Haydn?
500
German for slow.
What is Langsam?
500
Type of scale made entirely of half steps.
What is the chromatic scale?
500
Period of music in which the tone poem was invented.
What is Romantic?
500
Composer buried in a grave for the poor.
Who is Mozart?