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Music Theory
General History
Opera History
Romantic History
Impressionism
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Four Sixteenths, an eighth note and two sixteenths, two sixteenths and an eighth note and two eighth notes
100
These are the years the Baroque time period spanned.
1600-1750
100
This is roughly the date that opera was invented.
1500s.
100
This was the goal of Romantic composers.
To express their feelings through music.
100
These were two impressionist painters.
Monet, Renoir or Degas.
200
This is the key signature for an E Major scale
F#, C#, G#, D#
200
This is the word that Baroque translates to.
Deformed pearl.
200
This is considered the first opera. (100 bonus points if you can name the composer, too)
Dafne, by Jacopo Peri
200
This is music that is meant to convey a certain image.
Programme Music
200
This is approximately the time that impressionist music began to gain popularity.
1900.
300
The Major scale with 5 flats.
D flat Major
300
This was the invention that helped unify one music system.
The printing press.
300
This composer liked "normal people" as his subjects for operas.
Mozart
300
This invention lead to a split in musical participation. There were listeners and active participants in music.
The gramophone.
300
Impressionist music was a reaction to this.
Overly dramatic music of the Romantic period.
400
This is the musical term for a question and answer phrase.
Antecedent/Consequent
400
This composer was said to have made a deal with the devil for how well he performed.
Paganini.
400
This Italian word, also a style of opera, means beautiful singing.
Bel Canto.
400
This composer expanded the symphony to five movements.
Hector Berlioz
400
Debussy despised this German form of music.
Sonata form.
500
This is the relative Major scale to a d# minor scale.
F# Major.
500
There were no notes during the Middle Ages, there were only these.
Neumes.
500
These were three composers of Romantic opera.
Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini.
500
This German word is what Wagner used to describe his music and means "the total art work".
Gesamtkuntswerk.
500
This impressionist composer was not a great performer at all.
Ravel.