Middle Ages
This term describes what minstrels were called in France
What are troubadours?
What is secular music?
This is the most popular texture of baroque music
What is polyphonic?
These two revolutions, the middle class began to have an impact on music.
What are the American and French Revolutions?
During this era, this instrument became extremely popular in middle class homes.
What is the piano?
The Minstrels of the Middle ages played for these two social groups
Who are the nobility and the peasantry?
This term describes people who write music.
What is a composer?
This form of musical entertainment was invented during this time. It consisted of live performances that were dramatic and passionate!
What are operas?
This was the most popular texture of Classical music.
What is homophonic?
This term describes when instrumental music is associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene
What is program music?
This term is used to define music that was written down.
What is notate?
What is polyphonic?
What is 1600-1750?
These three men were the most popular composers of the Classical Era.
Who are Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn
This term describes out composers created music with a specific national identity
What is nationalism?
This was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church
What are Gregorian Chants?
This invention led to the widespread distribution of music to the upper/ middle class.
What is the printing press?
These two men were considered the musical "giants" of the Baroque era
Who is Handel and Bach?
This term describes how people wanted to return to the "classic" art and architecture of the Greeks and Romans.
What is classical?
This term describes how composers drew inspiration from materials from foreign lands.
What is exoticism?
These were the years of the Middle Ages
What is 450-1450?
This term describes when composers would make a musical "picture" of the text.
What is word painting?
This phrase (or term) means that composers were hired by churches, courts, opera houses, and others to write music.
What is "written to order"?
This city was known as one of the music centers of Europe and a city in which composers were all active.
What is Vienna?
Many composers took jobs like one of these to support themselves beyond composing.
What is (conducting, teaching, critiquing)?