Musical Time Periods
The start and end dates of the postmodern era
What is 1945-present?
Name 2 composers from the Classical period
Who are Beethoven, Mozart, etc.?
This instrument replaced the harpsichord, mostly because it had the ability to play dynamics
What is the piano?
Music during the Romantic period pushed back at the Classical period's emphasis on form by focusing on this:
What is the emotion/individual experience?
This modern topic of music focused on driving rhythms and folk songs
What is primitavism?
The start and end dates of the classical era
What is 1750-1820?
Name 2 composers from the Romantic period
Who are Liszt, Chopin, Wagner, etc?
Did Orchestras get smaller or bigger during the classical period?
What is bigger?
What is larger?
This modern topic of music required a total break from harmonic convention and often included dissonant notes that did not sound pleasant
What is atonality?
The start and end dates of the romantic era
What is 1820-1900?
This composer was considered the transitional composer between the classical and romantic eras
Who is Beethoven?
This type of ensemble popularized during the classical era contained two violins, a viola, and a cello
What is a string quartet?
These were the three major topics of music during the Romantic period:
This modern topic of music focused on a lack of rhythm and is named after a similar style of art
What is impressionism?
The start and end dates of the modern era
What is 1900-1945?
Name three composers from the Viennese school
Who are Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn?
This was the "school" that popularized the forms of the Classical period
What is the Viennese school?
Music in the Romantic period added lengthy introductions or codas, as well as extended development sections. What Romantic era musical trait does this idea fall under
What is breaking the rules of form?
This term is defined as all 12 chromatic pitches playing in order and not repeating any until you get to the end of the order
What is serialism?
This is the shortest of the musical eras
What is the modern era?
This composer was associated with serialism and modern music
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
This was the dominant musical texture in the Classical period
What is homophony?
What is leitmotif or idee fixe?
This is a grid that serlialist composers made to show all of the possible pitch set options
What is a 12 tone row?