Renaissance Period
The period of music from 1400-1600.
What is the renaissance period?
The period of music from 1600-1750.
What is the baroque period?
The period of music from 1750-1820
What is the classical period?
The period of music from 1820-1900.
What is the romantic period?
Repeated melody (A-A-A)
What is strophic?
Music for non-religious purposes.
What is secular music?
Terraced – either loud or soft, no mezzo!
What are Baroque period dynamics?
This person composed Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute).
Who is Mozart?
This type of music is a story without words.
What is program music?
Repeated melody with a different key and episodes (A-B-A-C-A)
What is rondo?
Music for religious purposes.
What is sacred music?
1685-1750 influential musician, composer, and director of Leipzig church for over 28 years.
Who is Bach?
Popular aria from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute).
What is the Queen of the Night Aria.
German art song.
What is a leid?
Exposition, development, recapitulation
What is sonata?
The wealthy patron specified the needs, the composer wrote the music.
What is the patronage system?
One melody with multiple harmonies.
What is monophony?
This instrument was born.
What is the piano?
A few note phrase repeated
What is a motive?
Two different sections (A-B)
What is binary?
A group of musicians, poets and philosophers of Florence, Italy who discussed trends in the arts.
What is the Florentine Camerata?
Phrase repeated after instruments
What is Imitation?
Features an aria, costumes, and talent.
What is opera?
A supremely talented musician.
What is a virtuoso?
Two different sections with first section repeating (A-B-A)
What is ternary?