Music Apt Test Review

0th century - known for his compositions for piano (such as "Mikrokosmos", 1926-27),

a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.

a long accompanied song for a solo voice, typically one in an opera or oratorio.

a part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically arranged in elaborate

a traditional instrumental ensemble of Indonesia, typically including many bronze percussion instruments.

one line of music set against another

another term for tone poem.

a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

the revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music.

Renaissance - best known for his cycle of six orchestral tone poems, Má vlast ('My Country'), - Smetana

classical period -redefined the symphony, composed some of the greatest operas and lifted chamber music to new heights

20th-century - an Austrian-American composer who created new methods of musical composition involving atonality

an act or instance of summarizing and restating the main points of something.

Romantic - German composer, pianist of the Romantic period, he was more a disciple of the Classical tradition. - Brahms

a kind of music evolved by African American musicians in the 1890s and played especially on the piano,

a style of music defined by an ensemble of musicians, known as a jazz orchestra, playing together.

Baroque - creator of many masterpieces of church and instrumental music

of a musical composition) using two or more keys simultaneously.

Classical - his songs—also called lieder—and his chamber music. He also created symphonies, masses, and piano works.

Renaissance - wrote sacred and secular music, and all of significant vocal forms of the age, including masses, motets.

Medieval - Ordo virtutum, 43 antiphons, 18 responsories, sequences, hymns, and chants.

Baroque - operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios, Messiah (1741).

an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition

20th century - He composed two string quartets and works of chamber music, he is now best known for his orchestral music

1960s and 1970s - one of the most frequently performed composers in today's musical world.

The exertion of a modifying influence on something or the variation in the strength, tone, or pitch of one's voice.

large-scale musical for orchestra and voices, a narrative on religious theme performed without the use of costumes, scen

Romantic period - his Symphonie Fantastique and Harold in Italy symphony

Renaissance -important composer of English Madrigal School. He was born in England during the Elizabethan period

a musical interval of two semitones

Classical - Recognized as one of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western classical tradition,

Renaissance - Primarily known for his masses and motets, which number over 105 and 250 respectively, - Palestrina

early 1970's - the King of Ragtime! - Joplin

instrumental music composed purely as music, and not intended to represent or illustrate something else.

compositional technique which a fixed series of notes, twelve notes of the chromatic scale, are used to generate the har

1952-present - lush symphonic style

bassline intended harmonies indicated by figures rather written out as chords, typical continuo parts in baroque music.

new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.

period of the tremendous flowering of music in the 14th century, particularly in France - Ars Nova

a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music.