Half of Music Appreciation Final

What is the difference between sacred and secular?

What did Beethoven's father and grandfather do?

What are two important developments in the use of music groups during the Baroque Period?

Which was a series of dance movements all in the same key?

What is counterpoint?

Was Haydn's father a musician? What kind of work did he do?

According to the myth, Pope Gregory recieved the chants from whom?

at age 11, what was Beethoven's job?

The Middle Ages began and ended in approximatley what years?

Where was Haydn born in 1732

How did Haydn's background effect his compositions later in life?

At what point in the Middle Ages did we see a period of great cultual growth?

What happened to Haydn at age 16 that ended his choister career?

Why did Hayden not care for Beethoven?

How did the invention of the printing press affect the musical world?

Why was Josquin considered a prolific composer?

Where were cantatas and oritorios general performed?

Who said, "keep an eye on him- he will make a noise in the world someday" of Beethoven?

What were the three social classes in the middle ages?

What was the style of polyphany that Leonin composed?

The words for songs sung in the monasteries during the Middle Ages came from what books?

What objects were not allowed in churches or monasteries for the majority of the Middle Ages?

For how many years were the songs passed down in an oral tradition?

What country did Haydn visit twice-in 1791 and 1794

The French ovature had slow to fast sections

Of all the instruments used, which one was the most prominent in the Middle Ages?

Where was the chamber sonata generally performed?

What aspects of life became more important during the Renaissance period?

What is the combination of two or more similtanious melodic lines?

What is another word for Renaissance?

Churches and Monisteries were built in what archetectural style?

What was the name of the family Haydn attached himself to in 1761?

Who were two of the greatest composers of the Baroque period?

What was one of the most important occupations in monasteries?

at age 12, what was Beethoven's new job?

Where was Bach born?

Bach was a virtioso on which instrument?

The Italian ovature had four sections: fast-slow-fast-slow.

What does the Dove in the myth represent?

what enabled beethovens music to be performed and heard throughout Europe?

What did the Motet allow the composer to do?

What was the name of the new Christian Church?

Who is typically classified as one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance period?

Which was a type of sacred opera?

where was Beethoven born?

Who typically commissioned music?

What is continuity of melody?

Who was the earliest known composer of polyphony

Who was Leonin's successor?

What type of theme could a motet have?

in his late twenties, what cursed beethoven

What is a characteristic of the Renaissance period?

Which was a period of development for instrumental music?

What are terraced dynamics?

Which was a period when instrumental music became a main form of music and composition

What is the difference between a cantata and an opera?

What form of music was the primary sacred composition of the Renaissance?

What type of instruments are harpsachord and clavichord?

Where did Haydn begin his musical career?

Musical activity shifted from one area to another in the Renaissance. What were the names of these areas?

What was Handel's most famous oratorio?

The new chants were to be taken to churches on what continet?

What was the most important form of early polyphonic music?

What word describes a perfomer who has great technical ability on an instrument?

Perotin wrote polyphonic music in how many parts?

How many oratorios did Handel write?

What does oratorio mean?

How long was Pope Gregory's rein?

Where did Josquin spend most of his life?

From what type of music were melodies for Gregorian Chant derieved?

Who are two of the fine composers of the Baroque Period

What was the name of the cathedral at which Leonin and a number of other composers studied?

During the Middle Ages, where would an individual have to go to study music?

What is that area where Beethoven was born often referred to as?

Why did Pope Gregory have the chants written down?

Why was Josquin considered a transition composer?

Who said of Josquin: "He is the master of the notes. They must do as he wills."

What is Unity of Rhythm?

What is homophonic texture?

Following Beethoven's death, why did composers still look to his compositions?

What is the name of a piece for vocolists, chourses, and instrumentalists that is dramatized?

Where was Handel born?

What types of events constituted what is known as the liturgical year?

What development did polyphony bring about?

What social classes began to hire people to educate their children in the Renaissance?

When a composer wrote a piece of music for a certain occasion, what is that called?

What type of person was expected to be trained in music during the Renaissance

Toward the end of the Rennissance period, what started showing up in churches?

What quality of musicians did the Esterhazy's hire?

When a piece of music expresses one basic emotion, what is it called?

What event caused the realise of Haydn from the Esterhazy's service?

What contrasts of sound did composers stress in the Baroque period?

What forms of music received greater emphasis during the Renaissance period?

Who led the Protestant Reformation?

What type of music constitutes almost all music from the Middle Ages?

What religious faith was adopted by the Roman Empire as the church of state?

How did Haydn make a living in his early years?

What important invention in the Renaissance period greatly affected the music world?

Which of Josquin's compositions are considered the most ingenious of the time?

How did Josquin's compositions differ from the compositions of composers who lived before him?