Music History Test Review A&H

What years did the Romantic period take place?

This composer was a master lute player and a royal lutenist for Denmark and England.

What time period is the “Golden Age” of radio?

What years did the Impressionist Period take place?

What is a praise song created for the common people? They were written for the protestant church.

Composed a variety of styles: opera, royal anthems, church oratorios. Nothing more famous than his work Messiah

T/F Architecture of the Classical period was grand, simple, elegant, and balanced including the U.S. capitol building.

What time period did visual art use thick and heavy paint strokes and created dream-like effects? Ex. Starry Night

True or False: With pieces such as Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, people created art simply for the purpose of beauty.

True or False: The Classical period built on and added more ornamentation than the Baroque period.

T/F Schoenberg invented 12 tone serialism. All 12 tones are of equal importance and are played in an abstract order.

Wrote mostly for piano and orchestra, but is considered the father of impressionist music. Ex. Claire De Lune

Name the term for telling a story through dance and music.

What year was the saxophone invented?

Which of the following was not an instrument of the Middle Ages?

What is the term for a drama or story told entirely through music?

Name the term for clash or tension resulting from a lack of harmony between notes

Who was responsible for making troubadour/minstrel music popular?

What years did the Renaissance period take place?

This composer is probably the most famous, but considered both a Classical and Romantic composer. Went deaf in his 30s

Which of the following is a ballet by Russian composer Tchaikovsky?

Child prodigy who performed all over the world. One of the greatest composers of all time. Ex. Magic Flute

The term for a large work for orchestra in four movements?

Considered the father of all classical music, created over 1000 pieces including Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

What years do the Middle Ages take place?

What years did the Baroque period take place?

Which of the following is NOT a popular Baroque instrument style?

Name the term for a category for a style of music.

True/False: Art was mostly created for secular purposes in the Middle Ages?

The musical term for “many sounds” and multiple parts of equal importance.

What years did the Classical period take place?

Term for the type of unaccompanied song for the church sung in unison. Created by Pope Gregory the Great

True or False: After the invention of radio, songs continued to gain in popularity.

Composers began writing songs in the Romantic period that had a vocalist and accompaniment. 3-4 min

What years did the 20th Century music period take place?