Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Era Review

Which of the following composers was NOT a composer of the Baroque Era?

The following (pictured) is called:

Which of the following musical devices is used in this excerpt?

The four families of instruments are Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion. True or False.

What is the title of this excerpt?

What is the title of this musical excerpt?

The following image is an example of what musical device?

What time period is this piece of music from?

A stage play in which the drama is expressed through music is called a(n)

The following image is an example of what musical device?

Who wrote this piece of music

Melodies in the Classical Era are characterized by balanced phrases to create tuneful melodies.

Which of the following is not a member of the brass family:

What is the mode of this excerpt?

A type of mass written in honor of the dead is a:

What is the mode of this excerpt?

What is the timbre (tone color) of this excerpt?

Music with multiple independent musical voices or lines happening simultaneously is

What time period is this piece from?

What larger work is this piece from?

Baroque music uses sudden contrasts of dynamics rather than gradual crescendos and diminuendos.

Shifting of volume suddenly from one level to another is called:

Which of the following composers was NOT a composer of the Classical Era?

The Middle Ages lasted from approximately

Singing with one note for each syllabic is:

Male singers who were castrated to enable them to be able to sing the higher parts:

What is the title of this piece?

What time period is this piece from?

What type of music is this

What instrument(s) is this piece for?

Who is the composer of this piece?

In the Papal (Catholic Church) choir, women sang soprano and alto while men sang tenor and bass

What time period does this piece originate from?

Alto is the highest female voice. True or False.

What time period does this piece originate from?

The piano is the primary instrument of the Baroque period. True or False.

Which composer was the first woman to receive permission from the pope to preach openly?

Monophonic Medieval music with melodies set to sacred Latin text without accompaniment is:

What is the following instrument?

The following image is an example of what musical device?

A large-scale genre of sacred music involving overture, arias, recitatives and choruses

What is the language of this excerpt?

SHMRG stands for Sound, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, and Good Times. True or False

Which type of aria uses serious historical or mythological subjects?

Who is the composer of this piece of music?

The degrees of loudness or softness in music is:

Major composers of the Classical Period include J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel.

An instrumental genre in which one or more soloists play against a larger orchestra

Which composer continued to write music after going completely deaf?

What is the genre of this piece?

A multi-movement composition for orchestra, lasting about 25 minutes in the Classical era is a:

Chord progressions that we hear today originated in the Baroque period. True or False

What is the lowest male voice

What is the meter of this excerpt?

What is the genre of this excerpt?

Which of the following was a composer of the Middle Ages?

The Council of Trent was a conservative movement in the Catholic Church limiting musical ideas.

The Baroque Era lasted from approximately:

Which composer was a child prodigy known for his operas whose last work was a requiem?

A song for many voices set to a secular poem combining homophonic and polyphonic textures

A form in which a basic musical idea is repeated and changed in melody harmony, dynamics is: