Howard Goodall's Story of Music

A triad involves what 3 things?

What is equal temperament?

What instrument was invented i 1830 that exclsively used equal temperament and introduced by early 20th century?

What was Handel's most famous Oratorio?

What was Pérotin's question?

Who was Guido d'Arezzo?

To avoid tuning problems, ancient musicians reduced the scale down to ___ different notes

What is a fugue?

the culture of islam provided instruments to the world as well as "flair for rhyme"

The distance between two notes is determined by tuning.

What does Tenor mean?

Who wrote symphonies at age 8?

Why did the piano have an advantage over the harpischord?

Who is Cassia of Constantanople?

The 1570's saw the growth of...

It was important to move away from melismatic style. Why was this?

The interval that is created by dividing a frequency in half is called a(n) ____

Th arrival of the audience was important to music history because...

What was important in Handel's music during Britain's rise to power?

The change in music _____ after about 1600

Who was the first to devise a musical scale in ancient Greece?

Orfeo was the first what?

When a chord cycle, or progression ends, it is called a....

What were the first religious songs to become secular?

Melisma means long stretches of melody over one word/note

At the end of the 14th century, what components of music were in place?

What was John Dowland's music about?

What did every barbershop have in it?

During when did harmony include these 3 intervals: Root, 4th, 5th?

Without written music, how long did it take to memorize the tunes for the plainsong book?

The simultaneous sounding of more than one note is called...

An octave is two notes that are ___ notes apart

Early church music marked by unison singing, lack. of rhythm and meter, and narrow rangle flowing melodies is called:

Who created a larger orchestra with larger what?

Which famous artist was compared to Einstein?

Why are triads important for music?

What reason was music written for?

What were the 7 compulsory subjects the Greeks had?

Which one of these was a predecessor of muslim spain?

What was the name of the instrument found in denmark? (sorta looks like a sousaphone)

Limiting the number of chords used in music, what 3 chords were used most often, even in today's music?

After the reformation, came a time of great intolerance. Which of these things DID NOT happen?

A cluster of (3 or more) simultaneous notes is called a ____.

Equal temperament is a tuning system that divides the octave, artificially, into ___ equal parts

What interval did John Dunstaple introduce after the year 1400?

1570 and 1580's secular gained popularity. Which two words describe this transformation?

What is a troubador

What was the Oratorio?

The printing press allowed music and ideas to be spread farther and faster than before.

What were Lurs important for?

Haydn refined the form of the symphony, repeating rhythmic phrases using different notes

Where did Handel spend most of his career?

The nine daughter in greek mythology from whom we get the word for music were called what?

Mozart was a tormented and misunderstood genius

When you invert a piece, are you turning it upside down?

Josquin des Prez was the first composer to put words to what?

A hierarchy or family of notes is called a...

Who invented Christian chant songs?

Triads made _____ more smooth and interesting

Ancient Greeks believed music to be both...

What era is the 16th century apart of?

how did humans in 32,000 B.C. use music in their caves?

Handel began his career writing what?

What culture still uses alternate tuning systems and a primarily 5-note *something* scale

Why is Dunstaple's interval imperfect? It has two versions:

In 1808, the ____ symphony uses NATURE as the basis for human feelings and emotions.

Instrumental music boomed around...

What was the name for the squiggles in musical notation ?

What language was Dowland's music in?

Medieval composers would primarily use the intervals: ____ and ____ to create harmony while avoiding tuning issues.