M.A. Final Exam Study Guide

What does the word Baroque mean?

What is instrumental music that tells a story?

Which composer was called the father of the symphony and the father of the string quartet?

What is Italian serious opera?

What is a recurring theme that symbolizes a person, place, or idea in Wagner's operas?

Who were poet-composers who provided music at court for nobility?

Who was a well-known pianist and composer, who began to lose his hearing in the middle of his life?

This French composer believed the drama of an opera could be put into a symphony. He composed Symphonie Fantastique.

What is a dramatic work, or play, set to music, by a group of men in Florence, Italy?

What is a monophonic genre of music named after Pope Gregory? Hildegard von Bingen wrote these.

What are the dates of the Classical period?

What is a large-scale, multi-movement work for orchestra, choir, and soloists that deals with a sacred subject?

This German composer is responsible for the revival of interest in the music of JS Bach.

Which of these composers were popular composers of the motet?

What is the music technique, where one melody is heard, and then immediately restated in multiple voices?

What is music with a religious purpose?

This Italian composer was one of the most popular composers of opera in the 19th-century.

What is Italian comic opera?

Which Austrian composer was a child prodigy, and became one of the most famous composers all time?

The name of the sound created by John Dunstable when he added the third to music:

What are the dates of the Renaissance?

What is a multi-movement work for solo piano? Beethoven composed many of these during his 1st comppositional period.

What is a 4-movement work for orchestra?

What is an instrumental genre in which a solo instrument plays with and alternates playing with an orchestra?

What is music meant to be performed in small, intimate settings?

What is a general term for all Italian secular vocal music?

What is a form of chamber music, that is multi-movement and written for 2 violins, viola, and cello?

What is a note that embellishes or decorates a melodic line? This is the most important characteristic of the Baroque.

This German composer wrote over 600 lieder.

Which composer was born in Germany but spend the majority of his life in England? He wrote operas and oratorios.

This composer is the most famous Russian composer of all time. He wrote famous ballets, including The Nutcracker.

What is a composition that begins with an opening theme, called a subject, that is presented in different forms and keys

What are the dates of the Romantic period?

This composer is known for writing Gregorian chants for the women in her monastery:

Which German composer spent the majority of his life working at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany?

What is a sacred type of polyphony, first noted in the Winchester Troper, that was made famous by Leonin and Perotin?

This German composer wrote operas and called them music dramas.

What is a technique where the music relfects the literal meaning of the words?

What are the dates of the Medieval period?

Which composer composed "Pope Marcellus Mass," which is said to have saved polyphony?

What is music that has many sounds, or many things going on?

What do we call the words to an opera or an oratorio?

These two composers are known for writing organum at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris:

What is music that has one sound, or one thing going on?

What does the word Renaissnace mean?

What are the dates of the Baroque peroid

What is a sacred, polyphonic song for choir with words in Latin?

What are short songs in German for voice and piano?

What is music without a religious purpose?

What were songs written for solo voice and lute?