Unit 6 Test

A powerful musical genre directed at social injustices and the desire for change.

Music in which composers deliberately leave parts of the composition and performance undetermined.

Composer who went deaf by the time he was 30.

Masses were secular dances during the Medieval days.

Beethoven Bridged the gap between Classical and Romantic music.

Wrote "As Vesta was Descending."

Layered dynamic levels within a composition.

Known as the "Father of the Symphony."

Composed The Sunken Cathedral.

Motets on sacred texts and secular madrigals were composed during the Renaissance.

The main keyboard instrument in baroque music was the piano.

Composed Fugue No. 16.

__________is music with no strict meter or accompaniment, sung by a single voice or unison choir.

Composed "The Ring of the Nibelung (The Ring Cycle) opera.

Secular music of the Medieval ages was monophonic sung by a single voice or unison choir.

Child prodigy who toured all of Europe by the time he was a teenager.

Composed the Ninth (Ode to Joy) Symphony.

A phrase used repeatedly to convey goals or convey an important message.

Composed The Erlking

Baroque music featured Terraced dynamics.

Music that portrays the meaning of words of the text.

__________is a style of music that stresses the element of repetition with changes dictated by a rule or system.

The Modern Era

The Romantic Era

Composed the Four Seasons (Spring).

Became the "anthem" during the Civil Rights movement based on non-violence.

Wrote "Tu se morta" from Orfeo.

The Classical Era

__________refers to a section of a concerto in which all the instruments and/or voices perform together.

The Baroque Era

__________means discord in music, suggesting a state of tension.

Beethoven and Bach were from Germany.

Uncomplicated music that speaks directly of everyday matters.

A policy of racial segregation.

Composed "Blowin' in the Wind."

Wrote the song "Big Yellow Taxi."

Minimalist composer who wrote "Islands" was__________.

Composed Pictures at an Exhibition.

Produced the album Earth Voice of a Planet

A(n)__________is a compostion for solo voice and piano.

Song by pop artists in South Africa against Apartheid.

Sacred music of the Medieval ages were usually instrumental and were dances for the common people.

Composed Bolero.

The Medieval Era

Father of Mexican classical music.

Classical music was very structured and featured the Sonata Allegro Form.

Wrote over 600 Lieder.

__________is a French style of atomospheric music of the late 19th century.

The Renaissance Era

One of the newest form of modern classical music is New Romanticism.