Music Appreciation - Exam #3 Review

What time period is this piece of music from?

Type of motet written for more than one choir.

This term describes rate of speed in which a piece of music is played.

Who composed this piece of music?

Instrument that displaced the harpsichord and was used for solos during the Classical Period.

Earliest music = Classical Style, but his later works = Romantic Style. Who is he?

Who composed this piece of music?

Who composed this piece of music?

This Classical form has 3 distinct sections: exposition, development, and recapitulation.

It is a dramatic stage production that involves soloists who sing arias and recitatives.

This is a sacred polyphonic composition, usually sung in Latin without accompaniment.

Who helped lead the splitting of the Christian Church into Catholic and Protestant?

Classical Genre - Solo instrument playing with orchestra

Baroque composer, wrote a cantata about coffee, 20 children, master of fugues. Who is he?

Call and Response singing....

A chant which one note is given to each syllable of a text.

Early chants tend to be....

Relatively short pieces used in the Roman Catholic Church; established by Pope Gregory I.

Who composed this piece of music?

Changing from one tonal center to another (key change).

This term describes the level of loudness.

It is a sacred composition intended for concert performance. G. F. Handel’s "Messiah" is one.

Time period: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci....other ninja turtles...

This instrument was NOT present in the Baroque Era.

A system of visual symbols which was developed to reinforce the singer's memory of a melody.

What time period is this piece of music from?

St. Mark's Cathedral is shaped like...

He was a child prodigy who received a superior education from his father Leopold.

The bass line used in a continuo.

He was a friend to Mozart and Beethoven's teacher.

This composition technique used in the Baroque Era; keyboard improvised based on chord symbols.

Born in Germany, Produced Italian Operas in England, Wrote Oratorios... Who is he?

A chant that was used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; "fixed melody".

Who composed this piece of music?

Who composed this piece of music?

He was a child prodigy who received a superior education from his father Leopold.

A madrigal is a sacred composition typically with 8-10 parts.

Who composed this piece of music?

He was one of the great composers of the Renaissance. Wrote innovative motets.

She was a nun, abbess, mystic, poet, writer, and composer.

What time period is this piece of music from?

This Classical Genre is for a small group of instruments playing with full orchestra.

Chamber music is typically written for 10 or more musicians.

What time period is this piece of music from?

A suite of dances.

Who composed this piece of music?

The part of the Catholic liturgy that has produced the most important sacred music.

Vocal Genre, choral, Bach wrote one about Coffee....

Usually occurring before an aria, it is narrative singing in a free tempo; the dialogue part.

Over 600 compositions - 25 piano concertos, 41 symphonies, 23 string quartets, etc; died at 35.