Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Era Review

The Middle Ages lasted from approximately

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

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

Which type of aria uses serious historical or mythological subjects?

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

What is the following instrument?

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

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

Singing with one note for each syllabic is:

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

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

The degrees of loudness or softness in music is:

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

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

What is the genre of this excerpt?

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

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

The following image is an example of what musical device?

What is the genre of this piece?

The Baroque Era lasted from approximately:

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

Which composer continued to write music after going completely deaf?

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

Alto is the highest female voice. True or False.

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

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

What time period is this piece from?

What instrument(s) is this piece for?

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

What time period does this piece originate from?

The following image is an example of what musical device?

What time period is this piece of music from?

What is the mode of this excerpt?

Who is the composer of this piece of music?

Who is the composer of this piece?

Music with multiple independent musical voices or lines happening simultaneously is

What is the lowest male voice

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

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

What time period is this piece from?

What larger work is this piece from?

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

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

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

What is the title of this piece?

What is the title of this excerpt?

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

What type of music is this

The following image is an example of what musical device?

What is the title of this musical excerpt?

What is the meter of this excerpt?

What is the mode of this excerpt?

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

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

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

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

What time period does this piece originate from?

Who wrote this piece of music

What is the language of this excerpt?

The following (pictured) is called:

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