Classical Greece/Medieval/Renaissance/Baroque Project
Research Classical Greece, Medieval and Renaissance music. Create an iMovie
presentation that includes the information from your notes over chapters 5-7.
Include 5 pictures from each era. The movie must be 2-4 minutes in length and
include appropriate music using Garage Band. Make sure you answer all the
questions and site your web resources.
Questions:
1. What were the three purposes of music during each era?
2. What were the times of each era?
3. Who was Pythagoras and what did he do for music?
4. What was the Black Plague and how did it affect Europe?
5. Who was Pope Gregory and what did he do for music?
6. Who was Guido of Arezzo and what did he do for music?
7. Who was Hildegard von Bingen?
8. How did the invention of the printing press help music?
9. Name at least one visual artist of the Renaissance and Baroque.
10.Who was Palestrina?
11.What is polyphony?
12.What was the reformation?
13.What was the most popular instrument of the Renaissance?
14.Who was George Fredric Handel and what forms did he compose in?
15.Who was Antonio Vivaldi and what forms did he compose in?
16. Who was Johann Sebastian Bach and what forms did he compose in?
17.What does Baroque mean?
18. What is an oratorio, concerto, fugue?
Rubric
4-All questions answered in a 2-4 minute video with music appropriate to the
subject. Students include at least 5 pictures from each of the three historical time
periods. Web sources are present.
3-Most questions are answered in a 2-4 minute video that includes music.
Students have at least 3 pictures from each of the three historical time periods.
No citation of web sites used.
2-Few questions answered in a video of less than 2 minutes in length with no
music. Students include at least 2 pictures from each of the three historical time
periods.
1-few questions answered in a video shorter than 2 minutes in length with no
music. No pictures included.