Middle Ages Period Name(s) 1a. Where was medieval (middle ages
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Middle Ages Period Name(s) _________________________________ 1a. Where was medieval (middle ages) music created? ___________________________________________________ 1b. Why is most medieval music by anonymous sources (why did composers not put their name on their music)? ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 1c. Why was the melody of plainsong simple? ___________________________________________________ 2a. Give two more names for minstrel (travelling musician). ___________________________________________________ 2b. How was secular music different from sacred music? ___________________________________________________ 2c. Name three instruments that minstrels used. ___________________________________________________ 3. What did polyphony do for composers? ___________________________________________________ 4. Who developed a new way of writing down music? ___________________________________________________ Middle Ages Vocabulary Plainsong ___________________________________________________ Monophony ___________________________________________________ Polyphony ___________________________________________________ Neumes ___________________________________________________ Gregorian Chant ___________________________________________________ Organum ___________________________________________________ Renaissance Period Name(s) _________________________________ 1a. What did sacred music develop from? ___________________________________________________ 1b. What were composers very interested in? ___________________________________________________ 1c. What did church leaders worry about? ___________________________________________________ 2a. What was the most popular form of secular music? ___________________________________________________ 2b. Where were they usually sung? ___________________________________________________ 3. Who sang chorales? ___________________________________________________ 4a. What were the two most common instruments? ___________________________________________________ 4b. Name three other instruments: Renaissance Vocabulary Plainsong ___________________________________________________________ Polyphony ____________________________________________________________ Madrigal ____________________________________________________________ Motet ____________________________________________________________ Chorale ____________________________________________________________ Baroque Period 1. Name(s) _________________________________ 2a. What did Baroque melodies usually contain? ___________________________________________________________ 2b. What did composers begin to write in their music? ___________________________________________________________ 3a. Name four things that opera combines. ____________________________________________________________ 3b. Name the two types of opera. ____________________________________________________________ 3c. How is the cantata different from opera? ____________________________________________________________ 4a. What became as important as vocal (singing) music? ____________________________________________________________ 4b. What do you call a form of music for many instruments that features a soloist? ____________________________________________________________ 5. Name 2 Composers: 1st _________________________________________________________ 2nd _________________________________________________________ Baroque Vocabulary Concerto ___________________________________________________________ Movement ____________________________________________________________ Aria ____________________________________________________________ Recitative ____________________________________________________________ Improvisation ____________________________________________________________ Libretto ____________________________________________________________ Classical Period Name(s) _________________________________ 2a. Name the three types of instrumental music developed in the Classical period. ____________________________________________________________ 2b. What instruments were concertos written for? ____________________________________________________________ 2c. What does symphony mean? ____________________________________________________________ 3a. How many sections in sonata form? ____________________________________________________________ 4a. How do composers make each movement of a symphony different? ____________________________________________________________ 4b. Who is the "Father of the Symphony?" ____________________________________________________________ 5a. What was the most important type of vocal music in the Classical period? ____________ 5b. Name the two styles of opera. ____________________________________________________________ 6. Name 3 Composers 1st __________________________________________________ 2nd __________________________________________________ 3rd __________________________________________________ Classical Vocabulary Absolute music ___________________________________________________________ Sonata ____________________________________________________________ Coda ____________________________________________________________ Movement ____________________________________________________________ Romantic Period 1. Name(s) _________________________________ 2. How is the Romantic symphony different from the Classical symphony? _________________________________________________ 3. How is the tone poem different from a program symphony? ____________________________________________________________ 4. What is a concert overture? ____________________________________________________________ 5. Name the two most important composers of opera in the Romantic period. ____________________________________________________ 6. What is the function (purpose) of lieder? ____________________________________________________________ 7a. What did Nationalism do? ____________________________________________________________ 7b. Which country was the leader of the Nationalist movement? _______________________ 8a Why were miniatures extremely popular? ____________________________________________________________ 8b. What instrument were miniatures written for? ________________ 9. Name 3 Composers 1st _______________________________________________________ 2nd _______________________________________________________ 3rd _______________________________________________________ Romantic Vocabulary Program Music ___________________________________________________________ Chamber Music ____________________________________________________________ The 20th Century Name(s)_________________________________ a. What are the only limits on music composition in the 20th century? ____________________________________________________________ b. How are melodies of the 20th century different from before? ____________________________________________________________ c. What do some composers use electronics for? ____________________________________________________________ 2a. How is Impressionist music different from Romantic music? ____________________________________________________________ 2b. Name two Impressionist composers. ____________________________________________________________ 3a. How is Neoclassical music similar to music of the Classical period? ____________________________________________________________ 3b. What makes Igor Stravinsky's music interesting? ____________________________________________________________ 4a. What does the composer do in chance music? ____________________________________________________________ 4b. Why is chance music interesting? ____________________________________________________________ 5a. Name two ways of describing atonal music. ____________________________________________________________ 5b. What kind of music did composers of the "Second Viennese School" write? ____________________________________________________________ 6. Name 3 Composers 1st ____________________________________________________________ 2nd ____________________________________________________________ 3rd ____________________________________________________________ 20th Century Vocabulary Atonal ___________________________________________________________ Program Music ____________________________________________________________ Neoclassical ___________________________________________________________
