Flashcards: Music history

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

A house concert or home concert is a musical concert or performance art that is presented in someone's home or apartment, or a nearby small private space such as a barn, apartment rec room, lawn, or back yard.

Intabulation, from the Italian word intavolatura, refers to an arrangement of a vocal or ensemble piece for keyboard, lute, or other plucked string instrument, written in tablature.

Mannheim school refers to both the orchestral techniques pioneered by the court orchestra of Mannheim in the latter half of the 18th century as well as the group of composers who wrote such music for the orchestra of Mannheim and others.

A minuet (/ˌmɪnjuːˈɛt/; also spelled menuet), is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 34 time.

The bourrée (also borrèia and, in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it.

In medieval music, conductus (plural: conductus) is a type of sacred, but non-liturgical vocal composition for one or more voices.

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying widely between times and places.

The First Viennese School is a name mostly used to refer to three composers of the Classical period in Western art music in late-18th-century Vienna: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven.

The Notre Dame school or the Notre Dame school of polyphony refers to the group of composers working at or near the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris from about 1160 to 1250, along with the music they produced.

A trope or tropus may be a variety of different things in medieval, 20th-, and 21st-century music.

A ricercar (Italian pronunciation: [ritʃɛr'kare], also spelled ricercare, recercar, recercare) is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition.

The lauda (Italian pl. laude) or lauda spirituale was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance.

Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols to indicate the pitches (melodies), rhythms and/or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.

The Quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.

The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period.

The estampie (French: estampie, Occitan and Catalan: estampida, Italian: istampitte) is a medieval dance and musical form which was a popular instrumental and vocal form in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of jazz standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, either backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano.

Electric music technology refers to musical instruments and recording devices that use electrical circuits, which are often combined with mechanical technologies.

Women in music describes the role of women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/music journalists and other musical professions.

Electronic and digital music technology is the use of electronic or digital instruments, computers, electronic effects units, software or digital audio equipment by a musician, composer, sound engineer, DJ or record producer to make, perform or record music.

White power music is music that promotes white nationalism and expresses racism against non-whites.

In 1958 the noted violinist and conductor Henri Temianka founded the Beverly Hills Concerts for Youth.