A&H 2024 - Music history, composers, & compositions Flashcards
Other terms for this musical style include “plainsong” and “cantus firmus” . It has a single melody that is sung without instrumental accompaniment. Identify this type of religious song which, in one version, is named for Pope Gregory.
(GREGORIAN) CHANT
During this period, popular music forms included the mass, motet, and madrigal. Giovanni da Palestrina wrote sacred music during this era, which preceded the Baroque. Identify this time period, whose name comes from the Latin for “rebirth.”
RENAISSANCE
This period’s first great composer, Claudio Monteverdi [mohn-tay-VAIR-dee], wrote some of the earliest operas. It lasted from about 1600 to 1750 and favored embellished melodies with counterpoint. Name this era of Vivaldi, Handel, and J. S. Bach.
BAROQUE
This composer fathered 20 children, including 4 sons who also became composers. He included 24 preludes and fugues in his keyboard piece The Well-Tempered Clavier. Name this Baroque composer of Goldberg Variations.
(JOHANN SEBASTIAN) BACH
The composer wrote two of these works in F major, two in G major, and one each in D major and B flat major. He dedicated them to Christian Ludwig, who was Prussian king Frederick the First’s younger brother. Identify these works for soloists and a small orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach.
BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
From the 16th to the early 18th centuries, this was European music’s most important keyboard instrument. In addition to the organ, Bach wrote many of his works for it. What is this instrument that, unlike the piano, uses its keys to pluck its strings?
HARPSICHORD
Since around 1800, this word has applied to some non-religious narratives. An orchestra, choir, and soloists perform it as a concert or in a church, but don’t use stage sets or costumes. What kind of work is Handel’s Messiah?
ORATORIO
During this musical era, the sonata form developed, as did the string quartet and symphony. It featured simpler melodies than the Baroque, which preceded it. Name this era during which Haydn and Mozart composed.
CLASSICAL (ERA)
This composer created two men who test their fiancées’ faithfulness in the opera Così fan tutte. His chamber ensemble work Eine Kleine Nachtmusik has a title translating to “A Little Night Music.” Identify this Classical Era composer, who nicknamed his 41st Symphony Jupiter.
(WOLFGANG AMADEUS) MOZART
At the time of its composer’s death, this work’s “Introit” [IN-tro-it] was its only completed section. Like other works of its type, it is named for the Roman Catholic mass for the dead. What was this final work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
REQUIEM
This man’s Fifth Symphony begins with a note sequence he called “fate knocking at the door.” His Ninth
Symphony contains a movement based on the poem “Ode to Joy.” Identify this Moonlight Sonata composer.
(LUDWIG VAN) BEETHOVEN
The composer originally titled this opera Leonore, or the Triumph of Marital Love. In it, Leonore disguises herself as the title character to rescue her husband Florestan from prison. Give the title of this only Beethoven opera.
FIDELIO
This composer of “The Wanderer” wrote over 600 more songs, including “Winter Journey” and “Swan Song.” Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake inspired his setting of Ave Maria. Name this composer of Death and the Maiden and “The Erl King.”
(FRANZ) SCHUBERT
This composer’s ninth and final symphony was nicknamed “The Great C Major.” He included five movements in his Trout Quintet. Identify this composer of over 600 songs, including “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel.”
(FRANZ) SCHUBERT
This so-called “father of American music” wrote songs for the Christy Minstrels. Those songs included “Old Folks at Home,” “Beautiful Dreamer,” and “Camptown Races.” Name this composer and lyricist of “My Old Kentucky Home.”
(STEPHEN) FOSTER
