Cumulative Canonical Facts

Question 1

century and dates of each era

Answer 1

MEDIEVAL
6th-14th c. / 500-1400

RENAISSANCE
15th-16th c. / 1400-1600

BAROQUE
17th-mid 18th c. / 1600-1750

CLASSICAL
late 18th c. / 1750-1800

ROMANTIC
19th c. / 1800-1900

MODERN
late 19th c.-present / 1880-present

Question 2

Genres of the medieval era:

Answer 2

1

chant

Question 3

Genres of the Renaissance era:

Answer 3

1

madrigal

Question 4

Genres of the Baroque era:

Answer 4

4
opera
oratorio
trio sonata
concerto

Question 5

Genres of classical era:

Answer 5

2
symphony
string quartet

Question 6

Genres of romantic era:

Answer 6

2
lied
symphonic poem

Question 7

Genres that apply to more than one Era

Answer 7

3
sonata (baroque/classical/romantic era)

mass (medieval/renaissance)
motet (medieval/renaissance)

Question 8

Genres that are NOT vocal

Answer 8

trio sonata
concerto
sonata
symphony
string quartet
symphonic poem

Question 9

Genres that have movements

Answer 9

mass
opera
oratorio
trio sonata (3)
concerto (3)
sonata (3)
symphony (4)
string quartet (4)
symphonic poem (1)

Question 10

Renaissance composers (2)

Answer 10

Josquin des Prez:
15-16th c., French

Giovanni Palestrina:
16th c., Italian, Religious music
*** “Pope Marcellus Mass”

Question 11

Baroque composers (6)

Answer 11

Monteverdi:
16th-17th c., Italian

Lully:
17th c., Italian in France, Ballet

Henry Purcell:
17th c., English

Antonio Vivaldi:
17th-18th c., Italian, concerti
*** “Spring” / concerto

J.S. Bach:
1685-1750, 18th c., German
*** "Brandenburg Concertos"
"The Art of Fugue"
"The Well-Tempered Clavier"
"Mass in B Minor"

George Frederic Handel:
18th c., German

Question 12

Classical Composers (3)

Answer 12

Franz Joseph Haydn:
18th c., Austrian
*** “The Creation” / Oratorio

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
1756-1791, 18th c., Austrian
*** “Symphony no. 40”
“Symphpony no. 41” / JUPITER

Beethoven:
Also from romantic era
1770-1827, 18th-19th c., German
***Symphonies no. 3 (Eroica), 5, 6 (Pastoral), and 9

Question 13

Romantic Composers (13)

Answer 13

ALL ARE FROM THE 19TH CENTURY

Rossini:
Italian

Schubert:
Austrian

Hector Berlioz:
French, Program Music
*** “Symphonie Fantastique” / Program Symphony

Mendelssohn:
German
*** “Violin Concerto in E minor” / Concerto

Chopin:
Polish, Piano music

Robert Schumann:
German

Franz Liszt:
Hungarian

Richard Wagner:
1813-1883, German, Opera
*** “Prelude to Tristan and Isolade” / Overture

Verdi
Italian, opera

Johannes Brahms:
German

Tchaikovsky:
Russian

Gustav Mahler:
19th-20th c., Austro-German

Musorgsky:
*** “Pictures at an exhibition”

Question 14

Modern Composers (8)

Answer 14

** ALL ARE FROM THE 20TH CENTURY **

Claude Debussy:
19th-20th c., French
*** “Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun”

Schoenberg:
Austrian
*** “Pierrot Lunaire”

Stravinsky:
Russian
*** “Rite of Spring” / Ballet

Prokofiev:
Russian

Schostakovich:
Russian, soviet union

Messiaen:
French
*** “Quartet for the end of time”

Ligeti:
Hungarian

John Adams:
American