Exam Review Flashcards
Middle Ages
Composers Leonin-(Priest) Guido D'Arezzo (system of pitch notation) Artists Limbourg brothers Paul, Jean and Herman (Illustrators of books)
Very little growth and development occurred in the forms and techniques of Art and Music.
Monophonic; Gregorian Chants; 1100 Polyphony combined two or more simultaneous melodic lines. After 1100 musicians and artists began to sign their artwork and compositions.
Middle Ages
Renaissance Period
Composers
Guiliaume Dufay (Equal importance of voice parts)
Giovanni da Palestrina (Worked to have instruments to play in the service)
Artists
Leonardo da Vinci (The Mona Lisa)
Europe experienced a time of great growth and development.
Renaissance comes from a French term meaning “rebirth.” Interest and
innovation in all forms of learning and art were reborn.
Renaissance Period
Baroque Period
Composers Johann Sebastian Bach (composed in every style) George Frideric Handel (creator of the Oratorio) Artists Rembrandt von Riun ( Painted historical figures especially from Bible)
Art became very ornate as artists strove to fill space with action and
movement. Rise of instrumental music to an equal importance with vocal
music.
Baroque Period
Rococo Period
Composers
Christoph Gluck
(Opera composer)
More ornate style of art and music development
Rococo Period
Classical Period
Composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Composer of all genre) Franz Joseph Haydn (Father of the symphony) Artists Jacques-Louis David (Greatest Neoclassic Painter)
Style was developed and refined. Looked to the art forms of classical
Rome and Greece as models.
Classical Period
Romantic Period
Composers Johannes Brahms (Lieder Composer) Richard Wagner (Musical Drama creator) Artists Eugene Delacroix (Taught himself to paint) – Colors the equivalent of emotion)
More introspective style of art and music. Emphasis on nature, fantasy,
and freedom of expression characterized this style. Nationalistic +
Programmatic Mid – 1800- Unpleasant realities of life in works of art and
music became known as realism.
Romantic Period
Post-Romantic + Impressionist Period
Composers Claude Debussy (Free rhythms and indefinite keys) Maurice Ravel (Strong melodies with rich textures and harmony) Artists Claude Monet (Organized their own Show)
Artist and musicians began to produce works that were vague, blurred
impressions of a subject without hard lines or forms.
Post-Romantic + Impressionist Period
Twentieth Century
Composers Igor Stravinsky (ballet) Arnold Schönberg (Audience did not understand at first; gradually came to like it.) Artists Pablo Picasso (Invented new styles and forms; a master of a variety of media)
