Genre's

Question 1

Madrigal

Answer 1

Renaissance and early Baroque
Secular vocal composition. Polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six

Question 2

Mass

Answer 2

Renaissance

Sacred choral work

Question 3

Motet

Answer 3

Renaissance

Highly varied choral musical composition

Question 4

Opera

Answer 4

From Renaissance period
Singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting

Question 5

Pavane

Answer 5

Renaissance
Slow processional (religious) dance
2/4

Question 6

Allemande

Answer 6

Baroque
Instrumental dance forms in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite.
In 4/4 with an upbeat

Question 7

Cantata

Answer 7

Baroque

A vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir

Question 8

Concerto

Answer 8

Baroque

Usually composed in three movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra or concert band

Question 9

Concerto Grosso

Answer 9

Baroque

Musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno or tutti)

Question 10

Fugue

Answer 10

Baroque
A contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more parts, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and recurs frequently in the course of the composition

Question 11

Gavotte

Answer 11

Baroque

French folk dance, notated in 4/4 or 2/2 time and is of moderate tempo

Question 12

Gigue

Answer 12

Baroque
Lively baroque dance and usually appears at the end of a suite
In 6/8 or 3/4

Question 13

Minuet

Answer 13

Baroque

A dance, usually in 3/4 time

Question 14

Oratorio

Answer 14

Baroque

A large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Oratorio is strictly a concert piece, unlike an Opera

Question 15

Partita

Answer 15

Baroque

A single-instrumental piece of music and later used it for collections of musical pieces, as a synonym for suite

Question 16

Passacaglia

Answer 16

Baroque

Usually of a serious character and is often, but not always, based on a bass-ostinato and written in triple metre

Question 17

Sarabande

Answer 17

Baroque

A dance in triple metre

Question 18

Sinfonia

Answer 18

Baroque

Orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite

Question 19

Sonata

Answer 19

Baroque

In the Baroque period, a sonata was for one or more instruments almost always with continuo

Question 20

Suite

Answer 20

Baroque
An ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment

Question 21

Lied

Answer 21

Classical and Romantic

Arranged for a single singer and piano. German poems put to music

Question 22

Requiem

Answer 22

Classical and Romantic

Large number of musical compositions

Question 23

Baroque dances in 3

Answer 23

Gigue
Minuet
Sarabande
Courante

Question 24

Baroque dances in 4

Answer 24

Bourree
Gavotte
Allemande

Question 25

Scherzo

Answer 25

Movement from a larger piece such as a symphony or a sonata

Fast-moving and humorous

Question 26

Serenade

Answer 26

typically calm, light music.

Question 27

Sinfonia Concertante

Answer 27

Classical period of Western music. It is essentially a mixture of the symphony and the concerto genres. One or more soloists but they are still part of the wider ensemble

Question 28

Sonata

Answer 28

performed by a solo instrument, most often a keyboard instrument, or by a solo instrument together with a keyboard instrument

Question 29

Waltz

Answer 29

dance music in triple meter