History 2 Composer Traits Flashcards
This composer’s output included both Renaissance madrigals and Baroque operas.
Claudio Monteverdi
This composer’s symphonies often feature monothematic expositions in the sontata-allegro movements.
Franz Joseph Haydn
This composer’s religious dramas drew upon newly-composed melodies influenced by plainchant.
Hildegard von Bingen
This composer’s madrigals featured extravagant word painting exaggerated chromaticism, and extreme dissonance.
Carlo Gesualdo
This composer’s instrumental compositions embodied the Classical spirit, while his vocal works looked toward the Romantic era.
Franz Schubert
This composer’s polyphonic chansons demonstrated a new rhythmic complexity through devices such as syncopation, hocket, and isorhythm.
Guillaume de Machaut
This composer’s motets contain triadic modal harmonies and demonstrate a mastery of contrapuntal techniques.
Josquin des Prez
This composer’s single-movement sonatas for keyboard feature many technical challenges such as hand crossings, arpeggiated figures, ornaments, repeated notes and rapid passagework.
Domenico Scarlatti
This composer’s approach to vocal counterpoint defined Renaissance polyphony with clear-cut phrases, stepwise melodic lines, and sparing use of dissonance.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
This composer’s piano works demonstrate a wide and diverse range of approaches to the sonata cycle and are among the most important compositions in the keyboard literature.
Ludwig van Beethoven
This composer’s madrigals often contrast slow, chromatic passages with faster, diatonic passages.
Carlo Gesualdo
He composed secular chansons as well as the first complete polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary.
Guillaume de Machaut
The dances in this composer’s orchestral suites demonstrate the international influences common to music of the period.
George Frideric Handel
One of the leading composers of the Franco-Flemish school, his works show rich emotional expression and contrapuntal mastery.
Josquin des Prez
Known for his innovative formal designs, he also exploited technological improvements to the piano in his sonatas.
Ludwig van Beethoven
This member of the Notre Dame school expanded organum to three and four parts.
Perotin
This transitional composer used word painting in both his madrigals and his operas.
Claudio Monteverdi
His cantatas display contrapuntal ingenuity large architectural structures, vocal lyricism and word paining.
J.S. Bach
This composer composed original monophonic chants in the style of plainsong; melodies were often based on repeated motives
Hildegard von Bingen
He composed four-voice English madrigals, made abundant use of word painting, and combined chordal homophonic textures with imitative polyphony
John Farmer
This composer was influenced by the the Mannheim School, his orchestral writing expanded the use of wind instruments.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This composer crystallized the 18th-century piano style in his solo works and 27 concertos.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Opera was central to his career; he made important contributions to opera seria, opera buffa, and Singspiel.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
He is the first composer of polyphony known to us by name; he produced two-part organum using organal and discant styles.
Leonin
In his operas, he increased the role of ensembles, and developed the “love duet”. He increased the emotional intensity through the use of stile concitato.
Claudio Monteverdi
His motto was, “The text is the master; the music the servant”.
Claudio Monteverdi
This composer embodied the ideals of the Counter-Reformation in his music.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
He composed more than 100 masses and 300 motets. His sacred vocal works typically employ four to six voices.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
This composer demonstrates a Classical approach in his use of sonata form (for example, repeated expositions), but romantic traits are evident in his Lieder of which he composed over 600
Franz Schubert
This composer found inspiration in the works of German Romantic poets, especially Goethe
Franz Schubert
This composer was the “Father” of the string quartet, as he composed 68 of them.
Franz Joseph Haydn
This composer contributed to the development of idiomatic writing for the harpsichord. He wrote over 500 single-movement keyboard sonatas.
Domenico Scarlatti
His art songs were often premiered at small gatherings in his honour.
Franz Schubert
