Music history

Question 1

Medieval

Answer 1

c1150-1400 
Hildegard
Leonin-
Perotin
 Machaut

Question 2

Hildegard

Answer 2

• medieval 1150-1400
• Sacred monophony
• Sing voice choir music

Question 3

Leonin

Answer 3

medieval 1150-1400
polyphonic organum
single to multivoice possible hurdy gurdy
thin multi voice with recall

Question 4

Perotin

Answer 4

medieval 1150-1400
late 12th century
thick polyphonic voice
with optional hurgy gurdy or pedal tone

Question 5

Machaut

Answer 5

medieval 1150-1400
sacred/secular music
famous for being a poet and a composer
hurdy gurdy with possible singular male voice

Question 6

Renaissance

Answer 6

1400-1600
Giovanni Palestrina
William Byrd
Josquin Des Prez
Claudio Monteverdi

Question 7

William byrd

Answer 7

1400-1600 Renaissance

• sacred/secular w/ polyphony & keyboard
• choral church music with slow growing harmony

Question 8

Josquin Des Prez

Answer 8

1400-1600 Renaissance

• Most popular composer of this time with growing added harmony
• cantus firmus style, but also developed the motet style
• His motet/lasses show modern tonality
• later abandoned cantus firmus for parody and paraphrase

Question 9

Claudio Monteverdi

Answer 9

1400-1600 Renaissance
- secular/ sacred
gives development of opera
composer who transfers Ren-> Baroque

Question 10

Giovanni Palestrina

Answer 10

1400-1600 Renaissance
sacred music
- the smooth style of polyphony vocal music

Question 11

Baroque

Answer 11

1600-1750
Johann Bach
George Handel
Antonio Vivaldi 
Claudio Monteverdi

Question 12

Johann Bach

Answer 12

1600- 1750 Baroque
instrumental vocal music
- harpsichordist, organist
- adoptive of rhythms textures from abroad

Question 13

George Handel

Answer 13

1600- 1750 Baroque
- operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossis,
organ concerts

Question 14

Antonio Vivaldi

Answer 14

1600- 1750 Baroque
virtuoso violinist
* The four seasons

Question 15

Claudio Monteverdi

Answer 15

1600- 1750 Baroque
string player, choir master
sacred/secular
develepment of opera who transfered Ren-Baroque

Question 16

Classical

Answer 16

1750-1830
ludwig Beethoven 
Wolfgang Mozart
Joseph Haydn
Franz Schubert

Question 17

Ludwig Beethoven

Answer 17

1750-1830 Classical
pianist who transitions Classical to Early romantic
- like mozart shows the ability of showing emotion in music

Question 18

Wolfgang Mozart

Answer 18

1750-1830 Classical
prolific/ influential
-symphonies sonatas operas
- shows emotion through music like beethoven

Question 19

Joseph Haydn

Answer 19

1750-1830 Classical
development of chamber music such as piano trios
- string quartet and symphonies

Question 20

Franz Schubert

Answer 20

1750-1830 Classical
vast oeuvre including 600 secular vocal works, 7 symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, large body piano, and chamber music
- most known for lieder and chamber music

Question 21

Early Romantic

Answer 21

1830-1860
Frederic Chopin
Tchaikovsky
Robert Schumann
Frans Liszt
Berlioz

Question 22

Late Romantic

Answer 22

1860-1920
Wagner
Verdi
Puccini
Brahms
Dvorak

Question 23

Frederic Chopin

Answer 23

1830-1860 E romantic

• expressive piano playing
• virtuoso pianist

Question 24

Tchaikovsky

Answer 24

1830-1860 E romantic

- Swan lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nut Cracker

Question 25

Robert Schumann

Answer 25

1830-1860 E romantic - piano music lieder - wrote about his wife in composition who was actually in love with brahms

Question 26

Franz Liszt

Answer 26

1830-1860 E romantic - virtuoso pianist/ organist - solo recitals

Question 27

Berlioz

Answer 27

1830-1860 E romantic - orchestral story telling * Symphony Fantastique

Question 28

Wagner

Answer 28

1860-1920 Late romantic

Question 29

Verdi

Answer 29

1860-1920 Late romantic - Italian opera old opera Rigoletto*

Question 30

Puccini

Answer 30

1860-1920 Late romantic used operatic realism which brought Italian opera to an end * Le Villi

Question 31

Brahms

Answer 31

1860-1920 Late romantic Genres- symphonies, concerti, chamber, music, piano works, and choral competition - influence of folk music *Wiegenlied *Hungarian Dances - what you think of when you think of Russian dancers

Question 32

Dvorak

Answer 32

1860-1920 Late romantic - Employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia symphonies - More expressive symphonies * New world symphonies