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“Gloria” from the Pope Marcellus Mass

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Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Date: 1562

Genre: Mass

Identifying characteristic #1: homophonic texture

Identifying characteristic #2: featured 4 voices

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“Giulio Cesare”

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Composer: Georg Friederich Handel

Date: 1727

Genre: Opera Seria

Identifying characteristic #1: da capo aria

Identifying characteristic #2: ornamentation

Identifying characteristic #3: countertenors

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“Symphony No. 5 in C minor”

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Composer: Beethoven

Date: 1808

Genre: Symphony

Identifying characteristic #1: Sonata form

Identifying characteristic #2: ensemble

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“Don Giovanni”

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Composer: Mozart

Date: 1787

Genre: Opera buffa

Identifying characteristic #1:

Identifying characteristic #2:

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“Ave maria”

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Composer: Josquin des Prez

Date: ca. 1485

Genre: Motet

Identifying characteristic #1: imitative polyphony

Identifying characteristic #2: points of imitation

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“Quan lo rius de la fontana”

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Composer: Jaufre Rudel

Date: 12th century

Genre: Troubadour Song (canso)

Identifying characteristic #1: strophic

Identifying characteristic #2: monophonic

Identifying characteristic #3: last word is held out

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“O rubor sanguinis”

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Composer: Hildegard von Bingen

Date: 1150

Genre: Plainchant

Identifying characteristic #1: Monophonic

Identifying characteristic #2: unmetered

Identifying characteristic #3: latin

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“Viderunt omnes”

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Composer: Anonymous

Date: pre-10th century

Genre: plainchant

Identifying characteristic #1: monophonic

Identifying characteristic #2: unmetered

Identifying characteristic #3: latin

Identifying characteristic #4: melismatic

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“Piagn’e sospira”

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Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Date: 1603

Genre: Madrigal

Identifying characteristic #1: word-painting

Identifying characteristic #2: polyphonic

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Piano Sonata in G Major

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Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Date: 1774

Genre: Sonata

Identifying characteristic #1: homophonic texture

Identifying characteristic #2: sonata form

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Organ Fugue in G Minor

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Composer: Bach

Date: ca. 1710

Genre: Fugue

Identifying characteristic #1: polyphonic

Identifying characteristic #2: subject/repeating theme

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