Style Periods

Question 1

Medieval (Early Music)

Answer 1

c. 500-1400: Gregorian chant, Hildegard von Bingen, Guido d’Arezzo

Question 2

Renaissance (Early Music)

Answer 2

c. 1400-1600: Tomás Luis de Victoria, William Byrd, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Question 3

Baroque (Common Practice)

Answer 3

c. 1600-1750: Elisabeth—Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Arcangelo Corelli, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel

Question 4

Classical (Common Practice)

Answer 4

c. 1730-1820: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 5

Romantic (Common Practice)

Answer 5

c. 1815-1920: Franz Schubert, Robert and Clara Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brams, Gabriel Fauré

Question 6

Early 20th Century & Modernist (Modern & Contemporary)

Answer 6

c. 1890-1945: Scott Joplin, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Béla Bártok, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky

Question 7

Post-WW2 & Late 20th Century (Modern & Contemporary)

Answer 7

c. 1945-2000: Pierre Boulez, Luciano Beria, György Ligeti, John Cage

Question 8

21st Century (Modern & Contemporary)

Answer 8

Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, John Corigliano, Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Chen Yi