Style Periods of Music History Flashcards
Medieval
450-1450
Name 2 composers from the Medieval style period.
Hildegard von Bingen
Herrad of Landsberg
Name one work from the Medieval style period along with all traits.
genre, text, texture, form, ensemble
Sol oritur occasus by Herrad of Landsberg.
Genre: conductus
Text: Latin and sacred
Texture: two-part parallel motion
Form: Strophic
Ensemble: notated and a cappella
Renaissance
1450-1600
Name 2 composers from the Renaissance style period.
Vicente Lusitano
Guillaume Dufay
Name one work from the Renaissance style period along with all traits.
Regina caeli
Genre: moet
Ensemble: SATB a cappella
Texture: imitative polyphony
Language: Latin and Sacred
Baroque
1600-1750
Name 2 composers from the Baroque style period.
Francesca Caccini
Barbara Strozzi
Name one work from the Baroque style period along with all traits.
Lasciatemi qui solo
Genre: ?
Ensemble: ?
Texture: homophonic
Language: Italian
Vocal style: monody
Classic
1700-1800 or so
Name 2 composers from the Classic style period.
Marianne Martinez
Maddalena Sirmen
Name one work from the Classic style period along with all traits.
String Quartet No. 4 by Maddalena Sirmen
Genre: String Quartet
Style of melody: cantabile
Texture: homophonic (cantabile is usually homoponic)
Romantic
1800-1900 or so
Name 2 composers from the Romantic style period.
Frédéric Chopin
Fanny Hensel
Name one work from the Romantic style period along with all traits.
Nocturne (Nuttorno) in G Minor, H.337 by Fanny Hensel
texture: homophonic
genre: character piece (type Nocturne)
20th and 21st Centuries
1900-2000+
Name 2 composers from the 20th and 21st centuries style period.
Claude Debussy
György Ligeti
Name one work from the 20th and 21st centuries style period along with all traits.
Lux Aeterna
Style: sound-mass composition
Harmonic language: atonal (atonality)
Texture: micropolyphony
Ensemble: scored for 16-part a cappella singers
Example of neoclassicism (style term)
