Music Content Knowledge (5113) Latest 2024 Graded A+

Music Content Knowledge (5113) Latest 2024 Graded A+ Antiquity 500AD - 500BC Medieval 500 - 1400 - Monophonic (plain chant) Renaissance - Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments Baroque - Counterpoint, small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), harpsichord and organ become more popular Classical - Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music Romantic - More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism 20th Century - Rejection of common practice Important Medieval Composers Hildegard of Bingen - Abbess, experienced visions (due to migraines) Perotin - 4 - voice organum John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths Important Renaissance Composers Guillaume Dufay - late life renaissance Palestrina - mostly sacred music, over 100 madrigals both secular and sacred William Byrd - known for survival in protestant England (he was catholic) Important Baroque Composers Claudio Monteverdi - transition from the renaissance to the baroque Lully - most important french composer, death by cane (gangrene) Vivaldi - "the red priest" 500 concertos Handel - studied law first, messiah J.S Bach - orphan, organist, well-tempered clavier & brandenburg concertos System used to catalogue the compositions of J.S. Bach BWV - Bach Werke Verzeichnis Important Classical Composers Hydan - established standard for symphony, sonata, and string quartet Mozart - Don Giovanni, the magic flute Beethoven - Moonlight sonata, 5th, ode to joy Numbering scheme used to categorize Mozart's works Kochel Catalog Important Romantic Composers Schubert - creation of lied Chopin - expressive piano Brahms - last great of classical Tchaikovsky - ballets, swan lake & nutcracker Important 20th Century Composers Stravinsky - the firebird suite, the rite of spring Copland - fanfare for the common man, appalachian spring John Cage - 4:33, imaginary landscape #4 (radios), prepared piano Bebop Style developed in the 1940s. Fast tempo and improv, developed into modern jazz. (Dizzy) Blues Originated in the deep south, both