Music Content Knowledge (5113) || with Complete Solutions.

Antiquity correct answers 500AD - 500BC Medieval correct answers 500 - 1400 - Monophonic (plain chant) Renaissance correct answers - Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments Baroque correct answers - Counterpoint, small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), harpsichord and organ become more popular Classical correct answers - Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music Romantic correct answers - More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism 20th Century correct answers - Rejection of common practice Important Medieval Composers correct answers Hildegard of Bingen - Abbess, experienced visions (due to migraines) Perotin - 4 - voice organum John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths Important Renaissance Composers correct answers 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 correct answers 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 correct answers BWV - Bach Werke Verzeichnis Important Classical Composers correct answers Hydan - established standard for symphony, sonata, and string quartet Mozart - Don Giovanni, the magic flute Beethoven - Moonlight sonata, 5th, ode to joy