Music Content Knowledge (5113)
Antiquity - answer500AD - 500BC
Medieval - answer500 - 1400
- Monophonic (plain chant)
Renaissance - answer1400 - 1600
- Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments
Baroque - answer1600 - 1750
- Counterpoint, small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), harpsichord and
organ become more popular
Classical - answer1750 - 1820
- Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music
Romantic - answer1820 - 1900
- More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism
20th Century - answer1900 - 2000
- Rejection of common practice
Important Medieval Composers - answerHildegard of Bingen - Abbess, experienced
visions (due to migraines)
Perotin - 4 - voice organum
John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths
Important Renaissance Composers - answerGuillaume 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 - answerClaudio 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 - answerBWV - Bach Werke
Verzeichnis
, Important Classical Composers - answerHydan - 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 - answerKochel Catalog
Important Romantic Composers - answerSchubert - creation of lied
Chopin - expressive piano
Brahms - last great of classical
Tchaikovsky - ballets, swan lake & nutcracker
Important 20th Century Composers - answerStravinsky - 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 - answerStyle developed in the 1940s. Fast tempo and improv, developed into
modern jazz. (Dizzy)
Blues - answerOriginated in the deep south, both a form and a genre based on rhymed
simple narrative ballads
Dixieland - answerRiverboat jazz, hot jazz, lindy hop. Standard "when the saints go
marching in"
Gospel - answerReligious popular song that is characterized by strong vocals,
sentimental
Motown - answerMusic that emerged from Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s. Its considered
a style of soul music with a pop influence
Ragtime - answerCharacterized by its syncopated or ragged rhythm, popular between
1890-1920. It began as dance music in the red light districts. Scott Joplin, maple leaf
rag
Rhythm and Blues - answerPopular between 1940-1960. Played by an ensemble with a
lead vocalist or instrumentalist, rhythm section, ensemble of voices or wind instruments,
or guitar
Swing - answerOriginated in the 1930s. Big Band instrumentation, triplet feel
Famous performers of the swing era - answerDuke Ellington and Benny Goodman
Wynton Marsalis plays... - answerTrumpet
Antiquity - answer500AD - 500BC
Medieval - answer500 - 1400
- Monophonic (plain chant)
Renaissance - answer1400 - 1600
- Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments
Baroque - answer1600 - 1750
- Counterpoint, small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), harpsichord and
organ become more popular
Classical - answer1750 - 1820
- Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music
Romantic - answer1820 - 1900
- More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism
20th Century - answer1900 - 2000
- Rejection of common practice
Important Medieval Composers - answerHildegard of Bingen - Abbess, experienced
visions (due to migraines)
Perotin - 4 - voice organum
John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths
Important Renaissance Composers - answerGuillaume 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 - answerClaudio 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 - answerBWV - Bach Werke
Verzeichnis
, Important Classical Composers - answerHydan - 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 - answerKochel Catalog
Important Romantic Composers - answerSchubert - creation of lied
Chopin - expressive piano
Brahms - last great of classical
Tchaikovsky - ballets, swan lake & nutcracker
Important 20th Century Composers - answerStravinsky - 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 - answerStyle developed in the 1940s. Fast tempo and improv, developed into
modern jazz. (Dizzy)
Blues - answerOriginated in the deep south, both a form and a genre based on rhymed
simple narrative ballads
Dixieland - answerRiverboat jazz, hot jazz, lindy hop. Standard "when the saints go
marching in"
Gospel - answerReligious popular song that is characterized by strong vocals,
sentimental
Motown - answerMusic that emerged from Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s. Its considered
a style of soul music with a pop influence
Ragtime - answerCharacterized by its syncopated or ragged rhythm, popular between
1890-1920. It began as dance music in the red light districts. Scott Joplin, maple leaf
rag
Rhythm and Blues - answerPopular between 1940-1960. Played by an ensemble with a
lead vocalist or instrumentalist, rhythm section, ensemble of voices or wind instruments,
or guitar
Swing - answerOriginated in the 1930s. Big Band instrumentation, triplet feel
Famous performers of the swing era - answerDuke Ellington and Benny Goodman
Wynton Marsalis plays... - answerTrumpet
