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Music History Q3 Flashcards

1
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Henry Purcell is buried in…

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Westminster Abbey

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart started composing at the age of….

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3

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This composer is best known for his ballets, “Peter and the Wolf,” and “Romeo and Juliet.”

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Name some Medieval Instruments.

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Lute Hand Drum Sackbut etc.

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What does the word Baroque mean?

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Irregularly shaped pearl

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Giovanni Palestrina was hired to rewrite the mass in opposition to this religious movement.

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Lutheranism

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This composer was the first woman to receive the Guggenheim Fellowship

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Ruth Crawford Seeger

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Arnold Schoenberg invented this type of compositional method….

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Twelve Tone Method

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9
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Antonio Vivaldi was nicknamed…

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The Red Priest

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10
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Why was art and music generally created during the Medieval Period?

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To glorify God

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11
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Who started the Reformation?

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Martin Luther

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Richard Wagner’s opera set, The Ring of Nibelung, took him how long to complete?

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26 years

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13
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Christoph Gluck is best known for revolutionizing the genre of…

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Opera

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John Philip Sousa is best known for his marches. His most famous march, which is the National March of the United State is called…

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Stars and Stripes Forever

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Gustav Holst is best known for his orchestral suite called…

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The Planets

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16
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All of Frederic Chopin’s music includes this instrument.

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Piano

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17
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Romantic art and music focused on….

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nature

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18
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Name another Medieval composer, not previously mentioned during the course of this game.

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Perotin Guillame Dufay Guillame De Machaut

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This composer is a well known pacifist, and moved to the United States when England got involved in WWII.

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Benjamin Britten

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The infamous love triangle of the Romantic Period involves with three people?

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Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms

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The Romantic Period is an outgrowth of what revolution?

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The French Revolution

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22
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Giovanni Gabrieli’s compositions helped to develop the modern…

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orchestra

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When people in the back of cathedrals couldn’t hear the holy words, they chanted the words instead. What is this chanting called?

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Plainsong

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The composer teamed up with his brother Ira, to create many famous Broadway musicals.

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George Gershwin

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Pyotr Ilyish Tchaikovsky is best know for his ballets, two of which are….

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The Nutcracker and Swan Lake

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26
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Romantic musicians wrote music for the purpose of…

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evoking emotion

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27
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What does the word Renaissance mean?

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Rebirth

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28
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This composer founded the concept of the “Virtual Choir,” and has great hair.

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Eric Whitacre

29
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Define an oratorio

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Sacred opera without scenery, costumes, or acting

30
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Name another Medieval composer, not previously mentioned during the course of this game.

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Perotin Guillame Dufay Guillame De Machaut

31
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Scott Joplin is the King of….

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Ragtime

32
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What is the name of the opera where a statue comes to life for revenge?

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Don Giovanni

33
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This composer’s “Symphony in E Minor” became the first piece written by an African American woman to be perform by a major American orchestra.

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Florence Price

34
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The desire to have music sound natural to the ear is known as…

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naturalism

35
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This composer wrote “The Rite of Spring,” which was so controversial that is caused a riot when it was first performed.

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Igor Stravinsky

36
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The Middle Ages (Medieval Era) lasted from approximately…

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500-1450 CE

37
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This composer is best known for his first symphony, “Afro American.”

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William Grant Still

38
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C.P.E. Bach is related to J.S. Bach how?

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Son

39
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Romanticism was a movement that emphasized…

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feeling over thought

40
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Orlando de Lassus combined composition styles from…

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France, Germany, and Italy

41
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Domenico Scarlatti served most of his life as the composer for the Princess of….

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Portugal

42
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Guido D’Arezzo is famous for…

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developing staff notation

43
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Which philosopher believed that music could change a human’s ethos, making them do good things or bad things, depending?

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Plato

44
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Name another Medieval composer, not previously mentioned during the course of this game.

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Perotin Guillame Dufay Guillame De Machaut

45
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Did music change very much as the Greek Empire transformed into the Roman Empire?

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No

46
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What opera is the Queen of the Night aria in?

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The Magic Flute

47
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Josquin Desprez was a master of…

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polyphony

48
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The oldest music instruments we’ve found are from…

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50,000-10,000 BCE

49
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Giuseppe Verdi is considered a national hero in his home country, which is…

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Italy

50
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This composer described music as “a purposeless play.”

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John Cage

51
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One of Vivaldi’s most famous composition is called….

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The Four Seasons

52
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Romanticism can be compared to what two modern decades?

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1990’s & 2000’s

53
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What instrument was invented during the Baroque period?

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Piano

54
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Amy Beach was a child prodigy and could sing 40 songs by the age of one and composed three waltzes by the age of…

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4

55
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Were instruments allowed to play inside a church?

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No

56
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William Byrd was one of the only Englishmen granted the right to print and publish by….

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Queen Elizabeth I

57
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This composer founded “Composers Now,” an organization that works to highlight and celebrate living composers.

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Tania Leon

58
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Sergei Rachmaninoff fled from his home country due to the communist revolution happening at the time. What was his home country?

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Russia

59
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The most famous piece of Greek notation is called:

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The Epitaph of Seikilos

60
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Hildegard vin Bingen is famous for….

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Being one the earliest known comoposers.

61
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Hector Berlioz wrote…

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The Treatise on Instrumentation

62
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This composer is known as “The Dean of American Composers.”

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Aaron Copland

63
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Ethyl Smith was the first female composer to be given the title of…

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Dame

64
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What instrument was supposedly created by Hermes in an attempt to trick Apollo?

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Lyre

65
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G.F. Handel is best known for his oratorio…

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The Messiah

66
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Luigi Boccherini is best known for his…

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String Quartet in E

67
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This composer is well known for his musical theatre compositions, like West Side Story.

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Leonard Bernstein

68
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Fanny Mendlessohn sometimes had to publish her music under her brother’s name, which is…

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Felix Mendelssohn

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