Music Content Knowledge (5113) Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions 100% Verified Antiquity - Correct Answer 500AD - 500BC Medieval - Correct Answer 500 - 1400
- Monophonic (plain chant)
- Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments
- Counterpoint, small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), harpsichord and organ become more
- Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music
- More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism
- Rejection of common practice
Renaissance - Correct Answer 1400 - 1600
Baroque - Correct Answer 1600 - 1750
popular Classical - Correct Answer 1750 - 1820
Romantic - Correct Answer 1820 - 1900
20th Century - Correct Answer 1900 - 2000
Important Medieval Composers - Correct Answer Hildegard of Bingen - Abbess, experienced visions (due to migraines) Perotin - 4 - voice organum John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths 1 / 2
Important Renaissance Composers - Correct Answer 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 Answer 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 Answer BWV - Bach Werke Verzeichnis Important Classical Composers - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer Kochel Catalog Important Romantic Composers - Correct Answer Schubert - creation of lied Chopin - expressive piano Brahms - last great of classical Tchaikovsky - ballets, swan lake & nutcracker Important 20th Century Composers - Correct Answer 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
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