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Music Content Knowledge (5113) Questions
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Antiquity Answer: 500AD - 500BC
Medieval Answer: 500 - 1400
- Monophonic (plain chant)
Renaissance Answer: 1400 - 1600
- Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments
Baroque Answer: 1600 - 1750
- Counterpoint, small orchestras, (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins),
string quartets, harpsichord and organ become more popular
Classical Answer: 1750 - 1820
- Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music
Romantic Answer: 1820 - 1900
- More expressive, free-form, middle class music education,
nationalism, symphonic poem
20th Century Answer: 1900 - 2000
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- Rejection of common practice
Important Medieval Composers Answer: Hildegard of Bingen -
Abbess, experienced visions (due to migraines)
Perotin - 4 - voice organum
John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths
Guillaume de Machaut
Important Renaissance Composers 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)
Josquin des Prez
Giovani Gabrieli
Thomas Weelkes
Important Baroque Composers Answer: Claudio Monteverdi -
transition from the renaissance to the baroque
Lully - most important french composer, death by cane (gangrene)
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Vivaldi - "the red priest" 500 concertos
Handel - studied law first, messiah
J.S Bach - orphan, organist, well-tempered clavier & brandenburg
concertos
Henry Purcell
System used to catalogue the compositions of J.S. Bach Answer:
BWV - Bach Werke Verzeichnis
Important Classical Composers Answer: Haydn - 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 Answer:
Kochel Catalog
Important Romantic Composers Answer: Schubert - creation of lied
Chopin - expressive piano
Brahms - last great of classical
Tchaikovsky - ballets, swan lake & nutcracker
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Music Content Knowledge (5113) Questions
with Correct Answers | Updated (100%
Correct Answers)
Antiquity Answer: 500AD - 500BC
Medieval Answer: 500 - 1400
- Monophonic (plain chant)
Renaissance Answer: 1400 - 1600
- Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments
Baroque Answer: 1600 - 1750
- Counterpoint, small orchestras, (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins),
string quartets, harpsichord and organ become more popular
Classical Answer: 1750 - 1820
- Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music
Romantic Answer: 1820 - 1900
- More expressive, free-form, middle class music education,
nationalism, symphonic poem
20th Century Answer: 1900 - 2000
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- Rejection of common practice
Important Medieval Composers Answer: Hildegard of Bingen -
Abbess, experienced visions (due to migraines)
Perotin - 4 - voice organum
John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths
Guillaume de Machaut
Important Renaissance Composers 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)
Josquin des Prez
Giovani Gabrieli
Thomas Weelkes
Important Baroque Composers Answer: Claudio Monteverdi -
transition from the renaissance to the baroque
Lully - most important french composer, death by cane (gangrene)
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Vivaldi - "the red priest" 500 concertos
Handel - studied law first, messiah
J.S Bach - orphan, organist, well-tempered clavier & brandenburg
concertos
Henry Purcell
System used to catalogue the compositions of J.S. Bach Answer:
BWV - Bach Werke Verzeichnis
Important Classical Composers Answer: Haydn - 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 Answer:
Kochel Catalog
Important Romantic Composers Answer: Schubert - creation of lied
Chopin - expressive piano
Brahms - last great of classical
Tchaikovsky - ballets, swan lake & nutcracker
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