Music Content Knowledge (5113) Exam With
100% Correct Answers 2024
Antiquity
500AD - 500BC
Medieval
500 - 1400
- Monophonic (plain chant)
Renaissance
1400 - 1600
- Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments
Baroque
1600 - 1750
- Counterpoint, small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), harpsichord and
organ become more popular
Classical
1750 - 1820
- Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music
Romantic
1820 - 1900
- More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism
20th Century
1900 - 2000
- Rejection of common practice
Important Medieval Composers
Hildegard of Bingen - Abbess, experienced visions (due to migraines)
Perotin - 4 - voice organum
John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths
Important Renaissance Composers
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
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
BWV - Bach Werke Verzeichnis
Important Classical Composers
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
, Kochel Catalog
Important Romantic Composers
Schubert - creation of lied
Chopin - expressive piano
Brahms - last great of classical
Tchaikovsky - ballets, swan lake & nutcracker
Important 20th Century Composers
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
Bebop
Style developed in the 1940s. Fast tempo and improv, developed into modern jazz.
(Dizzy)
Blues
Originated in the deep south, both a form and a genre based on rhymed simple
narrative ballads
Dixieland
Riverboat jazz, hot jazz, lindy hop. Standard "when the saints go marching in"
Gospel
Religious popular song that is characterized by strong vocals, sentimental
Motown
Music that emerged from Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s. Its considered a style of soul
music with a pop influence
Ragtime
Characterized 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
Popular between 1940-1960. Played by an ensemble with a lead vocalist or
instrumentalist, rhythm section, ensemble of voices or wind instruments, or guitar
Swing
Originated in the 1930s. Big Band instrumentation, triplet feel
Famous performers of the swing era
Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman
Wynton Marsalis plays...
Trumpet
Louis Armstrong...
Plays trumpet and sings
John Coltrane plays...
Saxophone
Thelonious Monk plays...
Piano
The Music of India
Sitar, tabla (percussion), vocals. Warbling sound, pitch bending, semitones
The Music of the Middle East
Santour, chant, vocal, setar, accompaniment for popular music
The Music of China
100% Correct Answers 2024
Antiquity
500AD - 500BC
Medieval
500 - 1400
- Monophonic (plain chant)
Renaissance
1400 - 1600
- Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments
Baroque
1600 - 1750
- Counterpoint, small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), harpsichord and
organ become more popular
Classical
1750 - 1820
- Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music
Romantic
1820 - 1900
- More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism
20th Century
1900 - 2000
- Rejection of common practice
Important Medieval Composers
Hildegard of Bingen - Abbess, experienced visions (due to migraines)
Perotin - 4 - voice organum
John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths
Important Renaissance Composers
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
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
BWV - Bach Werke Verzeichnis
Important Classical Composers
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
, Kochel Catalog
Important Romantic Composers
Schubert - creation of lied
Chopin - expressive piano
Brahms - last great of classical
Tchaikovsky - ballets, swan lake & nutcracker
Important 20th Century Composers
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
Bebop
Style developed in the 1940s. Fast tempo and improv, developed into modern jazz.
(Dizzy)
Blues
Originated in the deep south, both a form and a genre based on rhymed simple
narrative ballads
Dixieland
Riverboat jazz, hot jazz, lindy hop. Standard "when the saints go marching in"
Gospel
Religious popular song that is characterized by strong vocals, sentimental
Motown
Music that emerged from Detroit, Michigan in the 1960s. Its considered a style of soul
music with a pop influence
Ragtime
Characterized 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
Popular between 1940-1960. Played by an ensemble with a lead vocalist or
instrumentalist, rhythm section, ensemble of voices or wind instruments, or guitar
Swing
Originated in the 1930s. Big Band instrumentation, triplet feel
Famous performers of the swing era
Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman
Wynton Marsalis plays...
Trumpet
Louis Armstrong...
Plays trumpet and sings
John Coltrane plays...
Saxophone
Thelonious Monk plays...
Piano
The Music of India
Sitar, tabla (percussion), vocals. Warbling sound, pitch bending, semitones
The Music of the Middle East
Santour, chant, vocal, setar, accompaniment for popular music
The Music of China
