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25 Cards in this Set
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Sacred and secular vocal forms in the middle ages |
Sacred - motet Secular - madrigal |
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A three note chord |
Triad |
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Who was Palestrina and what did he do? |
Italian composer in the renaissance. Known for his sacred music |
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Who write the first opera? What was it called? |
Orfeo by Claude Monteverdi |
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City that was the center of music in the renaissance era |
Vienna |
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Name of musical piece played for the queen |
Water music by handel |
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Bach's famous concertos were set in what city |
Brandenburg |
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Which composer helped start brahm's career? |
Robert Schumann |
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Number of Haydn's symphonies |
106 |
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How was MOZART buried? |
In a mass grave |
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Instruments in a string quartet |
2 Violin, viola, cello |
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How long did it take for mozart to write his last three symphonies |
A few weeks |
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Composer that went deaf |
Beethoven |
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Composer that went blind |
Bach |
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When was Mozart's Requiem famously played? |
FIND THE ANSWER |
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Who was Bela Bartok |
Hungarian composer who cbined 20 century compositional techniques with folk to create nationalistic music. |
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Who led the impressionist movement? |
Debussy |
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Who led the expressionist movement? |
Arnold Schoenberg |
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Which composition caused a riot in Paris? |
Igor Stravinsky - rite of spring |
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Brahm's first symphony aka |
Beethoven's Tenth |
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What happened to Schumann at the end of his life |
He attempted suicide and was admitted into an asylum. He heard an "A" note |
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Clara Schumann |
German composer of romantic era. Robert's wife. |
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Composers that only wrote 9 symphonies |
Dvorak, Schubert, beethoven |
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Who was known for tone poems |
Richard strauss |
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Who wrote the new world symphony |
Dvorak |
