History 4 - Exam Prep

Name the following:

1. 3 different text settings for Gregorian Chants

2. 2 other names for Gregorian chants

3. first composer of polyphonic music and his successor

4. the school led by the two individuals for #3

5. 3 parts / voices of a motet

6. the symbolism of triple meter in medieval times

7. 3 medieval string instruments

8. 2 categories of medieval instruments, and 5 instruments from each category

9. composer who represented the Ars Nova

10. 2 percussion instruments of the medieval period

11. three organs of the medieval period

12. 5 parts that make up the Ordinary of the Mass

13. 12 parts that make up the Proper of the Mass

14. 3 Burgundian composers

15. 2 genres of secular Renaissance music that combined poetry with music

16. 3 fixed text forms of Renaissance poetry

17. 5 dance types during the Renaissance

18. 2 masters of the Italian Renaissance madrigal

19. 2 patrons of Marenzio

20. 4 members of the Concerto delle donne

21. 3 English madrigalists

22. first collection of Italian madrigals published in England

23. work which demonstrates the use of all twelve major and minor keys

24. example of internationalism in the Baroque period

25. example of exoticism in the Baroque period

26. most important composer of the tragedie lyrique, and 2 examples

27. Purcell’s teacher, and a work by him (the teacher, not Purcell)

28. example of opera seria in the Baroque period

29. 2 organ virtuosos from the Baroque

30. 2 violin virtuosos from the Baroque

31. 2 harpsichord virtuosos from the Baroque

32. 3 keyboard instruments of the Baroque

33. northern Italian composer who wrote both solo concerto and concerto grosso

34. 2 groups that make up concerto grosso

35. place where Vivaldi was the maestro de’concerti

36. 4 Baroque dances common in the Baroque suite

37. composer renowned for his sonatas da camera

38. a woman harpsichordist and composer of the Baroque period

39. instruments that make up trio sonatas

40. a composer who wrote many harpsichord sonatas

41. the different devices that make up a fugue

42. the features of sonata cycle

43. the features of sonata-allegro form

44. 3 different type of variations available within a theme and variations

45. 3 Viennese masters

46. 4 composers who established the true chamber music style

47. instruments that make up a string quartet

48. composer who replaced the minuet and trio with the scherzo and trio

49. 2 genres which stand halfway between chamber music and symphony

50. 4 genres which use the structure of the sonata cycle

51. the features of first movement concerto form

52. 2 women violinists from Vienna during the Classical period

53. 3 women keyboard players from the Classical period

54. 3 forms (genres) of Classical choral music

55. 4 types of comic opera (from different countries)

56. 2 types of solo passages within operas