The cards Question What is the Western Classical Tradition? Tap to flip Answer Formal, notated European art music from the Medieval period to the 21st century. Question Which years does the Baroque period cover? Tap to flip Answer 1600-1750. Question Which years does the Classical period cover? Tap to flip Answer 1750-1820. Question Which years does the Romantic period cover? Tap to flip Answer 1820-1910. Question Bach was a key composer of which period? Tap to flip Answer The Baroque period. Question Mozart is an example of a composer from which period? Tap to flip Answer The Classical period. Question Tchaikovsky was a famous composer of which period? Tap to flip Answer The Romantic period. Question What kind of melodies are typical of the Baroque period? Tap to flip Answer Ornamented melodies. Question Which keyboard instrument did Classical composers begin to use? Tap to flip Answer The piano. Question What texture did most Classical-period music have? Tap to flip Answer A clear melody and accompaniment. Question Does 'Romantic' in music history mean music about love? Tap to flip Answer No. It is just the name of the period; the music was often intense, emotive and dramatic, and very varied. Question Which four sections make up the orchestra? Tap to flip Answer Strings, woodwind, brass and percussion. Question Give one string instrument of the orchestra. Tap to flip Answer e.g. violin, viola, cello or double bass. Question How do woodwind instruments produce sound? Tap to flip Answer Through blown air (e.g. flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon). Question What are brass instruments? Tap to flip Answer Metal instruments with valves or slides that produce sound with air, e.g. trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba. Question How do percussion instruments produce sound? Tap to flip Answer By being struck or hit. Question What was the Baroque orchestra mostly made up of? Tap to flip Answer Strings, with a few woodwind or brass instruments and a harpsichord. Question Which instrument did the Classical orchestra no longer include? Tap to flip Answer The harpsichord. Question Has the orchestra grown only by adding more of the same instruments? Tap to flip Answer No. The variety of instruments also grew, with brass, woodwind, percussion and keyboard instruments added since the 1600s. Question What is chamber music? Tap to flip Answer Music composed for a small ensemble, such as a string quartet. Question Which instruments typically make up a piano trio? Tap to flip Answer Piano, violin and cello. Question What is a trio sonata? Tap to flip Answer A Baroque style of chamber music for two melodic instruments and continuo. Question What was the most common form of chamber music in the Baroque period? Tap to flip Answer The trio sonata. Question Which instruments make up a string quartet? Tap to flip Answer Two violins, a viola and a cello. Question Was most music of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods written for orchestra? Tap to flip Answer No. Composers wrote for many ensembles, large and small, including solos, duets, trios, quartets and quintets. Question What does SATB stand for in a choir? Tap to flip Answer Soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Question What is a lied? Tap to flip Answer A solo song, most common in the Romantic period, usually with piano accompaniment. Question What is the plural of 'lied'? Tap to flip Answer Lieder. Question What is recitative? Tap to flip Answer A semi-spoken vocal style, often used for dialogue in opera. Question What is word-painting? Tap to flip Answer When a vocal melody reflects the meaning of the words, e.g. a descending melody on 'falls'. Question What is melisma? Tap to flip Answer Singing several notes on one syllable of a word. Question Besides arias, which vocal style does opera use to tell its stories? Tap to flip Answer Recitative. Question What is tonality? Tap to flip Answer The type of notes and chords a piece is based on, e.g. major, minor or atonal. Question What is harmony? Tap to flip Answer The way notes combine to create chords, and the way those chords are used in a composition. Question What is a key? Tap to flip Answer The specific set of notes a piece is based on, e.g. C minor. Question What is a key signature? Tap to flip Answer The sharps or flats to be used in a key, written at the start of each stave. Question What is a cadence? Tap to flip Answer A combination of two chords at the end of a phrase or section. Question What tonality did music of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods almost always have? Tap to flip Answer Major or minor. Question Harmony in the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods is based on which chords? Tap to flip Answer The primary chords I, IV and V, with some secondary chords. Question Which two cadences are most common in the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods? Tap to flip Answer Perfect and imperfect cadences. Question With what did Romantic composers experiment more? Tap to flip Answer Chord choice and chromatic notes. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Music Unit The Western Classical Tradition (1600-1910) Exam boards AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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