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meantone temperament | What temperament is the English Renaissance performed in? |
studied classical music | What have classical trained performers done extensively? |
individual lessons from professors | What does a B.mus. or M.mus. degree include? |
postgraduate | To what level is training for classical music often required? |
sight-reading | Performance of classical music requires proficiency in what type of reading? |
harmonic | Performance of classical music requires proficiency in what type of principles? |
classical music | Familiarty with the style expected for any given composer is required for what kind of performance? |
Van Halen brothers | What brothers have had significant classical training? |
classical | Billy Joel and Elton John have both had what type of training? |
commercial | Rock and pop musicians may have degrees in what type of music? |
male | What gender of musician has historically made up a large amount of professional orchestras? |
harpist | Women were first hired in professional orchestras for what position? |
1997 | What year did the Vienna Philharmonic first accept women? |
the Berlin Philharmonic | Which major orchestra was the last to appoint a woman to a permanent position? |
Dieter Flury | Who was the principal flute for the Vienna Philharmonic in 1996? |
1997 | In what year did the Vienna Philharmonic face protests in the US? |
Anna Lelkes | Who was the first woman admitted to the Vienna Philharmonic? |
harp | What instrument did Anna Lelkes play? |
six | How many female members were part of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2013? |
Albena Danailova | Who was the Vienna Philharmonic's first female concertmaster? |
female | The National Symphony Orchestra is led by what gender of violinist? |
male | The double bass, brass and percussion sections are predominately what gender? |
'blind' auditions | What type of audition are expected to eliminator gender or racial prejudice? |
violin | In what section of the New York Philharmonic do women outnumber men? |
complexity | Works of classical repertoire exhibit what in their use of orchestration and harmony, and form? |
popular styles | What is usually written in song forms? |
sophisticated | The concerto, symphony, sonata and opera are examples of what type of musical forms? |
movements | What are self-contained pieces in longer works called? |
four | How many movements are symphonies written in the Classical period usually divided into? |
slow | What, typically, is the speed of the second movement in a classical piece? |
sections | A movement broken up further is called what? |
Allegro | The final movement of a classical piece is usually called what? |
Medieval | What period was from 500-1400? |
1600–1750 | What years dictate the Baroque period? |
by calendar century | How have periods been reckoned Since 1900? |
the contemporary/postmodern musical era | What era has the 21st century has been characterized by? |
Romantic | The years 1804-1910 marked what era? |
Haydn | What composer continued the counterpoint and fugue? |
Classical | Haydn is classified as typical of what era? |
Beethoven | Who is described as a founder of the Romantic era? |
Brahms | Who is classified as Romantic, but also uses counterpoint and fugue? |
era | Some authorities reverse terminologies to refer to the common practice period as a what? |
neo | A Contemporary composition written in the style of an earlier era is described with what prefix? |
20th-century | What century were Neoclassical compositions written in? |
Stravinsky's | Who wrote Pulcinella? |
Classical | What era is Pulcinella similar to? |
2695 BC | When does the Egyptian orchestra date to? |
Burgh | Who suggested that Western classical music is rooted to ancient Egyptian art music? |
early Christian liturgical music, | What music followed ancient Egyptian art music? |
ancient Greeks | Which ancient society developed individual tones and scales? |
Pythagoras | Who helped codify musical notation? |
Rome | The Medieval period begins with the fall of what city? |
Monophonic chant | What can Plainsong or Gregorian chant also be called? |
multi-voiced | What does Polyphonic mean? |
1100 | When did Monophonic chant stop being the dominant form? |
motets | Polyphonic music included more complex voicing of what? |
from 1400 to 1600 | When was the Renaissance era? |
Renaissance | What era was from 1400 to 1600? |
Renaissance | The use of the first ass instruments occurred in what era? |
Social dancing | What became widespread in the Renaissance era? |
Renaissance | Musical forms for dance began to standardize during what era? |
staff | The notation of music on a what began to take shape at this time? |
oral | How was music transmitted before the invention of musical notation? |
change | What was oral music subject to every time is was transmitted? |
the composer's presence | What can a musical scored be performed without? |
the 15th century | When was the movable-type printing press invented? |
the flute family | The record is part of what wind family? |
the oboe | The sahwm was an early family member of what instrument? |
churches | Where were the first pipe organs confined to? |
the 16th century | When had the viol emerged by? |
Printing | What enabled descriptions and specification of instruments? |
The common practice period | When did many of the ideas that make up western classical music take shape? |
The common practice period | What began with the Baroque era? |
Baroque era | What era did the classical era follow? |
around 1820 | When did the classical era end? |
about 1910 | When did the romantic era end? |
Baroque | Basso continuo and complex tonal counterpoint characterize what type of music? |
a continuous bass line | What does basso continuo mean? |
more complex | What did music become during the Baroque era in comparison with earlier periods? |
the sonata form | What form began to take shape during the Baroque era? |
tonalities | Major and minor what are means for managing dissonance and chromaticism? |
Baroque | Keyboard music became popular during what era? |
stringed | The violin family is what type of instrument? |
staged musical drama | Opera began to differentiate itself from earlier forms as what? |
vocal forms | What became more common during the Baroque era? |
embellishments | What did vocalist add to melodies beginning in the Baroque era? |
equal temperament | What theories began to be put in wider practice? |
a wider range of chromatic possibilities | What does equal temperament enabled in hard to tune keyboard instruments? |
equal temperament | What did Bach not use? |
tuned | A modern piano is generally what? |
meantone | What system of temperaments was common during Bach's time? |
1750 to 1820 | When was the Classical era? |
the piano | What instrument became the predominant keyboard during the classical era? |
The basic forces required for an orchestra | What became more standardized during the classical era? |
10 | How many muscians, at most, could make up a chamber ensemble during the classical period? |
a form of comic opera | What is an opera buffa? |
Wind | What type of instrument became more refined during the classical era? |
the clarinet family | What is the single reed family called? |
double reeded | What type of instrument was somewhat standardized int eh Baroque era? |
Mozart | Who expanded the single reeds role? |
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