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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Britten was born on November 22 1913 in _______. | England |
| At age __ Britten started studying under composer and teacher John Ireland and Arthur Benjamin at the Royal college of music. | 12 |
| Britten worked as a composer for the _____ , ______ and ______ | radio,theater,cinema |
| Britain was a ______ meaning he did not believe in fighting wars | pacifist |
| Britten was important to post-war England's culture he founded the English Opera Group in ____ and the aldeburgh festival _ years later | 1946,2 |
| Britten's later career was clouded by ill health and eventually ____ disease | heart |
| Britten was a refined _____ and a great conductor | Pianist |
| In addition to being a great composer Britten was also a great _____. | performer |
| Johannes Brahms was born in 1833 in ______. | Germany |
| Brahams took instrument lessons where he learned to play the cello, horn, and ______. | Piano |
| In all, Brahms wrote __ dances. The most famous being the Hungarian Dance No. 5. | 21 |
| Brahms moved to _____ and worked as the director of a choir for a short time. | Austria |
| Brahams met _____ , who worried Brahms would start writing operas that were more famous than his own and he wrote an article stating that Brahms was a bad conductor. | Wagner |
| Many consider Brahms the successor of _________. For many years, Brahms did not want to write a symphony because he did not think his work would be as good as his. | Beethoven |
| Brahms wrote a total of four symphonies as well as pieces in every musical form, except ______. | opera |
| Brahms often participated in performances of his own compositions in his _____ years. | later |
| Brahms died from _____ on April 3, 1897. He is a celebrated composer of the Romantic Era. | cancer |
| Britten never fully recovered from ______-______ surgery in 1973. He died December 4th, 1976 at the age of 63. | open-heart |
| Britten's first work for the stage, the operetta _____ Bunyan , was performed. | Paul |
| Like his ______, Brahms loved music too. By the time he was six, he had invented his own system for writing notes on paper. | father |
| The Middle Ages lasted from approximately 500 to ______. | 1500 |
| The streets were filled with waste and crawling with rats. ______ and ______ was rampant, and the threat of war was common. | disease,starvation |
| Most people in medieval Europe lived in _____ areas, or villages in the countryside. | rural |
| The ______ system was a way of organizing economic, political, and military needs. | feudal |
| The feudal contract was a set of unwritten rules between a lord and his _______. | vassal |
| They were ruled by lords who collected _______ and harvest from peasants who farmed the land. | taxes |
| Peasants worked the land of the lord to grow crops such as ______, ______, and ______. | barley,wheat,oats |
| _______ and _______ were grown in gardens. | vegetables,fruits |
| _________ declined after the 1200s, as towns and trade expanded. Kings hired armies to protect towns and became more powerful. | Feudalism |
| A ________ class of merchants, traders, and craft workers grew. They formed guilds to set prices and keep a high standard of quality for their goods. | middle |
| Boys were usually ______ to masters to learn a craft. Servants, merchants, bakers, doctors, and lawyers also lived in cities. | apprentices |
| in the Middle Ages, most people lived in small ____ or _____ room homes. They were very crowded, and everyone slept in the same room. | one,two |
| To take a bath, water had to be fetched from a stream or well and heated over a fire before being put in a tub. Many ______ never bathed. | peasants |
| Peasants usually wore plain clothing made from heavy ______. This kept them warm during the winter. Most people wore the same clothes day after day without washing them. | wool |
| The ______ wore much nicer clothes made from fine wool, velvet, and silk. | wealthy |
| _____ usually wore a tunic, woolen stockings, breeches, and a cloak. | men |
| ________ wore long skirts, called kirtles, an apron, woolen stockings and a cloak | women |
| __ laws were passed stating who could wear what types of clothes, what color and the materials they could use. The laws also regulated shoe lengths and height, hat height, types of buttons, and even the number of buttons people could wear. | supplementary |
| there was not a variety of food for _____ in the Middle Ages. People typically ate with the fingers since they did not have forks. | peasants |
| _______ ate a wider variety of food, including meats and sweet puddings. Kings and nobles held large banquets to show off their wealth and power. | Nobles |
| Not many people attended ________ during the Middle Ages. Most people could not read or write. Writing was mainly done by monks in monasteries.Peasants learned their jobs and how to survive from their parents. | school |
| Noblewomen who did not marry became _____ | nuns |
| Royal _____ were at the center of medieval society. Kings had thousands of servants, but the most important were the courtiers, who were his closest attendants. They usually came from noble families. | courts |
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