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Pre-1700s Composers
YGK These Pre-1700s Composers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Benedictine nun and polymath who composed Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum | Hildegard von Bingen |
| The texture of Hildegard’s chants, consisting of a single melodic line | Monophonic |
| The earliest known Western musical drama not based on liturgy, composed by Hildegard | Ordo Virtutum |
| The Franco–Flemish composer known for "Ave Maria…virgo serena" and imitative polyphony | Josquin des Prez |
| The technique of matching music to the literal meaning of the text (e.g., an ascending melody for the word "up") | Text painting |
| The Josquin mass whose "Kyrie" melody was used by Mozart in the "Jupiter" Symphony | Missa Pange Lingua |
| The 1575 collection containing 17 motets each by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd | Cantiones sacrae |
| The massive 40-part motet composed by Thomas Tallis | Spem in allium |
| The William Byrd compilation of keyboard music | My Ladye Nevells Booke |
| The Italian composer whose style became the basis for Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina |
| The work legendary for "saving" polyphony by proving text could remain clear | Pope Marcellus Mass |
| The 1725 treatise on species counterpoint based on Palestrina's style | Gradus ad Parnassum |
| The composer who bridged the Renaissance and Baroque eras with his "seconda pratica" | Claudio Monteverdi |
| The 1607 work considered the first opera still commonly performed today | L’Orfeo |
| The Monteverdi term for music that is subservient to the needs of the text | Seconda pratica |
| The Italian-born French composer who died after striking his foot with a conducting staff | Jean-Baptiste Lully |
| The French term Lully used for his operas, meaning "tragedies in music" | Tragédie mise en musique |
| The Sun King who granted Lully a monopoly over opera in France | Louis XIV |
| The Baroque violinist whose music helped make the violin the orchestra’s most prominent instrument | Arcangelo Corelli |
| The genre featuring a small group of soloists accompanied by a larger ensemble | Concerto grosso |
| The number of musicians typically required to perform a "Trio Sonata" | Four |
| The middle-Baroque organ virtuoso who taught J.S. Bach’s older brother | Johann Pachelbel |
| The 1968 recording artist credited with reviving Pachelbel’s Canon in D | Jean-François Paillard |
| The specific instrumentation for Pachelbel's Canon | Three violins and basso continuo |
| The English composer of the opera Dido and Aeneas | Henry Purcell |
| The 1945 Benjamin Britten work based on a theme from Purcell's Abdelazer | A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra |
| The film whose synthesizer soundtrack by Wendy Carlos adapted Purcell’s funerary music | A Clockwork Orange |
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