Please look up answers from Section IV of the course--the Historical Periods-- and listen to excerpts from the course for the listening questions below to be well-prepared for the Proctored Final Exam. Give yourself plenty of time to listen and to study.
1. Who was Anicius Boethius?
2. Who is the “Father of the Symphony?”
3. What musical technique replaced tonality in the 20th Century?
4. What is tonality?
5. What is secular music?
6. What is sacred music?
7. Who created plainsong?
8. What are the features of Medieval music?
9. Identify by ear monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic musical textures.
10. Characteristics of the Medieval musical Mass.
11. Dates of the Medieval period.
12. What was a unifying factor for social, political, and cultural life in the Medieval period?
13. What are the secular genres of the Medieval Period?
14. What are the sacred genres of the Medieval period?
15. Who are the main Medieval composers?
16. The difference between a cantata and a sonata;
17. Know what a lute (a kind of stringed instrument) looks like;
18. Dates of the Baroque Period;
19. Characteristic qualities of harmony during the Classical period;
20. The names of the sections of a Classical Sonata-Allegro form;
21. The Romantic Period dates
22. Who created plainsong?
23. Who are the main Renaissance composers?
24. Who are the main Baroque composers?
25. Who are the main Classical composers?
26. Who are the main Romantic composers?
27. Who are the main Contemporary composers?
28. What changes in style occurred during the Renaissance period from the Medieval period?
29. What’s the difference between a Renaissance Mass and Renaissance Motet?
30. Classical period dates;
31. Characteristics of music and other art forms of the Romantic period; with what characteristics were Romantic composers most concerned ?
32. A Contemporary alternative to key-centered music;
33. Features of a madrigal vs. a motet;
34.