Music Content Knowledge (5113) Praxis 5113 Performance 2024 Latest

Music Content Knowledge (5113) Praxis 5113 Performance 2024 Latest Antiquity - CORRECT ANSWER-500AD - 500BC Medieval - CORRECT ANSWER-500 - 1400 - Monophonic (plain chant) Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER- - Polyphonic voice lines (motet & madrigal), added bass instruments Baroque - CORRECT ANSWER- - Counterpoint, small orchestras (flutes, oboes, horns, and violins), harpsichord and organ become more popular Classical - CORRECT ANSWER- - Strings, opera, symphony, and chamber music Romantic - CORRECT ANSWER- - More expressive, free-form, middle class music education, nationalism 20th Century - CORRECT ANSWER- - Rejection of common practice Important Medieval Composers - CORRECT ANSWER-Hildegard of Bingen - Abbess, experienced visions (due to migraines) Perotin - 4 - voice organum John Dunstable - first to use 3rds and 6ths Important Renaissance Composers - CORRECT ANSWER-Guillaume Dufay - late life renaissance Palestrina - mostly sacred music, over 100 madrigals both secular and sacred William Byrd - known for survival in protestant England (he was catholic) Important Baroque Composers - CORRECT ANSWER-Claudio Monteverdi - transition from the renaissance to the baroque Lully - most important french composer, death by cane (gangrene) Vivaldi - "the red priest" 500 concertos Handel - studied law first, messiah J.S Bach - orphan, organist, well-tempered clavier & brandenburg concertos System used to catalogue the compositions of J.S. Bach - CORRECT ANSWER-BWV - Bach Werke Verzeichnis