Composers

  1. What are the three phases of Stravinsky's compositional styles?
    Traditional, Neo-Classical, and Serialism
  2. How many years passed between books 3 and 4 of Monteverdi's madrigals?
    11
  3. What type of compositional style is found in all of the Mass settings by Leonel Power?
    Isorhythmic
  4. What compositional technique is associated with Josquin des Prez?
    EVIP
  5. The compositional device of EVIP is associated with which composer?
    Josquin des Prez
  6. What composer of the early renaissance wrote cyclic cf masses based on his own chanson?
    Dufay
  7. What composer of the early renaissance was a prominent figure in writing canonic masses?
    Ockeghem
  8. What composer of the middle renaissance developed the paraphrase mass?
    Josquin
  9. What type of mass did Josquin develop?
    Paraphrase
  10. What composer uses soggetto cavato?
    Willaert
  11. Name two composers of the first generation of early renaissance chansons?
    Dufay and Binchois
  12. Name two composers of the second generation of early renaissance chansons?
    Ockeghem and Busnois
  13. Name a composer of chansons from the middle renaissance.
    Josquin
  14. Clement Janequin created what style of chansons?
    Program chansons w/ sound effects
  15. What composer of Parisian chanson used musique mesureé?
    Claude le Juene
  16. Name three composers of the early renaissance style of Italian madrigals.
    Arcadelt, Verdalot, and Festa
  17. Name three composers of the serious style of middle renaissance Italian madrigals.
    Cipriano di Rore, Orlando di Lasso, and Phillipe de Monte
  18. Name three composers of the hybrid style of the middle renaissance Italian madrigal.
    di Lasso, Andrea Gabrielli, and Gastoldi
  19. Cipriano di Rore, Orlando di Lasso, and Phillipe de Monte are associated with what form of music?
    Serious Italian madrigal of the middle renaissance
  20. di Lasso, Andrea Gabrielli, and Gastoldi are associated with what form of music?
    hybrid style of the middle renaissance Italian madrigal
  21. Name two prominent composers of the musical comedy style of the Italian madrigal?
    Andriano Banchieri and Orazio Vecchi
  22. Who is the prominent composer of the ornamented style of the late Italian madrigal?
    Luca Marenzio
  23. Identify a major composer of the expressionist/"mannerist" madrigal of the late Italian renaissance.
    Don Carlo Gesualdo
  24. What composer is known for his experimentation with the recitational style of Italian madrigal in the late renaissance?
    Giaches de Wert
  25. The sacred music of what composer developed the polychoral style into the concertato style?
    Claudio Monteverdi
  26. Who's Vespers of 1610 use three distinct styles of composition?
    Monteverdi
  27. Who composed the first existent proper oratorio?
    Giacomo Carissimi
  28. Who wrote the oratorio Jephte?
    Giacomo Carissimi
  29. Who wrote the dialogue "Rappresentazione de anima de corpo?"
    Alessandro Cavalieri
  30. Give an example of a composer who wrote responsorial passions.
    Heinrich Schütz
  31. Give an example of a composer who wrote oratorio passions.
    J. S. Bach
  32. Give an example of a composer who wrote passion oratorios.
    G. F. Handel
  33. What type of oratorio or passion did Heinrich Schütz write?
    responsorial passions
  34. What type of oratorio or passion did J. S. Bach write?
    oratorio passions
  35. What type of oratorio or passion did G. F. Handel write?
    passion oratorios
  36. Who wrote Musikiliches Exequien?
    Heinrich Schütz
  37. Who wrote Kleine Geistliche Konzert?
    Heinrich Schütz
  38. Name two important composers of the later "Reform" cantata other than Bach.
    Christoph Graupner (about 1400) and Georg Philipp Telemann (about 1300)
  39. What genre is associated with Michael Praetorius?
    German chorale
  40. What are the five genres of Schütz's smaller works?
    Polychoral motets, German stile antico motet, Latin stile antico motet, German small-scale works, Latin small scale works
  41. Name two contemporaries of Heinrich Schütz.
    Johann Hermann Schein and Samuel Scheidt
  42. What are the three/four periods of Bach's cantatas?
    Early: Pre-Weimar and Weimar, 1st Leipzig Jahrgang, and 2nd Leipzig Jahrgang
  43. What movements are a part of the Lutheran "Missa"/Missa Brevis by J. S. Bach?
    Kyrie & Gloria
  44. Henri DuMont made what musical contribution during the Baroque?
    Developed the grand motet out of the petite motet by introducing solo airs.
  45. Francois Couperin was know for what type of motet?
    Petite motet
  46. Name four prominent composers of the French Baroque era.
    Henri DuMont, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Michel-Richard de Lelande, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  47. Which type of anthem did Purcell most commonly write?
    verse anthem
  48. "Come, come ye sons of art" is an ode by which composer?
    Henry Purcell
  49. What composer used the Viennese trio in his early masses?
    Haydn
  50. What compositional technique does Haydn employ in his Missa Brevis settings in order to accommodate for large amounts of text?
    Telescoping of texts
  51. What is the typical orchestration in a Mozart setting of a Missa Brevis?
    Viennese Trio, sometimes with trombones doubling ATB vocal lines
  52. What is the typical orchestration in a Mozart setting of a Missa Solemnis?
    2 oboe, 4 trumpet, 3 trombones, and strings
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Questions about the choral composers
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