Name the three social classes of people in the Middle Ages.

What was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages?

What is a chant?

Which of these words means there is only one melody happening in a piece of music?

Which of these words means that a piece of music has a melody and then harmony to go along with it?

Which of these words means that a piece of music has multiple parts with independent melodies at once?

How many lines were on the staff in the Middle Ages?

What was different about the staff in the Middle Ages compared to the staff we use today?

For which two social classes did minstrels in the Middle Ages play?

For which two activities did peasants play music?

What are instruments that were usually played by minstrels and troubadours of the Middle Ages?

What is text painting in music?

Is the range of dynamics, tone color and rhythm in Renaissance music wide or narrow?

Was Renaissance music monophonic, homophonic, or polyphonic?

What is the term that refers to music that is played in a church and is about religious subject matter?

What is the term that refers to music that is played outside of the church, or music that is not about religious subject matter?

Did composers during the Renaissance write music for any specific instrument, like they do today?

What was the most common reason for instrumental music in the Renaissance?

During the Baroque era, what was the main reason for composers to write music?

What is the term for music that was dramatic, passionate stories, performed with ornate and elegant singing, costumes and sets?

In what musical era was opera invented?

Who was the most well-known composer from the Baroque period?

Did Baroque music usually express one mood or multiple moods in one piece?

Did Baroque music have a strong or weak steady beat?

Were melodies in Baroque music usually repeated, or heard only once?

Were melodies in Baroque music usually easy or hard to sing?

What is the name for dynamics that change suddenly, in Baroque music?

Was Baroque music mostly monophonic, homophonic, or polyphonic?

Where does the term "Classical" come from when referring to the Classical era of music?

After the elaborate and ornate music of the Baroque era, the Classical era saw a return to _________ in music.

Which social class began to have a greater impact on music in the Classical era?

In what musical era was the Middle Class becoming more able to buy instruments and learn to play them at home?

In the Classical Era, composers were writing music with the taste and preferences of the _______ class in mind.

In the Classical Era, what did composers include in their music to help it appeal to the middle class?

How many moods were typically expressed in one piece of Classical music?

Were rhythms in Classical music usually rigid, or flexible?

Was Classical Era music mostly monophonic, homophonic, or polyphonic?

Were melodies in the Classical era usually hard to sing and remember, or easy to sing and remember?

Were dynamic changes in Classical era music gradual or sudden?

What began to happen to Beethoven when he was 29?

Which musical era was a time of emotion, imagination and individualism?

What was one of the most important inspirations for art in the Romantic era?

Fill in the blank: In the Romantic era, ________ was seen as a mirror of the human heart.

What type of painting was very common in the Romantic era?

The Industrial Revolution was taking place during which era of music?

What was the main reason that Romantic composers wrote music?

What instrument was common in middle class homes in the Romantic era?

What was happening to the size of orchestras in the Romantic era?

Were the ranges of dynamics, pitch, and tempo wide or narrow in the Romantic era?

Which instrument were "miniatures" or short pieces composed for?

What is the form of music called that is for solo voice and piano?

What is a form of music for traditional Polish dance, popular in the Romantic era?

What modern-day movie series features music from Wagner's Ring Cycle?

What type of dance was Tchaikovsky most known for composing?

How did most of the public feel about the changes in art and music of the early 20th Century?

What is the first true American music genre?

What kind of music became the voice of American youth in the 1960s?

Were instruments asked to play in a wide or narrow range of notes in 20th Century music?

What is a consonant chord?

What is the term for a chord that sounds unstable?

What was rhythm like in 20th Century music?

What is the word for rhythms that contain notes that are not on the steady beat?

What is the word for when musicians are playing two rhythms at the same time?

Were the melodies in 20th Century music easy to sing and remember or difficult?

What piece of music from the 20th Century caused a riot when it was first played?

What instrument did John Cage write 4'33" for?