This Postmodernist composer is chiefly known for his music for film; indeed, so successful are his scores that only Walt Disney has received more Academy Award nominations. His style is best described as “romantically modern.” 

Which answer best describes a “trill”?

This genre is a large-scale sacred composition including an overture, arias, recitatives, and choruses, but sung, whether in a theater or a church, without costumes, makeup, or scenery.

Find the composer not  representative of the Classical period.

Identify the term that is synonymous with Gregorian chant.

Beethoven’s music foreshadowed the musical style of the Romantic era. All the traits listed below are characteristic of the style of both Beethoven and the Romantic period, with the exception of:

Because of its highly expressive character, this was the most important new genre to emerge during the Baroque period.

This composer was famous as an organ virtuoso during his lifetime. He never traveled outside of his native country, Germany, and spent the last decades of his life in Leipzig as the cantor of Saint Thomas’s church and choir school. 

This composer is known as the “poet of the piano” and considered a national hero in Poland. In fact, upon his death he directed his heart to be removed and buried in Poland.

This name was given to a group of young nineteenth-century composers who sought to create a style of art music that was distinct and separate from the traditions of German orchestral music and Italian opera.