Era Quiz

Monophonic

Monophonic ▪ Some polyphony

Polyphonic

Homophony ▪ Polyphonic ▪ fugue

Mostly homophonic

Greeks chanted in singsong style

Vocal ▪ Unaccompanied ▪ Very little instrumental music

Small groups of singers ▪ lute and keyboard

Accompanied singers ▪ organ ▪ harpsichord ▪ small instrumental ensembles ▪ orchestras made up of some bowed instruments with some woodwinds and/or brass instruments ▪ basso continuo

string quartet ▪ Orchestra ▪ Piano replaces harpsichord

Pantheon of gods and goddesses • Citizens met and voted on civic maters • Romans strong military

Influenced by the Roman Catholic church ▪ Lived for an afterlife

Protestant reformation

Religious intensity

Revolutions (American, French, and others) ▪ Declaration of Independence was signed

Strongly influenced by Greek and Roman culture • Socrates Plato, Aristotle

Also known as the Dark Ages

Means rebirth ▪ Immediate gratification

Love of drama

Driven by intellect ▪ Concurrent with the enlightenment

Greeks valued music • Believed music influenced moral character • Pythagoras stated relationships between musical intervals and mathematics • Developed harp like lyre

Chantlike ▪ Early music in this era was unmetered ▪ Restrained and rather soft

Restrained and rather soft ▪ Used word painting

–� 1 st opera ▪ Ornamentation (improvised embellishment) ▪ Architecture features ornate facades and twisted columns ▪ grandiose ▪ recitative ▪ Terraced dynamics

Gradually louder and softer

Wide variety depending on genre

Primarily homophonic ▪ Wide variety depending on genre

Homophonic ▪ Call and response

Variety of textures within a single composition

Wide variety depending on genre