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Middle School General Music Test Classical Music History Review Sheet

1. The document provides a review for a music history test at Northwest Middle School, with 16 multiple choice questions covering different music history periods from Baroque to Impressionist. 2. It includes a time chart for students to put the music history periods in order from earliest to latest, and questions about characteristics of each period as well as composers and works from those periods. 3. The review covers topics like the ornate nature of the Baroque period, Mozart's melodies in the Classical period, Impressionism focusing on atmosphere, the emotional Romantic period, the growth of orchestras over time, harpsichords being replaced by pianos, and more.

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Middle School General Music Test Classical Music History Review Sheet

1. The document provides a review for a music history test at Northwest Middle School, with 16 multiple choice questions covering different music history periods from Baroque to Impressionist. 2. It includes a time chart for students to put the music history periods in order from earliest to latest, and questions about characteristics of each period as well as composers and works from those periods. 3. The review covers topics like the ornate nature of the Baroque period, Mozart's melodies in the Classical period, Impressionism focusing on atmosphere, the emotional Romantic period, the growth of orchestras over time, harpsichords being replaced by pianos, and more.

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Cannon NMS Spring 2019

Northwest Middle School


General Music - Music History Test Review
Test is WEDNESDAY February 27th during class

Time Chart
1. Put the music history periods in order from earliest to most recent
_______________ 1620-1750
_______________ 1750-1820
_______________ 1820-1870 (1910)
_______________ 1870-1910

Choices: Romantic Period, Classical Period, Baroque Period,


Impressionist Period

2. The ________ Period was very fancy and highly ornamented.

3. Mozart wrote beautiful, simple melodies during the ___________


Period.

4. This music history period is all about atmosphere and painting a


musical “picture”. The ________ Period.

5. This period of music history was all about emotion and the way
music makes you feel. The _________ Period.

6. As music history advanced, orchestras got ________ and


__________.

7. The _____________ creates sound by plucking strings with a


goose feather. (Baroque keyboard!)
Cannon NMS Spring 2019

8. __________ was a Baroque composer who wrote the string


instrumental piece ​The Four Seasons.

9. This vocal work by Handel features the “Hallelujah” Chorus.


___________.

10. A musical phrase is like a “musical ____________”, back and


forth.

11. The piano replaced the harpsichord because it could play both
________ and _______.

12. ​Reference the time chart you created in Question 1. ​The Classical
Period ended in 1820. What year did the Romantic Period begin?
_______.

13. This Russian (Romantic Period) composer wrote the ​Nutcracker


Ballet, in addition to the ​1812 Overture​ which used real cannons in
performance. ____________.

14. This handheld communication device was invented during the


Impressionist Period. The _____________.

15. During the Impressionist period, composers experimented with


new ________ and _________.

16. ​Remember, people didn't "wake up" one day in a new period of
history. Over time, things changed enough that historians named a
new historical __________.

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