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!)
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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 __________.