MUSIC. Exercises about music periods. Level 2

Exercises about the Historical Music Periods (English)

1. What did the Greek buildings look like? Draw them.
2. How did the Greeks dress? Draw their clothes.
3. Write the name of a very important temple. By who were they directed?
4. In what ways were Greek sculptures different from Egyptian sculptures?
5. Were sports important? What were the games that they played called?
6. Where did they play music? Draw how these places looked.
7. Was music important?
8. What three other cultures belong to the Old Age?
9. What centuries are we talking about?
10. Why did the Old Age end?
11. What is the second period?
12. During which centuries did it last?
13. What does the social or feudal pyramid consist of? Draw the four classes that we see in it.
14. What were the peasants’ homes like?
15. Where did the kings and nobles live?
16. Where were the monks or the clergy? What were the names of the two styles of churches?
17. What does the Roman church consist of? What form did it have?
18. What does the Gothic church consist of? What was it like?
19. What appeared at the end of the Middle Ages? Why?
20. Give an example of a medieval king.
21. What did men wear to fight and not get hurt?
22. What was the name of the Spanish king?
23. Why is he famous in the music world?
24. What was the name of the uncultured people who brought music to the cities?
25. What was the name of the greatest poets, noblemen, and kings?
26. What music did the peasants listen to?
27. What wars occurred between the Arabs and the Christians? Write its name.
28. What is the third period called?
29. During which centuries did it last?
30. What is the word that describes a new man who is interested in the sciences and the arts?
31. In what country was there marvelous art?
32. What two cities in this country stand out from the rest?
33. Write the names of three artists.
34. What did people such as Leonardo and Michelangelo do?
35. Who were the king and queen of Spain during this period?
36. What was their son, who had a palace in Granada next to the Alhambra, named?
37. What problem kept the king and queen occupied during this time?
38. In what year were they able to resolve this problem?
39. What great discovery happened?
40. Who made this discovery and during which year?
41. Which four, great musicians worked as chapel teachers for the king and queen?
42. What is a chapel and why did the king and queen want one?
43. What was the white, pleated garment that people wore on their necks called? Draw one.
44. Which two great writers wore this garment and where were they from?
45. Write the name of the fourth period.
46. During what centuries did this period occur?
47. What does it mean for a king to have absolute power?
48. Which French king was the best example of someone who oppressed the peasants with taxes?
49. What did the peasants call him? Why?
50. What was the super palace that he built called?
51. What was the name of the Spanish king who also ruled strictly?
52. And what was the name of his palace?
53. What was Baroque fashion like as concerns hair?
54. And what were the clothes like that women wore?
55. Which three great composers do you know from this period?
56. What keyboard instrument did they usually play?
57. Was Bach very famous at the end of his life?
58. Which great Spanish painter made portraits of Baroque princesses with mesa-camilla skirts?
59. What is the name of the fifth period?
60. During which centuries did it last?
61. What ended the abuse of the French king and queen?
62. What did towns get?
63. What three, great musicians do we know from this period?
64. What was the wig fashion like now?
65. Was Mozart very stupid? Why?
66. What work did he create at the end of his life that he was unable to finish?
67. Give the name of an opera.
68. What instrument did Beethoven play?
69. How did people style their hair during this period?
70. In which musical genre was Beethoven best known?
71. What is the next period?
72. What century does it belong to?
73. Explain one aspect of the clothing.
74. Write the name of one pianist and one opera composer.
75. Are passions important during this period?
76. What great military personality do we meet during this period?
77. What did he do when he conquered many territories?
78. Which Spanish painter was very rebellious?
79. What was the last period?
80. During which centuries did it last?
81. What is the most terrible event that happened during this period?
82. Name a dictator.
83. What new technologies or inventions were made during this time?
84. Write the name of a Spanish musician.
85. Write the name of a Spanish poet.