And it's very different in terms of melody, it's highly disjunct, dissonant,
and so on.
So you can work through each of these and become familiar
with the different elements of musical style for all of the historical periods.
And then finally you can actually quiz yourself here,
there is a section called Musical Style Quiz.
So let's see what's involved there.
So here you can start out, the periods are named for you, paired off.
And then we go in and you can click on any particular button.
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Up will come a piece, and you can click off,
respond to questions regarding to tone, color, beat, meter, texture,
period in question, the type or genre of the piece, composer's name,
and you say you're finished, you're ready to be graded,
and there's your score, good for you, you got them all right.
So for each of the periods in the history of music,
we have style quizzes as well, so go in and explore.
Explore the richness of the website that comes along with this particular textbook.
But let's pretend for a moment we don't know, we don't know what period we're in.
Let's have a mystery piece here and see how we do in terms of style.
So I just pulled one out here,
you listen a bit, see when you think this piece was written.
What period in history of music was it written?
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