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Junior Cycle Music: Styles, periods & composers

How often Styles, periods & composers comes up on the Music papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

Styles, periods & composers, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Styles, periods & composers.

(a)Which period of music came between the Baroque and the Romantic?
  1. Renaissance
  2. Classical
  3. Medieval
(b)Which of these composers belongs to the Baroque period?
  1. Debussy
  2. Tchaikovsky
  3. Vivaldi
(c)Which keyboard instrument is typical of Baroque music, often playing the chords in the background?
  1. Harpsichord
  2. Electric organ
  3. Synthesiser
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(a) Classical

(b) Vivaldi

(c) Harpsichord

Your turn: Common Level questions on Styles, periods & composers.

Common Level

Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q3d
2024Not asked
2023Q6c
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Styles, periods & composers questions

Styles, periods & composers, 3 marks

Which is a feature of Romantic-period music (about 1820 to 1900)?

  1. Harpsichord continuo and terraced dynamics
  2. Electronic sounds and drum machines
  3. Big orchestras and very emotional music
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Big orchestras and very emotional music

Romantic composers such as Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Wagner wrote expressive music with rich harmony, wide dynamics and bigger orchestras, often telling stories or painting scenes.

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