Concerto Basics
This is a composition for an orchestra and a soloist.
What is a concerto?
The Baroque Period began in this year.
What is 1600?
The Classical Period began in this year.
What is 1750?
The Romantic Period began in this year.
What is 1830?
The 20th Century Period began in this year.
What is 1900?
In this type of concerto, one instrument, or sometimes two, is the soloist.
What is a solo concerto?
These two words describe Baroque music.
What are complex and irregular?
These two words describe Classical music.
What are simple and melodic?
These two ideas were major influences on Romantic composers.
What are emotional and individual expression?
Name one of the three musical inspirations listed from the 20th century.
What is Impressionism, Modernism, or Atonalism?
A small group of solo instruments in a concerto grosso is called this.
What is a concertino?
This Baroque composer was also a violinist from Italy.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
A dramatic solo passage where the orchestra stays silent is called this.
What is a cadenza?
This Romantic composer was from Germany.
Who is Felix Mendelssohn?
This 20th-century composer was born in Russia and later lived in the United States.
Who is Sergi Rachmaninoff?
This type of concerto uses a small group of instruments as the soloist.
What is a concerto grosso?
Vivaldi's major piece on the study guide was written for this solo instrument and orchestra.
What is the violin?
This composer wrote more than 600 works starting at the age of 4.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Mendelssohn believed music could express these better than words could.
What are feelings?
Rachmaninoff was both a composer and this kind of performer.
What is a pianist?
A concerto showcases different sounds working together to create this.
What is a harmonious whole?
The word “Barrocco” means this.
What is an oddly-shaped pearl?
The three movements of a Classical concerto usually follow this tempo order.
What is fast, slow, fast?
In Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, this performer states the main theme first.
Who is the soloist?
Most of Rachmaninoff's compositions were written for this instrument alone or with orchestra.
What is the piano?