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Who is Beethoven?
What are the dates for the classical period?
What is 1750-1820?
What are the dates for the Romantic period.
What is 1820-1900
The Moldau
What was happening to orchestras during the Romantic period? (were the getting bigger or smaller)
What is getting bigger?
Wrote over 100 symphonies, the last ones are called the London Symphonies (Surprise Symphony)
Who is Haydn?
T/F Classical melody was more tuneful and easy to remember.
What is True?
Romantic music calls for a wider range of...
What is dynamics?
Fantastic Symphony; Dreams of the Witches Sabbath.
Who is Berlioz?
Haydn wrote ____ number of symphonies.
What is 107?
Child Prodigy; wrote a symphony at 6; Amadeus
Who is Mozart
What societal group had a big impact on music during the classical period? (kings/queens, middle class, music critic)
Who are the Middle Class?
An art song is written for
What is solo voice and piano?
Symphony No. 5 in C minor. "Fate knocking at the door."
Who is Beethoven?
Who is Salieri?
Czech-born composer; The Moldau
Who is Smetana?
What city was the center for musical activity during the Classical period?
What is Vienna?
T/F. Romantic music was mostly homophonic texture
What is true?
Requiem. Did not finish because of death.
Who is Mozart?
What is exoticism?
What is when composer used colorful materials from foreign lands?
Controversial composer; German nationalist; leitmotifs
Who is Wagner?
Who were the three master composers of the Classical period?
Who is Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven?
What did nationalistic composer use to create music?
What is folk songs, legends, and history of their country?
The Ring Cycle; 15 total hours of opera; Pre-cursor to Lord of the Ring.
Who is Wagner?
Why did Haydn write a "surprise" into his symphony no.94?
What is to wake people up who had fallen asleep.