18th Century
This symphonic form was the 18th century's defining principles.
What is Sonata?
This Berlin-born child prodigy founded the Liepzig Conservatory, as well as set a new standard for the concert overture with his overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Who is Felix Mendelssohn?
This trumpet player was a central figure in the development of American Jazz music, and utilized a very personal avant-garde style.
Who is John Coltraine?
In the 18th century, this genre flourished as both a social pastime and a medium for compositional experimentation.
What is Chamber Music?
This German composer utilized wide melodic spans, rhythmic and metric ambiguity, and subtle cross-relations.
Who is Brahms?
This composer/educator is most known for his opera "Carmina Burana."
Who is Carl Orff?
This genre became the 18th century's most important orchestral genre.
What is the Symphony?
This keyboard instrument became popular due to its dynamic range and expressive flexibility.
What is Piano?
This French composer assimilated many cultural styles, including the blues, to create a distinctive musical voice.
Who is Maurice Ravel?
This stylistic foil to opera seria often utilized comedy in its storytelling.
What is Comedy opera/opera buffa?
This continent's monarchs cultivated the arts as emblems of national prestige.
What is Europe?
This group of Russian composers sought to cultivate a distinctly Russian voice, and included the likes of Musorgsky.
Who are the "Mighty 5"?
This country is known as the birthplace of classical opera.
What is Italy?
What is Romanticism?
What is Piano?
In the mid 18th century, reason, balance, and this enlightenment ideal replaced the grandeur of the Baroque.
What is naturalness?
This Hungarian composer was a piano virtuoso, notable for his creation of the Symphonic Poem.
Who is Franz Liszt?
This 20th century jazz artist helped standardize the 12-bar Blues.
Who is W.C. Handy?
Alongside Graun, this familiar composer contributed to a more expressive symphonic idiom, bridging the Baroque and Classical Eras.
Who is C.P.E. Bach?
This son of Alessandro wrote over 550 keyboard sonatas.
Who is Guiseppe Domenico Scarlatti?
This composer notably established the model for German Romantic Opera, especially with his opera "Der Freischutz."
Who is Carl Weber?
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This 40's jazz style emerged in New York, marking a decisive break from the dance-oriented swing style.
What is Bebop?
This predecessor of the piano utilized strings plucked with a plecktrum, rather than being struck with a hammer.
What is the Harpsichord?
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This post-WWII composer was among the first to apply serial procedures to rhythm.
Who is Milton Babbitt?
This opera took place in spain and is most famous for the "Habenera"
What is "Carmen" by Bizet?
This style of narrative composition generally carried political sentiment, as well as commentary on political ideas.
What is opera?
This Russian composer is most well-known for his programmatic works such as "Scheherazade".
Who is Rimsky-Korsakov?
New England Puritans in the 18th century sang in this Biblical style.
What are Metric Psalms?
What is Serialism?
What is the Harpsichord?
This capitol city became a thriving cultural hub in the 18th century, unifying Italian and German styles.
What is Vienna?
This composer born in the 18th century is hailed as the most important American composer.
Who is William Billings?
This composer born in the 18th century is hailed as the most important American composer.
Who is William Billings?
The Early Classical style utilized this musical syntax, notable for having short phrases grouped into larger cadential structures.
What is periodicity?
This French composer blended traditional counterpoint with Liszt's technique of thematic transformation.
Who is Cesar Franck?
This Warsaw composer's music reflects a wide range of national and stylistic influences and established the concert etude genre.
Who is Frédéric Chopin?
This compositional techniques utilized identical musical phrases that are slightly offset from each other.
What is Phasing?
This 20th century innovation helped give audiences even more access to musical listening, and included mediums like magnetic tape and wax cylinders.
What is musical recording technology?
This Estonian, Post-modern composer developed a distinctive style based on extreme simplicity and spiritual focus.
Who is Arvo Pärt?
This Italian opera composer combined Verdi's emphasis on vocal elements with Wagner's dramatic continuity.
Who is Puccini?
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This 18th century cultural movement reshaped how people viewed art, humanity, and the natural world.
What is The Enlightenment?
This Russian composer innovated the symphony by including a waltz in 5, as well as a slow final movement in his fifth symphony.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
This 18th century German dramatic style alternated between spoken dialogue, songs, and ballads.
What is Singspiel?
What is Avant-Garde?
What is the Violin?
Haydn and this composer responded to a rising public arts culture by writing music to appeal to both connosieurs and casual listeners.
Who is Mozart?
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This composer is most notable for his later influences on film scoring through his use of leitmotifs.
Who is Richard Wagner?
This man became the leading American jazz composer of his generation by developing a style with modern clarity and accessible melodies.
Who is Aaron Copeland?
This musical narrative technique introduces a theme for a character or idea, and adapts on it throughout a work.
What is a Leitmotif?
This minimalist composer developed the concept of phasing.
Who is Steve Reich?
This 18th century composer is of the most well-known composers to this day, and gained popularity from his piano music, including sonatas, concertos, and chamber works.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This modern style combines multiple old styles with contemporary styles and techniques.
What is Polystylism?
This composer is known for creating the symphonic poem and bring vocal repertoir into the piano's domain.
Who is Liszt?
This polystylistic composer embraced a neoromantic idiom based on "Alice in Wonderland."
Who is David Del Tredici?
This German composer established the model for German Romantic opera.
Who is Weber?
Due to this country's rising immigration rates in the 19th century, its music often reflected a culmination of national styles from around the world.
What is America?
After this composer's early success with "Lady Macbeth," he was attacked, which led him to conform to socialist expectations.
Who is Dmitri Shostakovich?
Italian operatic style in the 19th century was shaped by this elegant and flexible style emphasizing smooth phrasing and expressive ornamentation.
What is Bel canto?
What is Minimalism?
What is the Harp?
This German style added emotional nuance and harmonic surprise to the Classical genre.
What is The Empfindsamkeit ?
This German composer who turned to composing opera late in his career was known to utilize leitmotifs, as well as associating specific keys with characters.
Who is Ricard Strauss?
This woman was one of America's leading composers at the turn of the 19th century, composing the "Gaelic Symphony".
Who is Amy Beach?
This sensitive German style is notable for its deep emotional introspection and volatility, contrasting the Galant style's graceful melodies and elegance.
What is Empfinsamkeit?
This German composer is famous for his serious opera titled "Cleofide" in 1731.
Who is Johan Hasse?
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This composer's opera "Jonny Spielt Auf" embodied the post-war ideas of expressive simplicity and emotionally restrained music.
Who is Ernst Krenek?
This German compositional technique was popularized by the Mannheim Orchestra as a rapid ascending arpeggio.
What is the "Mannheim Rocket"
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The rise of this electronic instrument in the 60's heavily influenced popular music to this day.
What is a synthesizer?
This Argentine composer created "Nuevo Tango" by combining the traditional tango with elements of jazz and classical music.
Who is Astor Piazzolla?
This German composer's operas are generally looked down on as his worst works.
Who is Beethoven?
The 18th century collapse of feudal systems led to this public demographic to reshape artistic patronage.
What is the Middle Class?
This composer synthesized elements of European peasant music with Classical tradition, and pushed dissonance to its limits.
Who is Béla Bartók?
This 19th century composition, popularized by Chopin, feature vocal melodies over rich accompaniments.
What is a nocturne?
What is Post-Modernism?
What is the Marimba?