Baroque
An Italian Baroque composer. (Name 1)
What is Vivaldi/Corelli/Monteverdi/Caccini/Scarlatti?
A brilliant Austrian composer who taught Beethoven.
What is Haydn?
The city Beethoven grew up in.
What is Bonn, Germany?
The biggest influence of the Romantic Era.
(will also accept Nationalism)
A clever German composer who became an English citizen wrote these orchestral suites for the new king of England in 1717.
What is Handel?
The two primary audiences of music in the Baroque.
What are Courts and Churches?
The opera overture which was written the night before its premiere. (Give composer and title of opera.)
What is Mozart's Don Giovani?
What is Schubert/Haydn/Mendelssohn/Brahms?
An important Italian Romantic opera composer.
What is Verdi/Puccini/Berlioz/Rossini/Donizetti?
The form of every baroque dance piece.
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A characteristic of Baroque music different from the Renaissance. (Name 1.)
Extravagance, ornamentation, detail, complexity, more instruments used, etc.
A significant Italian opera composer who worked for the Habsburg court in Vienna.
What is Salieri?
Something that had never been done before Beethoven's fourth and fifth piano concertos.
What is Individualism?
A Russian composer who wrote many famous works including a violin concerto, 3 piano concertos, 6 symphonies, and 3 ballets in the Romantic Era.
What is Tchaikovsky?
The three composers who were born the same year.
What is Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti?
The primary social movement that influenced the classical era.
What is the Enlightenment?
(will also accept Scientific Revolution, American or French Revolutions, or the emerging middle class)
The year Beethoven ended the classical era.
What is 1803?
An orchestral instrument invented during the Romantic Era.
What is the tuba?
A gnome in the city.
What is a metronome?
A part of an opera where the character sings dialogue. This is usually not melodic.
What is Recitative?
A type of opera singing containing many, many notes.
What is Coloratura?
The Beethoven symphonies referenced by Brahms in his first symphony. (Name the 2 Beethoven symphonies Brahms quoted.)
What are the fifth and the ninth symphonies?
The most significant composer-virtuosos of the late Classical and early Romantic Eras who developed technique on the violin and the piano respectively.
What is Paganini and Chopin?
The three large sections of a sonata form movement.
What is Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation?