Music Social
Expanding economy, a growing middle class, and more leisure time allowed for an increase in this type of musician.
What is an amateur?
a full length opera work with six or more singing characters that sung the entire time about ordinary people.
What is opera buffa?
This major event caused cheaper prices, mass production and more availability of instruments.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This word means "soft-loud" in Italian.
what is pianoforte?
A multi movement work for piano that had contrasting moods and tempos between each one.
What is a sonata?
Though more people were performing music, this specific group of people were not allowed to perform in public concerts.
Improvised comedy popular in Italy. Comedy cast often complimented by a serious character they interacted with.
What is commedia dell'arte?
This instrument had been the keyboard of choice before the classical period.
What is the harpsichord?
Haydn's skull was passed around for this many years before finally returning to its owner.
What is 150 years?
Started as a three movement fast-slow-fast work, but evolved over time into a four to five movement work, thanks to Haydn.
What is a symphony?
As the classical period continued, these became more and more popular.
What are public concerts?
A shorter opera (generally around 45 minutes) performed in between the acts of a larger, serious opera as a sort of breather.
What is an intermezzo?
It operated by pressing a key and a small fabric'd hammer would hit a string, causing reverberation, which caused sound.
What is a piano?
The lowest female singing voice.
What is a contralto?
Quartets where composers made the music have equal parts for all instruments.
What is a concertante quartet?
This table was set up in a circle so that musicians could play across from each other in a musical social group by this name.
What is a String Quartet?
Was just there to accompany the voices, but as the classical period progressed, we would see this group of musicians gain more importance.
What is the orchestra?
More leisure time, cheaper instruments and better pay led to the creation of this social group.
What is the middle class?
This was the birth year of both Handel and Bach.
What is 1685?
was comprised of 2 violins, viola, and a cello.
What is a string quartet?
This concept caused musicians to rethink emotions and music and start composing with more than one emotion, unlike in the Baroque era.
What is human psychology?
This composer did a lot of mixing of French, German and Italian opera styles during the opera reform.
Who is Christopher Gluck?
Because of the quality of instruments being made getting better, musicians were able to compose more of this type of music.
What is a complex music?
The ideals of the Enlightenment took root in many of the founding ideals for America, and can be found in this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence? (OR The Bill of Rights/Constitution.)
Invented the piano in Florence.
Who is Bartolomeo Cristofori?