Pre-Classical
People
Forms
Terminology
Vocal music
100
This was the main philosophical movement during the Classical Period.
What was the Enlightenment?
100
These are the three composers of the First Viennese School.
Who are Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
100
This is the tempo and form typically found in a second movement of a four movement work.
What is slow and Theme and Variations (or ternary, or sonata allegro form without development)
100
This is a broken chord accompanimental pattern typically used in the Classical period in piano music.
What is an Alberti bass?
100
This is the Italian phrase for comic opera.
What is opera buffa?
200
This was most important city during the Classical period.
Where is Vienna?
200
Haydn worked for this family for most of his life
Who are the Esterhazys?
200
The third movement of a four movement is often a minuet before the French Revolution. After the Revolution, the form was generally:
What is a scherzo?
200
These were Turkish wind and percussion ensembles that influenced a trend in Classical music.
What is a Janissary band?
200
A work intended to be performed in between the acts of a serious opera falls into this genre.
What is an intermezzo?
300
This pre-classical period used fanciful titles
What is the Rococo or the Stile Galant?
300
This composer reformed opera seria.
Who was Gluck?
300
This is the chord that usually precedes the cadenza in a first movement concerto form.
What is a I 6/4 chord?
300
This is the term used to describe the way movements can be unified through melodic or rhythmic motives
What is cyclical coherence or cyclical unity?
300
This was the comic opera that ignited the Opera Wars.
What is La Serva Padrona?
400
This pre-classical style was common in North Germany and translates to the Sensible or Sensitive style.
What is the Empfindsamkeit?
400
Anthony van Hoboken put this composer's works into chronological order and thus, we refer to HOB. numbers.
Who was Haydn
400
A cadenza generally concludes with a trill on this chord in first movement concerto form.
What is a V7 chord?
400
This is Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea or scene.
What is program music?
400
These are at least three ways that opera buffa differed from opera seria.
What is written in the national language, less DC arias, less embellishments, slower harmonic rhythm, frequent unisons in strings, homophonic texture, use of basses rather than castrati
500
These are four musical characteristics of the Empfindsamkeit.
What is avoiding complex textures, decorated turns, abundance of ornaments for expressive purposes, accents, sforzando, varied rhythmic patterns
500
Ludwig von Köchel catalogued this composer's works and thus we refer to K. numbers.
Who was Mozart?
500
These are the large sections of sonata allegro form.
What are the exposition, development, and recapitulation?
500
This is a symphony with individual soloistic display.
What is a symphonie concertante?
500
The predecessor to German Romantic Opera was this genre.
What is Singspiel
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