This is the country that created opera in the century before.
What is Italy?
100
This French genre has comical subjects, duets and trios, less virtuosic solo singing, spoken dialogue, and musical numbers.
What is Opera Comique?
100
True or False: Church music was valued more for its tradition than for being innovative.
What is True?
100
This new instrumental genre can be both loud and soft.
What is the Piano?
100
A.A.A, Multiple verses of the same musical material, verses to a hymn or children's song, and is easier to learn...
What is Repetition?
200
This type of singing style is less ornamented, more natural, and has subject matter more human, and less about mythological characters.
What is the Operatic Singing Style?
200
This English genre is revolves on normal life subject matters, it has duets and trios, less virtuosic solo singing, and has spoken dialogue.
What is Ballad Opera?
200
This Church denomination composed with consideration of the theatrical style that was currently popular to the Classical Period. It also carried on the stile antico style of the past.
What is the Catholic Church?
200
This instrumental genre involves two violins, a viola and cello.
What is String Quartets?
200
A1, A2, A3, multiple verses, some material is recognizable but changed, addition of notes, and more difficult musically is this type of musical element.
What is Variation?
300
This Italian genre is independent, it has comical works between the acts of opera seria, and it becomes its own genre.
What is Intermezzi?
300
This German genre is not serious but often exotic; it includes duets and trios, less virtuosic solo singing, and has spoken dialogue.
What is Singspiel?
300
This church denomination focused on simplicity, individual worship, and congregational hymns.
What is the Lutheran Church?
300
This instrumental genre has multi-movement work for multiple instruments.
What is Symphony?
300
This form contains three separate forms: the binary, ternary, and rondo form.
What is Contrast?
400
This Italian genre does not have serious subject matter, it has less virtuosic solo singing, more duets and trios, and has recitatives.
What is Opera Buffa?
400
This Italian genre introduces subjects with conflict, usually politically and religiously based, and the scenery is also important.
What is Grand Opera?
400
The Puritans in New England were largely Calvinists and sung this particular type of singing.
What is Metrical Psalm Singing?
400
This instrumental genre is the most form for music, at least in the first movement.
What is Sonata Form?
400
This is another name for the first-movement form.
What is the Sonata Form?
500
This French genre is also not serious, it includes duets and trios, it has less virtuosic singing, and has no recitative.
What is Opera Bouffe?
500
Most any opera that wasn't from the Baroque is this. Bonus 100: This genre is a smaller opera with dialogue and popular music.
What is Lyric Opera? What is Operetta?
500
This is the name of the first published book and hymnal in the New World. Bonus 300: Name the first published American composer.
What is the Bay Psalm Book? What is William Billings?
500
True or False: Classical genres, such as the Sonata Form, were associated with development and changes within the music that is written just for the music's sake (and the composer's creativity).
What is True?
500
A Sonata Form contains three separate sections within it. Name one. Additional named forms = 200 each.
What are Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation?