Large Scale Forms
Form within Form
Classical Events
Classical Composers
Characteristics
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Typically four movements in length, established by Haydn during the Classical period.
What is String Quartet?
100
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What is rounded binary form?
100
Bloody revolution in France around 1774 that freed the middle class from the reign of the aristocracy.
What is the French Revolution?
100
Composer who began to lose hearing during the early stages of his life, leading him to contemplate suicide.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
100
The period in music from 1750-1825.
What is the Classical era?
200
Typically three movements in length.
What is Classical Concerto?
200
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What is rondo form?
200
Revolution that occurred around the same time as the French Revolution on a different continent.
What is the American Revolution?
200
Composer who dies at the early age of 35 after having moved to Vienna in 1781 to pursue a career as a freelance composer and musician.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
200
Serenity, beauty, naturalness
What is Classical thought and arts?
300
The Marriage of Figaro
What is opera?
300
Form typically used in a minute and trio.
What is compound ternary form?
300
Power shift that occurred after the French Revolution.
What is the aristocracy to the middle class?
300
Composer whose life best exemplifies the patronage system.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
300
Classicists views the arts as a means of this.
What is communication?
400
Four movements with the first using sonata-allegro form.
What is the symphony?
400
Trio section of a minute and trio displays this type of form.
What is binary form?
400
The cotton gin and the steam engine occurred under this so-called "revolution."
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
His early music reflect the elements he inherited from composer such as Mozart and Haydn.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
400
Balance, proportional, symmetrical.
What characteristics of Classical music?
500
The three sections of sonata-allegro form.
What are exposition, development, and recapitulation?
500
The second time you hear the minute of a minute and trio, these are usually omitted.
What are the repeats?
500
The period 1720-1790 was known as this.
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
500
Composer who uses lyrical, elegant melodies and also used slow introductions in his sonata-allegro forms.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
500
Theater and concert halls were built for the paying public because of this.
What is the power shift?
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