Baroque
This composer adapted elements of the Catholic oratorio, Italian opera, and English choral music to invent the English oratorio.
Who is Handel?
These two instruments were the chief keyboard instruments of the Baroque period.
What is the organ and the harpsichord?
This composer lived at the Esterhazy estate in Hungary for several decades as music director.
Who is Haydn?
The theme from this symphony is "fate knocking on your door".
What is Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?
This composer was born the same year as J.S. Bach, but they never met. He lived in various locales, including Hamburg, Italy, and London.
Who is Handel?
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He was known as music’s greatest child prodigy, having written concertos, symphonies, and operas by the age of 13.
Who is Mozart?
In a 4-movement cycle, this movement is the “added” movement, usually in minuet and trio form.
What is the third movement?
This work is a compilation of Old and New Testament biblical verses about Christ. It is in three parts, and is an oratorio.
What is The Messiah?
Dido and Aeneas is this genre of music.
What is opera?
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is an example of this genre of music, meant as social music, often heard outdoors.
What is a serenade?
In a multi-movement cycle, this movement is lively, spirited and can be in either sonata-allegro or rondo form.
What is 3rd in 3-mvt, 4th in 4-mvt (last movement)?
This is a soprano aria from the 1st, or Christmas, part of The Messiah with virtuosic melismatic demands.
What is "Rejoice Greatly"?
Bach's Wachet Auf (Sleepers' Awake) is sung in this language.
What is German?
The number of movements in Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
What is 4?
This nickname for Beethoven’s piano sonata Op. 27 No. 2 was given by a German poet 5 years after his death.
This section of The Messiah occurs at the end of the second, or Easter part of the work and features full chorus in homorhythm writing.
What is The "Hallelujah Chorus"?
The Baroque era was a time of great bloody battles over this sticking point.
What is religion?
In a multi-movement cycle, this movement is usually the longest and highly organized, usually in sonata-allegro form.
What is the first movement?
If Classical chamber music is conversational, then this genre is a rally with a charismatic leader.
What is a concerto?