Terms/Ideas/Forms
The canon
What is a core set of pieces that are especially famous and most people would recognize as classical music?
How the 3rd and 4th movements of Beethoven's 5th symphony are interesting
What is they are written attacca and because the ending of the 3rd movement returns before the recap of the 4th movment?
How Beethoven's life is categorized
What are the early, middle/heroic, and late periods?
The first symphony considered in Beethoven's Middle/Heroic period?
What is Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'?
Dramma giocoso
E.T. A. Hoffmann's reference to "one lasting emotion," in Beethoven 5 refers to...
What is the fate motif?
What is separation from the Church, philosophy, team work, democratic republics etc...?
The sublime
What is an idea that touches on realms of the great and incomprehensible, even the painful and terrifying?
A form that was starting to be standardized during the Classical era
What is sonata form?
Ideas that evoke Romanticism
What are the supernatural, the individual, and unique experiences?
Lorenzo da Ponte
Who was the famous librettist to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, etc.?
The sections of a Bel Canto aria
What are the lyrical cantabile and virtuosic cabaletta?
The connections between Mozart's symphonies 40, 41 and the sublime
What are the emotional and serious characters in the music, due to the chromaticism and rhythmic agitation, and compositional complexity, due to the contrapuntal use of motifs?
The instrument that was first used in symphonic writing by Beethoven
What is the trombone?
Haydn's primary patron for almost 30 years of his life
The differences between the exposition of a classical concerto and the exposition of a piano sonata
What is a double exposition; where the primary and secondary theme are in the tonic and are introduced by the tutti before the soloist comes in and replays both themes with the exception of the second theme in the secondary key?
The contrast between how Beethoven and Rossini were/are perceived
What is Beethoven being a struggling and tortured artist/ Rossini having financial success and writing crowd pleasers?
Context behind the farewell symphony
What is Prince Esterhazy holding all the court musicians past their release date?
What is Rossini's "Una voce poco fa" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia?
A virtuoso violinist who performed their own works and lived past the age of 40
Who is Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges?