Orchestral + Chamber
What type of piece serves as an introduction to an opera.
overture
What type of movement, found in opera, was sung by the chorus?
chorus
What famous composer went deaf?
Beethoven
What intellectual movement in Europe valued science and reason?
the Enlightenment
What instrument, featured in "The Four Seasons," was Vivaldi's primary instrument?
violin
What type of orchestral piece features a virtuoso soloist?
concerto
What type of movement, found in opera, was sung by one or more of the vocal soloists and was often intended to show off vocal technique?
aria
What composer died writing a requiem?
Mozart
Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony was initially dedicated to what famous European leader?
Napoleon
What is the largest and lowest sounding string instrument?
double bass
What are the instruments in a string quartet?
2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello
What type of piece, performed by an orchestra, chorus, and vocal soloists, and popular in the Baroque period, was made popular again by Mendelssohn in the Romantic period.
oratorio
What composer, whose music is rarely played today, was famous in his lifetime and held the position of Court Composer to Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II?
Salieri
As a little boy during his tour through Europe, Mozart once asked this French queen if she would marry him. She was later sent to the guillotine during the revolution. What was her name?
Marie Antoinette
Who was the most famous Italian instrument maker?
Stradivarius
What form, if not sonata form, was often used for the last movement of a symphony in the Classical period?
rondo form
What famous Mozart opera was based on a play that was banned in some countries because of its critical treatment of the nobility.
The Marriage of Figaro
Who wrote the Hallelujah Chorus?
Handel
What German literary movement that impacted music in the Classical period rejected rationalism and embraced emotion, personal expression, and nature?
sturm und drang
What do we call the type of keyboard instrument that Mozart and Beethoven played? HINT: it came after the harpsichord and before the modern piano.
forte piano
What Baroque orchestral piece, preceding the Classical symphony, had multiple movements, often based on dance, and featured a full orchestra of strings, woodwinds, and brass.
orchestral suite
What composer was best known in his lifetime for his lieder, which were songs based on German poetry.
Schubert
At what institution in Venice, Italy did Vivaldi work for most of his career?
an orphanage
In the 1780's, when Mozart was living in Vienna, the Austrians were engaged in a war that hurt the economy and affected aristocratic support for the arts. Who were they fighting?
Ottoman Empire
What do you call the knobs around the console of a pipe organ that are used to activate specific pipes or groups of pipes?
stops