If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it
This plucked keyboard instrument pre-dated the piano.
What is the harpsichord?
This is the British terminology for an 'eighth note'
What is a quaver?
This composer is known as the "Father" of the symphony and string quartet
Who is Franz Joseph ("papa") Haydn?
This type of memorable music is usually fragmentary, repetitive, and simple
What is an earworm?
This is the name of the "book" in an opera.
What is a 'libretto'?
This style of composition begins with a STATEMENT in one 'voice,' , which is then IMITATED in three other 'voices.'
What is the Fugue?
The "Heroes Journey" is best demonstrated in THIS musical form.
What is Sonata-Allegro form?
ABACADA is an example of THIS popular Classical form
What is Rondo form?
This part of the brain processes what we see. When a musician hears music, they also see the notes being played.
What is the occipital lobe?
The year that Beethoven died (and the transition to the Romantic era began)
What is 1827?
This Baroque German composer wrote over 1,100 pieces of music, including "the Goldberg Variations" and "Toccata and Fugue in G Minor"
Who is Johhann Sebastian Bach?
This is the full name of the piano - an instrument that was popularized in the Classical era.
The pianoforte
This is a term for when music represents a characters in film or opera.
What is Leitmotif?
This composer built his very own concert hall in order to fit operas of over 1,000 singers and orchestra members.
Who is Richard Wagner?
These musical eunuchs were the pop stars of the 1700s
What are Castrati? (Or, what is a Castrato?)
This is the formula for a Major scale
Whole Whole Half Whole Whole Whole Half
This movement from Mozart's Requiem literally translates to "Day of Wrath"
What is 'Dies Irae'?
Orchestras tune to 440 hz. This is the frequency of a pitch a perfect FIFTH higher.
What is 660 hz?
Like in visual artist, this style of Romantic composition is less focused on musical form and more focused on telling a story or representing emotion.
What is impressionism?
The tradition of standing up for the "Alleluia" movement from Handel's Messiah is because THIS king did it first in 1741
Who was King George II?
This key is the 'relative minor' of Ab
What is F?
Beethoven was the FIRST composer to use a choir in a symphony. These are the first words that are sung in his famous Ninth Symphony, movement 4.
What is, "Oh friend, friends! Not these sounds! Let us sing something more pleasant, more full of gladness!"
The "verticality" (height) of a wavelength impacts this sound quality.
What is amplitude?
Name EIGHT well-known Romantic era composers, excluding Beethoven.
Liszt, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, Wagner, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Dvorak, Brahms, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, Faure, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Amy Beach, Offenbach, Mussorgsky, Puccini, Bruckner...