Baroque Brilliance
This German composer is famous for works like the Brandenburg Concertos.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This composer is known for his symphonies.
Who is Joseph Haydn?
This Polish composer is known for his piano nocturnes
Who is Frederic Chopin?
This type of music used the most basic techniques to create this form of music.
This instrument is the larger form of the violin that often reads in tenor clef.
What is a viola?
The Baroque era introduced this type of composition featuring a soloist and an orchestra
What is a concerto?
Cultural life was dominated by.
The Romantic era was marked by music expressing this
What is intense emotion or individualism?
Igor Stravinsky shocked audiences with this 1913 ballet.
What is The Rite of Spring?
This multi-movement work tells a story or theme, often without lyrics.
What is a symphony?
What is pearl of irregular shape.
The Classical orchestra expanded to include these two instruments, which were rare in the Baroque period.
What are clarinets and trombones?
Richard Wagner is famous for this type of large-scale musical drama
What is an opera?
This movement rejected traditional tonality, often using atonality
What is expressionism?
This instrument came before the piano but after the harpsichord.
What is a piano forte?
This Italian composer is considered the master of the Baroque opera.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi
This Russian composer wrote The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
This composition was made to emulate the bombings of Hiroshima.
What is Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima.
Leitmotifs, used by Wagner, represent what?
What are characters, objects, or ideas?
- A continuo in Baroque music typically involves these two instruments.
What are a harpsichord and cello (or bassoon)?
This composer wrote 32 piano sonatas, 21 set of variations, 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 16 string quartets and choral music.
Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?
Hector Berlioz pioneered this type of music that tells a story.
What is program music?
Claude Debussy is associated with this style of music inspired by art and atmosphere.
The Classical period saw the rise of this genre, often in four movements for orchestra.
What is the symphony?