Time Periods
Instrument ID
Operatic Voice Types
Composers and Music
Vocabulary
100
Mozart is the most famous composer of this era.
What is Classical?
100
This keyboard instrument that eventually becomes the piano sounds like a banjo and was used in the Baroque era.
What is the harpsichord?
100
This is the highest female voice type, used to sing The Queen of the Night.
What is soprano?
100
This 20th c composer wrote a song that has no playing and features silence.
Who is John Cage?
100
This person helps to tell you where to sit at a theatre.
Who is an usher?
200
Beethoven spans (goes between) these two musical eras.
What is Classical and Romantic?
200
Also called a kettle drum, this drum can be tuned.
What is the timpani?
200
Carmen is sung with this middle female voice type.
What is mezzo-soprano?
200
This composer wrote music for the film Candyman.
Who is Philip Glass?
200
The house lights will flash or dim when this is almost over.
What is intermission?
300
Jake Heggie or Philip Glass are composers from this era of music starting in 1900.
What is modern of 20th c?
300
This giant string instrument joined the orchestra during the Romantic period.
What is the harp?
300
This high male voice is usually the hero paired up with a soprano.
Who is the tenor?
300
This composer died after accidentally stabbing himself in the foot.
Who is Lully?
300
This voice type qualifier means the voice moves fast and can sing a lot of notes.
What is coloratura?
400
This musical era adds the clarinet to the orchestra.
What is Classical?
400
This double reed instrument was the foundation of Lully's Baroque orchestra
What is the oboe?
400
Often times a silly or old character, they are the lowest male voice.
Who is the bass?
400
A riot broke out at the premiere of this ballet with music composed by Stravinsky.
What is The Rite of Spring?
400
Peer Gynt's music is known as this type, since it goes with a play.
What is Incidental Music?
500
The "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah was composed during this musical era.
What is Baroque?
500
This instrument opens The Rite of Spring and was Grandpa in Peter and the Wolf.
What is the bassoon
500
Often found in Baroque music, this high male voice sings in the mezzo-soprano range.
Who is a countertenor?
500
This Italian Romantic composer hated Wagner & wrote Aida just so Wagner couldn't.
Who is Verdi?
500
This part of a symphonic work is like a chapter in a book.
What is a movement?