Classical Part 1
This type of song in opera is used to express thoughts and emotions
What is an aria?
This musical style tried to sound simple, natural, and easy.
What is the galant style?
As he got older, Beethoven began losing this one of his five senses.
What is hearing?
This Romantic composer permanently injured his hands, preventing him from playing piano.
Who is Robert Schumann?
Who is The March King?
This type of song in opera is used to show conversations or move the story forward
What is Recitative?
This famous composer was the most popular at the time, and made a living working for a rich family.
Who is Joseph Haydn?
What is Early, Middle and Late music?
This type of music is written to express a specific emotion or scene
What is character music?
This is the name of a type of music group that doesn't use string instruments, making it easier to march and play.
What is band?
This type of opera was about regular people, and usually made fun of social norms
What is Opera Buffa or Comic Opera?
This composer was a child prodigy, made a living by finding or making his own work, and died at the age of 35.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Beethoven's deafness began when he was this many years old.
How many is 28?
Romantic Period music shows a shift towards self-expression, no longer prioritizing these.
What are rules?
This composer wrote a ballet that was so strange that the audience rioted, arguing whether it was madness or genius
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
This type of opera was a traditional style: enjoyed by rich people and usually had a moral
What is Opera Seria or Serious Opera?
This new kind of audience pushed composers to make their music easier to play.
What is regular people buying and playing instruments?
What is singing or a choir?
In Schubert's song "Gretchen and the Spinning Wheel" Schubert writes a nearly uninterrupted line of fast notes throughout the piece. These represent this object in the story.
What is a spinning wheel?
What are rules?
This musical style occurs when a group of countries blend their musical styles together until it is one shared style
What is a Cosmopolitan style?
Joseph Haydn worked for this rich family.
Who is the Esterhazy family?
Who is the Crying Boy?
What is the Dies Irae?
Arnold Schoenberg's new music system used this many different notes.
What it 12 or all of them?