General
What years were the Classical era?
What is 1750-1820.
What war was happening in America during this time period?
What is the American Revolution.
Which composer was known as "Little Mushroom"?
Who is Franz Schubert.
What is the name of a large-scale musical composition for orchestra?
What is a symphony.
The Classical Era was also known as the Age of...
What is the Age of Reason.
What war was happening in France during this time period?
What was the name of the piece that Joseph Haydn used to trick and embarrass the royalty into clapping at inappropriate times?
What is "The Joke".
What is a piece of music that can be performed by a solo instrument or a small group of instruments called?
What is a sonata.
The instrument, the harpsichord, evolved and changed to a new name. What was the name?
What is the pianoforte.
What was it called when a rich person/nobility who found an artist they liked and paid for them to live with them?
What is a patronage.
Who is this composer?
Who is Mozart.
A musical performance that features a solo instrument that plays with an orchestra is called a...
What is a solo concerto.
Name at least two characteristics of the Classical era.
What are order and balance.
(Also accepted clarity and form)
Name one of two significant changes for the average citizen during the Classical era?
1. Average citizens could attend concerts.
2. Average citizens were invited to learn how to play musical instruments.
Who composed this piece?
Who is Franz Schubert.
What form of music was created in the Classical era that pop music now uses as Verse, Chorus, Verse?
What is ABA form.
Name the five main eras of classical music.
What are Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Classical and 20th century.
What war was happening in Haiti during this time period?
What is the Haitian Fight for Independence.
Which composer was a child prodigy and re-wrote an entire opera at the age of 13?
Who is Mozart.
What four instruments make up the string quartet?
What are two violins, a cello and a viola.