Music History
This period of music was characterized by being highly ornate, with fancy trills and complex scales.
What is the Baroque period.
This Baroque composer had 20 children.
Who is Bach.
A typical form of music in the Baroque period where one melody begins, then another starts, and then another enters, imitating the first in copycat fashion.
What is a fugue?
A group or family of notes.
What is a scale?
This kind of music tells a story with actors, costumes, and scenery; all words are sung.
What is opera?
This period of music focused more on the emotional aspects of music.
What is the Romantic period?
This composer was well known for his Water Music and the famous Hallelujah Chorus.
Who is George Friderich Handel?
This peace is Beethoven's most famous symphony.
What is Beethoven's 5th Symphony?
Another name for the tune of a song.
What is melody?
Composers of this period rejected the highly-decorated style of the Baroque period, instead opting for simplicity and clarity.
What is the Classical period?
This keyboard instrument plucked the strings rather than striking them.
What is a harpsichord?
This Classical Composer was well known for including surprises in his music.
Who is Joseph Haydn?
This piece gets its name from a word that means a dream of vision.
What is the Hungarian Rhapsody?
This occurs when two or more notes are played or sung together.
What is harmony?
This is the more commonly known title of Mozart's pieces entitled "Ah! Vous Dirai-je." It is usually sung as a children's song.
What is Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
This instrument's name literally means "instrument," and is the larges of all the instruments.
What is an organ?
This composer went deaf later in life, but continued to compose music.
Who is Beethoven?
This is Bach's most famous organ pieces.
What is Toccata and Fugue?
This is what we call the pattern of the notes, or the beat of the notes.
What is rhythm?
This country is home to the majority of early composers.
What is Germany?
This instrument can play both softly and loudly.
What is the piano (forte)?
This composer was a child prodigy, and wrote his first concerto at the age of 4.
Who is Mozart?
This piece sounds like constantly dripping water
What is the Raindrop Prelude by Chopin?
This describes the speed of a piece.
What is tempo?
This is another name for a "round" piece, which begins with a theme, then moves to another theme or two, but always returns to the opening theme.
What is Rondo?