Classical
The three most famous composers of the Classic period.
Who are Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven?
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is this type of opera.
What is comic opera? (opera buffa)
The Enlightenment coincides with this musical era.
What is the Classical period?
The symbols that describe Theme and Variations form.
A A1 A2 A3 etc...
A light, multi-movement composition for strings or small orchestra intended to public entertainment, often performed outdoors for specific occasions.
What is a serenade?
What is comic opera? (opera buffa)
An instrument invented around 1700, increasingly common in middle class homes, capable of dynamic contrasts and popular among amateur musicians.
What is the piano?
Short, simple, singable melodies in balanced antecedent/consequent pairs describes the melodies of this period.
What is the Classical period?
The four principles of musical form.
What are statement, repetition, contrast, variation?
The standard four-movement piece for orchestra.
What is a symphony?
In the classical era, this instrument replaced the baroque harpsichord.
What is the piano?
The capital city of the old Holy Roman Empire, the administrative center for the Austrian Empire, a cultural crossroads for Central Europe and the fourth largest city in Europe at the time.
What is Vienna, Austria?
Balance, proportion, symmetry in architecture and music describe this period.
What is the Classical period?
The form of the familiar Christmas carol, "Joy to the World."
What is strophic form?
A German song for voice and piano composed in the Romantic era.
What is the Lied?
This composer spent nearly his entire life in Austria, was a freelance musician in the 1750s (gave piano lessons, worked as a church musician), worked for the Esterhazy family on their estate for thirty years (1761-1790, traveled to London in his later years where he wrote his 'London symphonies' and was treated like a celebrity.
Who is Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)?
Born in Salzburg, Austria; the most famous child prodigy in history; his father took him throughout Europe to play for royalty and aristocracy, and he met many musicians and absorbed their styles.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
The three required sections in Sonata-Allegro form.
What are Exposition, Development, Recapitulation?
First-movement symphony form.
What is Sonata-Allegro form?
Emotionalism, longing, unrequited love, passionate self-expression, focus on the wonders of nature and the supernatural.
What is the Romantic aesthetic?
The composer of the serenade, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music).
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
In Sonata-Allegro form, the sequence of musical events in the Exposition.
What are the first theme, transition, second theme, closing theme?
A piece for solo instrument with piano accompaniment. Name the genre.
What is sonata?
The form represented by ABACADA.
What is Rondo form?
The period whose music includes broad, sweeping melodic themes that are lyrical and expressive; long phrases, flexible rhythm, colorful harmony with chromatic notes to add color; bold harmonic shifts.
What is the Romantic period?