Listening
What instrument is playing the melody in this variation?
What is cello?
The 3 main sections of sonata-allegro form are the exposition, development, and the _____
What is recapitulation?
Which composer began to go deaf in his twenties?
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
Ravi Shankar is famous for playing which Hindustani instrument?
These instruments make up the string quartet
What are 2 violins, viola, and cello?
This excerpt from The Marriage of Figaro features what type of singing?
What is recitative?
The minuet and trio is usually in sonata-rondo form. What is the form pattern (ABA, etc.) attributed to it?
What is ABACABA?
Who is considered the most gifted child prodigy in the history of music?
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
In Indian classical music, the series of pitches that provide the framework for a composition or performance is called a ____
What is a raga?
The type of opera that maintained more Baroque structures and themes, with many recitatives and arias designed to display virtuosity, was called ________
What is opera seria
The following excerpt comes from the first movement of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music), K. 525. What theme type does the excerpt feature?
What is a rocket theme?
What part of sonata-allegro form presents the main themes, but has each in a different key?
What is the exposition?
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro was written with a libretto in which language?
What is Italian?
The classical music tradition from northern India is better known as ____
What is Hindustani music?
The first movement of a Classical concerto is in sonata-allegro form with a double exposition. Who/what typically begins the first movement of a classical concerto?
What is the orchestra?
This pair of tuned drums heard in this excerpt are ____
What are tabla?
In the Classical multi-movement cycle, the SECOND movement is usually in _______ form
What is theme and variation?
Haydn's Concerto for Trumpet was written for what type of trumpet (that predates the modern trumpet)?
What is the valve trumpet?
The opening section of a performance in which the pitches of the raga are established
What is the alap?
Music without a story or text
What is absolute music?
The following excerpt is from ______
What is Symphony No. 40 in G minor (1st movement) by Mozart
The first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 uses what form?
What is sonata-allegro form?
Countess Giulietta Guicciardi was the inspiration behind which piece (by which composer)?
What is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Ravi Shankar famously inspired which 1960s band to prominently incorporate sitar into its recordings?
What are The Beatles?
What were the "light genres" intended for social functions?
What are divertimento and serenade?