Types of Operas
Terms
Composers/Classical Era
Styles/Forms/Themes
100
How many styles are in the Classical period?
2 Styles
100
Exposes the theme for the movement of a sonata.
Exposition
100
What did Mozart involve in his Operas?
Mythological Creatures
100
What was the most important theme developed during the Classical period?
Sonata Form
200
What type of Opera had a serious nature?
Opera Seria
200
The most important work developed for the organ.
Fugue
200
What was the Classical Era called?
Age of EnlightenmentÂ
200
What is the main theme fugue?
Subject
300
What type of Opera is often comic?
Opera Buffa
300
What is the 3rd section of Sonata form, where the first theme is recapped?
Recapitulation
300
Who was the greatest musical genius of all time during the classical period?
Mozart
300
What is the form to gradually get louder?
Crescendo
400
In Mozart's Opera what does he use rather than mythological characters?
Human
400
A pattern notes repeated several times in a succession.
Sequence
400
Who composed 626 pieces of music of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber and choral works?
Mozart
400
What is a forerunner of the Classical music that was highly decorated?
Rococo Style
500
What is a sizable instrumental work in 3 or 4 movements?
Sonata
500
What instrument was Hayden's trumpet concerto?
A keyed trumpet
500
In Mozart's time what was the piano style?
Light and airy
500
What form in which a section is repeated with new material in between each repetition?
Rondo