Instruments and Innovations
This keyboard instrument became popular due to its dynamic range and expressive flexibility.
What is Piano?
In the 18th century, this genre flourished as both a social pastime and a medium for compositional experimentation.
What is Chamber Music?
This stylistic foil to opera seria often utilized comedy in its storytelling.
What is Comedy opera/opera buffa?
This genre became the 18th century's most important orchestral genre.
What is the Symphony?
This country is known as the birthplace of classical opera.
What is Italy?
This continent's monarchs cultivated the arts as emblems of national prestige.
What is Europe?
This German composer utilized wide melodic spans, rhythmic and metric ambiguity, and subtle cross-relations.
Who is Brahms?
This French composer assimilated many cultural styles, including the blues, to create a distinctive musical voice.
Who is Revel?
This symphonic form was the 18th century's defining principles.
What is Sonata?
This group of Russian composers sought to cultivate a distinctly Russian voice, and included the likes of Musorgsky.
Who are the "Mighty 5"?
This predecessor of the piano utilized strings plucked with a plecktrum, rather than being struck with a hammer.
What is the Harpsichord?
Alongside Graun, this familiar composer contributed to a more expressive symphonic idiom, bridging the Baroque and Classical Eras.
Who is C.P.E. Bach?
This opera took place in spain and is most famous for the "Habenera"
What is "Carmen" by Bizet?
New England Puritans in the 18th century sang in this Biblical style.
What are Metric Psalms?
This style of narrative composition generally carried political sentiment, as well as commentary on political ideas.
What is opera?
This son of Alessandro wrote over 550 keyboard sonatas.
Who is Guiseppe Domenico Scarlatti?
In the mid 18th century, reason, balance, and this enlightenment ideal replaced the grandeur of the Baroque.
What is naturalness?
This Russian composer is most well-known for his programmatic works such as "Scheherazade".
Who is Rimsky-Korsakov?
This 20th century innovation helped give audiences even more access to musical listening, and included mediums like magnetic tape and wax cylinders.
What is musical recording technology?
The Early Classical style utilized this musical syntax, notable for having short phrases grouped into larger cadential structures.
What is periodicity?
This Italian opera composer combined Verdi's emphasis on vocal elements with Wagner's dramatic continuity.
Who is Puccini?
This 18th century cultural movement reshaped how people viewed art, humanity, and the natural world.
What is The Enlightenment?
This French composer blended traditional counterpoint with Liszt's technique of thematic transformation.
Who is Cesar Franck?
This capitol city became a thriving cultural hub in the 18th century, unifying Italian and German styles.
What is Vienna?
This composer born in the 18th century is hailed as the most important American composer.
Who is William Billings?
This Russian composer innovated the symphony by including a waltz in 5, as well as a slow final movement in his fifth symphony.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
This composer born in the 18th century is hailed as the most important American composer.
Who is William Billings?
This composer is known for creating the symphonic poem and bring vocal repertoir into the piano's domain.
Who is Liszt?
This musical narrative technique introduces a theme for a character or idea, and adapts on it throughout a work.
What is a Leitmotif?
This German composer established the model for German Romantic opera.
Who is Weber?
Due to this country's rising immigration rates in the 19th century, its music often reflected a culmination of national styles from around the world.
What is America?
Haydn and this composer responded to a rising public arts culture by writing music to appeal to both connosieurs and casual listeners.
Who is Mozart?
This composer is most notable for his later influences on film scoring through his use of leitmotifs.
Who is Richard Wagner?
This sensitive German style is notable for its deep emotional introspection and volatility, contrasting the Galant style's graceful melodies and elegance.
What is Empfinsamkeit?
This German composer's operas are generally looked down on as his worst works.
Who is Beethoven?
This German compositional technique was popularized by the Mannheim Orchestra as a rapid ascending arpeggio.
What is the "Mannheim Rocket"
The 18th century collapse of feudal systems led to this public demographic to reshape artistic patronage.
What is the Middle Class?
This German composer is famous for his serious opera titled "Cleofide" in 1731.
Who is Johan Hasse?
This German style added emotional nuance and harmonic surprise to the Classical genre.
What is The Empfindsamkeit ?
This German composer who turned to composing opera late in his career was known to utilize leitmotifs, as well as associating specific keys with characters.
Who is Ricard Strauss?
This woman was one of America's leading composers at the turn of the 19th century, composing the "Gaelic Symphony".
Who is Amy Beach?