Composers
This composer reaches to encompass multiple era's of music and never got to hear his 9th symphony due to a medical condition.
Who is Beethoven?
This is a keyed instrument with strings that produce sound when struck by a felt-covered hammer.
What is a Piano?
Tranquillo is the Italian word meaning this
What is calm, still, or quiet?
Classical Period of music spanned these years.
What is 1750 to 1820?
This instrument overtook the harpsichord and organ as the primary keyed instrument during the Classical Period of Music.
What is the Piano?
This composer was seen as a musical prodigy and wrote his first symphony by the age of eight. He wrote Dies Irae.
Who is Mozart?
This instrument derived from the trompe de chasse, and has 7 foot of integral tubeing.
What is the French Horn?
This Italian term means the music should be played cheerfully. Moderate fast.
What is Allegro?
What event began the Classical period of music?
What is the death of Bach?
The classical period was known as the "Age of __________"
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
This composer is considered the father of symphony, sonata, and string quartet, making him a well-known revolutionary in the classical genre. He wrote the German national anthem and the Creation
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
This Instrument came from the viol de gamba, and has a fretless fingerboard.
What is the violin?
This term means to gradually play softer.
What is Diminuendo/Decrescendo?
Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Joseph Haydn all came from this school of music during the late 18th to early 19th centuries.
What is the First Viennese School of Music?
This was the most significant form of music to come from the classical period. A B or binary form or rounded binary A B A
What is the Sonata form?
This composer sadly never got to see his music in its prime. After he died over 100 of his pieces appeared in print. He is also known as the last grandmaster of the Viennese Classical School of Music.
Who is Franz Schubert?
This is a treble woodwind instrument with a conical bore and double reed, and originally named the Shawm a much louder instrument used for outdoor ceremonials. This instrument is represented by The Duck in Peter and the Wolf.
What is the Oboe?
This term means the music should be played loud and appears as "f."
What is "forte"?
In August 16, 1795, This was founded and is still offering instruction on dance, music, and drama also known as the Conservatoire de Paris
What is the Paris Conservatory of Music?
This is the instrument that the Early Tuba replaced. It is a low-pitched early wind instrument in the lip-reed family, developed in the Renaissance era. It has a trombone-like mouthpiece, with six tone holes arranged in two groups of three fingered by each hand. It is named for its long, conical bore bent into a snakelike shape
What is the Serpent?
This classical era composer and cellist's music contained a galante and courtly style. They are most know for one particular minuet from one of their string quartets and his cello concerto in B flat major.
Who is Luigi Boccherini?
This instruments reed is made by bending double shaped strip of cane. its narrow conical bore leads from the curved metal hook, which the double reed is placed downward through the wing, or tenor.
What is the Bassoon?
This term is a direction to play a stringed instrument that consists of plucking the strings.
What is Pizzicato?
This war happened during the classical period between 1754 and 1763 and was known to the British as the 7 years war. This war stopped Mozart's tour of Europe during this time and contributed to some of his fame.
What is the French and Indian war?
Beethoven is best known as a ________ Composer because he composed music to bridge the gap between classical and romantic period music.