General Topics
This instrument became the most popular during this Era.
What is a piano?
This composer worked for a prince.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
This theatrical music form tells a story through music.
What is Opera?
This main American event happened during the classical period.
What is the American Revolution?
This European country had a successful revolution during the classical period.
What is France?
This is a person who was born to excel in a specific area such as music, sports math, etc,
What is a prodigy?
This composer wrote the most amount of music.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
This form requires a large orchestra.
What is a symphony?
These two countries became important centers of musical development during this period.
(You have to spell them out loud as well as pronounce correctly)
Germany and Austria
Name two important people from US History that were important in this era.
Who are George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams...
These are two things in architecture that indicate it is from the classical era.
What is symmetry, plants and animals, exquisite design carved into the wood
This person taught Mozart how to compose music.
Who is his father, Leopold Mozart?
This is a group of 4 people in which chamber music is created and performed without a conductor.
What are quartets?
Name 1 reason why the support for composers by wealthy patrons diminished.
What is Democracy?
This event brought about the mass production of materials and sped up the process of harvesting crops.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
These are the years that depict the "Classical Era."
This composer was afraid of the trumpet because he was considered too gentle and delicate.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Describe the form of the Symphony, in the highest detail that you can.
A symphony is a large form with multiple movements, it typically has 3 movements that have the order of fast-slow-fast.
Name 3 important people from this Era who are not from the US.
Who are James Watt, Tecumseh, Catherine the Great, Jane Austen, John Cook, Sacagawea, Toussaint Louverture, Simon Bolivar...
Name at least 10 countries that had a revolution or rebellion conflict in this Era.
Literally every country. I challenge you to find a country in this era that didn't have one, because I can't find one.
Name 5 instruments that were popular in this Era.
String instruments (violin, cello, viola), trumpet, flute, timpani drums, harpsichord / piano
This composer is commonly mentioned as a Classical composer, but Mrs. Stebbing insists that they belong in the following Era.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
Name at least 5 Classical Music Characteristics
Clean / simple
Clear melody line with accompanying chords
Brighter contrasts between dynamics and tone colors
Homophonic
Order & Form
TWO PART QUESTION: This is the year that the Illuminati was founded, what also happened this year?
What is 1776 and the Declaration of Independence?
This was the first vaccination produced, in 1796.
What is the Smallpox Vaccine?