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These are the three main composers of the classical period.
Who are Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven?
100
This is how classical music differed from Baroque.
What is less dramatic?
100
This is the name of the philosophical age during the Classical Period
What is the Enlightenment?
100
These are the four sections of a symphony orchestra.
What are brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion?
200
This composer received lessons from Haydn.
Who is Beethoven?
200
These are some main features of classical music (name at least two).
What are balance, repetition, contrast, or a light clear texture?
200
This was something commonly worn by women.
What is low necked gown, petticoat, or spencer jacket?
200
These are the instruments in a string quartet.
What are two violins, a viola and a cello?
300
These are the things Mozart spent most of his time composing.
What are operas?
300
This is the name for a "section" of a symphony.
What is a movement?
300
This is the musical instrument invented in the 1780s
What is the (upright) piano?
300
Mozart was this old when he composed his first piece.
What is six years old?
400
This man hired Haydn and gave him a major career break.
Who is Prince Anton?
400
This is the definition of homophonic.
What is a clear melody above a chordal accompaniment?
400
These are two countries which went through revolutionary wars in the classical time period
What are America and France?
400
This composer was born into the "least musical" family
Who is Haydn?
500
Haydn composed the national anthem for this country.
What is Austria?
500
These are typically the fast movements in a symphony.
What are the first and last movements?
500
These are some of the scientific discoveries of the time period (name at least two)
What are the law of conservation of mass, atomic theory, extinction, discovery of Uranus, or development of Anaesthesia?
500
These are the years that we consider to be the classical music period.
What is 1750-1815?