Composers
This German composer is famously known for composing while completely deaf.
Who is Beethoven?
The music of the Classical Period drifted away from the "fanciness" of Baroque, and instead, focused on this idea.
This is the time frame (in years) of the Classical Period.
What is 1750-1830ish?
This are the four string instruments in an orchestra.
What are violin, viola, cello, and double bass?
This is the month that holds National Sandwich Day.
What is November?
This composer is known as the "father of the symphony".
Who is Haydn?
This term means the loudness or softness of music.
What are dynamics?
This is a person who writes the text, not the music, for an opera or something similar.
What is a librettist?
This copper kettle-like drum came into popular use during the classical period.
What are timpani?
This is the only flying mammal.
What is a bat?
This composer wrote the 'Surprise Symphony' because he was lowkey beefin with his student.
Who is Haydn?
This is the standard number of movements in a Symphony.
What is four?
This was the cause of the rise of the Middle Class during the Classical period.
What is the French Revolution?
Modern instruments such as the flute, bassoon, and clarinet are part of this instrument family.
What are woodwinds?
What is Brook?
This composer had a famous dad (like...the most famous) and wrote for different courts around Europe.
Who is CPE Bach?
This is a piece of music with multiple movements written for solo instrument with accompanying piano or orchestra.
What is a concerto?
The art of the Classical Period was influenced by these ancient cultures.
What are Greek and Roman?
This family of instruments was used to enhance loud or intense passages of music.
What is brass?
This was the original use of ketchup before it was a condiment.
What is medicine?
This composer was a child prodigy, writing music from the age of four.
Who is Mozart?
The classical period was the end of a tradition of an improvised continuous bass line called this.
What is basso continuo?
This is the type of literature written by Goethe (wrote the text for Erlkonig) and Faust.
What is poetry?
This is the instrumentation of a string quartet.
What is two violins, viola, and cello.
This is a famous opera featuring characters such as Papageno and the Queen of the Night.
What is The Magic Flute?