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Sonata form
Symphonies
Classical Opera
Composers
100
Classical music's clean lines and clear, organized harmonies were a response to this characteristic of Baroque music.
What is the overly ornate style of the Baroque period?
100
This is the number of sections sonata form has.
What is three?
100
The symphony was developed from this introductory part of the Baroque opera.
What is the overture?
100
This instrument replaced the harpsichord in a Classical opera orchestra.
What is the piano?
100
This composer's most famous symphonies include his fifth, with a quick, recognizable theme, and his ninth, with a chorus part.
Who is Beethoven?
200
Most Baroque music was written for specific purposes, unlike this new music, which was written just to be beautiful music.
What is absolute music?
200
When made a part of a multimovement cycle (such as a symphony), the sonata is normally this movement (number).
What is the first?
200
He is one of the two Classical composers who developed the symphony.
Who is Mozart or Haydn?
200
Classical opera split into two styles. Opera seria dealt with serious subjects, and was supported by traditionalists, while audiences preferred opera buffa which was this more popular genre.
What is comedy?
200
This composer went deaf in his twenties.
Who is Beethoven?
300
The Classical composers no longer used this technique, which consisted of writing very little in the bass line, and placing numbers below the staff.
What is figured bass, or basso continuo?
300
These are the three sections of the sonata.
What is the exposition, development, and recapitulation?
300
This is the number of movement in a symphony (one more than in a sonata).
What is four?
300
The librettist was responsible for this aspect of the opera.
What is the script (the lines)?
300
This composer was nicknamed "Papa."
Who is Haydn?
400
The Classical composers finally universally embraced this technique, first practiced by Monteverdi when writing music parts.
What is assigning specific instruments to specific parts?
400
This composer is often called the "Father of Sonata Form."
Who is Haydn?
400
The first movement of a symphony usually took this form.
What is sonata form?
400
One of the greatest opera composers of the Classical period, he wrote The Magic Flute, and Cosi fan Tutte.
Who is Mozart?
400
While he only lived to be 31 years old, this man composed 20,000 measures of music (much of it orchestral music) in one single year.
Who is Schubert?
500
Baroque music was composed horizontally, meaning that instead of considering harmony of primary importance, it focused on THIS TEXTURE instead.
What is polyphony?
500
These two sections are both optional parts of the sonata.
What are the introduction and coda?
500
This popular symphony was one of Mozart's last works.
What is the Jupiter symphony?
500
This man, along with Mozart, developed Baroque opera into Classical opera.
Who is Gluck?
500
This composer wrote over 600 works, including operas, symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and chamber music, and in fact helped invent sonata form and symphonies, and his operas are some of the best of all time. And his first name was Wolfgang, which is awesome.
Who is Mozart?