Composers
Franz Liszt played this instrument.
What is the piano?
Robert Schumann was famous for writing in this genre that focuses on one idea or emotion.
What are character pieces?
True or False: In the strings family, one instrument was added during the Romantic Period.
False, the only instruments in the strings family are the violin, viola, cello, and double bass which are in the orchestra. The non orchestra strings instruments include the harp and the guitar.
What is a piece written for orchestra and choir that is religious?
What is a mass?
Where is Felix Mendelssohn born?
Where is Hamburg, Germany?
Hector Berlioz wrote this piece in honor of Harriet Smithson.
What is Symphonie Fantastique?
Franz Schubert was famous for writing this genre that are German vocal songs accompanied by the piano.
What is Lieder?
What percussion instruments sounds like chimes but is played like a piano?
What is a celest?
What is sing-speaking in Italian during opera?
What is libretto?
Where was Franz Schubert born?
Where is Vienna, Austria?
Felix Mendelssohn was a musician and a ____________.
What is a conductor?
Felix Mendelssohn wrote in every genre, including large scale music works for choir and orchestra, called __________.
What is an oratorio?
What is the name of the tool for brass instruments that make the tube shorter, resulting in a changed pitch?
What is a valve?
What are three notes played together that do not make a harmony?
What is a discord?
Where did Hector Berlioz study?
What is the Paris Conservatory of Music?
Robert Schumann composed and wrote songs with his wife, _______________.
Who is Clara Schumann?
Hector Berlioz wrote Symphonie Fantasique which is this genre ________________, that includes theatre and opera together.
What is a Program Symphony or Program Music?
Which stringed instruments make up a string quartet?
What is the violin, viola, cello, and bass?
This revolves around the attempt to convey a composer's personal struggles through music.
What is symbolism?
Where was Beethoven from?
Guiseppe Verdi was not only a musician, but a ______________.
What is an elected politician?
What is ABA Form?
What percussion instrument has wooden blocks that are played with mallots?
What is a xylophone?
When notes are a half step away from each other.
What is Chromaticism?
Where was Giuseppe Verdi from?
Where is Busseto, Italy?