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100
Bach is the best known composer from this style period.
What is Baroque?
100
This composer was a very good singer as a little boy, and he died very young.
Who is Schubert?
100
This type of piece is like a “study” for the piano, and is played by a virtuoso pianist.
What is an etude?
100
This composer had 20 children.
Who is Bach?
100
Bach wrote his keyboard music for this type of instrument.
What is the harpsichord?
200
Mozart is from this style period.
What is Classical?
200
This composer was a child prodigy on both the violin and the piano.
Who is Mozart?
200
Schubert wrote over 600 of what type of piece?
What is a song?
200
This composer’s favorite food was macaroni and cheese.
Who is Beethoven?
200
Classical music uses a lot of these types of instruments.
What is strings (or winds)?
300
This style period is characterized by deeply emotional music.
What is Romantic?
300
This composer was an amazing piano virtuoso and was a famous celebrity during his lifetime.
Who is Liszt? (or Chopin or Rachmaninoff)
300
This type of piece features a soloist in front of the orchestra.
What is a concerto?
300
This composer had huge hands and was very tall.
Who is Rachmaninoff?
300
This is what happened to the size of the orchestra during the Romantic period.
What is got bigger?
400
Name an Impressionistic composer.
Who is Ravel or Debussy?
400
This composer learned to play by watching player pianos as a young boy.
Who is Gershwin?
400
The most famous piece by Debussy is called C_ _ _ _ d_ L_ _ _.
What is Clair de Lune?
400
This composer felt very homesick for his home country of Poland.
Who is Chopin?
400
This is the kind of piano invented by John Cage.
What is prepared piano?
500
Name a composer who write using the style of Minimalism.
Who is Philip Glass, Steve Reich, or John Adams?
500
This composer believed that anything could be music -- even silence.
Who is John Cage?
500
What is a sonata?
Three part form OR three movements
500
This composer had synesthesia (seeing colors when he heard music).
Who is Scriabin?
500
How was the 19th century (Romantic) piano different from the pianos that Mozart and Beethoven used?
It was stronger and louder and bigger.