Composers
This composer wrote exclusively for piano.
Who was Frédéric Chopin?
This kind of piece usually has three movements and features a soloist.
What is a concerto?
This era was more focused on emotions and storytelling.
What was the Romantic Era?
The songs "The Erlking" and "The Trout" were written by this composer.
Who was Schubert?
Pizzicato and tremolo are similar in this way (other than being techniques performed on string instruments).
What techniques did Monteverdi invent?
This composer rediscovered Bach's music long after he had died.
Who was Felix Mendelssohn?
This type of music is purely instrumental and tells some kind of story.
What is program music?
This era began with the creation of the first opera, and ended with the death of Bach.
What was the Baroque era?
Name two composers who wrote nine symphonies.
Who were Beethoven, Dvořák, and Mahler?
Pronounce Dvořák correctly.
No, I'm not spelling it out phonetically. I'll tell you whether you're right or wrong.
Name a notable female composer that we have studied.
Who was Hildegard von Bingen/Clara Wiek Schumann?
This type of orchestral piece typically has four movements, with the first being fast, the second being slow, the third being like a dance, and the fourth being fast.
What is a symphony?
This era's music was mostly monophonic and polyphonic, and was often dissonant due to people's lack of understanding of chords.
What were the Middle Ages?
This composer wrote "Pictures at an Exhibition".
Who was Modest Mussorgsky?
The trombone evolved from this instrument.
What is a sackbut?
Name three composers from the Middle Ages.
Who were Hildegard von Bingen, Leonin, Perotin, Francesco Landini, Guillaume de Machaut
This form consists of an introduction, an exposition, a development section, a recap, and a coda.
What is Sonata Form?
This era had music that was often balanced and symmetrical.
What was the classical era?
This composer wrote two books full of preludes and fugues in every single key.
Who was Bach?
Name a composer who tried to commit suicide by contracting hypothermia.
Who was Tchaikovsky/Schumann?
Name two composers from the Russian Five.
Who were Cui, Balakirev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Mussorgsky
This type of composition is typically written in either ABACABA form or ABACA form.
What is a rondo?
This era was a cultural rebirth, not just in music, but in society and art as a whole.
What was the Renaissance?
This composer wrote masterpieces in all forms, such as forty-one symphonies, twenty concerti for piano, several concerti for violin, and multiple operas.
Who was Mozart?
Guess the composer based on their first name only: Franz, Franz, and Franz
Who were Haydn, Schubert, and Liszt?