Who Did What?
Which composer was known for re-writing compositions from other composers? For example, this composer took a work of Salieri's, re-wrote it, and performed it for a prince.
Who is Mozart?
What is the name of the six-note scale of which each pitch is a whole tone away from the next?
What is a whole tone scale?
This keyboard instrument was invented in this period and is widely popular today.
What is a piano?
Name this form: AB
What is binary form?
In the Classical period, Enlightenment was also referred to as what?
The Age of Reason
Which composer wrote the Messiah?
______________ is the deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds.
What is primitivism?
Name two Classical composers.
Who are Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven?
Name this form: ABA
What is ternary form?
Comic opera is called _____________ in Italian?
What is opera buffa?
Which composer is known for having three musical periods in which over these years he slowly loses his hearing? He is also known as the composer who bridges the Classical period to the Romantic period.
Who is Beethoven?
Name three 20th century composers.
Who are Cage, Copland, Ives, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Debussy, Gershwin, etc.?
Romantic composers wanted their music to express what?
What are feelings and/ or emotions?
Name the form that takes the main melody and modifies it every time it is repeated.
What are themes and variations?
What is beautiful singing?
Which 20th century composer is known for writing music with two keys being played at the same time? (key word: polytonality)
Name the musical style marked by emotional restraint.
What is neoclassicism?
Name four famous Romantic composers.
Who are Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Franz Schubert, etc.?
Name this form: ABACADA
What is rondo form?
This artist is often compared to a circus performer due to the wild and elaborate skills this person displays.
Who is a virtuoso?
Which German Romantic composer wrote over 600 art songs?
Who is Franz Schubert?
What is the name of the style of modern music that takes a very small amount of musical material and repeats it over and over to form a composition?
What is minimalism?
Some composers from the Romantic period had a deep appreciation for __________ and wrote numerous compositions that highlighted indigenous folk songs and local instruments.
What is nationalism?
Name the three sections within the sonata-allegro form?
1. exposition 2. development 3. recapitulation
What is the name of the method of composing 20th century music that has all twelve notes of the chromatic scale played in a fixed, regularly recurring order?
What is twelve-tone composition?