Terms and Vocab
What is rubato?
The Classical Era was during these dates.
What are 1750-1820?
What are 1820-1900?
Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Night Music) Mov. 3 is a good example of this musical form.
What is Minuet and Trio?
This piece on our listening list is musically descriptive in it's story of two rivers flowing through fields, forrest, and mountains.
What is The Moldau by Smetana?
The main sections of a Minuet and Trio.
What are ABA?
Composers of the Classical era favored _____ bar or measure phrases.
What are four bar phrases?
Brahms was an advocate for this type of music.
What is absolute music?
The instrumentation of Erlkonig by Schubert.
What are piano and voice?
The main sections of rondo.
What are ABACABA?
This is the main sections of Sonata form.
What are Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation?
Different from the Baroque era, the Classical String Quartet did not employ this.
What is the basso continuo?
The use of folk music, folk tales, and history from a composer's country is called this.
What is nationalism?
In Die Walkure, Sigmunde pulls this from the tree in Sieglinde's home.
What is a sword?
This composer was a proponent of programmatic music.
Who was Smetana?
What is a nocturne?
The feature that is prominent throughout Beethoven's Symphony #5.
What is a four-note theme?
What is absolute music?
This German opera on our listening list is set in a medieval village, has a supernatural plot, and features extensive chromaticism.
What is Der Freichutz?
The family that Haydn worked for in Austria.
What were the Esterhazy family?
The four sections of an Italian opera scene.
Classical era composers used these forms of the four movements of a symphony in this order.
What are sonata form, theme and variations, minuet and trio, and rondo?
This short piece was a musical sketch of the composer's fiance.
What was Estrella by Schumann?
Beethoven's String Quartet in C minor movement 4 was in this form.
What is rondo?
The composer/musician who was considered highly virtuosic.
Who was Liszt?