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Beethoven
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This type of song in opera is used to express thoughts and emotions

What is an aria?

100

This musical style tried to sound simple, natural, and easy.

What is the galant style?

100

As he got older, Beethoven began losing this one of his five senses.

What is hearing?

100

This Romantic composer permanently injured his hands, preventing him from playing piano.

Who is Robert Schumann?

100
This was John Philip Sousa's nickname

Who is The March King?

200

This type of song in opera is used to show conversations or move the story forward

What is Recitative?

200

This famous composer was the most popular at the time, and made a living working for a rich family.

Who is Joseph Haydn?

200
We sort Beethoven's music into these three categories.

What is Early, Middle and Late music?

200

This type of music is written to express a specific emotion or scene

What is character music?

200

This is the name of a type of music group that doesn't use string instruments, making it easier to march and play.

What is band?

300

This type of opera was about regular people, and usually made fun of social norms

What is Opera Buffa or Comic Opera?

300

This composer was a child prodigy, made a living by finding or making his own work, and died at the age of 35.

Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

300

Beethoven's deafness began when he was this many years old.

How many is 28?

300

Romantic Period music shows a shift towards self-expression, no longer prioritizing these.

What are rules?

300

This composer wrote a ballet that was so strange that the audience rioted, arguing whether it was madness or genius

Who is Igor Stravinsky?

400

This type of opera was a traditional style: enjoyed by rich people and usually had a moral

What is Opera Seria or Serious Opera?

400

This new kind of audience pushed composers to make their music easier to play.

What is regular people buying and playing instruments?

400
Beethoven's 9th symphony, the Ode to Joy, was the first symphony to include this.

What is singing or a choir?

400

In Schubert's song "Gretchen and the Spinning Wheel" Schubert writes a nearly uninterrupted line of fast notes throughout the piece. These represent this object in the story.

What is a spinning wheel?

400
During the Modern Period, composers intentionally went out of their way to break these, to the point that they didn't matter anymore

What are rules?

500

This musical style occurs when a group of countries blend their musical styles together until it is one shared style

What is a Cosmopolitan style?

500

Joseph Haydn worked for this rich family.

Who is the Esterhazy family?

500
This was Beethoven's nickname as a child (likely never to his face)

Who is the Crying Boy?

500
Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique was the first time this melody was used to represent death.

What is the Dies Irae?

500

Arnold Schoenberg's new music system used this many different notes.

What it 12 or all of them?