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If it ain't Baroque
Classically trained
How Romantic!
Compose This!
Instruments
100
The first major composer of opera.
Who is Monteverdi?
100
Wanted to be a freelance composer as opposed to being under the patronage of others.
Who is Mozart?
100
Wrote the "Unfinished Symphony."
Who is Schubert?
100
Wrote "Toccata and Fugue" for organ.
Who is Bach?
100
Dominant instrument in the Classical era.
What is the harpsichord?
200
Music expressed on basic emotion.
What is unity of mood?
200
Patronage family to whom Haydn was connected to.
Who are the Esterhazys?
200
The Romantic era stressed this, and tended to focus on feelings and individualism rather than the patronage and aristocracy.
What is emotion?
200
Wrote the oratorio, "Messiah."
Who is Handel?
200
Major instrument in the Romantic era.
What is the piano?
300
A sudden shift from one dynamic level to another without a gradual change.
What are terraced dynamics?
300
The type of opera that stepped away from the serious and proper form, into a more comedic scene.
What is opera buffa?
300
The theme to which operas focused on during the Romantic era.
What is tragedy?
300
Wrote "Midsummer Night's Dream."
Who is Mendolssohn?
300
Mozart's main instrument.
What is the violin?
400
One important development during the Baroque era was the invention of the opera. This was the other.
What is the orchestra?
400
The first composer to successfully break away from the service of the aristocracy.
Who is Beethoven?
400
Theme of Romantic composers that issued a sense of pride and identity.
What is nationalism?
400
Don Giovanni
Who is Mozart?
400
Chopin wrote music primarily for this instrument.
What is the piano?
500
The place in which oratorios and cantatas were performed.
What is the church?
500
The fundamental elements of music and art in the Classical era.
What are balance and structure?
500
Extremely egocentric and wanted people to perform his pieces, but they were too big to be performed in any performance hall.
Who is Wagner?
500
The Trout
Who is Schubert?
500
Composer who added instruments to the orchestra to make it bigger and set the stage for composers like Wagner.
Who is Berlioz?