Music of the Classical Period
Is a work in several movements for one or more instruments.
What is a Sonata?
A vigorous and sometimes lighthearted movement in triple meter with a middle section or trio.
What is Scherzo?
A period during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century (1825-1900) when composers created music that often exploded with emotion.
What is the Romantic Period?
A type of program music written for textual materials including stories or plays.
What is tone poem?
A section of a concerto in which all the instruments and/or voices perform together.
What is Tutti?
A fixed melodic idea that recurs throughout all movements of a symphony.
What is Idee Fixe?
A composition for solo voice and piano.
What is art song?
He was an important German Romantic Composer.
Who is Richard Wagner?
An ABA form composed of three sections: exposition, development, and recapitulation.
What is Sonata allegro form?
He was one of the most famous composers ever.
Who is Beethoven?
What is Lieder?
One of Wagner's greatest achievements.
What is The Ring of the Nibelung?
A short concluding section of a piece of music that essentially ties together the main thematic threads and ends the piece.
What is Coda?
Beethoven hoped to meet and study with him.
Who is Mozart?
Instrumental compositions that attempt to convey a specific idea without using lyrics.
What is program music?
This is what Richard Wagner called his operas of the Romantic period.
What are music dramas?
A composition consisting of a recurring theme alternating with constrating sections.
What is Rondo?
This is where Robert Schumman spent the last years of his life.
What is a Mental Asylum?
A pictorial or descriptive orchestral work in several movements.
What is program symphony?
Publishers were hesitant to buy his work because it was not considered traditional.
Who is Schubert?