Classical Music: What is it?
1750-1825
What is the Classical Period?
The composer who was known as both the "Father of the Symphony" and the "Father of the String Quartet"
Who is Haydn?
The composer who wrote this:
Who is Beethoven?
The name of a musical ensemble made up of four string players - two violinists, a violist and a cellist.
What is a string quartet.
The musical period that Mozart belonged to
What is the Classical period?
Consists of Latin texts and uses square-shaped symbols
What is the Gregorian chant?
This composer was almost totally deaf during the last decade of his life, yet some of his most admired works come from this time.
Who is Beethoven?
The name of this piece:
What is the "Surprise" Symphony.
The 4 instruments that usually make up a string quartet.
What are two violins, a viola, and a cello?
This Classical period composer, though only living to the age of 35, produced more than 600 compositions in his lifetime.
Who is Mozart?
1600-1750
What is the Baroque Period?
The most prominent composer of the Baroque period.
Who is Bach?
The composer who wrote this:
Who is Mozart?
A string quartet and a symphony usually has this many movements.
What is four?
He ended the Classical Music period a couple years before his death, because his music became so new, it had to be called something completely different.
Who is Beethoven.
What is piano?
The modern day composer who wrote the Star Wars theme
Who is John Williams?
The name of this genre of music:
What is Opera?
An elaborate musical composition for full orchestra, typically made up of four movements.
What is a symphony?
What are the clarinet and the saxophone?
A type of music that involves drama, costumes, singing the dialogue and arias
What is opera?
She was the first woman composer from whom a large number of works have survived.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
The four sections of a symphony are called these.
What is movements?
A beautiful solo from an opera is called this.
What is an aria?
What is the Fifth Symphony.