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100
An imporvisatory passage that occurs at the end of a movement used to feature a solo player.
What is a cadenza?
100
A generic term for music for small groups of instruments.
What is chamber music?
100
Another word to describe prhrasing that is balanced.
What is symmetirical?
100
He believed in opera reforms that encompassed straightforward melodies. He composed a famous opera called Orfeo ed Euridice.
What is Gluck?
100
The dates of the Classical Era
What is 1750-1825?
200
a repeated, b and part of a repeated.
What is rounded binary form?
200
This type of music was set for either one solo instrument or for duos.
What is the classical sonata?
200
Composers from Mannheim during the Classical Era created a number of effects for the orchestra. The name of this effect that is typified by aggressive ascending lines from the low register to the high register.
What is a rocket theme?
200
A famous composer who was one of J.S. Bach's sons.
Who is J.C. Bach or C.P.E. Bach?
200
This woodwind instrument becomes more prominent in the classical era.
What is the clarinet?
300
The last movement of the symphony is typcially either in sonata-allegro form or this form.
What is rondo?
300
This brand of opera developed as a reaction to opera seria which took root in England and the American colonies. An example of this type of opera is the Beggar's Opera.
What is a ballad opera?
300
Rococo was a French term to describe an age of sophistication that, musically speaking, culminated in simple, natural lines within a homophonic texture. The German term for this desire to express natural feelings in art. (Kind of a forerunner to Romanticism in that sense.)
What is Empfindsamkeit?
300
Although he wrote over 100 symphonies, he also composed two oratorios. The name of one of these oratorios.
What is the Creation?
300
An early version of the piano.
What is the fortepiano?
400
The term to denote when a theme or musical idea stated in one movement returns in another movement.
What is cyclical form?
400
This genre became one of the most famous types of chamber music. Bye bye basso continuo. Haydn wrote 68 of 'em.
What is the string quartet?
400
The term used to denote music that is composed for music's sake. It is not based on a literary theme or an image.
What is absolute music?
400
This composer played for Mozart when he was 17. He is considered a transitional figure from the Classical Era to the Romantic Era.
Who is Beethoven?
400
A term used to denote one way in which composers were able to earn a living. This was fairly common in the classical era.
What is patronage?
500
The first movement of the three-movement form of the solo concerto often features an orchestral ritornello in which several themes are presented. Then the soloist plays these themes (in a new key, mind you) and some new material as well. Then there is a development and then a recap. The name of this (complicated) form.
What is sonata-allegro form with a double exposition?
500
Mozart wrote 27 of these for piano.
What are piano concertos?
500
In classical opera, the part of a young man was often sung by a soprano or alto. The name of this type of role.
What is a trouser role?
500
Is is believed that a student - Sussmeyer, finished this composer's mass for the dead.
Who is Mozart?
500
The name of a Vienese master who is not Beethoven, Mozart, or Haydn.
Who is Franz Schubert (1797-1828)?