Classical Period History

Who was the great reformer of opera who tried to eliminate the excesses and made singers subsidiary to the plot?

Basically owned Haydn

Moravians used modern styled music to embellish church services and to show mastery of European styles

Esterhazy family Kapellmeister. (1732-1809)

Songlike melodies, short phrases, not bound to the strict rules of counterpoint.

How many affects would a typical movement in the baroque have? In the Classic Period?

Imperial Court Library in Vienna. Wrote German texts for Haydn oratorios.

Two Binary Forms. Repeating the first after playing the second

Sister to Mozart (1751-1829)

Singing play. Opera with spoken dialogue, musical numbers, and a comic plot.

Wrote the Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1714-88)

This composer published the first collection of music entirely composed in North America.

Child Prodigy. Wrote pretty much anything you could think of. Huge operatic composer (1756-91)

Work for large instrumental ensemble in multiple movements; related to the divertimento

Sought to require primary school for everyone during a time of growing public demand for music (1740-86)

Meaning sensitive style. Surprising turns in harmony, chromaticism, nervous rhythms, with speech-like melodies.

The new woodwind instrument of the classic period is...

Opera buffa drew its characters from what tradition?

Chords broken up into simple repeated patterns.

Exposition Development Recapitulation

A certain mood portrayed by the music until moved by some stimulus to a different mood

Baryton has how many strings?

Which orchestra introduced the techniques of pianissimo, fortissimo, and crescendo? Who was the conductor?

Binary form theme. Then alternates with other periods called episodes

Type of music entertainment that goes back to a lighthearted dance like character.

Quarrel between a Italian opera troupe that had success in Paris and the natives of Paris

A joking or fast paced piece in Minuet and Trio form.

Breaking the melodic flow using resting points. The separate parts relate to each other creating unity.

Related to divertimento and serenade. Meant for a social function of entertainment with no specific structural features.

Moved to London. Composed Italian opera. Influence to Mozart (1735-82)

In a classic period concerto, what chord normally precedes the cadenza?

Opera Seria was without comic scenes or characters