Classical Period History

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

Opera buffa drew its characters from what tradition?

Chords broken up into simple repeated patterns.

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

Sister to Mozart (1751-1829)

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

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

Esterhazy family Kapellmeister. (1732-1809)

Exposition Development Recapitulation

Binary form theme. Then alternates with other periods called episodes

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

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

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

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

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

Two Binary Forms. Repeating the first after playing the second

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

Basically owned Haydn

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

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

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

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

Baryton has how many strings?

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

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.

Opera Seria was without comic scenes or characters

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

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

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

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

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