Baroque/Classical Era Test Review

What city was the center of the Classical era?

How many instruments were used in a string quartet?

Which of the following composers could live their life independently from wealthy patrons?

Which of the following is NOT a musical style of the Baroque period?

Instrumental design limited dynamics, so what was used for dynamic changes?

True or False: Mozart died at the age of 35.

Which of the following Operas did Mozart write?

By what age did Mozart write his first full Opera?

Which of the following composers was the most important of the Baroque period?

Which Composer was the first to write a String Quartet?

True or False: As Beethoven lost his hearing, his music became more intense.

How many movements does a Symphony contain?

The Baroque Era was the height of which style of music?

Which of the following is the most famous Theme and Variation from the Classical Era?

Which of the Following is NOT a part of a Fugue

True or False: Handel was from London

Music in the Baroque was mostly polyphonic in texture. What does polyphonic mean?

Which Composer was NOT from the Baroque Era?

True or False: Opera is a drama set to continuous music, with all dialogue sung, no talking allowed!!

During the Baroque period, instrumental music became just as important as vocal music. True or False?

How many notes did Beethoven use to create the first movement of his 5th Symphony?

Beethoven took the words from what to create the lyrics to his 9th Symphony?

What is an Oratorio?

Why did the middle class emerge during the Baroque Era?

Which of the following did Bach use as a job application?

The Term Baroque comes from the Portuguese phrase: perola barocca, which means what?

How many musical works did Bach write?

Which of the following is NOT one of the new genres of music developed during the Classical Era?

BWV 1087 was a collection of what?

True or False: Feudalism still holds sway in Europe during the Baroque Era.