Classical Period Test Review

What is a librettist?

What do we call a musical setting of the Romanc Catholic funeral mass for the dead?

What is a letter that Beethoven wrote to his brothers about his despair over his deafness

Which form is used in the 2nd movement of a symphony?

What is an unaccompanied show piece that for a soloist at the end of a concerto?

A movement is like a chapter of a book.

Which form features a theme that alternates with other contrasting sections? This form can be diagrammed A B A C A B A.

The cadenza appears at the end of what genre in the Classical period?

Composers began working for wealthy patrons more frequently intsead of working for a church. What is this called?

What do we call German comic opera with spoken dialogue?

Which composer Who was called the father of the symphony and the father of the string quartet?

Which form is used in the 3rd movement of a symphony?

What is a form in which the theme is repeated over and over again, but is changed slightly each time?

What is music meant to be performed in small, intimate settings?

Which form is used in the first movement of a symphony?

Mozart is the master of opera in the Classical period.

What are the dates of the Classical period?

Which of these instruments is NOT in the Classica orchestra?

What was the philosophical scientific and political movement that dominated thought? This movement put faith in reason

What is a multi-movement work for solo piano? Beethoven composed many of these during his 1st comppositional period.

What do we call Italian comic opera?

Which form has three parts, and is found in the first movement of a symphony or string quartet?

Which form is used in the 4th movement of a symphony?

What was the name of Haydn's patron?

What is a form of chamber music, that is multi-movement and written for 2 violins, viola, and cello?

What is the correct order of the 3 parts of sonata form?

Which form is in three parts and is based on a dance?

What is a reserved, simple, natural, approach to music or the arts?

Mozart was not a child prodigy. He did not achieve any fame until after his death in 1791.

Mozart's father Leopold took on tours across Europe to show off his talents.

Who was a well-known pianist and composer, who began to lose his hearing in the middle of his life?

What do we call Italian serious opera?

What is a 4-movement work for orchestra?