Classical Era Review

Baroque Era instrument no longer used in Classical Orchestra.

Composers and audiences came to rely on a limited number of this.

The _______ spurred a major technical development within music.

Piece based upon Paradise Lost and the book of Genesis.

Comic Opera

This group helped in the evolution of the Classical Symphony.

Classical music is moving in a less ________ way.

Haydn wrote a variation on this country's national anthem.

Music that sounds sad and Melancholic.

Full musical numbers include ensembles and solo what?

Enlightenment was started in this country.

Op meaning.

Piece composed for solo piano.

The first of this nearly caused the audiences to riot in the 18th century.

This replaced the harpsichord.

Piece that was designed to divert, amuse, and entertain.

Location of the Mannheim School.

Brass instrument new to Classical Orchestra.

Person associated with K

Solved the problem of the imbalance between the soloist and the orchestra.

First Movement of Sonata Form.

Only dance style to survive in the multi-movement genres of the Classical era.

The first textural thing to go in the Classical Era was this.

Large orchestral piece with several movements.

Beethoven WoO 59

The point of ________ is to create contrasting moods with the same theme.

These appear in all elements of Classical Music Technique.

Buffone meaning.

Themes are developed through contrasting themes and keys. Music sounds unstable.

Instruments in a string quartet.

Musical Figures in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic Eras.

These markings are now used in music.

Woodwind instruments new to Classical Orchestra.

One of the sources from which the String Quartet developed.

1830 - 1900

WoO meaning.

Person associated with HWV

Exposition: First theme is in Tonic, Second is in ______.

Classical Texture was mainly this.

First theme is heard again followed by second theme in tonic key.

1400 - 1600

Composer who left Germany in 1727 to support himself through music.

1900 - Now

Genre for 4 instruments.

Orfeo Ed Euridice

Rondos are used mainly for which movement?

Schuberts Homeland.

Large, Diverse section of music where the basic material of the movement is presented.

First musician to receive a salary with no duties other than to compose when he wanted.

Beethoven's Homeland

400 - 1400

2 concepts of classical music stylistic features.

Light and frothy style of Classical Art.

Name for a group of 18th Century composers who assembled themselves in Germany.

Third Movement of Sonata Form.

In the middle of the 18th century, these became a big part of music.

1600 - 1750

Moderately paced piece in Triple Meter.

Crossroads of musical nations in the Classical Era.

Change in orchestral instrumentation resulted in a change in this.

Composed the Austrian Nation Anthem and the German National Anthem.

Classical composition for one or two instruments.

This type of dynamic changes are used in Classical Era Music.

Second Movement of Sonata Form.

Gluck Homeland

Music that sounds more bright and positive, happy.

Ensembles depict the different sentiments of who at the same time?

Son of JS Bach

Form using the repetition of a melodic theme with changes each time it is repeated.

Common number of variations when published.

______ and _______ became increasingly popular in the Classical Era.

Famous for his precision of playing, beauty of touch, and intensity of emotion.

Form of third movement of the Symphony.

1750 - 1830ish

Serious Opera

Person Associated with BWV

What was the result of tricks and schemes rather than decrees?

Opera stars had to be able to do what 2 things.

Middle section of the Minuet Form.

Piece composed for violin and piano.

Music designed to be played in a room.

There are how many primary keys in Classical music?

ABACA or ABACABA or ABACADA

Form of opening movement of the Symphony.

Symphony has this many movements.

What does the number after 'K' or 'Op' indicate?

Considered an innovator in musical form.

Many names of ______ in the Classical Era continue to be used today.

Themes in the Classical Era appear in which voice?

In the Classical Era, people wanted simpler, singable what?

Audiences wanted variety in what?

Europe's First concert hall.

What country's comic opera was the most important?

Composer who was sick and poor at the end of his life.

Composer left his parents at an age of 6 to study music.

Haydn Homeland

Classical Era Brass Instruments.

A number sung by two or more people.

The Classical Era was highly flexible in this area.

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor.