Baroque and Classical Eras Test

What is the language of Singspiel opera?

Beethoven increased the size of the orchestra by adding brass and woodwinds.

What was Hadyn's first music job?

In what position did Franz Joseph Haydn spend most of his career?

What instruments were most often used for the solo role in a Classical Concerto?

Beethoven wrote numerous operas.

Later in the Baroque, royals and other wealthy families hired orchestras to provide music.

No conductor is necessary for chamber music.

What is the rhythmic pattern for the famous motive in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?

The music of the Baroque was often as highly ornamented as the architecture and paintings of the period.

In Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which character was a young man, but written for a woman to sing?

What is Vivaldi's Quattro Stagioni a musical depction of?

Which major composer was a student of Haydn's?

Handel's father intended for him to have a career as a _______

What type of concerto became popular during the Classical Period?

During the Classical Period, the solo concerto was developed, while the concerto grosso fell into disuse.

What ideas did Martin Luther and John Calvin have about music in church services?

Baroque Opera was rarely based on Greek legends.

Hadyn's Creation is a(n) ________.

Many classical composers were also concerto soloists.

What feature is used by modern opera houses to show an English translation lit up across the top of the stage?

Who was the director of the Mannheim orchestra and the man credited with standardizing the classical orchestra?

Who did composers write concertos for?

Who wrote the earliest surviving opera? (Euridice)

In how many acts is Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro?

What are characteristics of Baroque Music?

Who compiled Mozart's music into a roughly chronological listing?

What audience reaction is typical during the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah?

Operas are divided into large sections called _____.

What was Mozart's primary instrument?

What is the most common movement structure of a Baroque concerto grosso?

Pipe organs are extremely portable and can be moved from one church to another easily.

Antonio Vivaldi was known as the "Red Priest".

The basso continuo line is played by at least two instruments: a chordal instrument and a second playing the melody.

During the Classical Period, concerto cadenzas were usually improvised by the soloists, but based on previous themes.

In the vocal realm, J.S. Bach was most prolific as a composer of ________.

What are the characteristics of an oratorio production?

What is probably Beethoven's most popular symphony?

What is monody?

Tuning while on stage serves no purpose except tradition.

Who is considered the greatest Baroque church musician/composer?

What genre of instrumental ensemble music normally requires only one player per part?

Handel, a German-born composer, had great success in composing operas in Italian for English audiences.

Handel's Messiah is a(n) __________.

Which musical element is NOT common in Classical Music?

What type of singer typically performed the "trouser" role in a Classical Opera?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy, composing music by age five.

What section of the concerto allows the performer to show off their skills?

What is the structure of ritornello form?

Which of the following instruments is NOT common to the Baroque?

What formal structure is typical for a Da Capo Aria?

A chorale is essentially the same as a hymn.

What piece is considered an early example of program music?

What is an orchestral conductor responsible for?

What is the typical structure of a classical symphony?

Mozart was buried with pomp and circumstance in the royal cemetery in Vienna.

In what style of opera is Mozart's Don Giovanni?

What affliction did both Bach and Handel suffer from late in life?

What composer, working in England, took the oratorio to great heights?

What structural form is based on a theme followed by alternating versions of that theme?

In Italy, oratorios were often performed during Lent because theatrical productions such as operas were banned.

During Hadyn's The Farwell Symphony, musicians stop at various points during the 4th movement and leave the stage.

What subject was the basis for early oratorio texts?

The Baroque was an age of great violin makes such as the __________ family.

In Lutheran churches, songs sung by the congretation in the vernacular were called ________.

No public concerts were held during the Classical Period; music was enjoyed primarily by the nobility.

Bach came from a family of musicians stretching back generations.

The Baroque Music that has come down to us was primarily written for the church and the nobility.

Today, opera houses use supertitles to translate the text for the audience.

What style of accompaniment, used to accompany singing in early opera, was in virtually all Baroque Music?

Where is a cadenza most frequently found?

What types of musical works did the early orchestras accompany?

Where were public concert frequently held during the Classical Period?

Peri and Monteverdi composed operas based on the same subject - the story of Orpheus.

Mozart and Hadyn were friends.

A dramatic work for soloists and chorus that is fairly short and not staged is a ________.

Beethoven composed more works than Mozart because he lived much longer.

Though many composers, such as Handel, composed opera, it never really became popular outside of Italy.

What is the movement structure of a classical concerto?

What technique would a soloist use to signal an end to the cadenza, and to cue the orchestra back in?

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro is a(n) _______.

Which composer wrote the fewest compositions?

The focal point of vocal expression in opera designed to stand apart form the story is the _____.

What affliction did Beethoven develop toward the end of his life?

Stylistically, the music of the Classical Era was a reaction to the instrumental polyphony of the late Baroque.

What was the most important chamber ensemble during the Classical Period?

Bach used _______ as a basis for many of his sacred cantatas.

Vivaldi wrote music for a famous orchestra at a girls' orphanage.

Who was the most prolific composer of solo concertos during the Baroque?

What is the instrumental makeup of a string quartet?

Where were secular cantatas performed during the Baroque Period?

How is the famous "Hallelujah Chorus" from the Messiah best described?

_______ is a combination of singing and speech that serves as dialogue in opera.

What was an important feature of Classical Music?

Which of the following are characteristics of Classical Music?

Hadyn played in street bands at one point in his life.

What is the instrumental makeup for a typical concerto grosso?

A performer who adds notes to a melody, improvising ornaments and other stylized decorations is creating ________.

Who is often called the "Father of the Symphony"?

Which composition was written to be performed on a barge on the Thames River?