Baroque and Classical Eras Test

Beethoven wrote numerous operas.

Operas are divided into large sections called _____.

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

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

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

Tuning while on stage serves no purpose except tradition.

What are the characteristics of an oratorio production?

What formal structure is typical for a Da Capo Aria?

Which composer wrote the fewest compositions?

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

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

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

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

What is the movement structure of a classical concerto?

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

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

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

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

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

Bach came from a family of musicians stretching back generations.

Where is a cadenza most frequently found?

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

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

Who is considered the greatest Baroque church musician/composer?

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

What is an orchestral conductor responsible for?

What type of concerto became popular during the Classical Period?

Which major composer was a student of Haydn's?

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

What is probably Beethoven's most popular symphony?

No conductor is necessary for chamber music.

What was an important feature of Classical Music?

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

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

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

What is the structure of ritornello form?

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

What piece is considered an early example of program music?

What was Mozart's primary instrument?

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

What was Hadyn's first music job?

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

A chorale is essentially the same as a hymn.

What is the language of Singspiel opera?

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

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

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

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

What is the instrumental makeup for a typical concerto grosso?

Who did composers write concertos for?

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

What is monody?

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

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

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

Mozart and Hadyn were friends.

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

Hadyn's Creation is a(n) ________.

Where were public concert frequently held during the Classical Period?

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

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

What is the instrumental makeup of a string quartet?

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

Which of the following are characteristics of Classical Music?

Which musical element is NOT common in Classical Music?

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

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

What is the typical structure of a classical symphony?

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

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.

Handel's Messiah is a(n) __________.

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

What are characteristics of Baroque Music?

What subject was the basis for early oratorio texts?

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

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

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

Antonio Vivaldi was known as the "Red Priest".

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

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

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

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

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

Who wrote the earliest surviving opera? (Euridice)

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

Many classical composers were also concerto soloists.

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

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

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

What types of musical works did the early orchestras accompany?

Where were secular cantatas performed during the Baroque Period?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baroque Opera was rarely based on Greek legends.

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