Classical and Romantic Music Terms Quiz

Musical Terms and Concepts

• A work for a symphonic orchestra in several movements is called a symphony.

Opera Genres

• Comic Italian Opera that entertained audiences in the Enlightenment is called Opera Buffa.

Musical Techniques

• The technique of changing the tonal centre within a piece of music is called modulation.

Program Music

• The genre of orchestral Program Music in one movement is called a tone poem.

Symphonic Music

• The variation procedure applied to returning themes in Romantic Symphonic Music is called theme transformation.
• Theme transformation is also the term for the variation procedure applied to returning themes in Romantic Symphonic Music.

Classical Music Styles

• The genre of music associated with Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven's style is called Classical.

Opera Styles

• The unique type of Opera associated with Wagner is called Music Drama.

Pitch Relations

• The term for the need to return to a home pitch which dominates a particular group of pitches is tonal centricity.

Musical Styles

• The romantic style that uses all or many of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale is called atonality.