Music Appreciation Classical Period Flashcards

The minuet and trio movement of a classical symphony, string quartet, or other work is in _______ form.

Beethoven's greatest liturgical music is to be found in his _____ .

The four movements of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony are Sonata form, _____ .

A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performer's virtuosity is called ______.

ABA form is typical of the minuet or scherzo movement and is also common in the ______.

What is the most important form in classical chamber music written for two violins, viola, and cello?

The piano trio is a musical composition for _____.

As is typical in classical music, the double bass part in Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik _____ .

The movement of a Sonata-type composition often patterned after a dance is the _____.

Classicism, as a stylistic period in western art music, roughly encompassed the years _____.

Mozart was born in _____.

In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart _____.

The standard catalog of Mozart's compositions was made by _____.

The double bass in the classical orchestra, as in Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, usually _____.

By the age of six, Mozart could _____.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and _____ were two of the more important preclassical composers.

A classical concerto is a three-movement work for _____.

Haydn was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable relationship with the noble Hungarian family of _____.

An unaccompanied showpiece for the concerto's soloist is known as a _____.

The typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of _____.

A modulation from the home key to a new key in the exposition of a Sonata form movement takes place in the _____.

Beethoven _____ .

The three main sections of a Sonata-form movement are often followed by a concluding section known as the _____.

Beethoven greatly expanded the _____ section of the Sonata-form movement and made it more dramatic.

The first movement of a classical symphony is almost always fast, and in _____ form.

Symphony may be defined as a(n) _____.

Beethoven's only opera is entitled _____.

Don Giovanni, in Mozart's opera of that name, is _____.

Composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by _____.

The classical concerto differs from the symphony in that it does not have a _____.

The lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the _____.

A piano sonata is a musical composition in two or more movements for _____.

In the classical period, comic operas sometimes _____.

Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart _____.

Mozart's symphony No. 40 _____.

The scherzo differs from the minuet in that it _____.

Vienna in 1800 _____.

Mozart's finest German opera was _____.

Sonata form should be viewed as _____.

A pause in the score of a concerto is indicated by a _____.

Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are called _____.

Mozart's Requiem was _____.

A symphony is a _____.

The musical heir of Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven bridged the _____ and _____ periods.

Mozart and Beethoven wrote a number of concertos for their favorite solo instrument, the _____.

Classical chamber music is designed _____.

A feeling of harmonic tension and forward motion is created in the exposition of a Sonata form movement by _____.

Haydn and Mozart wrote many outdoor entertainment pieces, which they called _____.

Sonata form consists of three main sections: exposition, development, and _____.

Composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by _____.

The twelve symphonies written for the concert manager J.P. Salomon for performance at his public concerts are also known as the _____ symphonies for the city in which they were first performed.

The Third Symphony of Beethoven was originally composed to commemorate the deeds of _____ as the embodiment of heroism and democratic ideals.

The Concert des Amateurs, an organization in Paris devoted to presenting public concerts, was conducted in the 1770s by _____.

Beethoven's late works, composed after he was totally deaf, include _____.

Haydn's duties while in the service of the Esterházys included _____.

A common rondo pattern is _____.

Unity is achieved in the classical symphony partly by the use of the same _____.

Haydn's two popular oratorios are entitled The Seasons and _____.

The sonata-rondo _____ .

The fully developed classical style in music flourished during the period _____.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is unusual in that it is scored for _____ as well as orchestra.

Haydn was a prolific composer, as demonstrated in part by his 68 string quartets and 104 _____.

The cadenza in the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major is unusual in that _____.

The minuet is generally the _____ movement of a classical symphony.

Theme-and-variations form may be schematically outlined as _____.

The classical string quartet is a musical composition for _____.

The most important form of classical chamber music is the _____.

Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life _____.

A _____ is a musical composition that is usually light in mood, and meant for evening entertainment.

The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as _____.

Mozart composed his Requiem _____ .

In the recapitulation of a sonata-form movement _____ .

In many of Beethoven's works, there is a _____ movement instead of the minuet.

The character of the minuet is best described as _____.

A major factor that distinguishes chamber music from the symphony or concerto is that chamber music _____.

The choral finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is based on _____.

The rondo may be schematically outlined as _____.

A concerto is a large-scale work in several movements for _____.

The favored solo instrument in the classical concerto was the _____.

Beethoven's sixteen _____ are generally considered among the greatest music ever composed.