Review for Classical Period

The classical sonata form: three sections

A : exposition, B : development, C : capitulation

Women composers/musicians achieved ___ in the classical era

Fame and prominence

Masters of the classical period

Haydn, mozart, beethoven

The large-scale instrumental musical forms of the classical period:

Symphony, concerto, and sonata

Opera buffa(comic):

opera with spoken dialogues and less tragic with a drama lighter in tone

Opera buffa was known as ___ in Germany

Singspiel

Opera buffa was known as ___ in France

Opera Comique

Opera seria (serious):

Has no spoken dialogues and tragedy is intense

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, “A little night music” by Mozart

Is a string quartet

Classical Orchestra:

30 to 40 players, no more than 40 players

Classical concerto or solo concerto

Where a solo instrument set against an orchestra, has three movements, structure is fast-slow-fast

Cadenza

A fanciful solo passage in the manner of an improvisation

The classical sonata was set for:

A solo instrument (piano) or a duo(violin and piano)

Requiem Mass or Mass for the dead

Sacred vocal genre in latin that compromises the ordinary of the mass along with other parts

Dies Irae is latin for

Day of wrath

Don Giovanni is the famous Don Juan or Cassanova

An amoral womanizer who seduces and abandons women across europe

Function of arias and recitatives in opera:

Each aria allows for emotional expression and to show off technique, artistry, while the recitatives advance the plot

Ana Maria Mozart

Sister of Wolfgang, was a child prodigy, pianist and composer, her nickname was Nannerl

Maria Theresa Von Paradis

Was a blind, gifted pianist, capable of memorizing lots of piano concertos for her long european concert tours

Barbara Von Ployer

Student of Wolfgang A. Mozart, brilliant pianist

Turkish Janissary Military Band

Influenced the classical composers, all 3 wrote turkish marches inspired by turkish rhythms played by the ensembles

“MOONLIGHT SONATA” by Beethoven

Evokes the Romanticism

Mozarts music

Colorful, dramatic, and full of lyrical melodies

“Surprise Symphony” by Haydn

Has a “Fortissimo” chord played by the orchestra in the second movement which is a theme and variations movement

Oratorio creation by Haydn

Based on the book of Genesis and John Miltons “Paradise Lost”