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1836 | What year is the earliest reference to 'classical music'? |
Oxford English Dictionary | What book holds the earliest reference to 'classical music'? |
classical music | What term did not appear until the early 19th century? |
golden age | What 'age' is the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven referred to as? |
1836 | What year was the earliest reference to classical music? |
Oxford English Dictionary | In what book was the earliest reference to classical music? |
monks | Who sang Medieval plainchant? |
solo piano | Avant-garde atonal compositions were written for what instrument? |
use of a printed score and the performance of very complex instrumental works | What two characteristics of classical music can not be attributed to other genres? |
the entire classical music period | Through what period did the symphony not exist? |
the symphony ensemble | What has become a defining feature of classical music? |
the symphony | What did not exist through the entire classical music period? |
classical music | The use of a printed score and the performance of very complex instrumental works are characteristics of what? |
monks | Who sang medieval plainchant? |
live improvisation | J.S. Bach's fugues create a coherent harmonic logic that would be impossible for what other style of music? |
rhythm | The score determines how various parts are coordinated, pitch, and what other detail? |
written notation | What has allowed Classical musicians to perform music from many centuries ago? |
J.S. Bach's | Who's fugues achieve a remarkable marriage of boldly distinctive melodic lines? |
perform a historical work | The score does not provide complete and exact instruction on how to do what? |
the Baroque era | In what era were many works designed for basso continuo accompaniment? |
the human voice | Vibrato and glissando are possible on stringed, brass, woodwind and what other style instrument? |
held notes | What are fermatas? |
improvisation | Classical music in the 2000s has lost most of its tradition for musical what? |
organ performers | In the Baroque era, who would improvise preludes? |
instrumental performers | Who would improvise musical ornaments in the Baroque era? |
J.S. Bach | Who was noted for his complex improvisations? |
his ability to improvise melodies in different styles | What was Mozart noted for? |
the mid-19th century | Instrument currently used in most classical music where invented before what period? |
The symphony orchestra | What is the most widely known medium for classical music? |
brass | A symphony orchestra includes members of the string, woodwind, percussion and what other family of instruments? |
a string section | What does a symphony orchestra have that is missing from a concert band? |
vocal | What practice has changed a great deal over the classical period? |
wood | What was the medieval flute made from? |
vielle | What was an early version of the fiddle called? |
sackbut | What was an early version of the trombone called? |
singly | Medieval instrument in Europe were commonly used how? |
bas | Loud, shrill, and outdoor instruments were referred to as 'haut', while quieter, more intimate instruments were referred to as what? |
liturgical | What genre was predominately Gregorian chant during the earlier medieval period? |
Polyphonic vocal genres | What genre uses multiple independent vocal melodies? |
during the high medieval era | When did the Polyphonic vocal genre begin to develop? |
monophonic | What word means using a single unaccompanied vocal melody line? |
the Renaissance | Many instruments originated during what era? |
authentic instruments | What has disappeared, then been recreated in order to perform music of the period? |
percussion | Modern day instrument may be classified as brass, string, woodwind and what other classification? |
the Renaissance | Brass instruments were traditionally played by profession guild members during what era? |
the hurdy-gurdy | Stringed instruments during the Renaissance included the viol, the lyre, the cittern, the lute and what other instrument? |
Keyboard instruments with strings | The virginal is what type of instrument? |
Percussion | The tambourine, bells and rumble-pot are all what type of instrument? |
Woodwind | The reed pipe and recorder are what type of instrument? |
polyphonic style | Vocal music in the Renaissance is noted for an increasingly elaborate what? |
masses | What liturgical form besides motets endured throughout the entire Renaissance period? |
opera | Monody, the madrigal comedy, and intermedio are all precursors to what? |
Baroque | The cello, contrabrass and fortepiano were new instruments during what period? |
fell into disuse | What happened to the shawn and the wooden cornet during the Baroque period? |
Percussion | The timpani ans castanets are what type of instrument? |
Brass | The serpent is what type of instrument? |
theorbo | Which string instrument often played the basso continuo parts? |
the types of instruments used in ensembles | What was less standardized during the Baroque era? |
a classical era string quartet | Two violins, a viola, and a cello make up what type of group? |
clavichord | Keyboard instruments included the pip organ, harpsichord and what other instrument? |
a lute | What is an example of a stringed chordal instrument during the Baroque period? |
Haydn | From the 1750's to the early 1830's is the era of Mozart and what other composer? |
the early 1830s | Classical music can mean all Western art music or more specifically from the 1750's to when? |
the Medieval era | The broad meaning of classical music stretches back from today to what era? |
Baroque | Classical musicians continued to use many instruments from what era? |
rackett | The theorbo and what other Baroque instrument fell into disuse? |
the violin | The Baroque violin became what modern instrument? |
the regular valved trumpet | What did the Baroque trumpet become? |
viola | The violin, cello, contrabass and what other instrument form the string section of the orchestra? |
Woodwinds | The flute, oboe and bassoon are all what type of instrument? |
the harpsichord | What instrument fell out of use after the 1760s? |
the ophicleide | What instrument was the precursor of the tuba? |
Beethoven | To whom is the "standard complement" attributed to? |
Symphony No. 5 | PIccolo, contrabassoon, and trombones add to the triumphal finales of what piece by Beethoven? |
several decades | How long was symphonic instrumentation faithful to Beethoven's after he died? |
timbral "palette" | What did Beethoven expand in his Symphonies, 3, 5, 6 and 9? |
sunshine | A Piccolo and trombones provides the illusion of storm and what in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony? |
fortepiano | What instrument did the modern piano take over for in the Romantic era? |
two | How many double bass players were typically used in the Baroque orchestra? |
the standard orchestral palette | What wasn't rich enough for many Romantic composers? |
sound | Classical sections were expanded in the Romantic era for a fuller and bigger what? |
a bell-like keyboard instrument | What is a celestes? |
the late 19th century | When do saxophones first appear in scores? |
Symphonic Dances | Saxophone was featured as a solo instrument in what Sergei Rachmaninoff piece? |
as a member of the orchestral ensemble | How is the saxophone features in Ravel's Bolero? |
"tenor tuba" | The euphonium usually played parts marked as what? |
Gustav Holst | Who wrote The Planets? |
The Wagner tuba | What is the name of the modified member of the horn family appearing in several works by Strauss? |
Symphony No. 7 in E Major | Which symphony of Anton Bruckner's does the Wagner tuba have a prominent role in? |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Who wrote the ballet Swan Lake? |
freelance musicians | What will orchestras use to augment their regular rosters? |
La Mer | What Debussy piece features a cornet? |
Electric | What type of instrument appears occasionally in the 20th and 21st century styles of classical music? |
popular | What type of musicians besides classical have experimented with electronic instruments? |
electronic | What type of instrument is the gamelan? |
early classical music, | In what did the bagpipe fill an important role? |
the acoustic guitar | What instrument gained prominence in the 19th and 20th century? |
popular | Vihuelas and hurdy-gurdies are currently associated with what type of music? |
equal temperament | What type of temperament became accepted during the 18th century? |
the 18th century | When did equal temperament become accepted as the dominant musical temperament? |
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