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Classical Music Frq Worksheet

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1. A fugue is a contrapuntal composition in which a single theme pervades the entire fabric, entering in one voice (or instrumental line) and then in another. Based on the principle of imitation. An example would be Bach’s cantata Wachet auf.
2. Has three parts, exposition, development, recapitulation. And Exposition is repeated which has two parts theme one and theme two. Which goes back to the development which you could do whatever you want with it. But has to end in the tonic form instead of dominant.
3. The music of Beethoven was more based on romantic events, and by heroic it means that he wants to mess with your head, wants to manipulate your emotions. Wanted to make the audience feel how he feels. He departs from standard procedure …show more content…

Haydn wrote most of his string quarters in sets of six. The third in the set is known as the Emperor because the second movement is based on the hymn he wrote for the Austrian Emperor Franz II. The invasion of Vienna by Napoleonic armies in 1796 raised a spirit of patriotism across Austria, to which Haydn responded with a musical tribute that became the country’s national anthem (God Keep Franz the Emperor).
5. Baroque musical style basically means Music intensifies emotions. In the period 1600’s and early 1700’s. Europeans set out to develop musical approaches designed to “ramp up” various emotional states and help listeners experience their diversity more deeply. A composer would be Johann Sebastian Bach and one of his composition would be Wachet auf (Sleepers, Awake).
6. Classical Style was designed for a more intimate expressive space. One composer would be Lugwig van Beethoven and a composition would be Moonlight Sonata.
7. Don Giovanni combines elements of opera buffa and opera seria. Opera buffa being more satirical while seria would be more serious aspect of the play. In the beginning Mozart starts the play whih Don Giovanni trying to seduce Lady Anna, but wanting to know the true identity of the masked men she calls for help. Her father goes and is killed in a dual with Don Giovanni. Putting that is not a lighthearted drama but a serious

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