The Classical Period of Music

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What are the approximate dates of the Classical period of music?

• 1400-1600
• 1750-1820
• 450-1450
• 1600-1750

What two elements of both music and art were stressed during the Classical period?

• Style and Form
• Beauty and Consonance
• Balance and Clarity of Structure
• Tone and Rhythm

What is one of the criteria that music of the Classical Era needed to have?

• It needed to be limited to one country or city
• It needed to be extremely passionate and expressive
• It needed to be technically complicated
• It needed to appeal to both rich people and middle class people

Name two very famous composers from the Classical period of music

• Mozart and Beethoven
• Bach and Handel
• Leonin and Perotin
• Wagner and Liszt

What is another one of the criteria that music from in the Classical period needed to meet?

• It needed to be only enjoyable for the common folk
• It needed to be universal-not limited by countries of cities
• It needed to not express any emotion whatsoever
• It needed to be technically complicated

Who was the first composer to break free of the patronage system?

• Bach
• Handel
• Beethoven
• Mozart

Which composer went deaf?

• Bach
• Handel
• Beethoven
• Mozart

In which period of music was there a unity of mood?

• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Baroque
• Classical

In which period of music was the printing press invented, enabling composers' music to have a wider audience

• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Baroque
• Classical

In which period of music was the music enjoyable to both trained musicians and common folk?

• Classical
• Baroque
• Renaissance
• Middle Ages