EC Music Quiz 2

What is instrumental music for the sake of music itself without any pre-existing story behind it?

What do Classical Composers refer to as the "Ultimate Instrument", able to boast all 4 families of western classical instruments

What is an instrumental work created for 1-2 players created to feature a soloist?

This is a setting of poetry to music with a singer usually accompanied by a piano

This brought with it the means to create more affordable and responsive musical instruments, as well as the technical improvements that strongly influenced the sound of Romantic music.

The Songs of ___ exemplify the intersection between the vernacular “American Spirit” and the European art tradition

Hadyn, Mozart, Beethoven Schubert, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Hensel, Schumann & Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, and many others played and composed important works for what instrument. It is also said to be "the most central to western music"

In a Classical symphony, (usually) there are at most how many movements?

What is a genre designed to demonstrate the expressive capabilities of a full orchestra

Concertos often included improvised virtuosic solo sections, usually near the end and in a “free tempo” called?