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WorksheetsWestern Classical Music Recap
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which period of music spans the dates 1600-1750?
Baroque Period
Classical Period
Romantic Period
Modern Period
Which period of music comes between Baroque and Romantic?
(a)
Select the Baroque composers...
JS Bach
Ludvig van Beethoven
Edvard Grieg
Antonio Vivaldi
In which city was Beethoven born?
Berlin, Germany
Bonn, Germany
Paris, France
Bern, Switzerland
Which country was Vivaldi from?
(a)
Which TWO of these were favourite instruments to compose for, for Bach, Handel and Vivaldi?
Harpsichord
Clarinet
Violin
Saxophone
Complete the famous composer's name: Wolfgang (a) Mozart
Mozart was from which mid-European country?
Australia
Germany
Austria
Italy
What is a symphony?
Musical composition for one player
Musical composition for two players
A song for a musical
A composition for the whole orchestra
Which of these forms of music developed first in the Baroque period?
Rock n Roll
Opera
Symphony
Musicals
Which of these woodwind instruments was a new member of the orchestra in the time of Mozart (classical period)?
Flute
Saxophone
Bassoon
Clarinet
Which woodwind instrument is this?
Flute
Oboe
Clarinet
Bassoon
Baroque music often has more than one independent melody playing at the same time. This is called (a) texture.
This city is really important to classical music. Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, among many other composers, all worked here. What city is it?
(a)
Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven and many many other composers wrote lots of Concertos. Which definition best fits the word Concerto?
A composition for the whole orchestra
A composition for just one player
A composition for a solo player, backed by the full orchestra
A composition which is improvised
Which words were used in the video last week to describe the music of Beethoven?
heroic
serious
emotional
passionate
In which year was Fur Elise composed by Beethoven?
1710
1810
1910
2010
In which year was Ludvig van Beethoven born?
1670
1700
1770
1800
What type of musical ensemble is this?
Violin group
String quartet
String quintet
Orchestra
Due to his growing deafness, Beethoven's music paved the way to a new style of music which reflected greater emotion and the composer's imagination. Which period of music did Beethoven create the way for?
Romantic period
Modern period
Baroque period
