Classical Period

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The Classical Period

3rd Grade Music

Ms. Merritt

Classical Period 1750-1820

What was music like in the classical period?

The music contained balanced musical phrases.

All the music had an identifiable tune or a melody.

(This is why we often recognize music from this period.)

Examples of Classical Music

• Mozart's 40th Symphony
• Beethoven's Fur Elise
• Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
• Mozart's Sonota in C
• Mozart's Rondo Allo Turke

Inventions from the Classical Period

The toilet

The camera

The stethoscope

Joseph Haydn

Wrote one hundred and six symphonies.

Was friends with Beethovens but did not

like Beethovens manners.

Hadyn included many surprise loud

parts to wake up people who had fallen

asleep. First to make a string quartet.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Born 1770 and as a boy learned to play

the piano, violin, and the organ. In 1776

he moved to Vienna in order to meet

Mozart. In 1791, he became a student of

Joseph Haydns. Five years later he

became deaf but continued to create

music for others and wrote his famous

9th Symphony in 1824.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart was a child prodigy on the piano

and the violin. He wrote over 600 peices

of music. Beginning when he was just

five years old. Mozart wrote his first

opera at the age of eight.

Classical Period Orchestra

• Was a bit bigger, louder, and included more wind.
  
• There was no baton in the classical period.
• Included four bar measures.
• The conductor faced the crowd during the performance.
  

Piano Forte

The classical orchestra did not use the

harpsichord.

Instead the Piano Forte became

popular because you could play soft

and loud.

                                     Piano= soft

                                     Forte= loud

The Classical Period lasted from...

1. 1720-1750
2. 1750-1820
3. 1820-1860
4. 1600-1640

Compared to baroque what was different about the classical period of music?

1. Music was fancy and beautiful
2. The orchestra had all races
3. Musical phrases were neat and balanced
4. Musical phrases were imbalanced

A melody can be described as the...

1. Form
2. Style
3. Sound
4. Tune

Who is the "daddy of the string quartet"?

1. Haydn
2. Mozart
3. Bach
4. Beethoven

What composer was known as a "boy genius"?

1. Haydn
2. Mozart
3. Bach
4. Beethoven

What composer went deaf?

1. Haydn
2. Mozart
3. Bach
4. Beethoven

The classical orchestra was bigger than that of the Baroque period.

1. True
2. False

In the classical period conductors faced the...

1. Harpsichord
2. Lead instrument
3. Orchestra
4. Audience

Why did the piano become more popular than the harpsichord?

1. Pianos can be played both loud and soft
2. A harpsichord was smaller
3. Pianos were a more simple style
4. It looked cooler

Opera Activity

Operas consist of music that tells a story. Today we are going to tell our own story to fit Mozart's work.

Fin!