Answers to Questions:

Grades K-3

1. Answers will vary including happy, joyous, feel like tapping your feet, feel like dancing, sad, sleepy, boring, and so forth.

2. Answers will vary; similar to church music.

3. Answers will vary; much of the music was instrumental and for dancing.

4. Opera.

5. A large group of instruments playing together.

6. Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt, Weber, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

7. Answers will vary. He was one of the greatest composers of all time.

1. Answers will vary. The intensity of his music, was unheard of at the time.

2. Answers will vary. He learned music within 30 minutes at the age of four, he played the clavier (an instrument) at five, he began composing at six, and he wrote his first symphony at eight!

3. Answers will vary. He wrote the Brahms lullaby. His work was compared to Beethoven’s music.

Grades 4-8

1. Musicians who traveled and sang for pay during the Middle Ages.

2. It was sung during worship services in the Catholic Church.

3. It means rebirth, and the music that began to be played often at the time was instrumental and dance music.

4. Perform in the courts for monarchs during special occasions.

5. Impersonal, tuneful and elegant.

6. Answers will vary.

7. He was an excellent singer, player of the organ and violin. He worked in the choir at age fifteen, etc.

8. He was a child prodigy. He learned music at age four, played the clavier at age five, composed at age six, and wrote his first symphony at age eight. He was credited with composing music for just about every musical genre of that era.

9. Beethoven’s advancing deafness was a tragedy for any musician, especially a composer; however, it did not stop him from composing.

10. Bach was compared to Beethoven because of his intenseness and feeling in his work.

Grades 9-12

1. Answers will vary.

2. Answers will vary. Bach, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Scarlatti and Handel were composers during this time. Opera came into being in Italy, etc.

3. The music was elegant and used for serenades and dances such as the minuet and the gavotte. Vienna became the musical center, and the Viennese style was born.

4. The program symphony, the symphonic poem, and concert overture were developed. There were great composers such as Mendelssohn, Shumann, Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt.

5. Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

A Concerto Grosso means a great concert. His most famous one was Brandenburg

1. Concerto No. 3 composed for the Duke of Brandenburg.

2. Later in his career, Mozart’s concertos began with an elaborate sonata form in the first movement, followed by a tender and melodious second movement and ended with a brisk rondo. Mozart infused this form, which was unheard of in symphonic writing until Beethoven.

3. Brahms was obviously influenced by Beethoven. Both wrote symphonies, which were magisterial and intense.

4. When Beethoven became aware of his advancing deafness, he began to be unhappy with his work. His Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat major was almost two times as long as any other symphony that had been written up to that time. He introduced more themes, contrast, instruments and drama than was ever heard in a symphony up to that time.

Brahms mixed the Classical forms with the Romanticism.