Year 11 Homework Term 2B Assignment 2a – Classical Music

Watch: Howard Goodall’s Story of Music Episode 3 – The Age of Elegance, and answer the questions:

All Questions are in order of the film.

1. Who are the three composers mentioned in the opening 3 minutes?

2. Which are considered classical and which are considered romantic?
3. Which historical events occurred during these times?
4. Which dates are given for the classical music?
5. What happened to the social status of the composer?
6. What is the music of Haydn, Schubert and their contemporaries rarely?
7. What two things were they searching for?
8. From 4mins.10 – 5.35, Haydn’s trumpet concerto is used. Describe the relationship between
the trumpet and orchestra in this section of the music.
9. Which two revolutions occurred during the classical period?
10. Which of Haydn’s symphonies was written during the chaos in Paris?

6min 40

11. Describe the new approach to chords?

12. Which were the main three chords?
13. Which chord is used most in the example piece by Gluck?
14. Roughly how much was used for ‘other chords’
15. In the Beethoven example, which were the only three chords used?
16. Which musical genre is linked to these chords?

10min30

17. What were architects obsessed with?

18. Which two things played in an important part in the music of Haydn and Mozart?
19. Who was the little-known composer who created the structure used by classical composers
to develop melody?
20. What was the instrumentation of his orchestra?
21. Which composer took this idea and further developed it to create the symphony?
22. How would you describe the musical phrases of the classical period?
23. What is the string technique seen in the video at 15:58?
24. Which two composers then copied Haydn’s technique?
25. How is the symphony described in at 17:00 – what do you think is important about this?
26. When did Mozart write his first symphony - what age?
27. What would happen to Mozart if the public didn’t like his music?
28. Name 3 of the pieces composed by Mozart demonstrated by the Jukebox?

End for this section at 20minutes in.