BINGO. Divide class into three teams and the members of each team with one of the three versions of the Bingo boards.

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1 BINGO Copy information cards onto cardstock paper, or glue them on to 3x5 cards. Divide class into three teams and the members of each team with one of the three versions of the Bingo boards. Supply beans or papers to cover up answers. Have students alternate picking a card from the information deck of cards. All students should write the information read from the card in the appropriate place on their Bingo boards and then cover it with a paper. The team to first achieve 4 in a row calls Bingo. Continue to play new games until all of the information cards have been read and copied.

2 was a child prodigy who began playing and composing at a very early age. He travelled to London, Paris, Rome and many other places while he was still a child. He wrote, and many piano sonatas and concertos, quartets and other chamber music. was a writer of librettos for operas. He wrote the librettos for three of s greatest operas, Haydn s family was very poor, but he received musical training as a choirboy in Vienna. Early in his life, he got a job for the Haydn wrote many pieces for the Prince, including s, Symphonies, Quartets and piano sonatas. Late in his life, Haydn was allowed to go to London. Here he heard the great works of Handel and was inspired to write an oratorio of his own, He also wrote 6 on this trip. Sturm und Drang was a style of writing that occured later in the Classic age. It means storm and stress. Pieces in this style are usually in minor keys and are very agitated. s gm Symphonies (#25 and #40) are both in this style. at the beginning of the Classic era was in the style of the Baroque. This style dealt with lofty characters and strict rules for alternating recitatives and arias. Soon buffa became more popular. In this style, there were low voices, common people as characters, and big group finales. The classic composers favored several for their pieces. These included string quartets, Solo sonatas, Concertos and Symphonies. Haydn wrote some of the first which used as a model for his own quartets. Haydn s opus 33 quartets used a new motivic way of writing. The Symphony was a new important kind of piece in the classic age. It grew out of in Italy wrote some of the early Symphonies. became a center for Symphonies. Composers like developed several Symphonic techniques like, which added instruments to make a crescendo, and the coup de archet (starting down bow). Mannheim influenced how wrote Symphonies. who was one of JS Bach s sons wrote music in the Instead of heavy ornaments and countrapuntal lines like the Baroque used, this style was very elegant, showing simplicity and moderation. It often slow had slow chord changes, and a light melody with pleasant arches. was a comic piece, usually with servants and other common characters. It was performed between the acts of an. wrote an important intermezzo,, which caused many opera composers to rethink what opera should be. Specific forms began to develop for Classical music. form was the primary form used, especially for first movements. It had an where the two themes were presented, a section in many keys and a where the main theme would come back. Beethoven Forms a bridge from the classic period to the romantic period. He originally came to Vienna to study with Haydn but soon changed teachers. He has three main periods. The first largely his music is largely classical but pieces like the Pathetique already show romantic tendencies. In the classical period, certain instrumental ensembles became standard. Most of these demonstrated a homogeneous sound, different from the Baroque period. Ensembles included the Piano sonata as well as sonatas for other instruments, Symphony, String Quartet, String and Piano Trios and Quintets. of the classic composers became composers themselves. These include the composer/musicians Johann Baptist Cramer of Mannheim who was a student of Clementi and a student of, Haydn and Clementi and teacher of Czerny who also studied with Beethoven. After the deaths of the great classical composers, others, often their students, went to great lengths to catalogue their many works. catalogued s works chronologically giving them Köchel or K numbers. gave Haydn s works

3 Beethoven Haydn Pathetique Sturm und Drang The Symphony s gm Symphonies buffa instrumental ensembles specific forms

4 Sturm und Drang Haydn s s gm Symphonies The Symphony buffa Instrumental Ensembles: Beethoven Specific forms Pathetique

5 The Symphony Haydn s Beethoven Pathetique Specific forms Instrumental Ensembles Sturm und Drang buffa s gm Symphonies