O My Classical Music O Book BAROQUE ROMANTIC CLASSICAL O Copyright ©2017 T. Smith Publishing. All rights reserved. www.tlsbooks.com These composers lived and worked between 1600 – 1750. Music during this time was very complex and Baroque made extensive use of counterpoint (two or more melodies sounding at the same time). Popular genres and forms during this time were the opera, the dance suite, and the fugue. The Baroque era marked the beginning of the Common Practice Period. Antonio Johann VIVALDI PACHELBEL Johann Sebastian BACH EORGE RIDERIC Domenico G F SCARLATTI HANDEL Copyright ©2017 T. Smith Publishing. All rights reserved. www.tlsbooks.com These composers lived and worked from the end of the Baroque era to about 1825. Music during this time became simpler, often having only one melody sounding over a chordal accompaniment. The opera remained popular, and the famous symphony form was developed during this time along with the string quartet. Classical Niccolò Antonio PAGANINI SALIERI Franz Joseph HAYDN Ludwig Wolfgang Amadeus VAN BEETHOVEN MOZART Copyright ©2017 T. Smith Publishing. All rights reserved. www.tlsbooks.com These composers lived and worked from the end of the Classical era to about 1900. Music during this time was often very expressive and emotional. The German Lied, meaning song, was quite popular during this time. Program music, which is music that attempts to “paint a picture” with sound, also became very popular. The end of the Romantic era marked the end of the Common Practice Period. Claude Francisco DEBUSSY TÁRREGA Romantic Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Felix RICHARD MENDELSSOHN AGNER W Copyright ©2017 T. Smith Publishing. All rights reserved. www.tlsbooks.com Sort the Composers Write the last name of each composer under the period during which they wrote music. Felix Mendelssohn Domenico Scarlatti Ludwig van Beethoven Richard Wagner Franz Joseph Haydn Johann Pachelbel Antonia Vivaldi Pyotr Ilyich Tachaikovsky Johann Sebastian Bach Claude Debussy Antonio Salieri George Frideric Handel Francisco Tárrega Niccolò Paganini Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Baroque Classical Romantic Activities Copyright ©2017 T. Smith Publishing. All rights reserved. www.tlsbooks.com Make as many words as you can from the letters in Common Practice Period Copyright ©2017 T. Smith Publishing. All rights reserved. www.tlsbooks.com Classical Music Word Search Find and circle each of the words from the word box in the puzzle. S B L X B W N J R Z E O M C T A S Z T B S F B A R O Q U E I B R R Y W I R P W B B V M C M S G F T E M T L Q I Y D O L A N U A U B S C P N A L L N E N S N M R A N K P O H I C R H E G I O T I R I I T R M O O W J F Y J Q A I O P E R A O P N P I R U L V R U C K M C F P G O Y R G X G T G V U A U B X L A R S N E D F U O A E B O R Z D X S A E M T P Q E Q O N I B M T Q D O M R Q N E P Z B D K R F E W E C M M E K U C L A S S I C A L B Z T X U L Y O Z U D T G D Y F O P M W S S U X C W P J F F Y G W D Z Q R R I L E U X H S B U V U X Y Z W F U C A Q X N I F C I Z E O I G Z Q X D R Y Word Box Classical opera counterpoint Romantic program music fugue Baroque melody symphony string quartet Copyright ©2017 T. Smith Publishing. All rights reserved. www.tlsbooks.com Answer keys and assembly instructions for My Classical Music Book. Print page 1 (cover) on cardstock or heavy paper. Print pages 2-8. The answer key (page 8) is optional. Cut each page and the cover along the solid black line – INCLUDE THE TABS. Punch holes where indicated on the cover. Stack the remaining pages and punch holes to line up with cover. Secure the pages with brads or string. You may include a blank back cover made of cardstock or heavy paper. Copyright ©2017 T. Smith Publishing. All rights reserved. www.tlsbooks.com .