Exam 2

Question 1

The most important of the council of Trent (counter reformation) toward music pertained to…

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Textual intelligibility and lasciviousness in sacred music

(No secular music in church(

Question 2

First all female vocal ensemble

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The concerto delle-Donne

Question 3

Composition for an individual vocal line with a companionment

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Monody

Question 4

The first operas were produced and performed in

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Florence at the Medici court (at the turn of the seventeenth century)

Question 5

Musical sections between acts

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The intermedi

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Style half-way between speaking and singing

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The stile reppresantivo

Question 7

Venice in 1637

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First public opera theatre

Question 8

Composing for two or more choirs that were separated

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Cori spezzati

Question 9

Most influential composer of keyboard music in the early 17th century

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Frescobaldi

Question 10

Strictly religious opera

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The oratorio

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ABA

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Da capo aria

Question 12

4 movements

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The corellian sonata

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3 movements

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The concerto grosso

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Section near the end of concerto which was improvised

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Cadenza

Question 15

Main theme that returns again and again, but alternates with episodes

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Ritornello form

Question 16

French serious opera

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Tragedie lyrique

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Purcell

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Dido and Aenas

Question 18

Fugue by J.S. Bach

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Subject
Exposition
Counter-subject
Episode

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City that J.S. Bach lived and worked from 1773 until his death in 1750

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Leipzig

Question 20

What does the term classical refer to?

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Desire to emulate the works of Ancient Greeks and Romans

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The main patron of the arts during the classical period was

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The aristocracy

Question 22

Major musical center during the 18th century

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Vienna

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Italian comic opera

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Opera buffa

Question 24

II Barbiere de Siviglia and La Serva padrona by…

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Pasiello and Pergolesi

Question 25

By the late 18th century the standard structure of a symphony was

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4 movements within the 1st sonata form

Question 26

Which composer gave the most significant contribution to the early development of string quartet

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Haydn

Question 27

Invented around the beginning of the 18th century, by crsitofori

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Pianoforte

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Full or companionment

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Rcitativo obligato

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Simple and tuneful melodies

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Opera buffa

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Quarrell between supporters of French and Italian opera

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Quenelles de bouffons

Question 31

Example of English comic opera (ballad opera)

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John Gay's the beggar's opera

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Recitatives and arias

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Opera seria

Question 33

In his preface to Alceste..

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Gluck condemned singers for excessive ornamentations

Question 34

1st movement of mozart's symphony no. 40 in G minor, k.550

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Sonata form

Question 35

3 main sections of sonata form:

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Exposition Development Recapitulation

Question 36

In sonata form the development is usually characterized by

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Unstable harmonies and frequent modulation a

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Minuet form

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A(ab) B(cd) A(ab)

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Rondo form

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ABACA

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Sonata form ternary

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ABA

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First to regularly compose 4 movement symphonies

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Stamitz

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Hayden early career was in

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Vienna at the Esterhazy court

Question 42

"Don Giovanni" "Le mezze di figaro" "Cosi fan tutte" are Mozart's operas based on

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Libretto by Lorenzo de Ponte

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German term for comic opera

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The singspiel

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Mozart's requiem mass was completed by

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Franz Xavier Sussmayr

Question 45

Beethoven composed...

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9 symphonies

Question 46

Poetic text for voice and piano companionment

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German lied

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Music that depicts a story

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Program music

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An important center for music during the nineteenth century

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Paris

Question 49

Main idea behind "absolute music" (German school) is...

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Music has no literacy or pictorial associations

Question 50

Predominant composition in Lutheran music.

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The chorale