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FINAL Flashcards

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Commonly accepted dates for the Baroque period are

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1600-1750

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2
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The roots of the Baroque are in what country?

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Italy

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The musical style of the Renaissance came to be referred to as _______ or ______.

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Prima practica, stile antico

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The newer style of the Baroque was referred to as _______ or ______.

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Seconda practica, stile moderno

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5
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A continuous bass line that accompanied the melody; it’s symbols were called _____.

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Basso continuo; figured bass

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6
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Composers began to write ________ in order to exploit the individual capabilities of voices/instruments.

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Idiomatically

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7
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Two important musical genres that came into existence around 1600; which country was each?

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Opera in Florence, Oratorio in Rome

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A large amount of Baroque music emphasizes “competition” between two groups - solo vs group, voices vs instrument, small group vs large

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Concertato

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9
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The primary genre of vocal chamber music was the _______.

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Solo cantata

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A descending four-note bass line often denoted sorrow and is known as a _______.

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Lament bass

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“Agitated style”

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Concitato

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12
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Music intended for large spaces such as basilicas and employing four or more choirs singing together echoing one another is known as the _______.

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Colossal Baroque

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13
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Who perfected the da capo aria?

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Alessandro Scarlatti

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14
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What are the two types of sonatas that emerged?

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da chiesa (church) and da camera (chamber)

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15
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What is the instrumentation of a Baroque trio sonata?

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2 melody instruments + basso continuo

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16
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The tempo pattern of a sinfonia (Italian overture):

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Fast/slow/fast

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17
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The tempo pattern of a French overture:

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Slow/fast/slow

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18
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An instrumental piece for ensemble in which one or more soloists both complemented and competed with an orchestra:

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Sonata

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19
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Who pioneered the development of the sonata?

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Rossi and Corelli

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20
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A collection of pieces in dance rhythms is a

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Suite

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21
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Who developed the standard dances?

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Froberger

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22
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What are the standard dances?

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Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue

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An organ piece that introduced the congregational hymn by playing it through its entirety prior to singing

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Chorale prelude

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24
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The composer who took the Italian concerted style to Dresden, Germany

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Schütz

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25
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The composer who wrote the first significant opera

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Monteverdi

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26
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The first composer to specify instrumentation and to employ dynamic markings in a musical score

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Gabrieli

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27
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The first significant oratorios were composed by

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Carissimi

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28
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The priest who composed hundreds of string concertos

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Vivaldi

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29
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The name for the simple vocal style that characterized the earliest Baroque solo songs

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Monody

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30
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A type of singing that is flexible and mimics the rhythms of speech

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Recitative

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31
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The term for divided choir

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Cori spezzati

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32
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The standard for single movements in sonatas and dance suites

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Binary form

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33
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The small group of soloists in a concerto grosso

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Concertino

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34
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Notes performed somewhere between legato and staccato

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Spiccato

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35
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Alternate tuning of a stringed instrument

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Scordatura

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36
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The most important French musician at the time of Louis XIV

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Lully

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37
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A multi-movement piece composed to commemorate a birthday or a similar occasion

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Ode

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38
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A male vocalist who sings in the alto range

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Countertenor

39
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The idea that music conveys a single emotion resulted in this

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Doctrine of Affections

40
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Where was opera first made available to the public?

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1600 in Florence

41
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What was Monteverdi’s final opera?

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“l’incoronazione di Poppea”

42
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What is the title and the composer of the first true opera?

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“Dafne” by Jacopo Peri

43
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A dramatic work or play set to music with the lines of the actors sung rather than spoken

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Opera

44
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The new Baroque style of vocal expression that dramatically mixed speech and song in a dramatic fashion was referred to by the Camerata as _______.

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stile rappresentativo

45
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Who was the first composer to write idiomatically for instruments?

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Giovanni Gabrieli

46
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Who created the stile concitato?

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Monteverdi

47
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A bass line that insistently repeats is a

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Basso ostinato

48
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What style employed distinctly separate units of voices and instruments to create vivid contrasts?

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Concerted style

49
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Fiori musicali was the work of _______. What type of music is it?

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Frescobaldi; organ

50
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Who was the most famous maker of prized violins in Baroque Italy?

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Antonio Stradivari

51
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Who was the first composer to make his reputation strictly as a composer of instrumental music?

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Corelli

52
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What are multiple stops on a string instrument?

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Playing two or more notes simultaneously

53
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What musical genre was favored by Vivaldi?

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Concerto (solo&grosso)

54
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What was the preferred form for Baroque sonata movement?

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Binary form

55
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Who composed the mystery sonatas?

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Biber

56
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A composition for organ which is based on a chorale melody but gives free rein to the composers imagination

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Chorale Fantasia

57
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Johann Froberger composed almost exclusively for _______.

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Keyboard

58
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Who was the greatest organ composer of his day in northern Germany?

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Buxtehude

59
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Who injured himself while conducting and died from the injury?

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Lully

60
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Who was known for the cantata française and what were they typically about?

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Elizabeth Jacquet de la Gurre; Old Testament Heroes

61
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What genre created by Lully fused tragedy with ballet?

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Tragédie lyrique

62
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An organization which Lully gained exclusive control over was the _______.

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Académie royale de musique

63
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Ballet danced at the French court in which members of the court appeared alongside professional dancers?

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Ballet de cour

64
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What important form is Louis Couperin remembered for?

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Unmeasured prelude; opening piece without indications for rhythmic direction

65
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What is the title of the significant pedagogical manual by Francois Couperin?

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“the art of playing the harpsichord”

66
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What Parisian family was known for lute playing and composition?

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The Gaultiers

67
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A dotted note is made longer than written, while its complimentary short notes are made shorter

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Overdotting

68
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What is Purcell’s best known work and his only fully sung opera?

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“Dido and Aeneas”

69
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In English music, an ostinato bass line is referred to as

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Ground bass

70
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An aria with distinctive characteristics such as parallel thirds. , a slow tempo, a lilting rhythm in compound meter, and harmony that changes slowly

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Pastoral aria

71
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A sustained or repeated pitch played in the bass above which the harmony changes

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Pedal point

72
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What type of tuning involves dividing the octave into twelve equal half steps?

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Equal temperament

73
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What was the focus of composition for Bach during his years in Leipzig?

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Cantatas/vocal music

74
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What is a sacred vocal genre that employs and text and/is of a pre-existing Lutheran hymn in all or several of its movements?

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Chorale

75
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What is the philosophical, scientific, and political movement that dominated the 18th century thought?

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The Age of Enlightenment

76
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When and where was the premier of Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice”? What notable musical figure attended as a child?

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Vienna, 1762; Mozart

77
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What work provided the first serious challenge to the reign of opera Seria?

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John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera”

78
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Difference between a ballad and ballad opera?

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Ballad/traditional strophic song

Ballad opera/comic opera that used retexted ballads and spoken dialogue

79
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A musical diversion between the acts of an opera or play

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Intermezzo

80
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Who created reform opera/what were its goals?

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Gluck; sought to combine Italian lyricism and the French intense desire for dramatic expression

81
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In what major European cities were public concerts performed in the mid-18th century?

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London, Paris, Vienna

82
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Which city had the first public concerts and what were they called?

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Paris; concert spirituel

83
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In what genre is Giovanni Sammartini significant?

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Symphony

84
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What orchestra was referred to as an army of generals and who conducted it?

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The Mannheim Orchestra; Johann Stamitz

85
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What was stamitz’s orchestra known for and what were they?

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Mannheim crescendo- a gradual increase from soft to loud

Mannheim rocket- Triadic theme that bursts forth as a rising arpeggio

86
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An accompaniment pattern in which a triad is played successively in arpeggiated form on a keyboard is

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Alberti Bass

87
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Johann Cristian Bach was known as the _______ Bach.

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London

88
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What term is associated with CPE Bach’s style of playing with great sentiment and expressiveness?

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Empfindsamer stil

89
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Bebung can only be accomplished on the ______.

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Clavichord

90
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Smooth and graceful style; best represented in JC Bach’s works

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Galant

91
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The Viennese School includes which composers?

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Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert

92
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The single greatest formal innovation of the Enlightenment is ______.

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Sonata form

93
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The primary sections of sonata form are:

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Exposition, development, recapitulation and sometimes a coda

94
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A form with an opening section which alternates with contrasting sections throughout the movement

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Rondo form

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