Miscellaneous Flashcards
(28 cards)
Which musical form dominated over church music in the late-1700’s?
Opera
What declined in importance after Bach’s death?
Lutheran church music
Name an important German oratorio written after Bach’s death…
????
Which musical form did classic symphony grow out of?
Italian overture
Basso Continuo virtually disappeared in orchestral music by what year?
1775
Johann Stamitz originated from where?
Mannheim
Johann Stamitz was known for what two things?
1) officially establishing the 4 mvt. symphony
2) the “Mannheim Crescendo”
Who never typically messed up when composing a new work?
WA Mozart
Mozart thought that music was ________ and that poetry was _______
Primary
Secondary
What one-word description can be given to describe the classical period?
“Apallonian”
Describe “Roccoco”
-a transitional period from 1725-1775 between Baroque and Classical period
Describe the “galant style”
Style known to have originated with Couperin in 1700’s
-smooth, sophisticated
Describe the “Empfindsam style”
German form with odd turns of harmony, nervous rhythmic figures, and is expressive
Describe “opera buffa”
Italian opera form, involves 6+ characters, full-length opera that is sung throughout
Describe “intermezzo”
Short, comic opera sung between the acts of an opera seria
Describe “drama giocoso”
-name an example
A farsical, non-tragic comic opera like Mozart’s…
Don Giovanni
What is important about the opera Comique?
Had SPOKEN dialogue
Describe a “rescue opera”
A deliverance of sympathetic character from a threatening situation
Who wrote the first “rescue opera?
Grétry
Describe “ballad opera”
This is the popular English reaction to foreign language opera
When was “the Beggars Opera” composed?
1728
Describe a “Singspiel”
-German popular music theatre, recit. And aria
Opera seria
A Italian serious opera
Normally has a series of alternating of recitative & aria, r&a, r&a, etc.
Name the North German city who witnessed a revival of simple German folksong?
Berlin
