Music Ap Flashcards
(147 cards)
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Music can be defined as
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An art based on the organization of sounds in time
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the 4 main properties of musical sounds are pitch, dynamics, tone color, and
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Rhythm
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the relative highness or lowness of a sound is called
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Pitch
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In general, the smaller the vibrating element, the ____ its pitch
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Higher
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The distance in pitch between any two tomes is called
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An interval
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If a pitch vibrates at 880 cycles the octave below would vibrate at ___ cycles
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440
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The interval that occurs when 2 diffrent tones blend so well when sounded together that they seem to merge into one tone is called
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Octave
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the distance between the lowest and highest tones a voice or instrument can produce is called
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Pitch range
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Timbre is synonymous with
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Tone color
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When music is created at the same time as it is performed, it is said to be
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Improvised
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The bow that string players usually use to produce sounds on their instruments is a slightly curved stick strung tightly with
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Horse hair
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The strings of a violin are tuned
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By tightly or loosening the pegs
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Plucking the string with the finger instead of using a bow is called
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Pizzicato
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woodwind instruments are so named because they
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Were originally made of wood
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which of the following is not a double reed instrument
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Clarinet
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The vibrations of brass instruments come from
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The musician’s lips
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A _____ is an apparatus that produces ticking or flashes of light at any desired musical speed
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Metronome
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A ___ sign is used in musical notation to cancel a previous sharp or flat sign
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Natural
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Western music uses ____ letters of the alphabet to indicate pitch
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The first 7
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In musical notation, pitches are written on a set of 5 horizontal lines called a
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Staff
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In musical notation, silence is indicated by
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Rests
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A cadence is
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A resting place at the end of a phrase
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A chord is a
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combination of 3 or more tones sounded at once
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The simplest, most basic chord used in western music is the
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Triad
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If a flute player were to play a solo without any other accompaniment, the texture would be
Monophonic
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When 2 or more melodic lines of equal interest are performed simultaneously, the texture is
Polyphonic
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In music ____ refers to a characteristic way of using melody, rhythm, tone color, dynamics, harmony, texture, and form
Style
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The word baroque has at various times meant all of the following except
Naturalistic
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Baroque style flourished in music during the period
1600 - 1750
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the 2 giants of baroque compositions were george frederic Handel and
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ____ period
Late baroque
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Affections in baroque usage refers to
Emotional states or moods of music
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A baroque musical composition usually expresses ___ within the same movement
One basic mood
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the compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by
repeated rhythmic patterns
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baroque melodies often are
elaborate and ornamented
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melodic sequences refers to
The successive repetition of a musical idea at higher or lower pitches
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terraced dynamics refers to
the sudden alteration from one dynamic level to another
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The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the
Harpsichord
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A popular keyboard instrument in which sound was produced by means of brass blades striking the string was the
Clavichord
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The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of
Basso continuo
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A bass part together with numbers that specify the chords to be played above it is called
Figured bass
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the orchestra evolved during the baroque period into a performing group based on instruments of the ___ family
Violin
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The musical director of a baroque court was usually not responsible for
Publicity in reaching an audience
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The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of
a higher class servant with few personal rights
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During the baroque period _____ were not allowed to be employed as musical directors
Women
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Bach's brandenburg concerto No.5 is unusual in that
It gives a solo role to the harpsichord
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the main theme of a fugue is called the
Subject
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when the subject of the fugue is present in the dominant scale, it is called the
Answer
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An _____ is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes and action
Opera
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The text or book of a musical dramatic work is called the
Libretto
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A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called
Aria
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An _____ is a musical number for 2 solo voices voices with orchestral accompaniment
Duet
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An _____ is an operatic number involving 3 or more leading singers
Ensemble
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The ____ is the person who beats time, indicates expression, cues in musicians, and controls the balance among instruments and voices
Conductor
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An _____ is an orchestral composition performed before the curtain rises on a
Overture
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The First opera house in Europe to offer entry to anyone with the price of admission opened in 1637 in
Venice
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The earliest opera that has been preserved in Jacopo Peri's
Euridice
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Castrati
Received the highest fees of any musicians, Combined lung power of man with vocal range of women, were all male singers who had been castrated before puberty
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In the myth of Orpheus, Orpheus goes to hades in the hope of bringing _____ back to life
Eurydice
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The respect given to Henry Purcell by his fellow Englishmen is evidence by his burial in
Westminster Abbey
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Vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in
Venice
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Which of the following about Vivaldi's La Primavera (spring) from the 4 seasons is true
The price is an example of program music
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While at leipzig, Bach
Taught organ and composition, gave recitals, and was often asked to judge the constitution of organs
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Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____ of his day
Organist
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Bach's personal musical style was draw from
Italian Concertos, French dance pieces, German church music
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Sets of dance inspired instrumental movements are called
Suites
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A large scale composition for chorus, vocal soloist, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text is called
Oratorio
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Oratorio differs from opera in that it has no
Acting, scenery, or costumes
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George frideric haydn was born in 1685 the same year as
Johann sebastian bach
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Handle spent the majority portion of his life in
England
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Handel's Messiah is an example of
An oratorio
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The middle ages refers to
450 - 1450
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The Renaissance may be described as an age of
Curiosity and individualism, Exploration and adventure, and the rebirth of human creativity
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In the Middle ages, most important musicians were
Priest
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A virtual monopoly on learning during the middle ages was held by
Monks in monasteries
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During the middle ages what institution was the center of musical life
The church
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Church officials expected monks to sing
With proper pronunciation and tone quality
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The church frowned on instruments because of their
Earlier role in pagan rites
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The use of organs in church
Bothered the clergy because they distracted the listener from worship
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What we know about instruments in church comes mainly from
The pictures and literary descriptions of the day
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Most medieval music was
Vocal
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We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the middle ages that
Instruments were used
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During the late middle ages, the church believed that music during religious services should be
Used only as a discreet accompaniment
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Gregorian chant
Is monophonic in texture
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Gregorian chant melodies tend to move
Stepwise within a narrow range of pitches
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Gregorian chant is named after pope Gregory I, who
Was credited by medieval legends with having created it
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The two types of services at which monks and nuns sang were
The office and the mass
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The highlight of the day for monks and nuns was
The mass
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The earlier surviving chant manuscript date from above the ____ century
9th century
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The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed
The 12 and 13 centuries
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French secular songs of the Middle ages dealt with all of the following subjects except
Religion
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One function of secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for
Dancing
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The First steps in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began sometime between 700 and 900 while the
Addition of a second melodic line to Gregorian Chant
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The Center of polyphonic music in europe after 1150 was
Paris
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A new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by the
Early 14th century
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One of the major characteristics of ars nova music is its use of
Syncopation
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Guillaume de Machaut's compositions consisted mainly of
Love songs with instrumental accompaniment
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The Renaissance in music occurred between
1450 - 1600
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Classicism, as a stylistic period in western music roughly encompassed the year
1750 - 1820
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Which of the following statements is not true of the classical period
Philosophers and writers in the classical period believed that custom and tradition rather than reason were the best guides to human conduct.
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which of the following characteristics is not typical of the music of the classical period
Classical music is basically polyphonic
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Which of the following statements is not true
Composters in the classical period continued to use terraced dynamics in their composition
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The typical orchestra is the classical period consisted of
Strings, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani
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Which of the following instruments were not normally included in the classical orchestra
Trombones
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Political and economic power shifted to the middle class from the aristocratic and the
Church
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The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as
Theater, Literature, and Music
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Which of the following statements is not true
Political and economic power shifted during the classical period from the middle class to the aristocracy and the church
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Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life
Serving a wealthy aristocratic family
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Haydn's contract of employment shows that he was considered
a skilled servant
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Composers in the classical period took middle class tastes into account by
FLavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music, writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy, and by writing dance music for public balls
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In the classical period, comic operas sometimes
Ridiculed the aristocracy
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In Vienna, haydn and mozart
Became close friends
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Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are
Motives
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The Character of the minuet is best described as
Stately and dignified
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In many of beethoven's works there is a ____ movement instead of the minuet
Scherzo
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In many of beethoven's works there is a ____ movement instead of the minuet
Scherzo
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The Scherzo differs from the minuet in that it
Moves more quickly
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Symphony may be defined as
Has 4 movements, 20 - 45 min, exploiting the expanded range of tone color and dynamics of the classical orchestra.
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The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is
Fast, Slow, Dance Related, Fast
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Which of the following is not true of the symphony
It is a musical composition for solo instruments and orchestra
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The lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the
2nd
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A Concerto is a large scale work in several movements for
An instrument soloist and orchestra
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The classical Concerto differs from the symphony in that it does not have a ____ Movement
Minuet or scherzo
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A classical concerto greatly relies on a soloist
Virtuosity
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A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performers virtuosity is called
A Cadenza
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Classical chamber music is designed
For the intimate setting of a small room
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The most important form of classical chamber music is the
String Quartet
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The string Quartet
Consist of 4 movements, most important in chamber music, written for 2 violins a viola and a cello
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A major factor that distinguishes chamber music from the symphony or concerto is that chamber music
Is performed by one player per part
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Hayden was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable, relationship with the noble hungarian family of
Esterhazy
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Which of the following was not one of haydn's duties
Writing a cadenza each week for sunday service
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ALthough Haydn spent most of his time in hungry, he often traveled to
London
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Along with his symphonies, Haydn's ____ are considers his most important works
String Quartets
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Which of the following statements is not true
In his later years, Mozart was continually on tour in england and europe
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Between the age of 6 and 15 Mozart
was continuously on tour
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Mozart tried to find fame and fortune by moving to
Vienna
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Mozart composed his requiem
On the commision from a stranger
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Don Giovanni is
The legendary spanish lover
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Mozart Symphony No. 40
Featured an emotional intensity
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The 3rd symphony of beethoven was originally composed to commemorate the deeds of _____
Napoleon
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Beethoven
was a brilliant pianist, Self educated and had read widely but was weak in elementary arithmetic, Felt symptoms of deafness
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Which of the following statements is not true
Like haydn and many other composers of the classical period Beethoven depended on the aristocracy for his financial well being
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We have a record to beethoven's struggle with his musical material because he
Showed his workflow in musical sketchbooks
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Beethoven's 16 _____ are generally considered among the greatest music ever composed
String Quartets
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Beethoven is often credited as being
The bridge between classical and romantic periods
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The opening motive of Beethoven's symphony No. 5 has a _____ Rhythm
Short, Short, Short, Long
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Beethoven's only opera was called
Fidelio
