westmus reviewer quiz 05 Flashcards
his dramas were set to music hundreds of times b y galuppi, gluck, and mozart
pietro mestasio
two or three segments performed between acts of a serious opera
intermezzo
german for “singing play”
singspiel
which of these statements are not true about church music?
church composers are the same as leading opera composers
who invented the piano?
bartolomeo cristofori
italian for “soft-loud”
piano forte
what is a string quartet made up of?
2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello
standard wind instruments…
oboe, bassoon, flute
which orcherstra has fewer than 35 players?
viennese orchestra
it’s called the “dual reprise form”
simple binary
what form is this… ||: A B :|| ||: A B :||
balanced binary
what are the 3 sections of the sonata form?
exposition, development, recapitulation
major orchestral genre from the mid to late 18th century..
symphony
composer for the mannheim orchestra…
johann stamitz
which of these statements is true about “alberti bass”?
repeating pattern, rapidly pulsating chordal background
