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53 Cards in this Set
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18th century European cts preferred opera: buffa or seria?
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seria
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Which family held a monopoly on music printing in France for most of the 18th century?
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Ballard
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What 2 cities did publishing by engraving start in?
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London and Amsterdam
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What was the preferred method of printing simple music?
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letterpress
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How did Italian opera become widely popular if it was not printed?
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handwritten copies
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T/F: Self-tutoring music publications began in the 18th century
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F
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Why were more resources available to amateur musicians than before?
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publishing industry grew w/engraving, more musical instruments produced
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What 2 goals were German and Austrian "ntl" theaters founded for?
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improve society and German language
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Which 2 German playrights directed plays at the middle class to improve morality?
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Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Lessing
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3 root ideas of Enlightenment:
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rationalism (F), skepticism (F), empiricism (E)
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Which thinker said in his Essay on Man "The proper study of mankind is man"?
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Alexander Pope
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____ was a practice of systematically lengthening and shortening note lengths practiced by Couperin
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Inegalite or Inequality
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18th century French composers valued ____ more than _____
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sensibility, virtuosity
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Couperin would rather be astonished or moved by music?
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moved
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Preferred texture of S and D
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polyphony
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S and D preferred the ___ (instruments) to the ___
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orchestra, keyboard
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Usually, in what form were Scarlatti's keyboard compositions?>
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binary
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Scarlatti's works had how many movements
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1
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Couperin taught the French royal family how to play the ___
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harpsichord
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2 instruments Couperin most famous for
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harpsichord and organ
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Rococo is a reaction against the ___, is more delicate and light
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baroque
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Rococo comes from the word rocaille, meaning ____
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rock work
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Where did the rococo originate?
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France
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In Mozart's String Quintet, the "conversation" between the ___ and the ___ is an example of "redendes Prinzip"
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1st violin, 1st (2nd) Viola
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Texture of beginning of S. Quintet
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heterophonic
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Beginning of slow movement of S. QUintet sounds like what?
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hymn
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When and where did the ES begin
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N Germany, mid 1700s
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Speaking style produced a more ___ texture than that found in baroque
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homophonic
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Combination of different styles was chiefly characteristic of ___ compositions
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Viennese
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Right before the end of String Q, Mozart uses what texture
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polyphony
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Change from baroque to galant happened for what 2 reasons?
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social, aesthetic
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what texture results when 2 different, simultaneous melodies are performed in the same rhythm?
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polyphonic, homorhythmic
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type of binary form where 1st section is played again at the end
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rounded
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What is phonation
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production of sound thru vocal cords
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T/F: Pitches produced on a brass instrument depend on valves
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F
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Saxophone is a (single or double) reed instrument
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single
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Difference between bass drum and snare drum
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bass larger and lower, snare has metal strings on bottom, so rattles
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To what 3 notes is a set of timpani tuned?
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tonic, dominant, and subdominant of piece
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Non-string instruments that may be played by bow are part of this family
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idiophones
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___ are percussive instruments w/ no membrane
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idiophones
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what 2 groups are percussion instruments divided
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pitched, unpitched
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viola is smaller/larger than violincello
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smaller
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4 standard notes to which violin strings are tuned
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G3, D4, A4, E5
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2 other names for the double bass
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upright, string
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Woodwinds are a part of this family
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aerophones (wind instruments)
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Most common type of orchestral clarinet
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Bb
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___ is determined by the number of beats per measure and length of those beats
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Meter
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Notes in a G major scale triad built on B
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B, D, F sharp
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T/F: A ternary form results when the sections in ABA are open
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F
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T/F: trachea is same as voice box
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F
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4 main parts of the larynx
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ligaments, muscles, cartilage, hyoid
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part of brass instrument used to control air flow
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valve
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lowest pitched instrument (2 names)
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double bassoon, contrabassoon
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