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49 Cards in this Set
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When did Joseph II try to make a German-speaking theater in Vienna
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1776
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For how many yrs was M a freemason?
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7
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What is the name of M's most ambitious serious opera?
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Idomeneo
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Mozart ended up going where after getting a letter from his dad?
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France
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When M wanted to go with the Webers to Italy, where did his dad say he must go?
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to France
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Who was Archduke Leopold of Tuscany later known as?
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Emperor Leopold II
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After asking Archudke Ferdinand, L M inquired to the Archduke ___ of Tuscany about a position for M
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Leopold
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Why did Joseph II try to shut down the Burgtheater?
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save $ during a war w/ the Turks
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How did Singspiel come to be accepted in Viennese society
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Joseph II liked it and imposed it on society
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Singspiel was welcomed in Vienna T/F
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T
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In the closing of exp and recap of M piano concerto, is it necessary to provide new melodic material?
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yes
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Who was italy's most famous opera composer in the 19th century
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Verdi
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After 1786, M started composing lots of _____
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operas
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With what era do listeners usually associate M's Piano Concerto in D minor, K 466
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Romantic
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How was music used in Masonic rituals
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acc for "trips about the Lodge", before and after prayer, entrance into Lodge, closing meetings
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Which concerto is M's most famous?
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k 455 in D minor
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How does the solo exposition differ from the orchestra exposition in M's PC in A Major, K 488
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solo exp more ornamented and includes a moderation
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What does the Fellow Craft Degree represent
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strong manhood
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For what event did M compose the Masonic work Gesellenreise?
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his father's initiation into the Fellow Craft Degree
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Which Degree was the most impt in M's Masonic-music career
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Fellow Craft
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3 degrees of membership within the Blue Lodge of Freemasonry
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Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Mason
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What was the name of the original Masonic group
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Blue Lodge of Freemasonry
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Why did Masonic lodges hold many concert
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charity
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Eroica's 1st or last movement was the longest in history
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1st
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The ideas of the Enlightenment are most apparent in M's ___ music
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Masonic
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How did B communicate w/ others at end of life?
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conversation books
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What was the highest rank M achieved as a Freemason
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Master Mason
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When M went back to Salzburg, what was his position?
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court organist
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Who were the Free and Accepted Masons
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secretive and charitable fratrnity
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What is the title of M's 1st composition
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Andante in C
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Who composed the 1st piece of music M learned to play
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Georg Christoph Wagenseil
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Where did M compose Idomeneo
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Salzburg
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Who commissioned M to write Idomeneo
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Elector of Bavaria
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In what city did the 1st performance of Idomeneo take place
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Munich
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Mozart preferred the opera seria or buffa style?
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buffa
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What is the 1st composition of B's middle period?
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3rd SYmphony
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Where was M born?
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Salzburg
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What is a cantata
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musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
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Since Haydn saw ___'s commemoration at Westminster Abbey, Haydn wanted to write ___ music
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Handel, choral
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T/F: Jefferson's library was built in the style of the Acropolis
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F: based on the Roman Pantheon
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What separates artists of the 18th century from those of different time periods
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wanted to master asethetic properties of art in classical antiquity
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In Bonn, Haydn was shown ___'s cantatas, convincing Haydn to become his teacher
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Beethoven
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Setting the soloist's opening theme of the recap in the subdominant is characteristic of whose writing?
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Schubert
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what is programmatic music?
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represents a person, place, or thing
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name all the functions in the 7 scale degrees
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tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading tone
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Musicians in the ___ era found inspiration in the alleged magical powers of music in antiquity
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Baroque
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What is an ostinato
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short musical pattern repeated throughout some or all of a composition
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texture
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the way musical parts come together
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During which verses of Voi does the music become more passionate and dissonant?
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6 and 7
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