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50 Cards in this Set
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Enlightenment |
The culture shift away from the renaissance. Produced "classical" music.
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Patronage |
Royalty that would hire musicians
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Opera Buffa |
Comic Italian Opera -Mozart |
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Intermezzo |
Comic opera bits performed between serious opera acts, doesn't have full orchestra Italian -Pergolesi |
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Querelle des bouffons |
An argument over the merits of French and Italian musical styles.
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Singspiel |
German Opera, comic -Mozart |
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Opera seria |
Serious Italian Opera -Mozart |
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Opera comique |
Spoken text, light subject (comedy), polished music.
French language |
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Ballad opera |
Spoken dialogue with simple songs accompanied by basso continuo. Comedy. English -John Gay |
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Symphony |
Party music -Mozart and haydn |
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String Quartet |
Symphony for Chamber
-Haydn and Mozart |
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Sonata-Allegro form |
Themes and key areas
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Adagio introduction |
Slowly getting into introduction.
Like a warning to get in seats, the music is starting. |
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Exposition |
First part of sonata form
Primary theme, transition/bridge, secondary theme |
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Development |
Second part of sonata form Includes the far-out point and double return |
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Recapitulation |
Third part of sonata form The restating of the exposition with a coda for an ending. |
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Economy of materials |
Composition philosophy that emphasizes motive efficiency. Making themes last. |
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Motive |
Piece of a theme
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Theme |
A musical phrase that can get repeated |
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Minuet and trio |
Dance like with an elongated for the third movement of things |
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Rondo |
A form; ABACABA usually
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Keyboard sonata |
3 movements with a sonata plan -Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven |
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Viennese Classicism |
Mixture of styles; galant, empfindsamer stil, and Sturm und Drang |
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Concerto |
A symphony like piece with a soloist -Haydn and Mozart |
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Concerto sonata form |
Similar to the keyboard sonata form, but with more instruments |
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Le Nozze di Figaro |
"The Marriage of Figaro" an opera my W.A. Mozart Libretto by da Ponte |
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Don Giovanni |
Opera by Mozart Womanizer man as the subject, he's dragged to hell Libretto by da Ponte |
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Cosi fan tutti |
"Thus do them all" opera by Mozart Libretto by da Ponte |
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Heroic |
Type of character in an opera
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Scherzo |
The movement style that Beethoven used to replace the minuet and trio (3rd)
Dances, light, in 3, faster than minuet and trio |
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Romanticism |
Genre of music dealing more with personal emotions in pieces |
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Pathetique |
Having Pathos or emotions |
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi |
Nationality: Italian Composer of intermezzos |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau |
Nationality: French Philosopher, one of the figures in the Querelle des bouffons |
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John Gay |
Nationality: English Dramatist, wrote ballad operas |
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Christoph Willibald Gluck |
Nationality: Czech Moved to Italy. Radical opera reformer |
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Franz Joseph Haydn |
Nationality: Austrian Composer for Esterhazy |
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Esterhazy family |
Nationality: Austrian Family in Esterhaza that employed Haydn in Vienna |
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Leopold Mozart |
Nationality: German Composer and father of W. A. Mozart Violinist that wrote a beginning violin book |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Nationality: German Young composer of many operas |
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Archbishop Colloredo |
Nationality: Austrian Employer of Mozart in Salzburg |
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Emperor Joseph II |
Nationality: Austrian Mozart's patron in Vienna |
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Lorenzo da Ponte |
Nationality: Italian Librettist that worked with Mozart |
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Ludwig van Beethoven |
Nationality: German Composer, went deaf |
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How many movements are in a symphony? And how are they characterized |
4 I- Sonata II- Lyrical III- Minuet and trio IV- Sonata/Rondo (ABACABA) |
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How many movements are in a string quartet? How are they characterized? |
4 I- Sonata-allegro II- Slow/lyrical III- Dance IV- Finale |
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How many movements are in a keyboard sonata? How are they characterized? |
3 Same as others, but without minuet |
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What are some stylistic characteristics of Haydn? |
-Musical witticism -Innovative style -Sturm und Drang -Rhythmically vibrant -Public oriented |
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What are some stylistic characteristics of Mozart? |
-Viennesse Classicism -Combined opera styles -Economy of material -Innovative -Mastered many genres -Fugal elements |
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What are some stylistic characteristics of Beethoven? |
-Pathetique/subjective -Tries to surprise listeners -Used conventions to break them -Progressive fragmentation -Economy of material |
