Haydn's Surprise Symphony

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opera tickets and 1637

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Venice initiated the revolutionary notion of selling ____________ to the public in _______.

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Pubs and Taverns

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Entertainments in English ______ and ___________ began during the Baroque era.

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Lubeck, Germany and Abendmusik

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In the 1620s and 30s in __________, ____________ an hour-long musical entertainment called the ______________ ("evening music") was offered after the vespers service during the Trinity and Advent seasons.

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Parisian and Concert

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___________ entrepreneurs began to use the term "___________" for their first series in 1725.

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lent

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Operas were forbidden during _________.

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Concert Spirituel (Sacred Concerts)

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What were the Parisian performances called?

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65

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Concert Spirituel lasted for _____ years.

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large-scale, chamber, vocal, and instrumental

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New concerts had a variety of performances, alternating between _____________ pieces and __________ works, and between ________ and ___________ performers.

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subscription concert series

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A Marketing ploy developed during the classical period was the __________________________.

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London

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_______________, with its wealthy merchant class, was an especially lucrative source of music lovers, numerous subscription series rivaled each other in the second half of the century.

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Johann Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel

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One of the most celebrate series ran from 1765 to 1781 and was organized by the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, ___________________ (1735-82) and his college ___________________ (1723-87).

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1768 and Johann Christoph Zumpe

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In _________, the first known public performance on a solo piano took place; Johann Christian Bach played an instrument built by ______________________.

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franz Joseph Haydn and Johann Peter Salomon

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_________________ came to london in 1791 as the feature composer for ______________________'s subscription series.

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12

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Haydn wrote his last _____ symphonies for Salomon's concerts.

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St. Cecilia Society and Charlestown, South Carolina

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One concert series, organized by ___________________ got underway in the colonial town of _______________, __________ a full decade before the American Revolution.

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Thomas Jefferson

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American president _________________ was a skilled violinist.

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Carlo Antonio Campioni

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Thomas Jefferson preferred music composed by ________________________.

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Manuscript Music

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Jefferson's letter shows that there was a considerable amount of _______________ _____________ still in circulation.

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engraved

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During the Classical era ____________ music printing was preferred to moveable type.

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Charles Burney

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__________ ___________ (a familiar music historian) published the first volume of his history of music in 1776.

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John Mainwaring and George Frideric Handel

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In 1760, _____________________'s study of _________________ (1685-1759) was the first separately published biography devoted to a composer.

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Academy of Ancient Music

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Music lovers in London founded the ______________________________ in 1762, a concert series devotes to music of the past (Palestrina, Marenzio, and others).

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Canon

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What is the name for a body of pieces that have achieved a lasting status as revered "classics?"

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vocal and instrumental

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Prior to the 18th century music critics assumed that __________ pieces were superior to _______________ works.

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String quartet

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One of the first genres linked to the Classical period was the _________________.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In the 19th century, the great poet _____________________ (1749-1832) gave voice to a common image associated with the still young genre of the string quartet.

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10

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In 1781, Haydn came back to quartet writing after a ___ year hiatus.

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Op.33

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Haydn's 1781 works were designated as _______, in a "new, and special way." (these works later inspire Mozart to write his own quartet pieces)

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the fruits of long and laborious works

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In 1785, Mozart published his own quartets calling the "__________________________."

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piano concerto

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The ____________ was an extremely public genre.

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17

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Mozart wrote and premiered ____ piano concertos just in the last decade of his life.

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Solo instrument

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Nearly all concerti of the Classical era featured one ________________.

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Sonata, ritornello, and cadenza

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New Classical concerti merged _________ form with the older ___________ forms; the first movements also introduced a new feature: the ___________.

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cadenza

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A section during a solo concerto in which the unaccompanied soloist is featured while the orchestra stops playing; he or she often improvises the virtuosic material that is performed.

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Symphony

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The "ruling genre" of the Classical era was the ________________.

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16,558

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In 1988, Jan LaRue published A Catalogue of 18th-Century Symphonies which include ________________ surviving examples of the genre.

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Giovanni Battista Sammartini

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Early is the 18th century, _______________________ (1701-75) began to write works that showcased the orchestra itself. These first experiments resembled Classical concertos in many ways.

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4th

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At Mannheim, Johann Stamitz added a ___ movement to over half his symphonies, which was usually played just before the energetic finale.

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wind

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Stamitz gave ________ players much more to do, often featuring in one of the themes of his sonata forms.

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Franz Joseph Haydn

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Who was "the father of the symphony?"

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microcosm

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Haydn's success as a composer of symphonies reflects, in ______________, the social changes that distinguish the Baroque era from the Classical.

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Esterhazy

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Haydn began his career as a hired musician for the wealthy ____________ family.

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Hungary, Holy Roman Empire, and Vienna

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The Esterhazy had a large estate, Esteraza, in what is now _____________, but spent much of their winter months in the hub of the ________________________, _________.

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Livery

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A type of uniform for the staff of a particular household.

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Prince Nikolaus

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While Haydn was at Esterhazy he had to report to his employer everyday at lunchtime to see if ____________________ required the orchestra for any performances later in the day.

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90

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Haydn wrote at least _____ Symphonies for the Esterhazy, but his 1779 contract forbade him the right to sell his music to buyers.

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19th

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The idea that music carried intellectual property right did not become law until the ____ century.

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3.5

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In 1777, _____ percent of Concert Spirituel's performed symphonies were by Haydn.

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21

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In 1780, _____ percent of Concert Spirituel's performed symphonies were by Haydn.

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39

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In 1782, _____ percent of Concert Spirituel's performed symphonies were by Haydn.

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66

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In 1784, _____ percent of Concert Spirituel's performed symphonies were by Haydn.

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78

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In 1790, _____ percent of Concert Spirituel's performed symphonies were by Haydn.

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Anton

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In 1790, prince __________ (of Esterhazy) disbanded the court orchestra, freeing Haydn of his contract with the family.

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12 and The London Symphonies

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During Haydn's first visit to London to participate in Salomoan's concert series, he composed ____ symphonies, which are collectively nicknamed "________________________"

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2nd and Fortissimo

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The ____ movement of Haydn's Surprise Symphony notably contains a ___________. This one moment declared the name of the symphony.

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Andante

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The 2nd movement of a symphony was customarily slow marked "____________."

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Ignaz Pleyel

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___________________ (1757-1831) was a former student turned rival of Haydn.

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Symphony No.103 and Dies Irae

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In Haydn's ___________________ after an ominous drumroll, he included a fleeting quotation from the "____________"

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Allegro di Molto

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The final movement of the Surprise symphony is marked "__________________" or "very fast."

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Timpani

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The only percussion instruments used in Haydn's surprise symphony are the __________.

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jaunty, cheerful, and arpeggio

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The first theme of Haydn's Symphony No. 94 is _________ and _________, opening with a quick upward ___________.

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4 and aaba

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Haydn crafted the theme of Symphony No. 94 to unfold in _____ balanced phrases: __ __ __ __.

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motif and instrumentation

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Three of Haydn's four balanced phrases in Symphony No. 94 opened in the same ______ but with different _______________, creating a "pleasing variety."

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1st

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The ____ theme begins quietly, allowing the sudden forte at :31 to signal the start of the transition, when the movement starts to modulate away from the opening key of G major.

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2nd

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The ____ theme begins with a quiet pulsation as the basses pluck their string (Pizzicato), and the upper strings play a series of arpeggios that cascade downward.

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D major and G major

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The 2nd theme is set in ___________, which is the dominant key in relation to this symphony's tonic key of _______________.

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recapitulation

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The _________________ portion of a sonata form usually uses the tonic key for all the melodies.

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G minor

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At 2:02 the orchestra plays the theme in ______________.