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54 Cards in this Set
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What lead to the classical period?
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Discovery of Pompeii
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What was the name of the ancient Greek city that was discovered?
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Pompeii
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Why couldn't Greeks copy Greek music?
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It was lost`
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How did musicians follow Greek artistic ideas?
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Simplicity, Balance, and form/organization
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What is the important musical form called?
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Sonata Allegro Form
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What is the first section called in the sonata allegro form?
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Exposition
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What is the second section called in the sonata allegro form?
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Development
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What is the third section called in the sonata allegro form?
HINT: You enjoy trying to pronounce this word :-) |
Recapitulation
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What is the order of the exposition?
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Theme 1
Bridge Theme 2 Codetta Repeat |
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What is the development?
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When the composers use the same ideas but mess with them.
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What is the order of the Recapitulation?
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Theme 1
Bridge Theme 2 Coda |
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Classical melodies are ______________ and _________________.
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Simple
Balanced |
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True or false
Classical music often has 5 beats. |
False!
Classical music has an even number of beats... often 8. |
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What in ancient Greek has the number 8 in it?
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Pillars
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True or False
Classical Texture is Monophonic, |
False!
Classical texture is homophonic. |
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What does homophonic mean?
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several voices doing different things but MOVING together.
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Classical harmony is mostly __________ and _________ chords.
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Question
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What was Mozart's childhood like?
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He had a father name Leopold and his father was a composer.
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What instrument did Mozart play?
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Pianoforte
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What was Mozart's personality?
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Good at upsetting people, few friends, prideful and full of energy and ideas.
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How did Mozart compose music?
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Easily, Fast and Perfect. He just thought of something in his head, ran to the piano and wrote it down.
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How did Mozart get along with his employers?
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He annoyed them!
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What was Mozart writing when he died?
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A Requiem
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How old was Mozart when he died?
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35 years old
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What did Haydn say?
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"God gave me a cheerful heart; so he will surely forgive me if I serve him cheerfully"
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He liked to put _____________ and __________ in his music.
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surprises
jokes |
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True or False
Composing was really easy for Haydn. |
False
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True or False
Haydn set regular hours to compose music. |
True
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Haydn wrote music to who for 30 years?
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Prince Esterhazy
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How many years did he write music for?
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30 years
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Haydn and Mozart were _________ friends.
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Good
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Mozart was younger/older than Haydn.
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younger
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What did Mozart call Haydn?
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Papa Haydn
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Hayden traveled to London/ France in his older years.
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London
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What was Haydn's most famous symphony?
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Surprise Symphony
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A symphony has how many movements?
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4
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Beethoven had a ________ childhood.
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hard
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What kind of father did Beethoven have?
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Alcoholic and wanted another child like Mozart
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Beethoven wrote the ________________________ testament.
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Heiligenstadt
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The Heiligenstadt testament was written about what?
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How hard it was to be deaf and why he decided to live.
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Beethoven said.....
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"There have been and will be many princes, but there is only one Beethoven"
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Beethoven believed what?
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he could control his life without God's help.
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Beethoven didn't believe in _________.
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Rules
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What did he break?
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Rules and Boundaries
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What major thing did he do to the classical period?
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He pushed us into the Romantic period.
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Beethoven's music had _________ dynamics, ___________ the sonata allegro form, and expresses many ___________!
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Extreme
Destroys Emotions |
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He likes to use _____ motifs.
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germ
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What symphony did Beethoven write that was about his struggle with deafness?
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5th
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What was Beethoven's last symphony called?
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Ode to Joy
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What number was his last symphony?
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9th
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Romantic composers are interested in _____________, and the weird and __________________________.
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extreme emotions
supernatural |
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Romantic orchestra's had how many players?
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80
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Romantic Orchestra's had more _________ and more_________ ________.
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percussion
low brass |
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Don't forget to study the different revolutions!
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I didnt have time to put them on these flash cards...
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