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18 Cards in this Set
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Rococo
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The decorative pre-Classical style of art and music of early 18th century France
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Opera buffa
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Italian comic opera
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Theme
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A melodic idea used as a building block in compositions
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Motive or motif
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Short melodic or rhythmic fragments that together make up a theme
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Staccato
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Short, detached notes
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Sonata
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An instrumental work for one or two instruments ( usually a soloist plus a keyboard )
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Theme and variations
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Popular second movement, provides an initial base theme followed by retuning variations / A -A' -A'' -A'''
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Minuet
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Originally a Baroque dance, it was often paired with a trio as the third movement of a musical work / A-B-A
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Sherzo
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Italian for "joke" it replaced the minuet during the nineteenth century / A-B-A
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Rondo
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A fast an lively fourth movement in A-B-A-C-A form
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The Viennese School
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Master Classical period composers Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Franz Schubert
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Patronage system
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Composers working under sponsorship of the local aristocracy to provide new music in exchange for steady pay
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String Quartet
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Most important chamber music genre composed of two violins, a viola, and a cello. Four movements
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Symphony
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Principal instrumental form of the Classical period. Dominated by strings and containing four movements
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Concerto
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Classical piece characterized by one soloist with an orchestra. Three movements ( no minuet )
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Cadenza
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Improvised soloist passage found in the Concerto
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Requiem Mass
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A Mass for the Dead
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Classical Period
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Musical age of ad 1750 - 1825
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