Music Final

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classicism roughly emcompassed the years

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1750-1820

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which of the following statements is not true of the classical period?

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philosophers and writers in the classical period believed that custom and tradition, rather than reason, were the best guides to human conduct.

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joseph haydn was content to spend most of his life

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serving as a wealthy aristocratic family

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composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by

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all of the above

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vienna in 1800

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all of the above

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in the classical period, comic operas often

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ridiculed the aristocracy

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haydn and mozart wrote many outdoor entertainment peices which they called

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divertimentos or serenades

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the typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of

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strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets and timpani

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sonata-allegro form is used frequently as the form for the ____ movement of a multimovement work

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first

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short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are called

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motives

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in the recapitulation of a sonata-form movement

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all the principal material is in the tonic key.

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mozart's favorite librettist, Da Ponte, based his libretto for Marriage of Figaro on a play written by the french writer

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Beaumarchais

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The standard catalog of Mozart's compositions was made by

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Ludwig von Kochel

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The minuet is generally the ___ movement of a classical symphony.

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third

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mozart's opera based on a legendary spanish lover

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Don Giovanni

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In many of beethovens works, there is a ____ movement instead of the minuet.

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scherzo

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the rondo may be schematically outlined as

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ABACABA

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the usual order of movements in a classical symphony is

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fast, slow, dance-related, fast

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haydn is often referred to as

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the father of the symphony and string quartet

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the lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the

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second

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beethoven's 32 piano sonatas

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are often known by nicknames

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a concerto is a large-scale work in several movements for

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an instrumental soloist and orchestra

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mozart and beethoven wrote a number of concertos for their favorite solo instrument, the

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piano

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the symphonic movement usually lacking in the concerto is the

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minuet or scherzo

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in the first movement and sometimes in the last movement of a classcial concerto there is a special unaccompanied showpiece for the soloist, the

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cadenza

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the string quartet

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all of the above

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haydn was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable relationship with the noble hungarian family of

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Esterhazy

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haydn was a prolific composer, as demonstrated in part by his 68 string quartets and 104

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symphonies

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haydn's two popular oratorios are entitled the seasons and

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the creation

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mozart was born in

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salzburg, austria

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mozart's trips to italy

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enabled him to study and master the italian operatic style.

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mozart's requiem was

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finished by franz sussmayer

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the popular movement of the mozart requiem, often heard on television, is

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the dies irae

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the third symphony of beethoven was originally composed to commemorate the deeds of ____ as the embodiment of heroism and democratic ideals.

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napoleon bonaparte

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beethoven's symphonies number ____ are the most recognized most heard

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3,5,6,7,and 9

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the musical heir of haydn and mozart, beethoven bridged the ___ and ____ periods.

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classical, romantic

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the choral finale of beethoven's ninth symphony is based on

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schiller's ode to joy

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beethoven's ninth symphony is unusual in that it is scored for ___ as well as orchestra

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four vocalists and a chorus

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beethoven's only opera is entitled

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fidelio

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mozart wrote his first symphony at the age of

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8

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a classical era symphony is typically

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between 20 and 45 minutes

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beethoven hit one of the lowest points in his life in the early part of the century when he wrote

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the heiligenstadt testament.

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one of the main features of a solo concerto is

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cadenza in the first movement

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sonata form (sonata allegro)

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consists of an exposition with two contrasting themes, a developement section and the recapitulation

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the classical symphony, the sonata and the concerto all carry the general multimovement format, except that the

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the concerto typically has only 3 movements.

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c.p.e. bach said that his father, johannes sebastian, was

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old fashioned and "pedantic"

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the classical period coincides with a cultural movement known as

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the age of reason

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melodic line in the classical period

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was basically tuneful and balanced with equal length

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beethoven reportedly explained the 4-note, short-short-short-long motive in his fifth symphony as

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fate knocking at the door

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beethoven's personality

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did not allow him to have long, stable relationships.