Music History And Literature Ii Test One

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Define Enlightenment

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Value in individual faith, practical morality, naturalness, universal education, social equality

Front 2

Define classical style

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Emphasis on melody over light accompaniment, simple harmonic structure, periodic phrasing

Front 3

Define galant style

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songlike melody, short phrases, frequent cadences, light accompaniment

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Define empfindsam style

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surprising turns of harmony, chromaticism, rhythms, and speech-like melodies

Front 5

Define periodicity/periodic phrases

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frequent resting points between phrases and periods

Front 6

Define Alberti bass

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broken chord accompaniment named after Domenico Alberti

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Define J. J. Quantz: international style

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a mixture of national characteristics, Quantz wrote that a blend is ideal

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Define Koch's music rhetoric

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wrote a book on how to compose, melody of short segments to form phrases to form periods

Front 9

Define opera buffa

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comic opera

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Define intermezzo

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short comic opera performed between acts of a serious opera or play

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Define opera seria

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opera on a serious subject but usually with happy ending, no comic characters or scenes

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Define querelle des bouffons

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quarrel of the comic actors, dispute Italian opera on one side and French opera on other

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Define opera comique

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French comic opera with spoken dialogue

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Define ballad opera

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English comic play with songs that are borrowed tunes

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Define Singspiel

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German opera with spoken dialogue

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Define Lied

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German song, usually voice and piano

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Define fuging tune

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psalm or hymn tune that features a passage in free imitation in between homophonic sections

Front 18

Define Frederick the Great of Prussia

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was a composer himself and played flute, CPE Bach worked for him, believed school for every child

Front 19

Define Maria Theresa

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ruler of Habsburg, believed school for every child

Front 20

Define Joseph II

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son of Maria Theresa, humanitarian

Front 21

Define da capo aria

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ABA

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Define abbreviated da capo aria

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shortened repetition of first section by omitting the opening ritornello

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Define Giovanni Pergolesi

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wrote Italian operas in an original style

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Define Pietro Metastasio

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Italian poet for opera seria

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Define Johann Adolf Hasse

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popular, successful opera composer, master of opera seria

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Define Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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favored the Italian melodic style in his operas

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Define Christoph Willibald Gluck

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combined French, Italian, German opera styles, went back to expressing the poetry without singers showing off

Front 28

Define William Billings

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English composer you wrote psalms, hymn settings, anthems, canons, used fuging tunes

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Classical music in Catholic church

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reflected the operatic styles, orchestra, da capo arias, recitatives

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Classical music in Lutheran church

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congregational hymns in galant style

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Classical music in English church

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influenced by Handel, kept Baroque styles and traditions, anthems and hymns

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Classical music in Puritan church

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metrical psalm singing, congregation were taught to read notes

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Who were the Moravians?

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Protestants, church services had arias and motets in modern style with instruments

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Define pianoforte/piano

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strings are struck and allows for crescendo, dimuendo

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Define fortepiano

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less sustain and control of dynamics

Front 36

Define string quartet

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two violins, viola, cello, contrasting movements, enjoyment for each other in private

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Define symphony

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large work for orchestra, early - 3 movements, later - 4 movements, allegro, adagio, minuet and trio, rondo

Front 38

Define sonata form

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expansion of rounded binary form, exposition, development, recapitulation

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Define minuet and trio

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ABA A = minuet B = trio

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Define rondo form

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ABACA/ABACADA

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Define episode

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section between two statements of the main theme