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40 Cards in this Set
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The very beginning of the first movement of a classical concerto always starts with:
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B – Orchestra alone
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Mozart is remembered today as:
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B – The most gifted child prodigy in the history of music
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Beethoven’s own instrument for which he wrote numerous concertos and sonatas, was
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A – The Piano
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The classical period in music ranged from approximately:
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D – 1750-1825
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Haydn’s Surprise Symphony was composed for this trip to which city?
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D – London
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in the classical orchestra, which group of instruments served as the ensemble of nucleus?
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B – Strings
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Which trait does not apply to Opera Buffa?
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A – It was opera for the aristocracy
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A string quartet consists of?
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D – 2 violins, viola, and cello
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The composer generally credited with transforming the classical style into the romantic
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C Beethoven
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The first movement of a classical concerto features sonata-allegro form with
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A – a double exposition
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Who was Haydn’s principal patron
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C – Prince EsterHazy
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The number of players in the classical orchestra was typically around
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B – 25-50
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The tree main sections of sonata allegro from are the exposition, development , and
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B - recapitulation
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The instrument which Mozart played and for which he wrote many concertos was
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C – the piano
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The first movement of a symphony is usually in
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A – sonata allegro form
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Music for a small ensemble of two to about ten players with one player to a part is called
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B – chamber music
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who was not a master of the Viennese Classical style
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C – JS Bach
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a typical feature of a concerto is a free solo passage without orchestral accompaniment called
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C - Cadenza
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which best describes the form of the first movement of Mozart’s little night musc?
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A – sonata-allegro
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in the classical multi-movement cycle, the third movement is usually in
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D – minuet and trio form
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Beethoven suffered perhaps the most traumatic of all maladies of musician what was it?
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B - deafness
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the third movement of a symphony is usually in _________ form
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C – Minuet& trio
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What is unusual about Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 when compared to earlier classica symp?
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B – there is no break between the thir and fourth movements
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in the classical era, an “Alberti bass” is
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C – A kind of accompaniment pattern
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what is the function of the transition in sonata-allegro form
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B – to modulate to a new theme
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which best describes Beethoven:
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C – a transitional composer whose early works reflected many classical elements and who later works led the way to romanticism
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W.A. Mozart’s greatest opera was:
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C – Don Giovanni
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28 shortly after Beethoven arrived in Vienna, he earned money by
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A – Playing piano
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a coda is
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A – a small ending added to a movement
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Beethoven’s Eroca symphony is famous for
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D – all of these
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31 Beethoven’s career can be divided into
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B – three style periods
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classical phrase structure often involves phrases that are
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D – all of these
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Hayden considered himself to be an artists who was superior to his employers
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false
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Music of the classical era is characterized by simple, lyrical melodies
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true
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Mozart wrote his piano concertos primarily for his own public performances
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true
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the classical era attitude toward art was strongly influenced by the Ancient Greeks
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true
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The classical period has been called the “Age of Reason”
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true
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the Heiligenstadt testament is Hayden’s only opera
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false
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Beethoven’s last works were well loved for their simple tunes
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false
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at the time of his death, Mozart was employed by the emperor of Austria
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false
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