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Who wrote the Marriage of Figaro?

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Mozart

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Who wrote The Messiah?

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Handel

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Who wrote Dido and Aeneas

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Purcell

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Who wrote L’Orfeo

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Monteverdi

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Who wrote the Brandenberg Concerti?

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Bach

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Who wrote the Mass of Notre Dame

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Machaut

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Who wrote The Play of Robin and Marion

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Adam de la Halle

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Who wrote The “London” Symphonies?

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Haydn

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Who wrote Missa Prolationem

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Johannes Ockeghem

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Who wrote The Four Seasons?

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Vivaldi

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The Musical Offering

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Bach

based on a theme from Frederick the Great

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Who wrote Don Giovanni?

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Mozart

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The wrote The Royal Fireworks?

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Handel

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Who wrote Missa Papa Marceilli?

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Palestrina

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Who wrote the “Haydn” Quartets?

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Mozart

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Which piece was J.S. Bach working on when he died?

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The Art of the Fugue

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What is the earliest form of counterpoint?

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Organum (parallel, in fourths and fifths)

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What is the German word for song?

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Lied

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Elements of the concerto grosso ensemble:

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concertino - small group of soloists

ripieno, concerto grosso - full ensemble

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Section of a fugue in which all voices present the subject and answer in a fugue

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Exposition (double check)

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Mozart opera based on Masonic symbolism

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The Magic Flute

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Tutti means:

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all

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Song-like section of an opera

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Aria

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originally intended to introduce ballets, operas, oratorios, suites, and sonatas

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overture

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Set of preludes and fugues by Bach that utilize ever major and minor key

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The Well-Temepred Clavier

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Two types of trio sonatas

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Sonata da camera (chamber sonata) - secular

Sonata da chiesa (church sonata) - religious

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Elaborate extension of a six-four chord in an opera or concerto, where the soloists improvise.

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Cadenza

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Another term for suite

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dance (check)

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recurring section in concerto or opera

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ritornello

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one famous violin maker of the 18th century

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Amati

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composer and mystic of the Middle Ages that founded her own monastery

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Hildegard von Bingen

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Piece by Handel performed on the Thames River

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Water Music

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Vivaldi wrote over 600 works in which genre?

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concerto

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composed over 500 keyboard sonats while working at a Spanish court

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Scarlatti