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1
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The most important of the council of Trent (counter reformation) toward music pertained to…

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Textual intelligibility and lasciviousness in sacred music

(No secular music in church(

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2
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First all female vocal ensemble

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The concerto delle-Donne

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3
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Composition for an individual vocal line with a companionment

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Monody

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4
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The first operas were produced and performed in

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Florence at the Medici court (at the turn of the seventeenth century)

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5
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Musical sections between acts

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The intermedi

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6
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Style half-way between speaking and singing

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The stile reppresantivo

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7
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Venice in 1637

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First public opera theatre

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Composing for two or more choirs that were separated

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Cori spezzati

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9
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Most influential composer of keyboard music in the early 17th century

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Frescobaldi

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10
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Strictly religious opera

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The oratorio

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11
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ABA

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Da capo aria

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12
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4 movements

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The corellian sonata

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13
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3 movements

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The concerto grosso

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14
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Section near the end of concerto which was improvised

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Cadenza

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15
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Main theme that returns again and again, but alternates with episodes

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Ritornello form

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16
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French serious opera

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Tragedie lyrique

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17
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Purcell

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Dido and Aenas

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18
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Fugue by J.S. Bach

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Subject
Exposition
Counter-subject
Episode

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19
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City that J.S. Bach lived and worked from 1773 until his death in 1750

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Leipzig

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20
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What does the term classical refer to?

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Desire to emulate the works of Ancient Greeks and Romans

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21
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The main patron of the arts during the classical period was

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The aristocracy

22
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Major musical center during the 18th century

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Vienna

23
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Italian comic opera

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Opera buffa

24
Q

II Barbiere de Siviglia and La Serva padrona by…

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Pasiello and Pergolesi

25
Q

By the late 18th century the standard structure of a symphony was

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4 movements within the 1st sonata form

26
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Which composer gave the most significant contribution to the early development of string quartet

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Haydn

27
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Invented around the beginning of the 18th century, by crsitofori

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Pianoforte

28
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Full or companionment

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Rcitativo obligato

29
Q

Simple and tuneful melodies

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Opera buffa

30
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Quarrell between supporters of French and Italian opera

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Quenelles de bouffons

31
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Example of English comic opera (ballad opera)

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John Gay’s the beggar’s opera

32
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Recitatives and arias

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Opera seria

33
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In his preface to Alceste..

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Gluck condemned singers for excessive ornamentations

34
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1st movement of mozart’s symphony no. 40 in G minor, k.550

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Sonata form

35
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3 main sections of sonata form:

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Exposition
Development
Recapitulation

36
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In sonata form the development is usually characterized by

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Unstable harmonies and frequent modulation a

37
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Minuet form

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A(ab) B(cd) A(ab)

38
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Rondo form

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ABACA

39
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Sonata form ternary

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ABA

40
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First to regularly compose 4 movement symphonies

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Stamitz

41
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Hayden early career was in

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Vienna at the Esterhazy court

42
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“Don Giovanni”
“Le mezze di figaro”
“Cosi fan tutte”
are Mozart’s operas based on

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Libretto by Lorenzo de Ponte

43
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German term for comic opera

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The singspiel

44
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Mozart’s requiem mass was completed by

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Franz Xavier Sussmayr

45
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Beethoven composed…

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9 symphonies

46
Q

Poetic text for voice and piano companionment

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German lied

47
Q

Music that depicts a story

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Program music

48
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An important center for music during the nineteenth century

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Paris

49
Q

Main idea behind “absolute music” (German school) is…

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Music has no literacy or pictorial associations

50
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Predominant composition in Lutheran music.

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The chorale

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