Final Terms

Question 1

Baroque Period

Answer 1

1600-1750

Question 2

Classical Period

Answer 2

1750-1820

Question 3

Enlightenment

Answer 3

18th C.
Age of reason.

Question 4

Sonata Form

Answer 4

Ternary form (ABA’).
Exposition (A), Development (B), and Recapitulation (A’)

Question 5

Comic Opera (intermezzo)

Answer 5

Short version of opera seria with a syllabic singing style. Comic opera is performed in between the acts of an opera seria. Has dell’arte “stock” characters.

Question 6

Galant Style

Answer 6

(ga-LANT style) “Easily digested.” Graceful melody with simple accompaniment.

Question 7

Exposition

Answer 7

“A” section of Sonata Form
AB form with a transition in the middle.
A: Theme 1. Tonic (I, or i in minor) at home packing. Tends to be grander.
B: Dominant (V, or III in minor) the home away from home. Tends to be more lyrical.

Question 8

Development

Answer 8

Moves through multiple keys, returning to the Dominant (V) at the end. “Sight-Singing Vacation”

Question 9

Recapitulation

Answer 9

“A’” section of Sonata Form
AB form (Theme 1 and Theme 2).
Stays in Tonic (I, or i).

Question 10

Domenico Scarlatti

Answer 10

b.1685-?
Maestro in Lisbon, Portugal. He taught Maria Barbara (Princess of Portugal). Later lived in Madrid when Barbara married the Prince of Spain.
Wrote 550 keyboard sonatas. His sonatas have 1 movement.

Question 11

War of the Buffoons

Answer 11

Political way to criticize the French government implicitly through the debate between French opera seria and Italian comic opera.

Question 12

John Philippe Rameau

Answer 12

1683-1764
Wrote the Treatise on Harmony - codified tonal harmony.
Emphasized the 5th. Wrote French Opera.

Question 13

Reform Opera

Answer 13

A combination of Italian and French Opera created by Gluck, and Calzabigi. The focus is on the drama/story. The music, and all other aspects of the Reform Opera should serve to express the text.

Question 14

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Answer 14

Composed opera and ballet. We contributed to the creation of Reform Opera. Attempts at realism.

Question 15

CPE Bach

Answer 15

(Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach) Worked for King Fredrick the Great (Berlin, Germany), especially writing flute music. Worked in Hamburg for 20 years. Wrote a lot of keyboard music, as well as the Essay on the True Art of Playing the Keyboard.

Question 16

Clavichord

Answer 16

Similar to a harpsichord. Has vibrato called Bebung, and plays sensitively.

Question 17

J. C. Bach

Answer 17

1735-1782
Johann Christian Bach, or “London Bach” Wrote opera. Friends with Carl Abel.

Question 18

Classical Symphony

Answer 18

4 movements:
I. fast, sonata form
II. slow, various forms
III. dance, minuet and trio (dance 1, 2, and back to 1)
IV. fast, sonata-rondo form is common

strings
pairs of woodwinds

Question 19

Baryton Trio

Answer 19

A trio featuring the baryton
-from the viola da gamba family
-has sympathetic strings

Question 20

String Quartet

Answer 20

Developed by Haydn “the father of the string quartet.”
Haydn wrote 68 of them.
For four string instruments.
Same form as a symphony.

Question 21

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Answer 21

1756-1791
Grew up in Salzburg, Germany. Moved to Vienna in 1781 to work as a freelance musician, but struggled to make a living. Married Constanze Weber in 1782. Contemporary of Haydn, even though Mozart is much younger.

Question 22

First Movement Concerto Form

Answer 22

Exposition 1…
Exposition 2…
Development…
Recapitulation…

Question 23

Singspiel

Answer 23

German opera with spoken dialogue.

Question 24

Requiem Mass

Answer 24

Service for the dead.

Question 25

London Symphony Orchestra

Answer 25

Large orchestra on Mozart’s time. ~60 members.