Listening

Question 1

Sonata in A Major, K. 26

Answer 1

1738
Keyboard Sonata
Scarlatti
1: Has elements of guitar playing incorporated into composition.
2: Is in one movement.

Question 2

La Serva Padrona

Answer 2

1733
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
1: Comic intermezzo
2: One of the most famous intermezzi
Written for a serious opera by the same composer
Duet between Uberto and Serpina (male and female voices)

Question 3

Orfeo Ed Eurydice:
Act 2, Scene 1.

Answer 3

1762
1: Reform Opera
Gluck
2: Orfeo trying to convince the furies and Cerberus to let him pass.
He is the harp, the furies are brass instruments, Cerberus is a gliss.

Question 4

Fantasia in C Minor

Answer 4

1753
CPE Bach
1: From 18 Probestucke in six sonatas
2: A Keyboard Fantasia - alternates between unbarred and barred, improvisatory, imaginative, abrupt, unpredictable.

Question 5

Sonata Opus 5 No. 2 (1st movement)

Answer 5

1766
Johann Christian Bach
Keyboard Sonata
In typical, textbook style sonata form the early classical period
Uses gallant style texture

Question 6

Symphony in D major

Answer 6

1740
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Symphony
BUM bum bum bum (descending bum bum line)
Written in binary form
Variety of textures, monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic

Question 7

Symphony in Eb Major
(La Melodica Germanica, no. 3)

Answer 7

c. 1755
Johann Stamitz
Symphony
Reverses the themes so the bombastic theme is at the end
Contains mannheim crescendo
Doesn’t repeat exposition

Question 8

Symphony No. 6 in D “Le Matin”

Answer 8

1761
Joseph Haydn
Symphony
Sunrise? Addition of more instruments and colors.
Example of Concertante style

Question 9

String Quartet in C, op. 33, no. 3
1st mvmt

Answer 9

1781
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet
Nicknamed “The Bird”
Focuses on balance and interaction between the voices

Question 10

String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, no. 3
“Emperor”
2nd movement

Answer 10

1797
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet
Theme and Variations
Written for the emperor

Question 11

String Quartet in C, K. 465 “Dissonance Quartet”
1st movement

Answer 11

1785
Mozart
String Quartet
Last of the “Haydn” quartets written by Mozart in honor of Haydn.

Question 12

Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551. “Jupiter”
4th movement

Answer 12

1788
Mozart
Symphony
Nicknamed Jupiter because of its lightning and thunder motifs.

Question 13

Le Nozze de Figaro
Aria: Se vuol Ballare

Answer 13

1786
Mozart
Opera Buffa
The Figaro is singing that he’ll decide the tune of the dance. The music has two dances, an aristocratic minuet and a peasant contredance.

Question 14

Requiem, K 262
Kyrie

Answer 14

1795
Mozart
Requiem Mass - last piece Mozart wrote/was writing when he died. Was played at his funeral, and finished by his assistant.
Kyrie - Fugue with subject and counter subject, borrowed from Handel. Also used subject borrowed from Messiah.

Question 15

Symphony No. 103 in Eb Major
1st movement (Drumroll)

Answer 15

1795
Haydn
Symphony
“Drumroll” symphony.
Has an extra development in the recap.
Includes the slow intro music in this - not common.
Includes Dies Irae motive

Question 16

The Creation
7: Aria: Rolling in Foaming Billows

Answer 16

c. 1796
Haydn
Oratorio
Libretto was given by Salomon to Haydn.
Libretto was based on Genesis + Psalms + Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Aria is about ocean and water and sea emerging. Text painting; rolling waves in the sea with fast violin lines. Ascending lines with rocks and mountains raising from the sea.