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Handel’s Messiah is an example of an

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Oratorio

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The name of a small group of soloists in a concerto grosso is

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Concertino

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What was Bach’s background?

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Musically talented family

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What was Handel’s most famous piece of orchestral music?

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“Water Music”

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How do we know that Handel did not speak English fluently?

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His text setting in his “Messiah”

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Who is the author of this
“is the great chain, that draws all agree,
and drawn supports upheld by god or thee”

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Alexander Pope

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What was one of Pope’s specific targets in his criticisms?

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rampant commercialism

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What was the prevailing attitude of the Rococo art style?

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indifference

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What was a key difference between Baroque and Rococo art?

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The Rococo art was more feminized

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What was Jonathan Swift’s attitude toward humanity?

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anger and pessimism

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Swift’s “Modest Proposal” is characterized by its

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chilling rationality

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what influenced 18th century Neo-classicism?

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  • Ancient Greek Sculpture
  • Ancient Greek Architecture
  • Ancient Greek Literature
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What are four characteristics of the Encyclopedie?

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  • It challenged traditional authority of the church and monarchy
  • Produced by Denis Diderot
  • Took more than 15 years to complete
  • Contained articles by Rousseau and Voltaire
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In addition to being philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also an

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amateur musician

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Who were the targets of Voltaire’s “Ecracez l’infame” (Crush the Infamous thing)?

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-Christians

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A minor symphony by Mozart was probably influenced by what literary style?

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Sturm and drang

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A notion that a woman of the lower classes could be the more intelligent than aristocratic men was found in what work of art?

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Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro”

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What was the surprise in Haydn’s Surprise symphony?

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the fortissimo chord in the second movement

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Which composer had the greatest influence on Haydn’s oratorio?

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Handel

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What features are common of Romantic visual art?

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  • exoticism
  • fascination with fragment
  • fascination with supernatural
  • fascination with death
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What artist is known as the most political and propaganda painter?

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Goya

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What was the French Realist movement concerned about?

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everyday and commonplace subjects

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What biographical detail did Byron, Keats, and Shelley all have in common?

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they all died young

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Who wrote this excerpt? “And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils”

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Wordsworth

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What artist emphasized “art for art’s sake”? He also gave his paintings musical titles and spearheaded the impressionistic movement

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James Whistler

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What was a distinguishing feature of Eakins’ painting “Portrait of Miss van buren”?

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casual and candid poise of the sitter showing more character

27
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Who wrote this excerpt? 
"so huge, so hopeless to conceive
as these twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven. 
and all we need of hell"
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Emily Dickinson

28
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What was a characteristic of Beethoven’s music early in his career?

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  • retained classical movement format
  • momentary disruptions
  • focused mainly on smaller genres like piano sonatas and string quartets
29
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What is Beethoven’s piano sonata in c-sharp minor commonly called and what makes it “fantasia” like?

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ubiquitous triplets throughout

30
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What unifies all four movements of Beethoven’s 5th symphony?

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the rhythmic motif of short short short long

31
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Tory Satirists:

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Pope, Swift, Dryden, Dr. Johnson

32
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Wrote mainly in heroic couplets (Rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter)
Believed that man was good but could be corrupted
Important works:
Essay on Man

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Alexander Pope

33
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Unleashed his “savage indignation” upon those he deemed worthy
Hated humanity, used biting satirical criticism to express his views.
Important works:
Gulliver’s travels
A Modest proposal

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Jonathan Swift

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Encyclopedie

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Conceived by Denis Diderot.
Instituted by the rational humanists (ever wary of the current establishments) to put knowledge directly into the hands of the general populace. Articles were contributed by many people, generally experts in their fields.
Contains many works by Rousseau and Montesquieu.

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Believed humanity was good but society was bad- promoted the idea of the “noble savage”
Believed in God but didn’t trust the church
Lousy composer
Important works:
Emile

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

36
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Believed very strongly in the importance of freedom of thought
Signed off many of his letters “Ecrasez l’ infame” or crush the infamous thing, referring to superstition
Believed in God as a creator, disliked church.
Important works:
Candide (written partially in reaction to Leibnitz’s everything is for the best philosophy)
Cultivate our Garden

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Voltaire

37
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Dealt with the unknown and the supernatural. Tried to shock its readers.

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Sturm und drang

38
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Heavy focus on personal expression, fragmentation, and mystery. Shows fascination with the exotic and the supernatural

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Romantic Poetry

39
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One of the lake Poets
Principally wrote about the relationship between humans and nature
“emotion recollected in tranquility”
Important works:
Tintern Abby
We are seven
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Wordsworth

40
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Considered crazy
Was an author, a painter, and a publisher
His genius was only recognized after his death
Important Works:
Jerusalem
Songs of Innocence

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Blake

41
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Mad, bad, and dangerous to know
Died young
wrote many epic poems.
Many operas were based on his works and his life

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Lord Byron

42
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Sad personal life
Expelled from Oxford
Drowned under curious circumstances
Important works:
Ozymandias
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Shelley

43
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Died of tuberculosis
Most of his poetry deals with death, not always in a pessimistic way
Most stable of the three
Important works:
Ode to a nightingale
Ode to Autumn
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Keats

44
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Used the flowery style of Jane austin, but focused on the social issues of the day
Wrote in different dialects to represent different social classes
Wrote in segments that were published in journals to make more money!
Important works:
Oliver Twist

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Charles Dickens

45
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Novel
Didn’t trust the church, but believed in God
Important Works
The three Hermits
“War and Peace”; “Anna Karenina” & “The Three Hermits” - individual devotion is possible/even better than organized religion

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Tolstoy

46
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Transcendentalists

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Henry Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

47
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One of the first authors to develop a characteristic american style. 
Wrote frequently in the first person
Wrote war poetry
Important works:
Songs of Myself
Songs of Parting
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Walt Whitman

48
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Wrote for herself, frequently didn’t title her poems.
Wrote about death
Wrote in ballad meter
Try singing to the tune of amazing grace!
Very informal tone

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Emily Dickinson

49
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Know about his style, his fascination with gothic horror
Important Works:
The oval portrait
The raven

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Edgar Allan Poe

50
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emphasized rejection of Classical & Neo-Classical forms and attitudes; interest in nature, individual emotions and imagination; revolt against social/political rules and traditions

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Romanticism

51
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Bach’s 5 Major Cities

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Arnstadt – organ/keyboard
Muhlhausen – organ/keyboard
Weimar - orchestral
Cothen - orchestral, kappelmeister (more secular)
Leipzig – religious music
52
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Who was Water Music composed for?

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Elector of Hanover (King George I)

53
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Father of Symphony

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Haydn

54
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Symphonic Form

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Fast, Slow, Medium, Fast

55
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Beethoven Middle Period

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Starts breaking out of established forms. Particularly with extended codas (endings to pieces), linking movements with themes throughout, moving directly from one movement to the next.
Some scholars call this his “Heroic Period.”
Symphony #5 is a good example

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Beethoven Late Period

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Now his music really breaks out of classical forms and focuses more on expression. Completely deaf at this point.

57
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Ritornello

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Recurring chorus or refrain

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