MUSI 1307 - Test #3 Flashcards
The Requiem is the last work Mozart completed.
F
Mozart wrote no serious operas once he became an adult.
F
Mozart’s travels as a youth were important because they allowed him to absorb and later synthesize every kind of music being written in western Europe.
T
Mozart’s sister and father were also gifted musicians.
T
In Classic-era music, contrasts of stability and instability help listeners follow the form.
T
Haydn and Mozart admired and influenced each other.
T
List the three stages of sonata form in order. Then list two optional sections that Haydn and other composers frequently included to open and close the form.
ANS: exposition, development, recapitulation; slow introduction, coda
Most Haydn symphonies have _____movements. The first movement generally uses ______form.
ANS: four; sonata
Which best describes the political situation of eighteenth-century Europe?
a. under the command of one ruling power
b. Countries became extremely individualized and separate.
c. dominated by centralized states with large militaries
d. Countries did not seek to expand their territories and influence.
e. in a state of peace, remaining war- and revolution-free
c. dominated by centralized states with large militaries
During the eighteenth century, musicians increasingly depended on whom for support?
a. churches
b. courts
c. the public
d. city governments
e. private patrons
c. the public
The philosophes of the Enlightenment were mainly
a. social reformers.
b. composers.
c. philosophers.
d. religious leaders.
e. dissenters
a. social reformers.
- Public concerts usually attracted what kind of audience?
a. upper-middle and wealthy leisure classes, because concert tickets were expensive
b. all classes, because public concerts were funded by aristocratic patrons and therefore free
c. aristocrats, because public concerts were viewed as social, not musical, events
d. the middle class, because the nobility had their own private concerts
e. the lower classes, because public concerts were free and intended to reach those who could not
afford private concerts
d. the middle class, because the nobility had their own private concerts
Judging from public concert advertisements, programs usually lasted about how long in the
eighteenth century?
a. half an hour
b. one hour
c. two hours
d. three hours
e. six hours
d. three hours
The end of the eighteenth century saw a growing preference for opera in which language?
a. Italian
b. German
c. French
d. Spanish
e. the vernacular
e. the vernacular
What contributed to the growing prestige of purely instrumental music?
a.nationalistic practices and themes in music
b.the idea of music as a universal language
c.a lack of communication among regions
d.the desire to depict a single emotion without words
e.a decline in available training for singers
b.the idea of music as a universal language
The galant style became popular for all of the following reasons EXCEPT it
a.was considered “natural.”
b.was easily understood
c.followed Enlightenment ideas.
d.focused more on counterpoint
e.focused more on melody.
a.was considered “natural.”
Eighteenth-century composers learned a common set of formulas combining motion of the melody and bass called
a.partimento.
b.schemata.
c.partials
d.Monte.
e.Prinner.
b.schemata.
Which eighteenth-century musical technique is a reaction against the complexity of Baroque music?
a.melodies in short phrases over spare accompaniment
b.melodies in long phrases over spare accompaniment
c.melodies in short phrases over lush accompaniment
d.melodies in long phrases over lush accompaniment
e.melodies in long phrases with no accompaniment
a.melodies in short phrases over spare accompaniment
How did eighteenth-century musical values relate directly to central ideas of the Enlightenment?
a.an emphasis on the natural
b.Traditional religion was a main influence.
c.allusions to the supernatural
d.Observation of nature was not important.
e.Complexity and artifice were preferred.
a.an emphasis on the natural
What allowed for more possibilities of contrast in the new music of the eighteenth century?
a.long lyrical melodic lines
b.a single mood for a theme or movement
c.chamber works for woodwinds only
d.differences in melodic and harmonic material according to its function in the form
e.continuous and quick harmonic rhythms
d.differences in melodic and harmonic material according to its function in the form
The Enlightenment was primarily a ________ movement and therefore interested in promoting
the welfare of humankind.
ANS: humanitarian or social reform
________ is characterized by surprising turns of harmony, chromaticism, nervous rhythms, and speechlike melody.
ANS: empfindsam style/sensitive/expressive
Beginning in the 1720s and 1730s, composers of Italian operas began to use contrasting musical ideas within A and B sections of arias to
a. surprise audiences.
b. depict waning emotions.
d. express a succession of moods.
c. construct through-composed arias.
e. keep performers satisfied.
d. express a succession of moods.
If you were to attend a dramatic performance at a public theater in the early 1700s that was sung throughout, had six or more singing characters, and had a contemporary plot centered around ordinary people, it would be an
a. improvisation in commedia dell’arte style.
b. opera seria.
c. opera rusticana.
d. opera buffa.
e. intermezzo.
d. opera buffa.
