Test 2 Flashcards
Name for the places Bach worked
stations
Which name would Bach have gone by during his lifetime?
Sebastian
What term is translated “storm and stress”?
Sturm und drang
Empfindsamkeit means what?
sensitive
The new style of comic opera in the 18th-century employing spoken dialogue was called
singspiel
The term refers to an overall fashion in the 18th century that celebrated natural elements of design like seashells, flowers, and vines
rococo
What is an absolute monarch?
a dictator
The hottest trend in the arts in late 18th-century Vienna involved people’s fascination with exotic things of what country
Turkey
The most common domestic keyboard instrument in Bach’s day because it was simple, affordable, and extremely quiet, yet still expressive
clavichord
We know a lot about Beethoven’s ___________ ____________- a phrase that means the way an artist works out his ideas
creative process
How many different overtures did Beethoven write for his only Opera?
4
In the mid-18th century, a new keyboard instrument, the ______________ ___________, became popular; it was plain in its cabinetry and featured a hammered action that produced soft and loud sounds based on the finger’s force
piano forte
Beethoven moved to the much more interesting, glittering capital city, _________
Vienna
The Prussian king who was a great music lover and employed a wonderful group of composers at his court
Friedrick the Great
Highly decorated keyboard instrument, whose strings were plucked by a quill
harpsicord
J.S. Bach’s sons had big careers, who worked at the court of Fredrick II of Prussia
C.P.E. Bach
Young fellows charged with running up and down and depressing the mechanical appartuses that supplied wind to the organ pipes
choir boys
Goethe’s two-part play may be the most influential work in the German language
Faust
Beethoven’s only completed opera, ___________, is about a woman named Leonora who takes heroic measures to save her unjustly imprisoned husband
Fidelio
Name for the type of Opera popular during the Baroque time period
opera seria
Novel where the story is told via an exchange of letters
epistolary novel
The early Romantic American poet specialized in “spooky” tales and poems
Poe
What is the Doctrine of Affections?
only one emotion in the song
New woodwind instrument that impressed Mozart
claranet
Refers to a lighter, more natural, gently elegant style of painting, music, and fashion that arose in the 18th century
stilgalant
What was the Heiligenstadt Testament?
letters Bach wrote about his deafness to his brother
Why did Beethoven focus on Symphonies rather than the popular form of Opera?
he was better at it
How would you know if you were listening to the German musical form known as Singspiel?
there is spoken dialogue
Identify the difference and comment on their respective situations, between Haydn and Mozart
Haydn was comfortable being a servant
Mozart -not good with money; spoiled as a child
What factors caused Bach to have jobs in so many different places?
he outgrew them
What would have made the organ so interesting during Bach’s lifetime?
it was cutting edge
What does the word Enlightenment?
knowledge will end the world’s problems
What was the central issue in Faust’s bargain with the devil ?
one moment of satisfaction
What is the connection between Beethoven’s Symphony No.3 and Napoleon?
it was dedicated to Napoleon then he stripped it when Napoleon crowned himself
What was Hadyn’s most famous oratorio?
the Creation
What caused a rift in the friendship between Goethe and Beethoven?
he tried to fix his manners
Name some of the contrasts in music between the Era of Enlightenment and Romanticism?
Enlightenment- rational; of this world
Romanticism- emotion; another world
What sense did Beethoven lose during his lifetime?
hearing
What sense did Handel and Bach lose before their death?
sight
How does Bach represent musicians from his time period?
he is religious and he was a servant
Why is Beethoven so famous?
He is different and changes how people view musicians
A trendy place in the 18th century was the Kaffeehaus. How were these places connected with music?
they would have live music
