Test 2

Question 1

Name for the places Bach worked

Answer 1

stations

Question 2

Which name would Bach have gone by during his lifetime?

Answer 2

Sebastian

Question 3

What term is translated “storm and stress”?

Answer 3

Sturm und drang

Question 4

Empfindsamkeit means what?

Answer 4

sensitive

Question 5

The new style of comic opera in the 18th-century employing spoken dialogue was called

Answer 5

singspiel

Question 6

The term refers to an overall fashion in the 18th century that celebrated natural elements of design like seashells, flowers, and vines

Answer 6

rococo

Question 7

What is an absolute monarch?

Answer 7

a dictator

Question 8

The hottest trend in the arts in late 18th-century Vienna involved people’s fascination with exotic things of what country

Answer 8

Turkey

Question 9

The most common domestic keyboard instrument in Bach’s day because it was simple, affordable, and extremely quiet, yet still expressive

Answer 9

clavichord

Question 10

We know a lot about Beethoven’s ___________ ____________- a phrase that means the way an artist works out his ideas

Answer 10

creative process

Question 11

How many different overtures did Beethoven write for his only Opera?

Answer 11

4

Question 12

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

Answer 12

piano forte

Question 13

Beethoven moved to the much more interesting, glittering capital city, _________

Answer 13

Vienna

Question 14

The Prussian king who was a great music lover and employed a wonderful group of composers at his court

Answer 14

Friedrick the Great

Question 15

Highly decorated keyboard instrument, whose strings were plucked by a quill

Answer 15

harpsicord

Question 16

J.S. Bach’s sons had big careers, who worked at the court of Fredrick II of Prussia

Answer 16

C.P.E. Bach

Question 17

Young fellows charged with running up and down and depressing the mechanical appartuses that supplied wind to the organ pipes

Answer 17

choir boys

Question 18

Goethe’s two-part play may be the most influential work in the German language

Answer 18

Faust

Question 19

Beethoven’s only completed opera, ___________, is about a woman named Leonora who takes heroic measures to save her unjustly imprisoned husband

Answer 19

Fidelio

Question 20

Name for the type of Opera popular during the Baroque time period

Answer 20

opera seria

Question 21

Novel where the story is told via an exchange of letters

Answer 21

epistolary novel

Question 22

The early Romantic American poet specialized in “spooky” tales and poems

Answer 22

Poe

Question 23

What is the Doctrine of Affections?

Answer 23

only one emotion in the song

Question 24

New woodwind instrument that impressed Mozart

Answer 24

claranet

Question 25

Refers to a lighter, more natural, gently elegant style of painting, music, and fashion that arose in the 18th century

Answer 25

stilgalant

Question 26

What was the Heiligenstadt Testament?

Answer 26

letters Bach wrote about his deafness to his brother

Question 27

Why did Beethoven focus on Symphonies rather than the popular form of Opera?

Answer 27

he was better at it

Question 28

How would you know if you were listening to the German musical form known as Singspiel?

Answer 28

there is spoken dialogue

Question 29

Identify the difference and comment on their respective situations, between Haydn and Mozart

Answer 29

Haydn was comfortable being a servant
Mozart -not good with money; spoiled as a child

Question 30

What factors caused Bach to have jobs in so many different places?

Answer 30

he outgrew them

Question 31

What would have made the organ so interesting during Bach’s lifetime?

Answer 31

it was cutting edge

Question 32

What does the word Enlightenment?

Answer 32

knowledge will end the world’s problems

Question 33

What was the central issue in Faust’s bargain with the devil ?

Answer 33

one moment of satisfaction

Question 34

What is the connection between Beethoven’s Symphony No.3 and Napoleon?

Answer 34

it was dedicated to Napoleon then he stripped it when Napoleon crowned himself

Question 35

What was Hadyn’s most famous oratorio?

Answer 35

the Creation

Question 36

What caused a rift in the friendship between Goethe and Beethoven?

Answer 36

he tried to fix his manners

Question 37

Name some of the contrasts in music between the Era of Enlightenment and Romanticism?

Answer 37

Enlightenment- rational; of this world
Romanticism- emotion; another world

Question 38

What sense did Beethoven lose during his lifetime?

Answer 38

hearing

Question 39

What sense did Handel and Bach lose before their death?

Answer 39

sight

Question 40

How does Bach represent musicians from his time period?

Answer 40

he is religious and he was a servant

Question 41

Why is Beethoven so famous?

Answer 41

He is different and changes how people view musicians

Question 42

A trendy place in the 18th century was the Kaffeehaus. How were these places connected with music?

Answer 42

they would have live music