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He was the master of opera seria
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Writing in Vienna, his symphonies featured contrasting themes.
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What instrument was featured in solo sonatas?
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Which of the following characterizes a typical opera buffa?
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Among Mozart's finest chamber works are the string quintets for which combination of instruments?
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Which of the following is not true of mid-seventeenth century Italian opera style?
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What did Erdmann Neumeister introduce to Lutheran sacred music?
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The heightened expression found in Haydn's symphonies of 1768-1772 is associated with which style?
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Which of the following does not characterize the classical style?
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The Querelle des bouffons was a dispute about _______.
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Of the following, who was not known as a composer of Lieder?
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Which city attracted instrumental performers, including Geminiani and Locatelli?
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The large instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _________.
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Which historic figure composed an early example of opera comique?
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The forces of the small-scale sacred concerto typically consisted of ________.
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The zarzuela was ________.
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Most of Mozart's piano works were composed for _____.
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Bach's duties in Leipzig did not include ________.
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The Classic-era genre that combines characteristics of the symphony and the concerto is called the _______.
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How do Handel's oratorios differ from Italian oratorios?
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Of the following, which instrument was invented in 1710 and became a standard woodwind member by 1780?
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Patronage of seventeenth-century music consisted of ________.
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Stadtpfeifers were ________.
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How did Cromwell's prohibition against stage plays effect music performances?
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Monteverdi's seventh and eighth books of madrigals are best known for ______.
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What is the name of the musical entertainment performed between the acts of a serious opera or play?
Intermezzo
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Of the following which characterizes opera comique?
Simple recitative
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In which city did Vivaldi spend most of his career?
Venice (not Vienna!)
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Of the following, which is not a characteristic of sonata as described by Heinrich Christoph Koch?
The form is divided into three principal sections.
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Which of the following is not characteristic of Roman oratorios?
They were elaborately staged
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Which of the following was an important contribution of opera buffa?
ensemble finales
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The earliest opera plots were based on ______.
Mythological characters and events
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Stylized dance music suites in France were most often performed by _______.
Lute or harpsichord
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This poet's librettos established opera seria traditions.
Metastasio
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Henry Purcell's employer was ______.
The English Monarchy
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Of the following, which is not a late symphony by Mozart?
Military
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The small instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _______.
Concertino
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The texture of Baroque music is marked by ______.
a polarity between bass and treble lines
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Which of the following was not part of the Enlightenment movement?
A belief that religion should govern public morality
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The Querelle des bouffons was a dispute about ________.
The relative merits of French and Italian opera
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San Petronio in Bologna was known for being a center for developments in ________.
instrumental music.
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Jean-Baptiste Lully is best knwon for his contribution to the development of _____.
opera
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An opera by Lully might also be called a(n) ________.
tragedie en musique
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Which instrument uses hammers to strike strings?
Fortepiano
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Haydn's last symphonies were composed for _____.
London concerts
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Figured bass is ______.
A bass line notated with numbers to indicate chords above it.
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Which of the following is not true of mid-seventeenth century Italian opera style?
**THE QUIZLET ANSWER IS WRONG. DON'T BELIEVE THAT ASSHOLE***
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Which scoring is typical of Lully's orchestration?
five-part string orchestra augmented by woodwinds (ONLY! NOT BRASS OR KEYBOARDS)
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In Rome, roles for high voices were sung by _______.
men who had been castrated as boys
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In modern editions of Baroque music, small notes in a keyboard part indicate _______.
editorial suggestions to flesh out unnotated parts
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A repeating bass line used as the basis of variations is called ______.
Ostinato bass
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Artusi criticized Monteverdi's Cruda Amarilli because it _______.
violated Zarlino's counterpoint rules.
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The poet who wrote the text for some of the first operas was ____.
Rinuccini
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Of the following who was not known as a composer of lieder?
J.S. Bach
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The term Baroque is now applied to ______.
arts from ca. 1600-1750
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Which publication uses a theme by Frederick the Great?
A Musical Offering
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The style of monody in which a solo singer sings speechlike dialogue to the accompaniment of simple chords _____.
Recitative
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Which composer inspired Haydn's oratorios?
Handel
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Which of the following is one of Vivaldi's important contributions to the concerto genre?
Preference for three-movement structures
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The form of the typical late seventeenth-century toccata is ________.
a series of short sections in free style alternating with longer ones in imitative counterpoint
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Of the following statements, which characterizes Handel's operas?
simple recitative
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Who persuaded Haydn to come to London?
Johann Peter Salomon
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The instrumentation for a trio sonata typically consisted of
two treble instruments, an optional cello or viola da gamba, and harpsichord or organ
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Among Mozart's finest chamber works are the string quintets for which combination of instruments?
two violins, two violas, cello
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The composer who published some of his keyboard sonatas with the title Essercizi was
Domenico Scarlatti
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Which of the following statements best describes the Italian secular cantata?
Many short, contrasting sections with recitatives and areas for solo voice with continuo
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Which of the following statements best describes the soloists in the Brandenburg Concertos?
There are a wide variety of soloists, often treated in the style of the solo concerto
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Who was Haydn's principal employer throughout his long career?
Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy
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Which of the following characterizes a typical opera buffa
tuneful arias with short, periodic phrases
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The seventeenth century was an era in which
scientists combined deductive reasoning and direct observation for the first time
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Which of the following statements best describes the form of the French overture?
a slow opening marked by dotted rhythms, followed by a fast fugal section, with an optional slow closing section
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The Banchetto musicale was
a collection of suites using dance movements in a standard sequence
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Bach's Orgelbuchlein contains what type of works?
Chorale preludes
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Of the following, which Baroque instrumental genre continued into the Classic era?
solo concerto
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Which composer did not exert a strong influence on Mozart?
Vivaldi
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Of the following, which statement does not describe the changing Western world of the eighteenth century?
People continued to move away from urban centers to live in rural villages
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Monteverdi called his approach to composition
seconda pratica
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Which city attracted instrumental performers, including Geminiani and Locatelli?
Rome
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Of the following, what characterizes the concerto from J. C. Bach
The ritornellos serve as a frame for a sonata form structure
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In which region did the symphony originate?
Italy
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Which of the following statements best describes the Renaissance antecedents of opera?
There were several genres that included some of the elements of opera
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Haydn's patron asked him to compose chamber music for which instrument?
baryton
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The concertato medium consisted of
a mixed grouping of voices and instruments
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Mozart's final work, left incomplete at this death, was
Requim Mass
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What is the language of the oratorios that Handel composed in London?
English
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What was the primary type of sacred music in New England during the colonial period?
psalm-setting
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Monody is the modern term for
all accompanied solo singing of the early seventeenth century
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Which of the following statements accurately reflects Bach's reputation after his death?
His compositions were not performed until they were revived in the nineteenth cetury
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The main composer of Roman oratorios?
Giacomo Carissimi
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Author of Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna, he attacked vocal counterpoint.
Galilei
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What was the most common instrumentation for the sonata after ca. 1650?
One or two treble instruments (usually violin(s)) and harpsichord
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What instrument uses a mechanism that plucks the strings?
Harpsichord
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Which of the following operas is a Singspiel?
The Magic Flute
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Louis XIV and other members of the nobility took part in performances of which genre?
the court ballet
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Partonage of 17th century music consisted of ____
wealthy patrons, churches, and public performances of operas and concerts
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He is considered to be one of the leading composers of symphonies in France.
Gossec
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The instruments of the coninuo group usually consist of _____
one bass instrument, such as a viol, plus a keyboard or lute
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Composed Jewish liturgical polyphonic music
Salamone Rossi
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The galant style originated in
Italy
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Which city has conservatories that became centers of music training, especially for singers?
Naples
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What is the subject matter of Couperin's L'art de toucher le clavecin?
instructions on playing the harpsichord
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Of the following, which describes concert life in the late eighteenth century?
Public concerts became more important
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The large instrumental ensemble in a concerto grosso is referred to as the _______.
concerto grosso
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In baroque music, "affections" can be defined as ______.
the spirits or "humors" believed to harbor emotions, and which could be brought into balance with contrasting moods of music
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Published more cantatas than any other composer of the early seventeenth century
Barbara Strozzi
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Henry Purcell is best known for composing in which genres?
English opera, semi-opera, and incidental music for plays
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Divisions and partite are terms for ______.
variations movements
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Seventeenth-century sculpture sought to _______.
Portray more drama and emotion
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The standard order of movements in seventeenth century French suites was ______.
- allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue
- (ALL COOGS SHOULD GRADUATE)
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Stile brise, developed by lutenists, was imitated in _____.
Harpsichord music
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The scholar whose study of ancient Greek texts led him to believe that all Greek plays had been sung was ______.
Mei
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Mozart was a child prodigy on which instrument or instruments?
keyboard and violin (NOT FLUTE OR CELLO)
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The heightened expression found in Haydn's symphonies of 1768-1772 is associated with which style?
Sturm und drang
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Bach's duties in Leipzig did not include ______.
composing music for court entertainments
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Concerts of sacred music given by Buxtehude were called ________.
Abendmusiken
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Rameau's first major opera in Paris was ______.
Hippolyte et Aricie
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Antonio Stradivari was instrumental in the development of the ______.
violin
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The emfindsam style is most closely associated with _______.
C.P.E. Bach
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How do handel's oratorios differ from Italian oratorios?
extended use of the chorus
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Most of Vivaldi's concertos were first performed by ______.
female students
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Frederick the Great regularly performed on the _____.
Flute
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Of the following which describes Vivaldi's Four Seasons?
It contains four works that have programmatic images.
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The typical movements of a Torelli concerto were _______.
fast-slow-fast (thats it)
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Of the following, which is not a characteristic of singspiel?
farcical subjects
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Musical figures were _______.
counterpoint patterns that had become associated with specific emotions
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