Music Literature

The Enlightenment

Eighteenth-Century Life

Classical

Galant

Empfindsamkeit

Alberti Bass

Early Italian Comic Opera

Opera buffa

Intermezzo

La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi, #101

Basso Continuo

Recitative

Opera Seria

Pietro Metastasio

Arias

Cleofide, Act II, Scene 9, by Johann Adolf Hasse, #102

Comic Opera

Dramma giocoso

Opera comique

German Singspiel

Ballad Opera

The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, #103

Opera Reform

Cluck the reformer

Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II, Scene I, by Cluck #104

Classical melody

Classical rhythm

Classical harmony

Classical texture

Classical timbre

Classical forms

Classical genres

The Enlightenment adhered closest to the following ideology:

The central theme of the enlightenment was

During the enlightenment, education was believed to be:

Freemasonry, a secret fraternal order which promoted humanitarian ideals and universal brotherhood, was founded in the early eighteenth century in the following city:

During the mid- to late-eighteenth century, music publishers experienced a new market for published music influenced by:

During the early eighteenth century, women were welcomed as

The earliest public concerts were organized in

In his treatise, Versuch einer Anweisung die Flote traversiere zu spielen, Johann Joachim Quantz argues that the ideal music

The following composer and critic described the music of the eighteenth century as a "universal language"

The majority of public music for keyboard, chamber ensemble, and voice and keyboard during the mid-eighteenth century was intented to be performed by

The St. Cecilia Society was responsible for organizing a private subscription concert series beginning in 1766 in this city

Paris' Concert spirituel series was founded in 1725 by

Allgemeine Geschichte der Musick, one of the earliest universal histories of music, was published by:

The galant style originated in

A General History of Music, published in four volumes between 1776 and 1789, was written by

The empfindsam style is most closely associated with fantasias and slow movements composed by

The following French philosopher defined the task of the arts as imitating and even perfecting nature in his treatise Les beaux-arts reduite a un meme principe

During the eighteenth century, the most common term for a new style of composition which contrasted the more complex style of Baroque counterpoint was

The following style was characterzed by suprising turns of harmony, chromaticism, nervous rhythms, and rhapsodically free, speechlike melody

In his treatise Klavierschule, the following composer describes the difference between contrapuntal and galant styles of composition

The most thorough guide to melodic composition based on rhetorical principles appears in the second volume of the following treatise published by Heinrich Christoph Koch

Koch's treatise was written for

The following compositional device, frequently used in eighteenth-century keyboard music, breaks each of the underlying chords into a simple repeating pattern of short notes, producing a discreet chordal background

During the eighteenth century, composers sought to

According to the text, the following era is regarded as the Classic period

According to the text, "galan" and empfindsam should be thought of as

The emergence of separate traditions of comic and serious opera in Italy appears around

Full-length comic opera that was sung throughout and featured six or more characters was characteristic in which country during the early classic period?

The plots of opera buffa most commonly centered on

The intermezzo was intended to be performed

The intermezzo La serva padrona was composed by

In the mid-eighteenth century, the following dramatist introduced serious, sentimental and woeful plots into the libretto of the comic opera

Oper seria received its standard form from the following poet

The following composer was acknowledged by his contemporaries as the great master of the opera seria

Until the mid-eighteenth century, the music used in opera comique was almost entirely

The first opera comique in which all the music was newly composed appear by the end of the

The fashion for ballad operas in England peaked in the

The librettist for The Beggar's Opera is

The principal composer of Singspiel in the 1760s and '70s was

The earliest comic operas in Germany were translations and adaptations of

The argument for a reform of opera seria was articulated in the following composer's An Essay on the Opera:

The following composer aimed to combine the best of French tragedie en musique and Italian opera seria in his Ippolito et Aricia

The following composer, inspired by the reform movement in the 1750s, collaborated with poet Ranerio de Calzabigi to produce Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste

The following approach to composing operas best describes the desire of compoers associated with the opera reform movement of the mid-eighteenth century

The following opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck was composed to prove that a good opera could be written to French words

A French strophic song on a sentimental text with a simple, expressive melody over a plain accompaniment is a

The typical text of a British ballad was borrowed from

Most Lied of the mid-eighteenth century adhered to the following form

The first collection of music entirely composed in North America was the

The following North American composer declared his independence from the accepted rules of counterpoint, writing that he had devised a set of rules better suited to his aims and method

The first native-born American composer of chamber music was

Pianoforte

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Sonata in D Major, K. 119, #106

Empfindsam Style

Sonata IV in A Majore, #107

The Eighteenth Century Orchestra

Early Symphonies

Symphony in F Major by Sammartini, #108

German Symphonic Composers

Sinfonia a 8 in E-flat Major, #109

Johann Christian Bach

Concerto for Harpsichord or Piano and Strings in E-flat Major, #110

Listening: Pergolesi La Serva Padrona

Listening Pergolesi La Serva Padrona

Listening Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in D Major

Listening CPE Bach, Sonata IV in A Major

Listening Stamitz, Sinfonia a 8 in E-flat Major

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Esterhazy

Esterhazy duties

Early Symphonies

Early Symphonies

Sturm und Drang

Paris Symphonies (82-87)

London Symphonies (93-104)

Symphony No 92 in G Major

Symphony No 92 Mvt. 1
Sonata Form (#112)