Multiple Choice Music History

CPE Bach

Keyboard works illustrate Empfindsam style. At the center of European musical culture. Keyboard sonatas primarily written for the clavichord or piano. Served the Prussian king Fredrick the Great.

__________ is one of the most famous and successful intermezzi.

La Serva Padrona

If you were to hear an aria from a ballad opera, it probably would

use a familiar tune from a folk or popular song

Opera Comique

A French form of opera

Scarlatti

Active in Portugal, Spain. Out of the mainstream of European musical culture. Keyboard sonatas primarily written for the harpsichord. Keyboard works feature a high degree of figuration.

Which of the following is not a typical characteristic of Italian comic opera in the mid-1700s?

Complex harmonies

The Figaro Factor

Depicting ordinary people with everyday emotions, such as a resourceful barber

The example below shows how Pergolesi uses (Lyrics: I am all mixed up! I have a certain something in my heart. Truly; I cannot tell)

Different melodic ideas to portray shifting ideas and moods in the text.

Mozart

Don Giovanni, Comic opera

Name and describe two musical ideas/practices/concepts from Baroque music that carry into the early Classical period.

Embellishments and public concerts/opera

In what ways are Galant and Empfindsam style alike? Distinct? (you may comment on either the similarities or the distinctions or both).

Galant tends to be more calm with smooth melodies while Empfindsam is more dramatic with heavier texture.

What is one reason that Singspiel became an important genre in Germany?

German playwrights translated and adapted English ballad operas into German

Name or describe one innovation Mozart introduced into opera composition

He blended the different styles of opera performance in accordance with his characters.

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

Improvisation in commedia dell' arte style.

Ballad opera

Includes spoken dialogue and songs many of which feature new words set to well-known tunes

Pergolesi

La Serva Padrona, Intermezzo

Gluck

Orfeo ed Euridice, Opera Seria

Intermezzo

Performed in two to three segments between the acts of a serious opera or play

In an opera seria, action progresses through

Recitative, either simple or accompanied

The da capo aria of the 18th century shares some features with the Baroque da capo form. Name or describe two shared features

Singers had the freedom to embellish in the de capo aria, and the de capo aria was supported by the orchestra's harmonies.

Gay

The Beggar's Opera, Ballad Opera

Querelle Des Buffons

Written disagreement of the merits of Italian comic opera

The musical example shown here demonstrates that Johann Adolf Hasse (Q:15 from Quiz 2)

Wrote elegant melodies that allow singers to add a variety of ornaments