hi

(Q007) Approximately how many symphonies did Haydn write?

106

(Q026) How did serious Italian opera arrive in Russia?

A visiting Italian troupe performed opera in Moscow.

(Q002) What was one core value of the Enlightenment?(Q002)

All people are entitled to certain rights.

(Q014) Which composer first popularized the rescue opera?

André Ernest Modeste Grétry

(Q010) What shift occurred in opera seria in the 1720s and 1730s?

Arias began to display a succession of varied emotions.

(Q014) What were Edmund Burke's thoughts on aesthetics?

Beautiful art offers pleasure, but sublime art, inspiring awe and astonishment, is more powerful.

(Q015) One of the most influential German sonata composers was

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

(Q006) Who wrote one of the first comprehensive histories of music?

Charles Burney

(Q001) Haydn spent much of his career working at

Eszterháza

(Q012) Who of the following was one of the great singers of the early eighteenth century?

Faustina Bordoni

(Q021) According to Quantz, which country's composers were embracing the emerging spirit of cosmopolitanism?

Germany

(Q019) How did Gluck achieve operatic reform?

He combined elements of French, Italian, and German opera.

(Q006) Why is Haydn sometimes called "the father of the symphony"?

He set conventions from which future composers drew.

(Q015) What is one way that Mozart's adult compositional style was influenced by his unusual childhood?

He was exposed to and absorbed the styles of a number of composers living in many areas.

(Q016) Which of the following is an accomplishment of C. P. E. Bach?

He wrote a significant essay on keyboard instrument playing.

(Q017) What emerging view of human psychology impacted music in the Classical era?

Human emotions can be categorized into five basic categories.

(Q020) How does Mozart's The Magic Flute reflect its genre of Singspiel?

It contains spoken dialogue and characters derived from popular comedy.

(Q001) What is one distinguishing feature of Italian opera buffa in comparison to comic opera of other countries?

It is sung throughout.

(Q004) How did the context of intermezzo performance impact its reception?

It was accepted by nobility and aristocrats and performed in serious opera houses.

(Q023) How did English church music of the early Classical period compare with that of other countries?

It was more traditional.

(Q022) Of the following, who was a leading thinker of the Enlightenment?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(Q023) One of the first composers of piano concertos was

Johann Christian Bach.

(Q021) Which composer established the standard four-movement structure of a symphony?

Johann Stamitz

(Q010) In 1790, Johann Peter Salomon invited Haydn to compose and conduct symphonies in

London

(Q024) The first concert halls and concert societies emerged in

London

(Q019) Mozart composed three Italian comic operas with librettist

Lorenzo Da Ponte.

(Q020) Which city was especially prominent in the early history of the symphony?

Mannheim

(Q022) In the development sections of Haydn's sonata form movements, what typically happens?

Motives from the exposition are presented in slightly altered versions that include: variations, extensions, and treatments in sequence, imitation, and fugato.

(Q007) Which of the following is a musical value in the eighteenth century that is directly related to the Enlightenment?

Music should be natural—that is, accessible and free from too much technicality.

(Q004) The Concert Spirituel took place in

Paris

(Q007) Who established the conventional form of opera seria?

Pietro Metastasio

(Q003) What defined a public concert in the eighteenth century?

Public concerts were available to anyone who could pay the cost of admission.

(Q017) German comic opera, inspired by English ballad opera, was known as

Singspiel

(Q005) What is one common plot device in comic opera, demonstrated by Pergolesi's La serva padrona?

Social structure is challenged as servants prove more capable than their masters.

(Q013) Domenico Scarlatti spent much of his career in

Spain

(Q009) From 1768, some of Haydn's symphonies, particularly those in minor keys with an emotionally agitated character, can be associated with

Sturm und Drang.

(Q003) Haydn made his last public appearance for a performance of what work?

The Creation

(Q018) How do Mozart's later symphonies differ from the earlier ones?

The later symphonies are longer, more difficult to play, and more harmonically complex.

(Q017) How do C. P. E. Bach's clavier sonatas reflect empfindsam style?

The rhythmic patterns and moods change frequently and dramatically.

(Q004) What was the usual role of the winds in the mid-eighteenth-century orchestra?

They doubled the strings and filled in harmonies.

(Q023) What is typical of Haydn's minuet and trio symphony movements?

Two minuets are combined, with the first repeating after the second, in an ABA form.

(Q001) According to Johann Joachim Quantz, the ideal musical style is

a blend of styles from many nations.

(Q016) After Idomeneo premiered in Munich in 1781, Mozart moved to Vienna and earned money as

a freelance musician.

(Q022) The symphonie concertante is

a genre developed in Paris that featured multiple soloists.

(Q012) Rondo form includes

a small binary form that alternates with episodes.

(Q005) Which of the following describes the typical program of an eighteenth-century public concert?

a wide selection of works for various ensembles, including vocal and instrumental music

(Q025) William Billings's fuging tunes feature

an imitative passage in the second section.

(Q026) How do Baldassare Galuppi's keyboard sonatas demonstrate the galant style?

aria-like melodies with homophonic accompaniment

(Q025) Besides music written for public concerts, in what other contexts was orchestral music heard in the early Classical period?

as background music at aristocratic social functions

(Q018) Among eighteenth-century opera reformers, what was one primary concern?

asserting the primacy of the drama

(Q017) Following in the tradition of J. C. Bach, Mozart's piano concertos contain a first movement that

blends ritornello and sonata form.

(Q016) In The Beggar's Opera, how does John Gay satirize London society?

by substituting ancient heroes with urban criminals

(Q002) What element of opera buffa derives from Italian commedia dell'arte?

caricatured personae

(Q003) Which of the following was developed in the eighteenth century?

clarinet

(Q011) In sonata form, a section that follows the recapitulation, affirming tonic and expanding some themes, is the

coda

(Q014) In Versuch einer Anleitung zur Composition, Heinrich Christoph Koch

compares musical composition to rhetoric.

(Q002) A string quartet in which the parts are treated with equal importance is a

concertante quartet.

(Q023) What term, coined in the early eighteenth century, described the growing number of well-informed amateur musicians?

connoisseur

(Q012) Music that is periodic

contains distinct phrases that relate to each other, forming a larger whole.

(Q009) In opera seria, arias

convey the emotional world of a character.

(Q021) Haydn's compositions frequently combine

economy of material and creativity and innovation.

(Q006) What was one way that composers built dramatic tension at the end of an act in comic opera?

ensemble finales

(Q010) Mid-nineteenth-century theorists thought sonata form contained three sections, the first called the

exposition

(Q005) By the end of the eighteenth century, the typical symphony had

four movements.

(Q008) In the eighteenth century, the most widespread term for what we call the classical style was

galant

(Q014) Which musical element is most important in Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas?

harmonic scheme

(Q019) What is one reason for the population increase in the eighteenth century?

improvements in agricultural methods

(Q003) Intermezzi were performed

in between acts of serious operas or plays.

(Q009) According to Heinrich Christoph Koch, the second period of the second section

is entirely in the tonic.

(Q009) Writers distinguished galant style from

learned, contrapuntal styles.

(Q013) Haydn's earliest surviving and last completed works belonged to which genre?

mass

(Q011) What aspect of Italian operatic style did Jean-Jacques Rousseau praise?

melody

(Q007) In simple binary form, the second part

moves from dominant to tonic.

(Q015) Music for English ballad opera included

new words set to borrowed tunes.

(Q018) The most obvious antecedent to the symphony is the

opera overture.

(Q021) Eighteenth-century church music was most heavily influenced by

opera.

(Q022) The most significant genre for Lutheran composers of the time was the

oratorio.

(Q016) What were French thinkers of the Enlightenment called?

philosophes

(Q001) By the late eighteenth century, the favorite keyboard instrument was the

piano.

(Q010) In his book on the arts, Charles Batteux distinguished the fine arts from

practical arts.

(Q013) Before the 1750s, what music could be expected in French opéra comique?

pre-existing French popular tunes

(Q024) The first book published in North America contained

psalms.

(Q018) The terminology of phrases and periods was borrowed from

rhetoric

(Q024) The first movements of J. C. Bach's concertos blend elements of sonata form with

ritornello form.

(Q006) Which of the following was a common type of binary form in the Classical era?

rounded

(Q002) Haydn's original contract with the Esterházy family forbade him from

selling his compositions.

(Q008) The second movement of a symphony by Haydn is often

slow

(Q020) German Lied was often

strophic

(Q005) Haydn's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, has earned the nickname "The Joke" because of

surprising pauses in the closing of the finale.

(Q020) The most significant intellectual movement of the eighteenth century was

the Enlightenment.

(Q011) When did the style of the eighteenth century first become known as "classical" style?

the nineteenth century

(Q011) Haydn's String Quartets Opp. 9, 17, and 20 differ from four-movement symphonic form in that

the second movement is a minuet and the third movement is slow.

(Q008) An opera seria contains

three acts.

(Q019) The symphonies of Giovanni Battista Sammartini contain

three movements.

(Q004) Subjects that served as musical discourse in Classic-era music have been called

topics.

(Q008) According to Heinrich Christoph Koch, sonata form contains

two large sections.

(Q013) A period contained

two or more phrases and a cadence.

(Q025) Empfindsam style is characterized by

unexpected shifts in harmony, rhythm, and melody.

(Q015) According to music theorist and historian Robert O. Gjerdingen, schemata

were conventional formulas learned by trained composers and recognized by performers and listeners in eighteenth-century music.

(Q012) Haydn's String Quartets Op. 76

were written for performance in concerts, in addition to their traditional role in private contexts.