Music Exam #2

What were the most popular Renaissance dances in France?

Pavane, Gaillarde, basse danse

What was the most important genre of Lutheran music?

The chorale

In what period did Palestrina live?

The Renaissance

What was the Concerto delle donne?

The first all-female vocal ensemble

What is monody?

One melody with instrumental accompaniment

Where were the first operas produced and performed?

In Florence at the Medici court, around the turn of the seventeenth century

What were the intermedi?

Musical intermissions between the acts of a play

What is stile rappresentativo?

An operatic vocal style or technique halfway between singing and speaking

Where was the first public opera theatre?

Venice, in 1637

Who was Frescobaldi?

One of the most influential composers of seventeenth-century keyboard music

What is an oratorio?

A religious opera (with a narrator)

What is the form of a da capo aria?

ABA form

How many movements are in the Corellian sonata, and what is their order?

Four movements: slow-fast-slow-fast

How many movements are in the concerto grosso, and what is their order?

Three movements: fast-slow-fast

Who composed The Four Seasons?

Antonio Vivaldi

What is ritornello form?

Alternation between a ritornello (refrain) and solo episodes

What is tragédie lyrique?

A French serious opera

Who composed Dido and Aeneas?

An English opera composed by Henry Purcell

Who were the castrati?

Male singers castrated before puberty to preserve a high singing voice

Who was Johann Sebastian Bach?

A major Baroque composer

What are the two elements of a fugue identified in J. S. Bach's music?

Subject and countersubject

What does the term Classical refer to?

The emulation of classical antiquity (ancient Greece and Rome

Who were the main patrons of the arts during the Classical period?

The aristocracy

What was a major musical center during the eighteenth century?

Vienna

What is opera buffa?

Italian comic opera

What is French comic opera called?

Opéra comique

What was the standard structure of a late-eighteenth-century symphony?

Four movements, with the first in sonata form

What composer made a major contribution to the early development of the string quartet?

Joseph Haydn

Who invented the pianoforte, and approximately when?

Bartolomeo Cristofori, around the beginning of the eighteenth century

What is a Singspiel?

A comic opera in German

What was the querelle des bouffons?

A quarrel in France between supporters of Italian and French opera

What is John Gay's The Beggar's Opera an example of?

Ballad opera, an English comic opera

What is opera seria?

Serious opera

What form is the first movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550?

Sonata form

What are the three main sections of sonata form?

Exposition, development, recapitulation

What is minuet form?

A (ab repeated), B (cd), C (ab without repetition)

What is rondo form?

ABACA

What is sonata form?

Ternary form

Where was Haydn's early career based?

In Vienna, at the Esterházy court

Who wrote the librettos for Mozart's Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, and Così fan tutte?

Lorenzo da Ponte

Which important composer did Mozart meet in Vienna?

Joseph Haydn

Who completed Mozart's Requiem Mass?

His student Franz Xaver Süssmayr

How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?

Nine

What is the German lied?

A German song for piano and voice

What is program music?

Music that depicts a story or a scene

Which city was an important center for music during the nineteenth century?

Paris

What is the main idea behind “absolute music”?

Music without literary or pictorial associations; the opposite of program music

Which composer was important for the development of the lied?

Franz Schubert

What did Romantic artists tend to emphasize?

Feelings and imagination

Who composed the Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64?

Felix Mendelssohn