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Hadyn spent most of his musical career working for what aristocratic family?
Esterhazy
100
Beethoven's only Opera
Fidelio
100
Theme and variations may be written how?
A'A"A"'A''''
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A concerto is a large-scale work in several movements for...
An instrumental soloist and orchestra
100
True or False: Classical melodies are tuneful and easy to remember
True
200
What Kind of music did Beethoven write after he went deaf?
Opera, Symphonies, String quartet, Piano Sonata
200
Operas are made up of what?
Recit, arias, duets, trios, etc.
200
A typical sequence of movements in a classical concerto is
Fast slow fast
200
The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is
Fast, slow, dance, fast
200
True or False: Classical music is basically polyphonic
F
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This composer died broke and didn't become an famous composer until after his death
Mozart
300
A brilliant solo section in a concerto or at the end of an opera aria designed to display the performer's virtuosity is called
cadenza
300
Name the three pieces of sonata form
Exposition, Development, Recap
300
True or False: Each successive variation in a theme with variations maintains some part of the theme
T
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The classical concerto differs from the symphony in that it does not have a ___________ movement
Minuet and Trio
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Mozart's requiem was the last piece he wrote before he died and it was completed by...
His student, Sussemeyer
400
Name Three Mozart Operas
Le nozze di Figaro Don Giovanni Cosi fan tutte
400
Consists of four movements and is written for 4-9 instrumentalists
Chamber Music
400
In many of Beethoven's works, there is a _______ movement instead of the minuet
Scherzo
400
Political and economic power shifted to the middle class from the aristocracy and the
Church
500
Where was Mozart born?
Salzburg, Austria
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Who was Don Giovanni?
A Spanish Don Juan
500
Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are called
Motives
500
The character of the minuet is best described as
Stately and Dignified
500
Classicism, as a stylistic period in western art music, roughly encompassed the years
1750-1820