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Music Appreciation Test 2 LSU
Test 2 LSU: Teacher: Harris
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Music
Undergraduate 2
05/26/2010

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Quote: The most influential and prolific composer in the creation of the Baroque concerto: wrote more than 450 concertos
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Antonio Vivaldi
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cadenza
Definition
improvisation
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ritornello
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Italian for refrain; a short musical passage in a Baroque concerto grosso invariably played by the tutti; a section
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Water music
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Played along the river of the River 10

composed for public entertainment

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King's Barge
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50 in number on the musician barge
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Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Notes
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Ritornello Theme: Part A

Solo: Section 1

Song is harpsichord

 

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Quote: George Frideric Handel
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Most famous composer in Europe and a national institution in England

Reputation continued to increase after his death

Perhaps the finest composer for chorus who ever lived

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Quote: Johann Sebastian Bach
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During his lifetime known more as a great organist than a composer

Brought the cantata to the highest point of development

The greatest composer of contrapuntal music in the history of western music

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Role of percussion in Baroque Era
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improvised, made up own rhythms, used for a more festive atmosphere
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2 instruments not in Baroque era
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Trombone and Tuba
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Oratorio Chart 
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Purpose: Sacred entertainment

Performance location: Theatre

Performance style: Concert style

Subject: Biblical subjects

Musical form: Recitative, De capo aria, Chorus

Accompaniment: Orchestra

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Quote: Age of Reason
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also known as Enlightenment 

The Age of Reason ultimately gave way to the Age of Revolution

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Note: Joseph Haydn
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Worked for the Esterhazy family

Conductor of the prince's personal orchestra

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Note: Mozart
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Exposed to a wealth of musical styles

Music lost popularity during the final years of the decade

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Ternary Form
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Presentation, contrast, and return
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Minuet
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Third movement of a symphony
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Note: Sonata-Allegro Form
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The standard first movement form in the era's instrumental compositions
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Exposition- first theme
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Must always start in tonic key (I)
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Theme 1
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arcs up goes away from tonic, antecedent consequent phrase 

"A Little Night Music" Mozart- has 3 phrases

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Transition
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"Bridge"

tonality changes from tonic to dominant in preparation for appearance of second theme

in sonata allegro form

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Note: Transposition
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Modulates to the five dominant (Transition)
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Note: Sonata Allegro Form

 

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2nd theme -> Melody -> dominant
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What section is Re-transition in?
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Development
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Pedal Point

 

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common note between tonic and develpment

still in dominant- allows us to go into recapitulation 

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Absolute Music
Definition
Has no meaning, no story, organized through form
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Job of transition
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to modulate
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timbre
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instrument
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Note: Haydn

 

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Symphony No. 94
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Note: Mozart
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Horn Concerto in E-flat Major K. 495
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Kochel (K) Numbers
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A mean of identifying hundreds of compositions Mozart wrote

Devised by 19th century historian Ludwig von Kochel

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Note: Mood
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Not related to a biographical event
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Know Emperor Quartet
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Lorenzo de Ponte
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Mozart's liberetto
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Mozart
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Master of Classical Opera
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Know Symphony No. 3 Mozart
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Note
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Heligenstandt testament= document
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Beethoven in 1817
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could no longer hear music
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Note: Symphony No. 5
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Unexpected solo

Representing victory from going from major to minor in Movement 4

Written in C minor

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