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Music History
Classical Period Exam
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Undergraduate 3
02/24/2011

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What is the Enlightenment
Definition
A period of time with emphasis on reasoning from experience and observation
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Name the 4 French Philosophers
Definition
Rousseau, Montesquieu, Diderot, & Voltaire
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Name the American Proponents
Definition
Benjamin Franklin & Thomas Jefferson
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Name the English Proponents
Definition
John Locke & Thomas Paine
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Name the German Proponent
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Immanuel Kant
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Sapere aude!
Definition
Dare to know!
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Freemasonry
Definition
Founded in England 1717 on humanitarian ideals of longing for universal brotherhood
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Giovanni Battista Martini
Definition
wrote the History of Music
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Charles Burney
Definition
Wrote A General History of Music
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Johann Nicholas Forkel
Definition
Wrote the first biography of Bach
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Anne Danican Philidor
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Established Concerts Spirituelles at the Palace Les Tuileries
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J.A. Hiller
Definition
Credited with the creation of German Singspiel
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Bartolomeo Cristofori
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regarded as inventor of the fortepiano
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Rococo
Definition
Architecture of curved arabesques
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Style Galant
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Short melodic phrases; Alberti bass
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Empfindsamer Stil
Definition
Change of expression with appropriate shading of dynamics
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Sturm und Drang
Definition
Aim of frightening, shocking, or overcoming with emotion
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Classical Period
Definition
Latter 18th Century with Haydn, Mozart, & Beethoven
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How many Viennese Classical Composers were born in Vienna?
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Symphony Mvt.1
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Sonata form
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Symphony Mvt.2
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Slow ABA
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Symphony Mvt.3
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Minuet in Trio
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Symphony Mvt.4
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Finale, rondo/sonata/sonata-rondo
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Johann Stamitz
Definition
cres. termed Mannheim rocket
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Intermezzo
Definition
short comic interlude opera between acts of serious opera
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Opera Buffa
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Comic Italian Opera
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Opera Comique
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Comic French Opera
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Ballad Opera
Definition
English Opera
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Opera Seria
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Serious Opera
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Da Capo
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Dal Segno
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Johann Adolph Hasse
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Most successful opera composer by mid-century
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