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Music

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The transitional style which combined Baroque and Classical characteristics in early eighteenth-century France was known as all of the following except   show
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All of the following are characteristics of Rococo visual arts except   show
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The music of the Rococo was generally light and entertaining rather than serious and dramatic.   show
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show Paris  
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Which of the following best describes the social life of the French aristocracy during the reign of the Duke of Orleans?   show
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show furniture was beautifully made but uncomfortable and of little use  
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show False  
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show True  
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show homophonic  
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show Francois Couperin  
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show Domenico Scarlatti  
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show keyboard works  
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show Expressive  
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Unlike the French Rococo, the German expressive style represented __________ taste.   show
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show Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.  
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From about __________, democratic, republican, and revolutionary causes affected every phase of European life and art.   show
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Although the late eighteenth century was marked by democratic revolution and profound social change, it was also a period of classical restraint in the arts.   show
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show Haydn and Mozart  
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The musical center of the Classical style, and the city where Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven all lived and worked was   show
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show All of the above  
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It was the French who articulated and defended the ideas that led to the Age of Reason, but they freely acknowledged their debt to the English for pointing the way toward the intellectual movement called the   show
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The members of the Enlightenment were concerned with mistreatment of the upper classes, and they initiated significant humanitarian reforms to correct these injustices.   show
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show True  
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show False  
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The greatest painter of mid-eighteenth-century France was   show
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Jacques-Louis David was a __________ artist whose revolutionary sympathies imbued his later works with romantic characteristics.   show
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show William Hogarth  
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One of England's greatest painters during this period, __________, preferred to paint the rich and the elegant, stressing line over color in the classical manner.   show
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Who made the likenesses of Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington on United States coins?   show
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show Prose  
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show English  
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The term classical is an ambiguous word that has acquired all of the following meanings except   show
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The goals of the Enlightenment included all of the following except   show
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During the eighteenth century, concerts became more common and the public's appreciation for music increased.   show
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During the late eighteenth century, a significant number of women became professional musicians, braving criticisms of impropriety and often winning recognition for their accomplishments.   show
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During the eighteenth century, Marianne von Martinez studied with the famous composer, __________, and later composed a large number of full-length works.   show
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show Haydn  
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All of the following were characteristics of Classical music except   show
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show homophony  
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During the Classical period, although Italy continued to dominate the world of opera, the main centers of musical activity moved north to the following cities except   show
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Instrumental music finally surpassed vocal music in both quantity and quality during the Classical period.   show
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The overall design of a work is called it's   show
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The three outstanding composers of the Classical period were   show
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show symphony  
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Classical composers changed the orchestra in all of the following ways except   show
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In the middle of the eighteenth century, the German city of __________ developed an outstanding orchestra which attracted attention throughout western Europe.   show
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show terraced dynamics  
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show Franz Joseph Hadyn  
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show False  
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The Classical composers expanded the Baroque concept of multimovement compositions by   show
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A __________ is a multimovement work played by an orchestra and originally based on the Italian overture consisting of three movements (fast-slow-fast).   show
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Classical composers expanded the sections and added a fourth movement to the symphony, organizing each "movement" according to the principles of a chosen instrumental form.   show
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show True  
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show Three  
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show cadenza  
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show toward the end of a movement  
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show False  
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show trill  
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Since the nineteenth century, composers have written cadenzas for their concertos and have even published cadenzas for earlier concertos, including those written by Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries.   show
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Music performed by a relatively small number of people in a small room is called _________ music.   show
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show True  
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The Classical period's appreciation for clarity of thought, purity of sound, and emotional restraint made chamber music one of the favorite means of expression.   show
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show the same family  
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show the string quartet  
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show two violins, viola, and cello  
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show first violin  
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A Classical string quartet usually consists of __________ movements.   show
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show sonata  
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show True  
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show toccata-allegro form  
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show True  
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show exposition, development, and recapitulation.  
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The most significant difference between the exposition and the recapitulation in sonata-allegro form is that   show
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show coda  
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Unlike Baroque composers, who typically confined one section of a work to one mood or "affection," Classical composers often considered the two tonal areas of the sonata-allegro exposition an opportunity to present two melodies of a contrasting nature.   show
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Classical sonata-allegro form has been nicknamed the "fourth movement form" because it has been used as the fourth movement for so many symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and string quartets.   show
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The third movement of many Classical symphonies, sonatas, and string quartets is a   show
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show True  
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show True  
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One form of a Classical rondo is   show
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Although the Classical period produced much more vocal than instrumental music, very few operas and very little vocal religious music was composed during this time   show
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show Christoph Willibald Gluck  
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show reform  
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show ballet  
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show Orfeo and Euridice  
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In his reform operas, Gluck did all of the following except   show
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The introductory orchestra piece of an opera is called the   show
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Gluck responded to a statement made by __________ that the French language was entirely unsuited to singing by effectively setting a French libretto to music.   show
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Due in large part to Gluck's efforts, French replaced Italian as the language of serious opera all over Europe in the eighteenth century.   show
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show Comic  
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show True  
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In Italy during the early eighteenth century, short comic episodes interspersed between acts of a serious opera became so popular that composers used them as the basis for a new style of opera.   show
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The first comic opera was __________, written by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.   show
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The opera buffa introduced the ensemble __________ to bring an act or an opera to a musically and dramatically exciting close.   show
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One of history's most tragic figures, __________, began his performing career as a child prodigy.   show
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show he delighted his audiences and was highly paid for his services.  
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show classical restraint and proportion are often abandoned.  
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show True  
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In The Marriage of Figaro one of the main characters is a nobleman who is outwitted and humiliated by his own servants.   show
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Although the Classical period was primarily a secular age, the Church remained a strong influence in some areas of Europe; however, very few composers contributed to the repertoire of religious music.   show
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The following were all TRUE of Classical religious music except   show
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show True  
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show True  
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show Requiem  
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