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| show | the expressive style
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| show | Rococo art was designed to edify or improve rather than to amuse and entertain.
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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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| All of the following are characteristics of Rococo art except | show 🗑
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| One of the finest composers of the Rococo period was Antoine Watteau. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | homophonic
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| In France, the most important composer of the Rococo period was | show 🗑
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| show | Domenico Scarlatti
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| Both Domenico Scarlatti and Francois Couperin were well known as composers of | show 🗑
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| Germany introduced a style similar to the French Rococo–the __________ style. | show 🗑
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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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| show | True
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| The two outstanding Classical composers of the late eighteenth century were | show 🗑
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| show | Vienna
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| Which of the following characteristics of the late eighteenth century's artistic style renders the term Classical particularly applicable to the period? | show 🗑
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| show | Enlightenment
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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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| Proponents of the Enlightenment believed that knowledge is universal, truth absolute, and reason the pathway to Enlightenment. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Sir Joshua Reynolds
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| Who made the likenesses of Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington on United States coins? | show 🗑
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| In literature, the eighteenth century was an age of __________ more than poetry. | show 🗑
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| During the eighteenth century, the __________ theater was of unprecedented importance. | show 🗑
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| show | referring to a work of art that is new, innovative, and sure to become popular
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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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| show | True
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| show | Franz Joseph Haydn
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| Which Classical composer accepted the social and artistic restrictions of court employment? | show 🗑
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| show | composers embraced Baroque intensity of religious feeling.
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| show | homophony
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| show | Paris
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| Instrumental music finally surpassed vocal music in both quantity and quality during the Classical period. | show 🗑
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| show | form
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| The three outstanding composers of the Classical period were | show 🗑
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| Among instrumental forms, the __________ experienced the greatest development and offered composers the widest field for creativity during the mid-1700s. | show 🗑
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| show | narrowing the Baroque conception of the orchestra
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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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| __________, an early master of the symphonic form, was employed as a court composer by the same noble family for nearly thirty years. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | standardizing the number of movements for certain types of works.
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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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| The orchestra prepares for a cadenza by playing a long decrescendo that ends quietly on the tonic chord. | show 🗑
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| show | trill
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| show | True
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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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| In a chamber music performance, each player must be an accomplished performer since each is responsible for one line of music. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | the same family
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| show | the string quartet
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| The Classical string quartet consisted of | show 🗑
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| In a Classical string quartet, the person playing __________ serves as the leader of the group. | show 🗑
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| A Classical string quartet usually consists of __________ movements. | show 🗑
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| show | sonata
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| In a sonata for two instruments, such as a violin and a piano, each of the instruments is of equal importance. | show 🗑
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| All of the following were common forms in the Classical period except | show 🗑
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| The Classical sonata-allegro form was generally conceived as a three-part structure. | show 🗑
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| The three main sections of the Classical sonata-allegro form are the | show 🗑
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| show | the exposition changes key but the recapitulation does not.
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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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| show | False
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| The third movement of many Classical symphonies, sonatas, and string quartets is a | show 🗑
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| The minuet was a stately dance introduced at the seventeenth-century court of Louis XIV. | show 🗑
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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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| Gluck proposed to __________ serious opera by imposing classical restraint upon it. | show 🗑
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| Gluck was impressed by a famous French Baroque composer, Jean-Philippe Rameau, who attempted with some success to integrate __________ into the drama of his works. | show 🗑
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| Gluck wrote the first reform opera, which was | show 🗑
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| show | including many da capo arias because of their intense dramatic quality
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| The introductory orchestra piece of an opera is called the | show 🗑
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| show | Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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| show | False
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| Light in mood and concerned with everyday characters and events, __________ operas developed in several countries during the eighteenth century. | show 🗑
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| Audiences appreciated the fact that comic operas were written in their own, local language and that all comic operas (except the Italian form) used spoken dialogue instead of recitative. | show 🗑
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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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| Although Mozart had a short life that was marked by financial difficulties | show 🗑
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| All of the following are TRUE about Mozart's operas except | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | True
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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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| show | expressive passages in homophonic texture were used.
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| After Bach and Handel, Protestant music declined because the music was supposed to be a functional part of the service rather than "art for art's sake." | show 🗑
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| When Haydn was criticized for writing religious music that was too "happy," he replied that he did not believe the Lord minded cheerful music. | show 🗑
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| show | Requiem
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