Music History Exam 1

Ballad opera is the name given to a popular form of opera in which country?

The slow movement of the Eroica Symphony ____________.

Who wrote the words to Ode to Joy?

Of the following, which was a prevailing music value in the late eighteenth century?

La serva padronna has how many singing roles?

In which region did the symphony originate?

The most thorough guide to melodic composition was written by?

Who was Haydn’s principal employer throughout his long career?

Which of the following was an important contribution of opera buffa?

Haydn’s Opus 33 quartets were composed in what style?

Of the following, which describes concert life in the late 18th-century?

Of the following, which is not a belief of Gluck?

Which of the following describes Mozart’s first-movement forms in his piano concertos?

Of the following, what does not characterize a concerto cadenza in the Classic era?

What is the name of the music entertainment performed between the acts of a serious opera or play?

What was the primary type of sacred music in New England during the colonial period?

Of the following, which Baroque instrumental genre continued into the Classic era?

Of the following, which is not a late symphony by Mozart?

When Beethoven realized that he was going deaf, he wrote _____________.

Of the following, which describes the galant style?

Which of the following belongs to Beethoven's first creative period?

Which composer's works served as models for Beethoven's Missa solemnis?

The empfindsam style is most closely associated with whom?

The nickname for Beethoven's sixth symphony is _____________

Which center developed an orchestra, referred to as "an army of general," that was known in Europe for its precision?

The composer who published some of his keyboard sonatas with the title Essercizi was whom?

The Querelle des bouffons was a dispute about what?

Of the following, which characterizes the musical life of 18th-century Europe?

Which of the following does not characterize the classical style?

Of the following, which describes the empfindsam style?

Of the following, which was the main source of Haydn’s idiom?

Where did the galant style originate?

Of the following composers, who was active in London and was an important influence on the young Mozart?

Who persuaded Haydn to go to London?

Which of the following was not part of the Enlightenment movement?

Who was the founder of the Mannheim school?

Of the following, which instrument was invented in 1710 and became a standard woodwind member by 1780?

The heightened expression found in the symphonies of 1768-1772 is associated with which style?

Which of the following can be said of Beethoven's Fidelio?

The Classic-era genre that combines characteristics of the symphony and the concerto is called the ___________.

Which of the following operas is based on a Lorenzo Da Ponte libretto?

Which of the following individual's librettos established the opera seria traditions?

Which of the following characterizes a typical opera buffa?

Which composer did not exert a strong influence on Mozart?

Mozart’s final work, left incomplete at his death, was ______________.

Of the following, which does not describe Beethoven's first string quartets?

Of the following, which was not a way that Beethoven earned a living during his first creative period?

Which of the following composers was a major figure of operatic reform and active in both Vienna and France?

Which of the following would be considered a rondo form?

The first modern conservatory of music was founded in ___________________.