MUS 1000 Final Review

Classical chamber music is designed for what purpose?

Vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in what city?

What other art form most influences the third movement of a classical symphony?

What spurred the 'baroque revival' in the late 1940s?

Schubert's The Erlking is in what form?

Which Stravinsky ballet was immensely successful in 1910, establishing him as a leading young composer?

What characterized the use of instruments in early baroque music?

What type of texture did early baroque composers favor?

Beethoven composed 32 ______ sonatas, which pushed the expressive elements of the instrument.

What is the essence of a classical concerto?

What is the term for a musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas?

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the ______.

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ______ of his day.

In addition to the aristocracy, what other social group influenced the musical taste of eighteenth-century Europe?

An art song is a musical composition for what performing forces?

The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as ______.

Nonprogram music is also known as ______ music.

What is a primary feature of baroque music?

What did the typical orchestra of the classical period consist of?

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in what form?

Which composers are considered the giants of baroque composition?

Among the playing techniques widely used during the twentieth century is the ______, a rapid slide up or down a scale.

What characteristic of Richard Wagner's music was highly innovative for the time?

Under what circumstances did Mozart compose his Requiem?

To what does the word movement in music normally refer?

Public concerts from the Concert des Amateurs in Paris in the 1770s were presented by which conductor?

What feature of baroque music was no longer used in the music of the classical period?

The piano trio is a musical composition for what instrumentation?

What instrument was a very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period?

What marked the end of the baroque period in music?

What is one of Puccini's operas that features exoticism, by his use of melodic/rhythmic elements from Japan and China

What is the instrumentation for the classical string quartet?

In the classical period, serious composition was flavored by what sources?

The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the ______.

In Bach's day, the Lutheran church service lasted about ______ hour(s).

A type of polyphonic composition based on one main theme is a ______.

What characteristic is NOT typical of the music of the classical period?

What is the usual order of movements in a classical symphony?

What is the term for instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene?

What is the typical sequence of movements in a classical concerto?