CHWM

Question 1

What was the difference between symphonies after 1782 and symphonies prior to 1782 and what was the reason?

Accepted Answer

symphonies before 1782 were concert or theatrical curtain raisers, later symphonies had harmonic & contrapuntal complexity & climatic finales, after 1782 were main features or shared billing with concertos/arias

Question 2

What are the differences between private and public concerts?

Accepted Answer

Public made money by tickets; audience was upper middle & wealthy classes, private invitation only & the patrons who sponsored them assumed all cost

Question 3

What influence from Haydn is evident in Mozart’s set of six string quartets that were dedicated to the older composer?

Accepted Answer

More thorough development in an increasingly contrapuntal texture.

Question 4

What was the Concert Spirituel series?

Accepted Answer

perform music & sacred works during Holy Week when theatres were closed, concertseries founded in Paris in 1725 by Anne Danican Philidor

Question 5

Who were the primary influences on Mozart during the last ten years of his life?

Accepted Answer

Bach, Haydn, Handel

Question 6

Who were the most notable representatives of the Viennese Classical style?

Accepted Answer

Haydn,Mozart, and Beethoven

Question 7

Define contrapuntal.

Accepted Answer

Employing counterpoint, or two or more simultaneous melodic lines.

Question 8

What influence from Bach is found in Mozart’s later piano sonatas?

Accepted Answer

more contrapuntal texture

Question 9

What was Mozart’s relationship with these composers?

Accepted Answer

He was introduced to Bach and Handel by Baron van Swieten at Baron's home, he was Haydn's teacher

Question 10

Who was Mozart’s primary model for his Piano concertos and what pattern forms do they follow?

Accepted Answer

2nd mvt: aria & can be in sonata form w/o developmt, variations, or rondo, 3rd mvt: a rondo, or sonata rondo, on themes with a popular character, fast-slow-fast w/1st movement blending elements of ritornello & sonata form, J. C. Bach

Question 11

What influences from opera and French overture are evident in some of Mozart’s symphonies?

Accepted Answer

Comical elements from opera and double dotted rhythms of French Overture

Question 12

Describe the difference in audiences of the 18th century and audiences of the 19th century and after

Accepted Answer

19-silent and motionless audience was invented, 18-concert was social; audience listened to pieces they were interested in

Question 13

What were Mozart’s early cadenzas like compared to his later cadenzas?

Accepted Answer

after 1780 they served to balance the longer development sections, Early were flourishes without thematic links to the movement, later cadenzas had “daring flights of technical wizardry”

Question 14

What was the Academy of Ancient music?

Accepted Answer

Devoted to 16th & 17th century sacred music, madrigals, & other music, 1726; concerts of music from the past; became popular over next 2 centuries

Question 15

Who was the most influential musician in Vienna during the last quarter of the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Antonio Salieri

Question 16

What did Haydn’s Op. 33 quartets establish?

Accepted Answer

Pervasive thematic development with equality among the four instruments.

CHWM

Questions 16

CHWM

Questions 16