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This classical musician wrote about 200hours of music in his lifetime making him one of the most prolific musical genius
Jacques Louis David
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Schubert
Joseph Haydn
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During the classical period_____ such as the concerto and sonata were more heavily defined and given more specific rules
forms
tonality
dynamics
texture
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musicians began to abandon the layered polyphony of the baroque period toward a style known a
__ the melody is by chords
homophony
dynamics
tonality
sonata
4
Classical music embraced____a type of music that was more light and elegant with Rococo embellishments and ornamentation
dynamics
natural state
style galant
texture
5
Unlike___compositions which left more up to the interpretation of the musician classical compositions specifically noted
Ancient Greek
baroque
romantic
Mesopotamian
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Opera 2modes of singing
1)____the plot-driving passages sung in a style designed to imitate and emphasize the inflection
recitative
dynamics
sonata
overture
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Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (which is called a___
recapitulation
overture
libretto
buffa
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In the 18th, Europe began to move toward a style of art that was inspired by
classical antiquity
, which is a term refers
the Byzantine Era
the Indus River Valley
the ancient Greeks and Romans
the Paleolithic Era
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The classical period falls between the baroque and the ________________ periods.
antiquity
romantic
Byzantine
Paleolithic
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was from_____. Later in his career, he work in the court of Emperor Joseph II, who was Marie bro
Germany
Italy
Austria
Spain
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Developments in the Scientific Method in particular ______'s work in the realm of physics gave the culture for structure
Sir Isaac Newton
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mozart
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Classical compositions contain notations about
_____, or the
volume
(or loudness or softness) t
he note should be played.
texture
melody
dynamics
forms
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The Ancient Greek sculptor______________ used math to create his "canon" of perfect proportions.
Plato
Poseidon
Polykleitos
Phidias
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A__ is a form of music that became increasingly popular in the classical period(sort of like pop music in contempory
Gregorian chant
sonata
dynamics
fugue
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According to legend, Pythagoras discovered the foundations of musical tuning by listening to the sounds of__
blacksmith hammers
bone flutes
lyres
a piano
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Pythagoras was also known for his belief in_____.In other words, the planets and stars moved according to math equations
the natural state
heliocentrism
the harmony of the spheres
prima nocta
17
Monophony, polyphony, and homophony describe which musical element?
texture
dynamics
recapitulation
recitative
18
While still tightly linked to court culture and absolutism with its formality, emphasis on order and hierarchy new style
was less structured and more improvisational
was more clean and simple
was monophonic
had a more dark and somber tone
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The primary patrons of instrumental music in the 18th century were __
children
the clergy
members of the ancien regime
the revolutionaries
20
During the classical period, the __replaced the harpsichord, giving musicians more technology and thus more option compo
piano
pipe organ
bone flute
lyre
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This portion of an opera marks the opening.
aria
libretto
coda
overture
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This is also a hallmark of classical music ,There were also frequent changes in mood, timbre than in the baroque period
atonaity
stability
variety
guitar
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sonata 3 mainpart 1exposition 2development the themes are developed,3____________: an altered repeat of the exposition
dynamics
recapitulation
homophony
texture
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The best-known composers from the classical period are Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and
Jacques Louis David
Pierre Beaumarchais
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pythagorus