Study Questions from CHWM 2

What became available as more people became interested in reading about music and discussing it?

Define: French Opera Comique

What became available as a result of the public's interest in music's origins and past styles?

Define: Phrase

Acc. to Koch, what organization is necessary to make a melody intelligible and capable of moving our feelings?

What was one of the most widely used device in keyboard music and why?

Audiences and critics preferred what style of music and what did this style come to be known?

What were the "vehicles of fame" for composers of the Classical period?

What is the historical significance of comic opera?

Define: English Ballade Opera

What was an intermezzo?

For what was most of the music for keyboard, chamber ensemble, or voice and keyboard?

What was the Italian Opera Buffa?

Define: cadence

Who was Heinrich Christoph Koch?

Define: periodicity

What were the characteristics of the old style of music that made it less appealing to Classical era listeners?

What is meant by "musical rhetoric?"

Define: Period

Define: German Singspiel