Music History 2 Exam 1

The most obvious antecedent to the symphony is the

Which city was especially prominent in the early history of the symphony?

Which of the following is an innovation in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5?

The second movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica, is a

From 1768, some of Haydn’s symphonies,those in minor keys with an emotionally agitated character, can be associated with

How does the slow movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 open?

According to Heinrich Christoph Koch, the second period of the second section

 During his middle period, what was 1 event that allowed Beethoven more artistic freedom than most composers enjoyed?

Mozart composed three Italian comic operas with librettist

Haydn’s String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, has earned the nickname "The Joke" because of

What was one way that composers built dramatic tension at the end of an act in comic opera?

Which musical element is most important in Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas?

In 1790, Johann Peter Salomon invited Haydn to compose and conduct symphonies in

 Who established the conventional form of opera seria?

In opera seria, arias

William Billings’s fuging tunes feature

 Among eighteenth-century opera reformers, what was one primary concern?

Eighteenth-century church music was most heavily influenced by

Domenico Scarlatti spent much of his career in

Haydn made his last public appearance for a performance of what work?

Which composer established the standard four-movement structure of a symphony?

What is one distinguishing feature of Italian opera buffa in comparison to comic opera of other countries?

 The largest category in Beethoven’s output from his first decade in Vienna is

German comic opera, inspired by English ballad opera, was known as

Haydn’s String Quartets Op. 76

Beethoven’s Fidelio is about

Why is Haydn sometimes called "the father of the symphony"?

Haydn’s compositions frequently combine

One of the first composers of piano concertos was

In sonata form, a section that follows the recapitulation, affirming tonic and expanding some themes, is the

Approximately how many symphonies did Haydn write?

How was the Eroica Symphony received?

What is one common plot device in comic opera, demonstrated by Pergolesi’s La serva padrona?

How does Beethoven achieve unity among the movements of his String Quartet, Op. 132?

How did serious Italian opera arrive in Russia?

The symphonies of Giovanni Battista Sammartini contain

How did Gluck achieve operatic reform?

The second movement of a symphony by Haydn is often

How do Mozart’s later symphonies differ from the earlier ones?

An opera seria contains

What was one challenge facing Beethoven in his late period?

 What element of opera buffa derives from Italian commedia dell’arte?

Subjects that served as musical discourse in Classic-era music have been called

 In the development sections of Hayden's sonata form movements, what typically happens

 What is typical of Haydn’s minuet and trio symphony movements?

Beethoven died in

What is one stylistic aspect of Beethoven’s middle-period music?

How does Mozart’s The Magic Flute reflect its genre of Singspiel?

Intermezzi were performed

What event in Beethoven’s life took place toward the beginning of his middle period?

The first movements of J. C. Bach’s concertos blend elements of sonata form with

What critic championed Beethoven, suggesting performers treat his music differently than that of other composers?

Beethoven held off on publishing string quartets and symphonies until he had won early successes because

Besides music written for public concerts,in what other context was orchestral music heard in the early Classical period

 What was the usual role of the winds in the mid-eighteenth-century orchestra?

Beethoven was born in

What is one way that Mozart’s adult compositional style was influenced by his unusual childhood?

According to Heinrich Christoph Koch, sonata form contains

How does Beethoven treat the theme in theme and variations form in his late works?

Haydn’s String Quartets Opp. 9, 17, and 20 differ from four-movement symphonic form in that

What shift occurred in opera seria in the 1720s and 1730s?

How did English church music of the early Classical period compare with that of other countries?

Mid-nineteenth-century theorists thought sonata form contained three sections, the first called the

 By the late eighteenth century, the favorite keyboard instrument was the

How does the sonata-rondo third movement of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata stand apart from the rondos of Haydn & Mozart?

Haydn’s earliest surviving and last completed works belonged to which genre?

Where did Haydn become more familiar with the oratorio?

In simple binary form, the second part

Music for English ballad opera included

Which of the following was a common type of binary form in the Classical era?

In The Beggar’s Opera, how does John Gay satirize London society?

By the end of the eighteenth century, the typical symphony had

Which of the following is an innovation in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9?

How do C. P. E. Bach’s clavier sonatas reflect empfindsam style?

How many movements are in Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 131?

Before the 1750s, what music could be expected in French opéra comique?

Haydn spent much of his career working at

Beethoven studied with

After Idomeneo premiered in Munich in 1781, Mozart moved to Vienna and earned money as

The symphonie concertante is

An die ferne Geliebte is a(n)

Following in the tradition of J. C. Bach, Mozart’s piano concertos contain a first movement that

Rondo form includes

Haydn’s original contract with the Esterházy family forbade him from

Beethoven published his late string quartets in full score because

Who of the following was one of the great singers of the early eighteenth century?