Graduate Quiz Section Two

What is one common plot device in comic opera demonstrated by Pergolesi's La serve padrona?

What was one common basso ostinato pattern?

In imitating speech, composers of recitative often

The first section of a French overture is marked by

Domenico Scarlatti spent much of his career in

All of the following are leading cantata composers of the mid-seventeenth century except

What is one way that da capo form suited the needs of 17th century taste?

Among French writers, which concept was valued in expressing emotions?

According to Rameau, a change of key within a piece of music is a 

In Germany, the first public opera house was in

In his book on the arts, Charles Batteux distinguished the fine arts from

Which genre of French music included a double chorus?

In the 18th century, the most widespread term for what we call the classical style was

For what artistic endeavor was Louis XIV known?

Before it was applied to an artistic period, what was the meaning of the term "Baroque?"

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

The musical genre of the Passion sets

Handel is credited with inventing which genre

The Well-Tempered Clavier

Handel is credited with inventing which genre

How was the madrigal influential on opera's development?

Handel was born in

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

The main set of pipes on a German organ is the

Chorale settings for organ were known as

One way that Baroque violins were more well-suited to playing Vivaldi than modern instruments

Galant style is marked by

The Orgelbuchlein contains

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

What musical element is most important in Scarlatti's sonatas?

The impresario was

Who was one of the Cremona-based great violin makers of the seventeenth century

The sonata da camera featured

A string quartet in which the parts are treated with equal importance is

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

In simple binary form, the second part

What defined a public concert in the eighteenth century?

The most frequent form of dances was

What is one of the most important themes in seventeenth century artistic output?

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

As Rameau's operas gained traction, a controversy stirred between his admirers and those of

The first book published in North America contained

Music that is periodic

By the late 18th century, the favorite keyboard instrument was the

Which of the following is one innovation in Francois Couperin's harpsichord works?

Which of the following writers was active during the seventeenth century?

The sacred music written in Salzburg was

In a Corelli trio sonata, the second movement is usually

What did Johann Adoph Scheibe think of J.S. Bach's music

Maurizio Cazzati

Where the voice skips from dissonance to a consonance-to note of resolution -used by Palestrina

In the fantasia of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck successive presentations of subject contain variou

Which country was Italy's main musical competition in the 17th century?

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

In opera seria, arias

Who were the most important people to the success of Venetian operas?

How did Lully adapt recitative for French opera

An instrumental ensemble consisting of four to seven instruments became known in England as

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

What is one reason for the population increase in the eighteenth century?

In Germany, the first public opera house was in

How did Vivaldi's compositions come to be popular outside of Venice?

When Haydn passed away, which of his works were among the most popular?

In general, what can be said about seventeenth century instrumental music?

Johann Cruger's Praxis pietatis melica was

Who established the conventional form of opera seria?

Haydn's compositions frequently combine

What musical element was introduced into Jewish synagogue services in the seventeenth century?

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

Which composer made keyboard arrangements of Vivaldi concertos?

What is Alberti bass

Which of the following was a common continuo instrument?

In French passages notated with even durations the practice of performing with lilting rhythms

A multi-movement work that brings together several different dances is known as a

Whom did Giulio Strozzi honor with a volume of adulatory poetry?

In the hands of Johann Jacob Froberger, the toccata became

From 1768 some of Haydn's symphonies... those in minor keys ... can be associated with 

Who was Louis XIV's favorite musician for three decades?

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

What genres are among the output of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani?

What was one common basso ostinato pattern?

According to Johann Joachim Quantz, the ideal musical style is

What style of opera was popular in Venetian opera?

What reason did Frescobaldi encourage performers to vary the manner of performance of his music

In seventeenth century Europe, where did musicians stand to earn the best living?

What significant division in opera became more well defined in Roman Opera?

Monody, applied in music of the late 16th and 17th centuries, is

Besides music written for public concerts,what other contexts was orchestral music heard 

Haydn's String Quarter Op 33 No 2 has earned the nickname "The Joke" because of 

How did ritornello form lend itself to Vivaldi's particular job?

In Baroque music, what is an elaborate passage that decorates an important cadence?

In concertos, the full orchestra was designated as

A walking bass is

In Vivaldi's ritornello form, which parts lend themselves to virtuoso displays by soloists?

Antonio Vivaldi's primary place of employment was

The Spanish zarzuela

The middle of the 17th century, Italian opera had acquired main features it would keep except

An opera seria contains

At any given moment in the 18th century, what was the lowest number of opera houses in Venice?

What was the most common form of aria by the end of the seventeenth century?

What element of opera buffs derives from Italian com media dell'arte?

Where did Haydn become more familiar with the oratorio?

Where did public concerts, for which members of the public paid admission, first occur?

Barbara Strozzi was born in

What emerging view of human psychology impacted music in the Classical Era?

Mid 19th century theorists thought sonata form contained three sections; the first called the

How did Pergolesi respond to new ideas about human emotions in La Serva Padrona?

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

In the chaconne, what part of the original theme remains relatively unchanged?

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

Which of the following is an innovation of the seventeenth century scientific revolution?

The Symphonies of Giovanni Battista Sammartini contain

Handel's most important patrons were

For what reason did Giovanni Mariah Artusi criticize Monteverdi's Cruda Amarilli?

When did the style of Eighteenth century first become known as "Classical" style?

In a fugue, a section without a statement of the subject is a(n)

Which of the following describes the typical program of an 18th century public concert?

The second movement of a symphony by Haydn is often

Who of the following did NOT write a surviving opera on the Orpheus story

Most eminent Franco-Flemish composers of the middle of the fifteenth century include all except

The most significant intellectual movement of the eighteenth century was

Monteverdi's first opera, L'Orfeo, was written for

What were Handel's contributions to the development of operatic scene structure?

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

What is one way in which Rameau's style differed from that of Lully in opera

When did art historians first use the term "Baroque" as artistic movements from 1600 and 1750?

One of the most influential organ composers of the seventeenth century was

Mozart composed three Italian comic operas with librettist

Which genre adopted stylistic aspects of both opera and cantata?

The orchestral concerto

In many of Bach's cantatas, like Nin komm, der Heiden Heiland, solo movements draw heavily from

What is one way in which Rameau's style differed from that of Italian composers of opera?

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

Which of the following was developed in the eighteenth century?

Maurizio Cazzati

The first concert halls and concert societies emerged in

What is one fundamental part of our musical life that originated in the seventeenth century?

What were Edmund Burke's thoughts on aesthetics?

According to Quantz, which country's composers embrace the emerging spirit of cosmopolitanism?

What term- coined in 18th century, described the growing # of well-informed amateur musicians

What aspect of Italian operatic style did Jean Jacques Rousseau praise?

Conciatato genere (stile concitato) was a way to express anger and belligerence through

How did the concerted madrigal differ from earlier madrigals?

Who established the conventional form of opera seria?

Many of Bach's fugues reveal the influence of

At its largest, the orchestra at Esterhaza contained around

In Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, how is Dido's lament structured?