Music history Final review (midterm part 2)

What year was Beethoven born?

A genre of Italian comic opera, performed between acts of a serious opera or play

Lully grew up in Florence Italy, but primarily served in Paris, France under King Louie XIV

What year was Claudio Monteverdi born?

an existing musical idea that is repeated in multiple movements

Pergolesi wrote "La Serva Padrona" and his other works in what city?

Aria form with two sections. The first section is repeated after the second section’s close creating an ABA form

what year was Haydn born?

musical texture consisting of unaccompanied melody

which of the following is NOT a city that Frescobaldi worked at in Italy?

typically focuses on characters such as kings, queens, gods, goddesses, and other mythological or higher power beings

what year was Lully born?

Movement in the 18th century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith

Bach spent a majority of his time, and wrote some of his most iconic works in which location?

The exposition of a sonata form typically has 2 themes, with the 1st in the home key and the 2nd in the dominant key

which of the following is an example of pattern singing from Don Giovanni?

what cities did Scarlatti live in during his life?

The repertory of ecclesiastical chant used in the Roman Catholic Church

This genre of opera typically has 6 or more singing characters

What year was Mozart born?

What year was Purcell born?

What year was Handel born?

Corelli was born and grew up in a small town in Northern Italy (Bologna)

which place was Gabrielli known for working at?

what city did Gluck primarily settle in?

having or tending to have one note sung to each syllable of text

Mozart would have used a pianoforte during his time

improvised passage, at an important cadence, usually occurring just before the end of a piece in the recapitulation.

where did CPE Bach spend most of his career?

Opera created in the Classical era, meant to drive the plot forward. focusing more on text and eliminating da-capo aria

What year was Gabrieli born?

Lutheran church music combining poetic texts with texts drawn from chorales or the Bible with solo or chorale settings

A large work meant for orchestra, typically in 4 movements

This genre of opera typically has a maximum of 8 characters

a sonata form with 2 expositions, a development, and recapitulation section

typically has characters like aristocrats and commoners, vain ladies, miserly old men, cleverly scheming servants, etc.

In what city did did Purcell live and work?

18th-century musical style that features songlike melodies, short phrases, frequent cadences, and light accompaniment

the 1st exposition is typically done by a soloist in double exposition sonata form

What year was Corelli born?

featuring surprising turns of harmony, Chromaticism, nervous rhythms, and speechlike melody. Also known as "sensitive"

What year was Pergolesi born?

What city in Italy did Guilio Caccini primarily reside in?

an Italian "comic opera"

Which important places in Italy did Claudio Monteverdi live and work?

Musical form consisting of 3 typical sections including Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation

What year was Gluck born?

Josquin Desprez lived in which important countries?

An instrumental work with one or more solo instruments that contrast with an orchestra, typically in 3 movements.

What 2 cities did Beethoven live in?

Handel lived and worked in what places?

What cities did Haydn primarily live and work in?

keyboard instrument invented around 1700 that uses a mechanism in which the strings are struck, rather than plucked

Mozart lived in which places?

what year was E.C. Jacquet de La Guerre born?

Characterized by a recurring melody/section in between new sections of music

exploits the contrast in sonority between a small ensemble of solo instruments vs a larger ensemble

What city did E.C. Jacquet de la Guerre work in?

A piece meant for for 1 or more instruments with multiple contrasting movements

What year was Frescobaldi born?

a strophic hymn in the Lutheran tradition, intended to be sung by the congregation in German.

What year was Josquin Desprez born?

A keyboard string instrument in use between the 15th and 18th centuries. The strings were plucked and not struck.

What year was Johan Sebastian Bach born?

genre of Italian opera, on a serious subject, normally with a happy ending, usually without comic characters and scene

Joins two binary-form minuets to create an ABA pattern, where A is the minuet and B is the trio

what year was C.P.E Bach born?

The development section in sonata form stays in the dominant key and repeats both themes from the exposition

a battle of musical philosophies that took place in Paris that concerned relative merits of French and Italian operas

What year was Scarlatti born?

What city in Italy did Corelli later work in?

What year was Guilio Caccini born?

the first or main section recurs, usually in the tonic, between subsidiary sections or episodes. Typically in ABACA form

The recapitulation in sonata form brings back the 1st and 2nd themes, although they are now in the tonic or home key