MUS 1000 Final Review

In Bach's day, the Lutheran church service lasted about ______ hour(s).

Under what circumstances did Mozart compose his Requiem?

Among the playing techniques widely used during the twentieth century is the ______, a rapid slide up or down a scale.

Classical chamber music is designed for what purpose?

What is a primary feature of baroque music?

A type of polyphonic composition based on one main theme is a ______.

Schubert's The Erlking is in what form?

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the ______.

Which Stravinsky ballet was immensely successful in 1910, establishing him as a leading young composer?

What is the essence of a classical concerto?

Nonprogram music is also known as ______ music.

An art song is a musical composition for what performing forces?

To what does the word movement in music normally refer?

The piano trio is a musical composition for what instrumentation?

What is one of Puccini's operas that features exoticism, by his use of melodic/rhythmic elements from Japan and China

What did the typical orchestra of the classical period consist of?

What spurred the 'baroque revival' in the late 1940s?

What is the term for instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene?

Vivaldi spent most of his life working at an institution for orphaned and illegitimate girls in what city?

What other art form most influences the third movement of a classical symphony?

What instrument was a very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period?

What is the typical sequence of movements in a classical concerto?

What marked the end of the baroque period in music?

What characteristic is NOT typical of the music of the classical period?

In addition to the aristocracy, what other social group influenced the musical taste of eighteenth-century Europe?

What is the usual order of movements in a classical symphony?

Which composers are considered the giants of baroque composition?

The first and last movements of the concerto grosso are often in what form?

Public concerts from the Concert des Amateurs in Paris in the 1770s were presented by which conductor?

What characterized the use of instruments in early baroque music?

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ______ of his day.

In the classical period, serious composition was flavored by what sources?

What type of texture did early baroque composers favor?

Beethoven composed 32 ______ sonatas, which pushed the expressive elements of the instrument.

The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the ______.

What characteristic of Richard Wagner's music was highly innovative for the time?

What feature of baroque music was no longer used in the music of the classical period?

The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as ______.

What is the term for a musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas?

What is the instrumentation for the classical string quartet?