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classicism roughly emcompassed the years
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1750-1820
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which of the following statements is not true of the classical period?
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philosophers and writers in the classical period believed that custom and tradition, rather than reason, were the best guides to human conduct.
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joseph haydn was content to spend most of his life
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serving as a wealthy aristocratic family
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composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by
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all of the above
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vienna in 1800
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all of the above
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in the classical period, comic operas often
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ridiculed the aristocracy
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haydn and mozart wrote many outdoor entertainment peices which they called
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divertimentos or serenades
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the typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of
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strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets and timpani
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sonata-allegro form is used frequently as the form for the ____ movement of a multimovement work
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first
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short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are called
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motives
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in the recapitulation of a sonata-form movement
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all the principal material is in the tonic key.
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mozart's favorite librettist, Da Ponte, based his libretto for Marriage of Figaro on a play written by the french writer
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Beaumarchais
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The standard catalog of Mozart's compositions was made by
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Ludwig von Kochel
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The minuet is generally the ___ movement of a classical symphony.
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third
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mozart's opera based on a legendary spanish lover
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Don Giovanni
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In many of beethovens works, there is a ____ movement instead of the minuet.
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scherzo
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the rondo may be schematically outlined as
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ABACABA
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the usual order of movements in a classical symphony is
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fast, slow, dance-related, fast
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haydn is often referred to as
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the father of the symphony and string quartet
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the lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the
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second
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beethoven's 32 piano sonatas
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are often known by nicknames
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a concerto is a large-scale work in several movements for
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an instrumental soloist and orchestra
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mozart and beethoven wrote a number of concertos for their favorite solo instrument, the
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piano
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the symphonic movement usually lacking in the concerto is the
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minuet or scherzo
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in the first movement and sometimes in the last movement of a classcial concerto there is a special unaccompanied showpiece for the soloist, the
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cadenza
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the string quartet
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all of the above
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haydn was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable relationship with the noble hungarian family of
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Esterhazy
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haydn was a prolific composer, as demonstrated in part by his 68 string quartets and 104
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symphonies
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haydn's two popular oratorios are entitled the seasons and
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the creation
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mozart was born in
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salzburg, austria
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mozart's trips to italy
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enabled him to study and master the italian operatic style.
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mozart's requiem was
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finished by franz sussmayer
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the popular movement of the mozart requiem, often heard on television, is
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the dies irae
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the third symphony of beethoven was originally composed to commemorate the deeds of ____ as the embodiment of heroism and democratic ideals.
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napoleon bonaparte
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beethoven's symphonies number ____ are the most recognized most heard
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3,5,6,7,and 9
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the musical heir of haydn and mozart, beethoven bridged the ___ and ____ periods.
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classical, romantic
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the choral finale of beethoven's ninth symphony is based on
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schiller's ode to joy
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beethoven's ninth symphony is unusual in that it is scored for ___ as well as orchestra
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four vocalists and a chorus
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beethoven's only opera is entitled
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fidelio
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mozart wrote his first symphony at the age of
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8
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a classical era symphony is typically
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between 20 and 45 minutes
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beethoven hit one of the lowest points in his life in the early part of the century when he wrote
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the heiligenstadt testament.
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one of the main features of a solo concerto is
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cadenza in the first movement
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sonata form (sonata allegro)
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consists of an exposition with two contrasting themes, a developement section and the recapitulation
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the classical symphony, the sonata and the concerto all carry the general multimovement format, except that the
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the concerto typically has only 3 movements.
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c.p.e. bach said that his father, johannes sebastian, was
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old fashioned and "pedantic"
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the classical period coincides with a cultural movement known as
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the age of reason
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melodic line in the classical period
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was basically tuneful and balanced with equal length
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beethoven reportedly explained the 4-note, short-short-short-long motive in his fifth symphony as
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fate knocking at the door
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beethoven's personality
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did not allow him to have long, stable relationships.
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