ACDEC Music Demicards I
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- 18th century European cts preferred opera: buffa or seria?
- seria
- Which family held a monopoly on music printing in France for most of the 18th century?
- Ballard
- What 2 cities did publishing by engraving start in?
- London and Amsterdam
- What was the preferred method of printing simple music?
- letterpress
- How did Italian opera become widely popular if it was not printed?
- handwritten copies
- T/F: Self-tutoring music publications began in the 18th century
- F
- Why were more resources available to amateur musicians than before?
- publishing industry grew w/engraving, more musical instruments produced
- What 2 goals were German and Austrian "ntl" theaters founded for?
- improve society and German language
- Which 2 German playrights directed plays at the middle class to improve morality?
- Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Lessing
- 3 root ideas of Enlightenment:
- rationalism (F), skepticism (F), empiricism (E)
- Which thinker said in his Essay on Man "The proper study of mankind is man"?
- Alexander Pope
- ____ was a practice of systematically lengthening and shortening note lengths practiced by Couperin
- Inegalite or Inequality
- 18th century French composers valued ____ more than _____
- sensibility, virtuosity
- Couperin would rather be astonished or moved by music?
- moved
- Preferred texture of S and D
- polyphony
- S and D preferred the ___ (instruments) to the ___
- orchestra, keyboard
- Usually, in what form were Scarlatti's keyboard compositions?>
- binary
- Scarlatti's works had how many movements
- 1
- Couperin taught the French royal family how to play the ___
- harpsichord
- 2 instruments Couperin most famous for
- harpsichord and organ
- Rococo is a reaction against the ___, is more delicate and light
- baroque
- Rococo comes from the word rocaille, meaning ____
- rock work
- Where did the rococo originate?
- France
- In Mozart's String Quintet, the "conversation" between the ___ and the ___ is an example of "redendes Prinzip"
- 1st violin, 1st (2nd) Viola
- Texture of beginning of S. Quintet
- heterophonic
- Beginning of slow movement of S. QUintet sounds like what?
- hymn
- When and where did the ES begin
- N Germany, mid 1700s
- Speaking style produced a more ___ texture than that found in baroque
- homophonic
- Combination of different styles was chiefly characteristic of ___ compositions
- Viennese
- Right before the end of String Q, Mozart uses what texture
- polyphony
- Change from baroque to galant happened for what 2 reasons?
- social, aesthetic
- what texture results when 2 different, simultaneous melodies are performed in the same rhythm?
- polyphonic, homorhythmic
- type of binary form where 1st section is played again at the end
- rounded
- What is phonation
- production of sound thru vocal cords
- T/F: Pitches produced on a brass instrument depend on valves
- F
- Saxophone is a (single or double) reed instrument
- single
- Difference between bass drum and snare drum
- bass larger and lower, snare has metal strings on bottom, so rattles
- To what 3 notes is a set of timpani tuned?
- tonic, dominant, and subdominant of piece
- Non-string instruments that may be played by bow are part of this family
- idiophones
- ___ are percussive instruments w/ no membrane
- idiophones
- what 2 groups are percussion instruments divided
- pitched, unpitched
- viola is smaller/larger than violincello
- smaller
- 4 standard notes to which violin strings are tuned
- G3, D4, A4, E5
- 2 other names for the double bass
- upright, string
- Woodwinds are a part of this family
- aerophones (wind instruments)
- Most common type of orchestral clarinet
- Bb
- ___ is determined by the number of beats per measure and length of those beats
- Meter
- Notes in a G major scale triad built on B
- B, D, F sharp
- T/F: A ternary form results when the sections in ABA are open
- F
- T/F: trachea is same as voice box
- F
- 4 main parts of the larynx
- ligaments, muscles, cartilage, hyoid
- part of brass instrument used to control air flow
- valve
- lowest pitched instrument (2 names)
- double bassoon, contrabassoon