Introduction to Music
Music 202
Study Guide for Test 3
Rococo and Classical Periods.
Consider the following questions as you study for your test.
Listening Examples
John Gay: The Beggar’s Opera
What type of opera is this?
Where was this opera first performed?
What is different about this opera that made it so favorable with the people?
What familiar tunes are used in this opera?
Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 2 (Quinten)
Which movement are you hearing?
How many themes are presented?
Be able to identify both themes of the Exposition, the Development and the Recapitulation.
Why is this piece named “Quinten?”
What gives this work a folk like quality?
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525
What does this title mean?
How did this work get it’s title?
What instrumental forces are used here?
The first movement of this work is similar to what type of genre?
What form is the first movement?
What form is the second movement?
What form is the third movement?
What form is the fourth movement?
Be able to identify the themes of each movement.
What genre of music does this work fall under and what type of conversation is the composer trying to have with the listener?
With regards to the form of the first movement, where does the composer stray from pure classical form to the angst of the aristocracy?
How is Mozart’s laugh represented in music?
Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G major (Surprise)
What movement are you listening to?
What is the typical setting and form for this movement of a symphony?
What is atypical about this setting as composed by Haydn?
How does this Symphony get its name?
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
What is the form for each movement of this particular symphony?
With regard to the material present, what is unique about Beethoven’s compositional style?
What musical material is consistent throughout this work?
Be able to identify all of the movements when played.
What compositional technique does Beethoven use to manipulate his musical motives?
Mozart: Piano Concerto in G major, K. 453
What is the form for each movement of this work?
What type of concerto is this?
What is a cadenza?
In the first movement, when does the solo instrument enter the piece?
What is different about this genre in the classical period as opposed to the Baroque period.
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Be able to identify the tune.
How many notes are used to create the main motive?
The opening motive is know by what term?
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
What movement are you listening to?
What is the form for this movement?
What is the theme of this movement based upon?
What type of concerto is this piece?
What compositional technique does Beethoven use to manipulate his motives in this work?
Mozart: Piano Sonata in A major, K. 331.
What movement are you listening to?
What is the form of this movement?
What two major influences are found in this music?
How does Mozart reflect folk influences in this work?
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 13
What are the forms for each of these movements?
In the first movement, what compositional technique does the composer used in the slow introduction to build tension.
What similarities can be drawn between this piece and the Beethovenian Pathos mentioned in class?
What innovation in rhythmic movement is made in this piece’s first movement?
In terms of style, form, and compositional technique, compare this piece to that of Mozart’s Piano Sonata.
Haydn: The Creation
What is the genre of this work?
What vocal idioms does this work share with an opera of this time?
What is the libretto of this work based upon?
What two languages did the composer originally use in this piece?
Be able to identify all of the different types of recitative in this example.
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
What is the form of the overture?
What is the station of each character?
Who is the buffa of this opera?
In the aria, “Non so piu…” what is the gender of the singer versus the gender of the actual character?
What is a trouser role?
What are the ironies found in the aria “Non so Piu?”
What is the plot of this opera?
What is significant about this new style of opera?
Terms to know for this test.
Colleredo
Singspiel
Requiem
Mass
K.
Opus
cadenza
recapitulation
development
exposition
Beethovenian pathos
Cherubino
absolute music
Viennese school of musical composition
Esterhazy family
requiem mass
oratorio
sonata
sonata allegro
Sonata cycle
symphony
Monothematic
patronage system
Minuet and Trio
Theme and Variation
Rondo
Coda
Rococo
Empfindsamkeit
The gallant style
opera buffa
opera seria
opera comique
enlightened despotism
Intellectual dualism
Lorenzo da Ponte
Metastasio
subscription concert
encore
scherzo
Antonio Salieri
singable melody
symmetrical phrasing
Franz Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Heiligestadt Testament
Immortal Beloved