Music History 3273
Test #2: Classic Music
Thursday, March 29, 2007
TEST DESCRIPTION
The second test is based on your class notes as well as the reading and listening assignments listed in
Weeks 6-9 of the Course Outline. The test will consist of the following items:
1. 6 listening identifications selected from the Course Outline. For each example be able to
give the composer, the type of composition, date (within 25 years), and two audible style
characteristics.
2. 2 “unknown” works. For each example be able to suggest a probable composer and/or
type of composition.
3. 2 score identifications and analyses of works selected from the Course Outline.
4. Fill in the Blanks. Answer 8 of 10.
5. True-False Justification. Answer 8 of 10.
6. Short Identifications. Answer 8 of the 10 terms, names or concepts; all are drawn directly
from terms listed on the blackboard. One or two sentences is sufficient.
7. Short essays. Answer 4 of 6.
The point distribution is as follows:
Listening Identifications (6) @ 4 = 24
Score Identifications (2) @ 6 = 12
Fill in the Blanks (8) @ 2 = 16
True-False (8) @ 2 = 16
Short Identifications (8) @ 2 = 16
Brief Essays (4) @ 4 = 16
GOOD LUCK!
STUDY GUIDE
TERMS AND PEOPLE:
galant style, empfindsam style, rococo style Lorenzo da Ponte
Alberti bass The Creation, The Seasons
periodicity The Abduction from the Harem
intermezzo, opera buffa, dramma giocoso The Marriage of Figaro
opéra comique, Singspiel, ballad opera Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte
André Grétry The Magic Flute
John Gay, Johann Cristoph Pepusch Haydn Quartets
Pietro Metastasio, Apostolo Zeno
Nicolò Jommelli, Tommaso Traetta
Raniero de Calzabig
Querelle des bouffons
Johann Adolph Hasse
Faustina Bordoni
special orchestral effects credited to Mannheim
Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard
Instruments
Sturm und Drang
sonata form (diagram)
Heinrich Christoph Koch
Rounded binary form
divertimento
double-exposition form (diagram)
cadenza
Johann Peter Salomon
the London Symphonies
Lord Nelson Mass
Baron Gottfried van Swieten
ESSAY TOPICS
• construct a time line of 10 1important composers, compositions, and or events dating from
the Classic Period (NOT OPTIONAL: EVERYONE MUST BE ABLE TO DO THIS)
IN ADDITION: at least 2 of the other 5 essays will be based on:
• the cultural background of the classical period
• the origins of the classical style
• the different types of comic opera
• late baroque opera seria vs. reform opera
• the origins and early development of the symphony
• the development of Haydn’s symphonies
• the interaction of serious and comic elements in Mozart’s Don Giovanni