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Mus103 Final Exam
Music Appreciation
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Music
Undergraduate 1
12/03/2015

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Claude Debussy is especially known for his
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opposition to program music
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A ballet
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Appalachian Spring
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American composers
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John Cage, Aaron Copland, John Adams
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Bela Bartok was from
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Hungary
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A composition would always end with
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a tonic chord
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A "blue note" is
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1. tone that falls in between two steps of the scale

2. repeating chord progression, 12 measures long, that structures a blues song

3. repetition of the first line, followed by a different line

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The most famous impressionist orchestral work Prelude to "the Afternoon of a Faun" was inspired by a poem by
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Mallarme
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Important composer of ragtime music
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Scott Joplin
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Neoclassical compositions are characterized by
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forms and style features of earlier periods
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New techniwue of singing halfway between speech and song
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Spreechstimme
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Instrument found in rhythm section of jazz ensemble
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piano
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Ragtime music is primarily played on
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piano
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Medieval (dates)
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476-1450
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Renaissance (dates)
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1450-1600
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Baroque (Dates)
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1600-1750
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Classical (Dates)
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1750-1820
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Romantic (Dates)
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1820-1900
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Aaron Copland
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Appalachian Spring
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Claude Debussy
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Impressionist
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Igor Stravinsky
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The Rite of Spring
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Leonard Bernstein
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West Side Story
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John Cage
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4'33''; Experimentalist
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George Gershwin
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Porgy and Bess
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Richard Wagner
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The Ring of Nibelung
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Expressionist
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Sergei Prokofiev
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Neoclassical
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Terry Riley
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Minimalist
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John Adams
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Minimalist
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Medieval Composers
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Guillaume de Machaut, Hildegard of Bingen
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Renaissance Composers
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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Baroque Composers
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J.S. Bach, Arcangelo Corelli, Antonion Vivaldi
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Classical Composers
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Joseph Haydn
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Romantic Composers
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Johannes Brahms
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20th Century Composers
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John Cage
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Main keyboard instrument of the Romantic period
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organ
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Classical period orchestra usually included
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a string section and pairs of woodwind instruments (flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons)
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Instrumental music in the Classical period
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became more important than vocal music
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Classical style included
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simple, tuneful melodies
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The form of rondo might be
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ABACA
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Minuet was always in a meter of
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3 beats
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Examples of program music
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Symphonie fantastique
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Examples of nonprogram music
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The Marriage of Figaro
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One unusual feature of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is
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it has choir and vocal soloists
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Composer of virtuoso piano music in the 19th century
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Franz Liszt
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Trend in Italian opera to write about everyday characters and events was known as
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verismo
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String quartet includes
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2 violins, 1 viola, and 1 cello
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Technique NOT used in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
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Leitmotif
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Opera composers
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Mozart, Bizet, and Verdi
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New type of singing found in Classical period comic operas
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ensemble
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Composer that only wrote piano music
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Frederic Chopin
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In Wagner's operas, a melody associated with a dramatic element such as an object, character, or idea
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Leitmotif
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Both Beethoven and Mozart played
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piano
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Romantic style included
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1. intense emotional expression

2. interest in bizarre or supernatural

3. interest in combining elements of different art forms

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First movement of a Classical concerto
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has two expositions in the first movement
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Minuet is generally used for
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3rd movement of a Classical symphony
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Form when music is repeated for all the stanzas of a song
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strophic
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Sonata-form movement
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1. exposition, development, and recapitulation

2. employed as 1st movement of a symphony

3. preceded by a slow introduction

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Each individual part of a chamber music composition is played by
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one musician
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In Beethoven's works, the 3rd movement is not a minuet but a
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scherzo
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Franz Schubert
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Wrote over 600 lieder
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How many symphonies did Beethoven write?
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9
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Most symphonies have how many movements
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4
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Most concertos have how many movements?
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3
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A string quartet usually consists of how many movements?
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4
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First composer to write a large number of important string quartets
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Haydn
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Binary
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AB
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Ternary
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ABA
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Minuet and Trio
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ABA
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Hector Berlioz
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Symphony fantastique
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Richard Wagner
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The Valkyrie
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Peter tchaikovsky
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Romeo and Juliet
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Johannes Brahms
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A German Requiem
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Giacomo Puccini
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La Boheme
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Georges Bizet
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Carmen
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Texture of Renaissance music
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polyphonic
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No instruments to accompany the voices
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cappella
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Texture of Gregorian chant
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monophonic
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Wrote earliest extant of polyphonic setting of entire Ordinary of the Mass
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William Machaut
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Renaissance is known as the Golden Age of
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polyphonic
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Flute-type instrument popular during the medieval and renaissance, which was end-blow instead of side-blown like the modern flute
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recorder
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Keyboard insturment popular in the Baroque period
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harpischord
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Sonata
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chamber music genre in Baroque period
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Accompaniment in Baroque music
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basso continuo
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The Renaissance madrigal began in
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Italy
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Allemande
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moderate
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Courante
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quick
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Sarabande
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slow
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Gigue
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fast
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Instruments that may appear in a basso continuo group
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keyboard, bass, harpischord, organ, cello, and flute
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Aria
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1. more passionate

2. clear meter and regular rhythms

3. conveys what character feels about events

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Recitative
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1. without perceptible meter or beat

2. tells what is happening on stage

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First major opera and composer
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L'Orfeo by Heinnich Schutz
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Allegro
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fast
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Andante
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moderate
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Adagio
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slow
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Opera originated in
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Italy
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Most medieval music was
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vocal
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Text of the opera
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libretto
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J.S. Bach was famous as
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an organist
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J.S. Bach spent his entire career living and working in
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Germany
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Most operas open with
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overture
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How many performers do trio sonatas usually involve?
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4
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Characteristics of Renaissance music
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imitation, polyphonic, word-painting
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Most important instrument in church
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organ
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Earliest keyboard instrument
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organ
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In trio sonata, how many high instruments and how many instruments for basso continuo?
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2 and 2
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Oratorios are often based on
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biblical stories
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Earliest polyphonic music
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organum
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Baroque operas were often based on
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mythology
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Opera started by who in what century?
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Florentine Camarado in the 16th century
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