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Johann Sebastian Bach - Life
Definition
Northern-Central Germany, little known as a composer, came from a very musically talented family, Baroque Period ends with his death
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Music
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kantor (music director), 200 cantatas, preferred the fugue, Baroque Period ends with his death, Writing a 20 minute cantata every week for 5 years, Full-time teacher as well,
Court Organist: Begins in Arnstadt (1703-07), Muhlhausen (1707-08)
Promoted to Court Composer: Welmar (1708-17), Cothen (1717-23), Leipzig (1723-50)
Brandenburg Concerto
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Baroque Music
Definition
Rhythmic vitality and attractive melody is easy to respond to with pleasure, Something and Fugue,
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Ripieno
Concertino
Ritornello
Definition
Large Orchestra
Small Group of Soloists
Refrain
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Georg Friderich Handel - Life
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Traveled alot, Worked for George, the Elector of Hanover, then went to England, (fun story)
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Georg Friderich Handel - Music
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Handel was very versatile, he writes things in Italian style and German and now English, with a hornpipe, Handel had a lot of success with the oratorios, Messiah (no plot, just a series of lyrics, not really characters), word painting, two-measure phrases, repetition of motifs, very stable harmonies, and block chords, Water Music
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Handel's Messiah is an example of a(n)
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Oratorio
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"Is the great chain, that draws all to agree,And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?"
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Pope
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Which of the following was one of the specific targets of Pope's criticisms?
Definition
Rampant commercialism.
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What key word best describes the prevailing attitude of the Rococo?
Definition
Indifference, fantasy, light-heartedness, anti-Baroque
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Compared to the Baroque period in visual art, the Rococo was more ________?
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feminized
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What phrase best describes Jonathan Swift's attitude toward humanity?
Definition
anger and pessimism
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Swift's "A Modest Proposal" would most accurately be described as
Definition
chillingly rational
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Encyclopedie
Definition
People should think for themselves, Diderot, Jean d'Alambert, we are inherently good,
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In addition to being an important philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also ________.
Definition
An Amateur musician
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A symphony by Mozart in a minor key would most likely have been influenced by which literary style?
Definition
Sturm und Drang
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The notion that women from the underclasses of European society could be more intelligent and clever than the aristocracy was expressed explicitly in __________.
Definition
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
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The "surprise" in Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony is an unexpected _______.
Definition
fortissimo chord
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Which of the following composers had the greatest direct influence on Haydn's oratorios?
Definition
Handel
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The French Realist movement in art of the middle of the 19th century was, by definition, concerned mostly with ________.
Definition
everyday and commonplace subjects
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Which of the following artists emphasized "art for art's sake," was influenced by early moves toward Impressionism, and gave his paintings musical titles?
Definition
James Whistler
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A distinguishing feature of the "Portrait of Miss Van Buren" by Thomas Eakins is ______.
Definition
the casual and candid pose of the sitter
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Tiepolo
Definition
Religious art(remember Temple)
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Gainsborough
Definition
Romantic Art, Hay maker and Sleeping Girl, Lady Countess Howe - landscapes in the background
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Oratorio
Definition
Sacred texts set to music - Baroque
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Heinrich Schutz
Definition
oratorios
Psalms of David
Baroque
Girolamo Frescobaldi - greatest organ virtuoso
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Carriera
Definition
rococo - indifference on faces of ladies, did portraits (for ward menu)
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Fragonard
Definition
Love Letters
Rococo
Scandalous Love Affair stuff
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Boucher
Definition
Naked People
(Little more than mounds of pink flesh)
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David
Definition
dramatic lighting, chiaroscuro, Baroque
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Time Bracket
Definition
Baroque: loud, dramatic, intense
Rococo: fantastical, lighthearted
Neoclassical: Roman-related, freedom, revolution
Romanticism: death, emotion, nature, individualistic
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Eakins
Definition
The Swimming Hole (naked men)
Always people - the surgery tables etc.
Used realism as a means of achieving objective truths
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Thomas Cole
Definition
More detail in his nature landscape paintings - ENGLAND
observation of detail - atmosphere and presence
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Emily Dickinson
Definition
8,6,8,6
ALWAYS
American Literature
Wrote about love and death
Famous for her death poems – positive views on death
She wasn’t famous until after death
Questioned faith/religion
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Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beethoven's EARLY style?
Definition
free and striking liberties within the context of awesome structure
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Which feature of the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, is the most "fantasia"-like?
Definition
Ubiquitous triplets
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What unifies all four movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?
Definition
A single rhythmic motif occurs across all movements
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In which genre are you most likely to see an example of the principle of Gesamtkunstwerk?
Definition
Opera
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An artist who paints what he sees directly in a landscape, rather than what he knows intellectually is there, would most accurately be classified as a(n) ________.
Definition
impressionist
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Which of the following is NOT one of the mid-19th century advancements in piano technology that influenced Liszt's compositions?
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division of black and white keys
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Identify one general feature that distinguishes Schubert's lieder from Schumann's.
Definition
Schumann often includes piano preludes and postludes that comment on the text
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Who among the following composers wrote more program music than the others?
Definition
Berlioz
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a short piano solo with a loosely evocative title
Definition
a "character piece"
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German style
Definition
rapid harmonic rhythm , contrapuntal (imitative), separate lines of music interwoven, linear, continuous, da-da-da-da, few pauses, few breaks
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Italian style
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repetition, slow harmonic rhythm, delineated phrases and maintains the tonic harmony
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The Messiah
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Italian Opera
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Boffrand
Definition
"Salon de la Princesse"
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Pope
Definition
Essay on Man
Stanzas, always talking about Man
Tory Satirist
Cautious Optimist
believed humans were innately good
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Reynolds
Definition
Three Women Adorning a Term of Hymen, Neoclassical,
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Canova
Definition
sculpture Neoclassical - Napoleon and Wife
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Hogarth
Definition
Shortly After the marriage, social reform through paintings, Raft of the Medusa
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Gericault
Definition
movement, Raft of the Medusa
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Delacroix
Definition
The Death of Sardanapalus, Massacre at Chios - DEAD people (dead-delacroix)
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How does Mozart's Symphony #40 in G minor demonstrate the mature Classical Style?
Definition
4 movements, color, color, emotion, gloom
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Mid-Century Opera changed how?
Definition
Returning the chorus – choir
Music should serve the text
Talking out against social norms
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4 Movements Are:
Definition
 1st Movement - Sonata Allegro
 2nd Movement - Slower (lyrical)
 3rd Movement - Minuet and Trio
 4th Movement - Lighthearted finale (Rondo, T&V) - like a dollup of daisy on top…
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Father of Symphony
Definition
Haydn
Term
Haydn- Life
Definition
- Lived in Austria
- One of the most celebrated composers
- Lived very long
- Super Cool.
- Struggled as a free-lancer,
- Capell Master - nobleman
- then had London Journeys
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tinturn abbey
Definition
William Wordsworth
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Identify Dickens’s main contributions to the new style of novel-writing
Definition
He put the social commentary in a story, less intense
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Three Hermits: Believe in god on your own terms
Definition
Tolstoy (Russian) (Pacifist)
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First Real American Writer
Definition
Walt Whitman
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Understand which traits in Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 13 are traditional and which are innovative.
Definition
TRADITIONAL: sonata form, rondo
INNOVATIVE: 3 parts
connection of motifs – shows up in all movements
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Beethoven - Early
Definition
Piano, Private, not as experimental
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Beethoven - Late
Definition
Public, composer, more experimental
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Death of Sardanapalus
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Delacriox
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David - life
Definition
French Neoclassical Painter, AWESOME
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Carriera
Definition
Rococo artist. Portrait artist, based in Venice. Worked with pastels.
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Soufflot
Definition
neoclassical architect. Applies gothic engineering to neoclassical-style buildings.
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Rousseau
Definition
philosopher, writer. Enlightenment belief in the innate goodness of mankind. Worked on the Encyclopédie. Believed that civilization’s influence was not always good. Amateur musician.
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Mozart
Definition
classical musician. Along with Haydn, develops the High Classical style of music. Innovator in opera.
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Garnier
Definition
Romantic architect. Known for his Paris Opera House. Designed to appeal to the wealthy middle classes. Very ornate, richly decorated.
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Shelley Keats and
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Byron
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Vienna and Mozart
Definition
That's where he ended up at the end of his life, died there, wrote his last 3 symphonies there, etc.
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William Blake:
Definition
Tyger, mystic, songs of innocence, songs of experience,
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Ozymandius
Definition
Shelley - a poem about a broken sculpture... in the middle of a desert...dream-like...romantic
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"To Autumn"
Definition
John Keats
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Oliver twist
Definition
Charles Dickens
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"Entombment of Atala"
Definition
Weird guy - GIRODET-TROISON
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COURBET -
Definition
Artist's Studio (romantic)
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Pope was against Commercialism
Definition
TRUE
Term
□ "I pondered, therefore, with out compass, no guide but an inexperienced pilot…show me truth and I will hold her fast."
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Emille - Rousseau
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Probably the greatest mind of the 18th Century
Definition
Voltaire "ecrasez l'infame"
Violently against the church - fostered superstition
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High-classicism
Definition
Haydn and Mozart
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Style Galant
Definition
against baroque,
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Empfindersamer Stil
Definition
style of feeling or sensitivity
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Mozart WROTE A STURM AND DRANG SYMPHONY
Definition
- Rapid contrast
- Minor key
- Unusual extensions, fragmentary, but all within a framework of regularity
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Hayden and Mozart pushed against these restraints a lot
Definition
true
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REAL new opera
Definition
1. Music should serve the text
2. Only use the musical forms that agree with the drama
3. Eliminate showy ornament
4. Lessen the contrast between recitative and aria (arioso, accompanied recitative)
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Mozart's Requiem
Definition
Religious text, written for unknown person
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Jane Austen
Definition
- Lower class, but mostly SOCIAL COMMENTARY
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Homer
Definition
Impressionist, AMERICAN artist
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