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    This document provides a study guide for a music history exam covering the early classical period in Europe during the 18th century. It outlines key terms, composers, genres, and works to know for the exam, including opera forms like opera buffa, opera seria, and opera reformers. For instrumental music, it discusses sonata form, symphonies, concertos, and works by composers such as Scarlatti, Sammartini, Stamitz, and C.P.E. Bach that demonstrate characteristics of the galant and empfindsam styles. Students are instructed to be able to identify and discuss examples from Pergolesi's opera La Serva Padrona, a sonata by Scarlatti,

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    MUSC-3380

    Music History II

    1/27/2016

    Study Guide for TEST #1


    Wednesday, February 3
    PART 4, CHAPTERS 15 & 16
    PART 4: The 18th Century
    Terms for identification: Classical / Galant / Empfindsam Style

    Europe in the 18th century: Education / Enlightenment / Philosophes /


    Humanitarianism / French Revolution / Public Concerts (essay question)

    CHAPTER 15: The Early Classical Period: Opera and Vocal Music
    General Characteristics of the new Style:
    Periodicity, Musical Rhetoric, Harmony, Alberti bass, Form, Emotional Contrasts.
    Italian Opera buffa

    Characters, plots / arias (gallant style), recitative (dialogue); sung throughout


    Intermezzo / Giovanni Pergolesi, La serva padrona (The Maid as Mistress)

    French opra comique (vaudevilles, ariettes)


    English ballad opera, The Beggars Opera, 1728 (also popular in colonial America)
    German singspiel
    Opera seria

    Characters, subjects / Metastasio, the librettist


    Reign of the singers
    Da Capo Aria (know the basic structure - music/text, p. 318)

    Opera reform

    Goals of the reformers / C. W. Gluck: Orfeo

    CHAPTER 16: The Early Classical Period: Instrumental Music


    Sonata

    Kochs sonata form (be able to replicate the diagram, p.327)

    Domenico Scarlatti / 555 keyboard sonatas / balanced binary form / Sonata in D


    major, K. 119 (one movement)

    Symphony

    Sinfonia / early symphonies, movements / Sammartini


    Mannheim orchestra / Johann Stamitz
    Empfinsdam style (characteristics) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Sonata in A
    major, II
    Sturm und Drang

    Concerto

    The 1st movement of Johann Christian Bachs Harpsichord/Piano Concerto, Op. 7,


    No. 5 combines (Baroque) ritornello and (Classic) sonata forms. (See the outline
    on p. 335).
    Cadenza

    Listening
    Be able to identify the following musical examples by the composer, style, and/or genre.
    1. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La serva padronna (The Maid as Mistress)
    Recitative: Ah, quanto mi sta male (Ah, it doesnt feel right)
    Aria: Son imbrogliato io gia (I am all mixed up)
    2. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D major, K. 119
    3. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonata in A major, H. 186, Wq. 55/4 II

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