Assignment #8
1. A musical link between two important sections of a composition. It often includes a
change of key.
=Modulation
2. A melodic or a harmonic formula that ends a work or a phrase and suggests that it
brings a conclusion.
=Harmonic rhythm
3. Refers to the way the different lines of the music fit together. It describes the way the
individual notes in the music are blended together.
=Texture
4. A texture in which several independent lines of music are woven together.
=Polyphony
5. A texture in which the melodic line leads and is supported by a
chordalaccompaniment.
=Homophony
6. Who said that listening to four lines of music played at the same time makes as much
sense as listening to four people talking at once?
=DomenicoAlberti
7. He did not invent the Alberti bass but he used it so frequently that it became
associated with his name.
=DomenicoAlberti
8. Chords in the bass line are broken into separate notes played one after the other.
The harmonies remain the same but the broken chords add a sense of movement and
lightness.
=Arpeggio
9. The period where scores began to have dynamic marks added to them so that
performers would know exactly what volume the composer wanted.
=Classical Period
10. A musical form where composers begin with one theme or melodic idea and then
write a series of pieces which all modify the original theme in different ways.
=Themes and Variations
11. It is made up of many different types of dance music.
=Suite
12. A stately dance in 3/4 time.
=Minuet
13. It was originally played by three instruments.
=Trio
14. A form in which the main musical idea keeps coming back.
=Rondo
15. The famous rondo during the Classical period.
=Turkish Rondo
16. Composer of your answer in number 15.
=Mozart
17 & 18. Other names for first-movement form.
=Sonata form and Sonata-allegro form
19. The form most frequently used by composers in the Classical era.
=First-movement form
20. The most important thing about your answer in number 19. It is this important thing
and its resolution that provide the dramatic effect.
=The conflict between two keys.
21. A tragic Italian opera, most common kind of opera at the beginnings of the Classical
period.
=Opera seria
22. A star of opera, men whose voices had never broken and who still sang the soprano
and alto registers.
=Castrati
23. The comic opera whose emphasis was placed on the bass voice in the form of the
BUFFO, the comic male character.
=Opera buffa
24. They were the real stars of the opera, not the composers. They made a great deal
of money and had large numbers of adoring fans.
=Opera buffa
25. One of the famous sopranos of the Classical era.
=Maria Callas
26. The music written for a mass for the dead.
=Requiem
27. the most famous oratorio written by Haydn.
=The Creation
28. The mass Mozart was working on when he died.
=Requiem
29. The mass written by Beethoven which is one of his greatest works.
=MissaSolemnis
30. The keyboard instrument that quickly overtook the harpsichords popularity in the
beginning of the Classical period.
=Pianoforte or fortepiano
