Chapter 11 Quiz

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. The "sentimental" style that aimed to display the shifting nature of emotional sensations was ___________.

a) Empfindsamer Stil correct incorrect

b) Galant style correct incorrect

c) Classical style correct incorrect

d) Fantasia correct incorrect

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. In the Querelle des Bouffons, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the main proponents for the ___________ style.

a) Italian correct incorrect

b) French correct incorrect

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. ___________ was known as the "London Bach."

a) Johann Sebastian Bach correct incorrect

b) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach correct incorrect

c) Johann Christian Bach correct incorrect

d) Carl Philipp Emanuel correct incorrect

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. Johann Christian Bach's Sonata in D is best described as ___________.

a) Opera seria correct incorrect

b) Empfindsamer Stil correct incorrect

c) Galant style correct incorrect

d) Accompanied sonata correct incorrect

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. Johann Christian Bach's Sonata in D displayed all of the following characteristics except ___________.

a) Predictable bass patterns correct incorrect

b) Well-defined phrases correct incorrect

c) Simple accompaniment, such as Alberti bass correct incorrect

d) Sudden contrasts and emotional shifts correct incorrect

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. An "accompanied sonata" is a keyboard sonata with an added ___________ part, ad libitum.

a) Bassoon or cello correct incorrect

b) Flute or violin correct incorrect

c) Voice correct incorrect

d) Basso continuo correct incorrect

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. An eighteenth-century comic opera shown during the intermission of a serious opera was ___________.

a) An intermezzo correct incorrect

b) An opera buffa correct incorrect

c) An opera seria correct incorrect

d) A serenata correct incorrect

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. Of the following, the composer most associated with empfindsamer Stil was ___________.

a) Domenico Scarlatti correct incorrect

b) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach correct incorrect

c) Johann Christian Bach correct incorrect

d) Niccolò Piccinni correct incorrect

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. What happens at the end of La buona figliuola?

a) The beautiful female servant tragically dies of consumption. correct incorrect

b) A poor musician receives his inheritance. correct incorrect

c) The aristocrat marries his female servant. correct incorrect

d) The beautiful servant goes mad. correct incorrect

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. In Christoph Willibald Gluck's reform operas, singers were given more license to improvise and embellish.

a) TRUE correct incorrect

b) FALSE correct incorrect

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. Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera reforms included all of the following except ___________.

a) Diminished role of the chorus correct incorrect

b) "Natural" declamation of words correct incorrect

c) Abandonment of the da capo aria correct incorrect

d) Fewer characters than previous operas correct incorrect

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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was ___________.

a) A philosopher correct incorrect

b) An author correct incorrect

c) A composer correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not characteristic of Enlightenment ideals?

a) The use of superstition to advance political unity correct incorrect

b) Promotion of rational thought correct incorrect

c) Advancement of secular knowledge correct incorrect

d) Naturalness instead of artifice correct incorrect