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Music History Chapter 16
Music History
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Music
Undergraduate 3
05/01/2013

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The first thorough formulation of the theory of tonal harmony is attributed to _________________________
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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To identify a triad, one has to classify a harmony not according to its sounding bass note but _________________________
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root
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The French term _________________________ describes music with such characteristics as elegance, grace, and charm
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galant
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The Italian composer _________________________, a contemporary of Bach and Handel, spent most of his career in Portugal and Spain
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Domenico Scarlatti
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The _________________________ was an independent genre of Italian comic opera that had many of the same traits as the intermezzo
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opera buffa
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An important center of development of the empfindsamer Stil was _________________________
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Berlin
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The important treatise Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (Essay on the true manner of playing the keyboard) was written by _________________________
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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When the second part of a binary form reestablishes the tonic key with the material of the first part, adapted in such a way that no modulation takes place, the structure is called _________________________ binary form
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rounded
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In the eighteenth century the concerto was replaced as the leading genre of orchestral music by the _________________________
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sinfonia
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The famous Mannheim steamroller was actually a(n) _________________________
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orchestrated crescendo
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