Classical Unit - Part 1

Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life

• serving a wealthy aristocratic family

• as a church musician and organist

• as an independently wealthy composer

• as a professional freelance musician

In the classical period, comic operas sometimes

• were based on the Old Testament

• Ridiculed the aristocracy

• Were in latin

• all of the above

Haydn's contract of employment shows that he was considered

• a skilled servant

• a free-lance musician

• a visiting guest composer

• an equal by his employer

Social mobility during the classical period was

• a limited sociological factor

• ruthlessly stamped out by the aristocracy

• promoted and encouraged by the church

• an important factor in the rise of the middle class

Vienna in 1800

• was the fourth-largest city in Europe

• had a population of almost 250,000

• was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire

• all of the above

In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart

• avoided each other

• became close friends

• were jealous of each other

• never met

In the classical period, serious composition was flavored by

• folk and popular music

• heroic and mythological plots

• elaborately ornamented melodies

• all of the above

The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as

• theatre

• literature

• music

• all of the above

The Concert des Amateurs, an organization in Paris devoted to presenting public concerts, was conducted in the 1770s by

• Johann Christian Bach

• the Chevalier de Saint-Georges

• Ludwig van Beethoven

• Joseph Haydn

Sonata form should be viewed as

• a rigid mold into which musical ideas are poured

• another term for the symphony

• a set of principles that serve to shape and unify contrasts of theme and key

• a set of variations on a theme