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WorksheetsHistories of Listening Quiz
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 3mins
What does H.I.P stand for?
Historically initiated performance
Hierarchically inspired practice
Historically informed performance
Hello, I'm Peter
Where was Jean-Baptise Lully born?
Italy
France
England
Germany
The 18th century operatic reform movement was spearheaded by which composer?
Jean-Phillipe Rameau
George Friedric Handel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Christoph Willibald Gluck
What year did Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice premiere?
1742
1752
1762
1772
Compared to concert etiquette today, why were 18th century opera audiences so rowdy and unfocussed as listeners?
They were busy socialising and 'seen being seen'
They were all inebriated
It was 'embarrassing' to be moved by emotional music
They were attentive to certain aspects at certain times
Why did Haydn travel to London?
Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy died and was succeeded by his son who disbanded the orchestra in 1791
People kept pirating and sharing his scores, costing him money
He was invited by Peter Salomon to perform some symphonies and string quartets
He planned to retire in London
Carl Dahlhaus's book on the transference of holy devotion to secular concert music was called what?
Absolute Music: The History of an Idea
The Idea of Absolute Music
Esthetic Contemplation as Devotion
Instrumental Music and Art-Religion
Which country adopted German attentive listening practices around 1870?
England
France
Italy
Austria
Which of these is NOT one of the Lincoln Centre's 'Ten Commandments of Audience Behaviour'
Thou Shalt Not Talk
Thou Shalt Not Wear Loud-Ticking Watches or Jangle Thy Jewellery
Thou Shalt Not Cough or Sneeze Without Muffling Thy Sound
Thou Shalt Not Sigh With Boredom
Which famous composer criticised Forkel's Kenner vs. Liebhaber texts for not including enough musical examples and instead discussing music as an abstract philosophical concept?
Gluck
Beethoven
C.P.E Bach
Haydn
Which is ranked lowest on Adorno's typology of listeners?
Resentment listener
Emotional listener
Jazz listener
Anti-musical listener
Whose sound device invention was described as having a 'soft, pure sound'?
Thomas Edinson's phonograph (1877)
Emile Berliner's gramophone (1887)
The pianist Artur Schnabel flat-out rejected the invention of recording technology and its potential influence on classical performance culture on what grounds?
The uneducated masses would have access to highbrow artforms at low cost
Permanent recordings of performances would create undue pressure on performers
Phonographs and gramophones would eventually replace human performers
Music critics would be much less forgiving of recordings of performers than of live concerts
