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    MIDTERM REVIEW SHEET Music 15 – Fall 2013 Date: Thursday‚ October 31 Time: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (Please be early‚ if possible‚ Value: 40 points (20% of total grade) Format: The exam will consist of listening identification and general knowledge questions‚ definitions‚ and one short answer question. Please bring a black or blue pen. Section One – Listening Identification (15 points) Identification of listening examples from the syllabus (title‚ composer‚ time period‚ genre‚ other elements

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    n 1712‚ George Frideric Handel moved permanently to England. Although he had a large and varied musical output‚ his reputation as a composer has been established mainly though his compositions of Italian opera. In the following years he subsequently wrote and presented more than 40 such operas in London theatres‚ and accumulated honors including a pension from the court of King George II‚ the office of Composer of Music for the Royal Chapel‚ and even a statue has been erected in his honor while he

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    musician to link the classical period of 18th-century and the novel birth of Romanticism. Beethoven’s absolute step forward in the world of music came in his instrumental work‚ not forgetting his symphonies. In contrast to his forerunner Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ for whom composing music seemed natural‚ Beethoven strived to make his work flawless. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn‚ Germany on December 16‚ 1770. His mother died while he was a teenager and his father was very abusive and a

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    Kim Concerto in D Minor‚ K.466 --Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) I attended a Graduate Piano Recital at Indiana University Auer Concert Hall‚ which was performed by Justin Bartlett and co-play with Yerin Kim. I enjoyed listening to this beautiful piano music and it also impressed me a lot by watching these performers use their energy to play. The Concerto in D Minor is a master work from Mozart and it has three movements during the whole piece. Mozart is a talented musician and his Piano

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    Haydn served Prince Miklós for nearly 30 years. During this time‚ Haydn would travel to Vienna‚ and a friendship between Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart came to fruition. The two composers inspired one another in their compositions. “The period from 1768 to about 1774 marks Haydn’s maturity as a composer” (www.britannica.com). His music placed him among the chief composers of the era.

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    along with its detractors. In recent decades‚ an enormous amount of research has been conducted on specific ways in which sound‚ rhythm and music‚ in general‚ can improve human lives. Arguably‚ one of the most interesting of them all is the “Mozart Effect”.2 Supporters of this ‘phenomenon’ claim that listening to Mozart’s music can affect you positively in a number of ways. Mainly‚ it improves one’s spatial-temporal reasoning skills and that early childhood exposure is beneficial for mental

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    When spotlight falls on the piano‚ the grace of classical music arises in the audience’s hearts‚ which makes them relaxed and expectant. The first half of the program included two pieces‚ Piano Quartet in E-flat major‚ K. 493 composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Die Gebüsche composed by Franz Schubert. The most impressive piece for me was the first one. It was a chamber music from classical period. This concerto-like quartet had three movements‚ which gave us an echoing through the performance

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    Symphony No.5/Eine kleine Nachtmusik Two names that were prevalent during the Classical era of music were Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These two composers have written many pieces of music‚ but two that stand out are Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5” and Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”. Both of these pieces were composed within twenty years of each other‚ and parallels between the two pieces of work can be noticed. Even though the two pieces are similar in terms of structure

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    commissions from abroad‚ such as the Paris symphonies (1785-1786) and the original orchestral version of "The Seven Last Words of Christ" (1786). Haydn came to feel sequestered and lonely‚ however‚ missing friends back in Vienna‚ such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ so in 1791‚ when a new Esterházy prince let Haydn go‚ he quickly accepted an invitation to go to England to conduct new symphonies. Audiences flocked to Haydn’s concerts‚ and during his time in England he generated some of his best-known

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    Second Listening Assignment MUSC 220 Ludwig van Beethoven‚ 1770-1827. Classical Period Symphony No. 5 in C minor‚ Op. 67 This piece is relatively long compared to the music written in previous periods such as Medieval‚ Renaissance and Baroque. Beethoven is known to have stretched the musical forms of the Classical period‚ which were already different in nature and length to those in previous periods. This piece appears to be more distorted than other symphonies in the same period; even music

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