Assignment: Grout and Palisca, Chapter
14
Read: 484-496
Skim: 496-508
Read: 508-511 (bottom)
Skim: 512-514 (bottom)
Read: 514 (bottom)-516 (top)
Skim: 516 (top)-522
Read: 522-529
Study Questions:
2. Be able to summarize the main points of Haydn’s career--p. 484-487
3. What three forms for the different movements may
be found in Haydn’s early
symphonies?--p. 487
4. How does Haydn employ sonata (first-movement)
form in his symphonies?--p.
487-489
5. What changes did Haydn make to the final movement
of symphonies in the late
1760s?--p. 489
6. What are the characteristics of Haydn’s early
symphonies (before 1768)?--p.
490* of the symphonies
from the period 1768-1774?--p. 490 of the sympho-
nies from the period
1774-1778?--p. 491
7. What is the orchestration and thematic structure
of the first movement of
Haydn’s Symphony
No. 56?--p. 492 (and NAWM 97)
8. What changes in orchestration, harmonic structure,
and form may be found in
Haydn’s London
Symphonies?--p. 494-495
9. In general, be able to trace the development of Haydn’s symphonic style.
10. What are Köchel numbers?--p. 509 How did
Mozart’s music become a synthe-
sis of national styles?--p.
509-510
11. What composers influenced Mozart during his early
years? What stylistic char-
acteristics did he
inherit from each of them?--p. 510-511**
12. In what respects was Mozart a "commercial" composer?--p. 511
13. What further influences did Mozart receive during
his Vienna
period?--p.515-516
14. What is the form of the first movement of a typical
Mozart piano concerto? How
is it adapted or
modified in the A-major concerto, K.488?--p. 523-525 (and
NAWM 102)
15. How did Mozart’s "cadenza" style change after the 1780s?--p. 525
16. What is significant about the opera librettos of da Ponte?--p. 525
17. How does Mozart treat characterization in Don
Giovanni? What is the form of
the "catalogue" aria
of Leporello?--p. 526-527 (and NAWM 103).***
**The example number at the end of the "Tours" paragraph should read "14.15b".
***This "composite" aria is typical
of Mozart’s late operas. In early 19th-century Italian opera, the two
halves
of the composite aria will separate to create the "cavatina-cabaletta"
pair, to be discussed later.