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Music: The Art of Listening Book Cover
Music: The Art of Listening, 6/e
Jean Ferris, Arizona State University-Tempe

Essay Quiz



1

How do you think Mozart felt as he was composing his own Requiem Mass? Would you have the emotional stamina to do this if you were a composer?
2

Research more about Pergolesi's comic intermezzo, La Serva Padrona. What was the War of the Buffoons? Why and how was Rousseau involved?
3

Can you imagine how much fun it was for people to experience the comic operas when Classical society was noted for emotional restraint and control? Was a social rebellion occurring? How do you think you would have felt about attending a comic opera if you had lived during the Classical period? Would you have enjoyed it or would you have been offended?








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