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tnt_battle · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Why might composers have used sonata form for almost all the first movements of Classic instrumental music?

a. It was best to start with a form that remained in one key throughout.
b. They wanted to present their most serious ideas at the beginning.
c. Emperor Joseph II required composers to use sonata form in first movements.
d. Sonata form music was the most likely to be published as sheet music.

Question 2

The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed

a. a tremendous growth in amateur music making at home.
b. a move back to the basics of Gregorian chant.
c. the downfall of Haydn's career.
d. the birth of opera.