What was the purpose of the eighteenth-century piano sonata as composed by Haydn and Mozart? What change did
Beethoven make in this genre, and what was the result?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: composed for talented amateurs to play in the home; Beethoven infused the genre with technical bravura,
making them more appropriate for the concert hall
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In Masaccio's Trinity there is a coffered barrel-vault reminiscent of which of the following?
a. The baths of Diocletian b. The Pantheon c. A Roman triumphal arch d. The basilica of Constantine
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