Which of the following would you not expect to find in classical music? a) nationalistic trend b) extreme oppression c) leitmotif in opera d) all of the above

b) extreme oppression

Explanation:

  Classical music is very difficult to define. More generally, it can be said that it encompasses every musical form admitted to the academies, researched and interpreted at the heart of conventions and canons previously determined by music historians.

  Music dictionaries also often disseminate another notion of this expression, that it has the meaning of serious music, as opposed to folk, folk, and jazz. But there is not much point in this idea, for any musicality can be austere and therefore need not be erudite.

   Another conception is restricted to what is called classical music, defining it as an aesthetically distinct, harmonic, objective and rigorous structure, absent from informalities, excessive emotions and coming from the human soul, typical of the songs born during Romanticism. But here lies a difficult problem to solve, that musicians like Beethoven and Schubert have romantic characteristics in their compositions, and it would be impracticable to exclude them from the framework of classical music just for this reason.

    An alternative conception is that classical music is that which was conceived from 1750 to 1830, including especially the productions of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, especially the Viennese Classical School, since at this time Vienna was considered the musical center of Europe. From it were born symphonies, string quartets, and concerts; it was also responsible for the predominance of instrumental compositions over choral-style creations. From this movement also arose the sonata, which was improved throughout the eighteenth century.