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Music An Appreciation 12Th Edition Kamien Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Music An Appreciation 12Th Edition Kamien Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Music An Appreciation 12Th Edition Kamien Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Feedback: In music history, the transition from the baroque style to the full flowering of the classical is called the preclassical
period; it extends from roughly 1730 to 1770.
3. The fully developed classical style in music flourished during the period ______.
A. 1600-1750
B. 1730-1770
C. 1770-1820
D. 1820-1900
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Learning Objective: Summarize European culture in the classical era
Topic: Classicism
Feedback: The fully developed classical style in music flourished from about 1770 to 1820.
Feedback: Philosophers and writers—especially Voltaire (1694–1778) and Denis Diderot (1713–1784)—saw their time as a
turning point in history and referred to it as the “age of enlightenment.” They believed in progress, holding that reason, not
custom or tradition, was the best guide for human conduct.
5. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and _____ were two of the more important preclassical composers.
A. Jean Honoré Fragonard
B. Johann Christian Bach
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C. Johann Sebastian Bach
D. Joseph Haydn
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Topic: Classical music
Feedback: Among the important pioneers in this new style were Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian, both sons of Johann
Sebastian Bach.
6. Which of the following composers is not considered a master of the classical period?
A. Johann Christian Bach
B. Ludwig van Beethoven
C. Wolfgang A. Mozart
D. Joseph Haydn
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Topic: Classical music
Feedback: Although Johann Christian Bach was an important early pioneer of the classical style, he is not considered a master of
the period.
Feedback: Classical composers’ interest in expressing shades of emotion led to the widespread use of gradual dynamic change—
crescendo and decrescendo. These composers did not restrict themselves to the terraced dynamics (abrupt shifts from loud to
soft) characteristic of baroque music.
8. Which of the following characteristics is not typical of the music of the classical period?
A. Classical melodies are tuneful and easy to remember.
B. Classical compositions fluctuate in mood.
C. A classical composition has a wealth of rhythmic patterns.
D. Classical music is basically polyphonic.
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Topic: Texture
Feedback: Music in the classical period generally avoided dense polyphony, favoring homophonic textures.
9. Which of the following statements is not true of the music of the classical period?
A. Classical composers stressed balance and clarity of structure.
B. The standard orchestra, comprised of four sections, evolved during the classical period.
C. The basso continuo was the nucleus of the instrumental ensemble.
D. Classical melodies are among the most tuneful and easy to remember.
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Topic: Classical music
Feedback: The basso continuo was a characteristic feature of baroque music and was eventually abandoned by classical
composers.
10. What did the typical orchestra of the classical period consist of?
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A. A loose ensemble of available instruments
B. Strings, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani
C. Strings with harpsichord continuo
D. Woodwinds, trombones, drums, and strings
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Learning Objective: List the instruments of the orchestra in the classical era
Topic: Classical music
11. Which of the following instruments were not normally included in the classical orchestra?
A. Horns
B. Trombones
C. Timpani
D. Trumpets
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Learning Objective: List the instruments of the orchestra in the classical era
Topic: Instrument families
Feedback: Trombones were used by Haydn and Mozart, but only in opera and church music, not in solely instrumental works.
There use became more common later, in Romantic-era music.
Feedback: Recall that the term sonata originally described a composition in several movements for one to eight instruments. In
the classical period, the amount of instruments grew into a larger orchestra, and the sonata became a symphony.
13. What was social mobility like during the classical period?
A. A limited sociological factor
B. Ruthlessly stamped out by the aristocracy
C. Promoted and encouraged by the church
D. An important factor in the rise of the middle class
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Learning Objective: Summarize European culture in the classical era
Topic: Classical music
Feedback: As the eighteenth century advanced, more people made more money, increasing social mobility. Merchants, doctors,
and government officials could afford larger homes, finer clothes, and better food, giving rise to a prospering middle class. In
fact, during the classical period, the middle class had a great influence on music.
14. Political and economic power shifted to the middle class from the aristocracy and the ______.
A. church
B. military
C. colonial powers
D. military-industrial complex
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Topic: Classical music
Feedback: With the rise of a prosperous middle class, the aristocracy, nobility, and the church lost some of their influence in
people's lives.
Feedback: In the classical period, serious composition was flavored by folk and popular music. The classical masters sometimes
used familiar tunes as themes for symphonies and variations.
16. The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as ______.
A. theater
B. literature
C. music
D. All answers are correct.
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Topic: Classical music
Feedback: The prospering middle class sought aristocratic luxuries like theater, literature, and music.
17. Public concerts presented by the Concert des Amateurs in Paris in the 1770s were conducted by ______.
A. Ludwig van Beethoven
B. Joseph Haydn
C. the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
D. Johann Christian Bach
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Learning Objective: Summarize European culture in the classical era
Topic: Classical music
Feedback: In Paris, a concert organization called the Concert des Amateurs assembled a large orchestra, conducted during the
1770s by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1739–1799), a black composer and violinist.
Feedback: In the classical era, political and economic power shifted away from the aristocracy and the church and towards the
middle class.
19. Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life as what?
A. An independently wealthy composer
B. A professional free-lance musician
C. An employee of a wealthy aristocratic family
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D. A church musician and organist
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Learning Objective: Recall the biography of Franz Joseph Haydn
Topic: Franz Joseph Haydn
Feedback: For almost thirty years, starting when he was twenty-nine, Haydn entered the service of the Esterházys, the richest and
most powerful of the Hungarian noble families.
Feedback: As a highly skilled servant, Haydn was to compose all the music requested by his patron, conduct the orchestra, coach
singers, and oversee the instruments and the music library.
21. Vienna, when Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were active, ______.
A. was the fourth-largest city in Europe
B. was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire
C. had a population of almost 250,000
D. All answers are correct.
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Learning Objective: Evaluate the importance of Vienna in the musical life of the classical era
Topic: Franz Joseph Haydn
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Feedback: During the classical era, Vienna was a nexus of artistic, intellectual, and political life. As the seat of the Holy Roman
Empire, it was a bustling cultural and commercial center with a cosmopolitan character. Its population of almost 250,000 (in
1800) made Vienna the fourth largest city in Europe.
22. Composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by doing what?
A. Flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music
B. Writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy
C. Writing dance music for public balls
D. All answers are correct.
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Learning Objective: Know the important trends in European music from 1750 to 1820
Topic: Classical music
Feedback: Composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account, writing pieces that were easy for amateur
musicians to play and understand. They turned from serious to comic opera and incorporated folk melodies and dance rhythms
into their serious works. Often, they would hold performances of their works in public halls and theaters.
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Feedback: Comic operas of the classical period appealed to middle-class subjects and used folklike tunes, sometimes even
ridiculing the aristocracy. They rarely included religious subjects and most of the operas were written in either French, Italian, or
German.
Feedback: In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart became close friends and influenced each other’s musical style.
25. Sonata form is used frequently as the form for the ________ movement of a multimovement work.
A. first
B. slow
C. final fast
D. All answers are correct.
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Learning Objective: Know the structure of sonata (sonata-allegro) form
Topic: Sonata form
Feedback: The sonata form is flexible and can be used for the first (usually allegro), slow second, or final fast movements of a
multimovement work. It is not generally used for the third movement, which is usually based on a dance.
Feedback: Rondo is its own form, featuring a tuneful main theme (A) which returns several times in alternation with other
themes. It is not a part of sonata form.
27. Sonata form consists of three main sections: exposition, development, and ______.
A. introduction
B. recapitulation
C. motives
D. transition
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Learning Objective: Know the structure of sonata (sonata-allegro) form
Topic: Sonata form
Feedback: A sonata-form movement consists of three main sections: the exposition, where the themes are presented; the
development, where themes are treated in new ways; and the recapitulation, where the themes return.
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Learning Objective: Know the structure of sonata (sonata-allegro) form
Topic: Sonata form
Feedback: In the exposition section of a sonata form, the first theme is presented in the tonic (home) key, the bridge contains
modulation from the home key to new key, leading into a second theme in the new key . The closing section is in the key of the
second theme.
Feedback: In the recapitulation section of a sonata form, the closing section returns to the tonic key, giving the entire form a
sense of balance and symmetry.
Feedback: At the end of a classical exposition there is usually a repeat sign to indicate that the whole exposition is to be played
again.
Feedback: In the recapitulation, the first theme, bridge, second theme, and concluding section are presented more or less as they
were in the exposition, with one crucial difference: all the principal material is now in the tonic key. In the exposition, the second
them is presented in a new key.
Feedback: A bridge, or transition, leads to new, contrasting material, usually in the form of a second theme.
33. A modulation from the home key to a new key in the exposition of a sonata form movement takes place in the ______.
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A. coda
B. theme
C. bridge
D. motive
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Learning Objective: Know the structure of sonata (sonata-allegro) form
Topic: Sonata form
Feedback: The bridge in the exposition section of a sonata movement is used to modulate from the first theme in the tonic key to
a second theme in a new key.
34. A feeling of harmonic tension and forward motion is created in the exposition of a sonata form movement by ______.
A. the conflict of tonalities between the first and second themes
B. the introduction of a new theme in the bridge
C. retaining the same tonality for both themes
D. changing the meter of the second theme
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Learning Objective: Know the structure of sonata (sonata-allegro) form
Topic: Sonata form
Feedback: In the exposition, the modulation from the home key to a new key creates a feeling of harmonic tension and forward
motion.
35. Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are called ______.
A. codas
B. rides
C. melodies
D. motives
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Learning Objective: Know the structure of sonata (sonata-allegro) form
Topic: Sonata form
Feedback: Motives are short musical ideas developed within a composition. A motive can sound very different depending on how
it is treated; it can be taken through changes of melody, rhythm, or dynamics.
36. The three main sections of a sonata-form movement are often followed by a concluding section known as the ______.
A. coda
B. theme
C. bridge
D. motive
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Learning Objective: Know the structure of sonata (sonata-allegro) form
Topic: Sonata form
Feedback: A composer can give a sonata movement a powerful feeling of conclusion by following the recapitulation with a coda.
A coda rounds off a movement by repeating themes or developing them further. It always ends in the tonic key.
Feedback: The sonata form is a flexible structure and set of principles that allow composers to shape material through contrasts of
themes and keys.
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38. Each successive variation in a theme with variations ______.
A. retains some elements of the theme
B. is usually in a new key
C. is usually in the same key
D. presents a new melodic idea
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Learning Objective: Know the structure of a theme and variations movement
Topic: Theme and variations
Feedback: In a theme-and-variations form, each variation is usually about the same length as the theme. However, each variation
has its own identity, created through changes of melody, rhythm, harmony, accompaniment, dynamics, or tone color. The core
melody may appear in the bass, or it may be repeated in a minor key instead of a major key.
Feedback: In a theme and variations, a basic musical idea—the theme—is repeated over and over and is changed each time. This
form may be outlined as theme (A)—variation 1 (A )— variation 2 (A )—variation 3 (A ), and so on.
Feedback: A theme and variations does not contain a recapitulation section; that appears only in sonata form.
41. Which of the following elements is usually not changed in varying the theme in theme-and-variations form?
A. Melody
B. Harmony
C. Length
D. Rhythm
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Learning Objective: Know the structure of a theme and variations movement
Topic: Theme and variations
Feedback: Changes of melody, rhythm, harmony, accompaniment, dynamics, or tone color may be used to give a variation its
own identity, but the length of each variation is roughly the same.
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Feedback: The second movement (andante) of Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise Symphony) is a theme and
variations.
43. The minuet-and-trio movement of a classical symphony, string quartet, or other work, is in ____________ form.
A. ABA
B. AABB
C. AA'A''A'''A''''
D. ABACABA
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Learning Objective: Know the structural pattern of a minuet and trio
Topic: Minuet and trio
Feedback: The minuet and trio is in ternary form (A B A): minuet (A), trio (B), minuet (A).
44. The movement of a symphony that is often patterned after a dance is the ______.
A. first
B. second
C. third
D. fourth
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Learning Objective: Know the structural pattern of a minuet and trio
Topic: Minuet and trio
Feedback: The minuet and trio, or minuet, is often used as the third movement of classical symphonies, string quartets, and other
works. Like the movements of the baroque suite, the minuet originated as a dance. Sometimes, a scherzo was used instead of a
minuet.
Feedback: The minuet first appeared at the court of Louis XIV of France around 1650 and was danced by aristocrats throughout
the eighteenth century.
Feedback: The minuet was a stately, dignified dance in which the dancing couple exchanged curtsies and bows.
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Learning Objective: Know the structural pattern of a minuet and trio
Topic: Minuet and trio
Feedback: The minuet was written in ABA form, in triple meter, and at a moderate tempo. If the tempo was too quick or lively,
the audience would have difficulty dancing in a stately, dignified manner.
Feedback: The character of a minuet is stately and dignified, not brisk or lively (that description is more appropriate for a scherzo
or allegro movement).
50. In many of Beethoven's works, there is a _______ movement instead of the minuet.
A. presto
B. scherzo
C. fugato
D. ritornello
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Learning Objective: Know the structural pattern of a minuet and trio
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Minuet and trio
Feedback: In many of Beethoven’s compositions, the third movement is not a minuet but a related form called a scherzo. Like a
minuet, a scherzo is usually in ABA form and triple meter, but it moves more quickly, generating energy, rhythmic drive, and
rough humor. (Scherzo is Italian for joke.)
Feedback: Similar to a minuet, a scherzo is usually in A B A form and triple meter, but it moves more quickly, generating energy,
rhythmic drive, and rough humor.
52. A _____________ is a musical composition that is usually light in mood, and meant for evening entertainment.
A. minuet and trio
B. aubade
C. serenade
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D. rondo
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Topic: Classical music
Feedback: A serenade is a work that’s usually light in mood, meant for evening entertainment.
53. The double bass in the classical orchestra, as in Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, often does what?
A. Has a separate and distinct bass part
B. Doubles the cello part in the same register
C. Doubles the cello part an octave lower
D. Plays only accents on stressed beats
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Topic: Classical music
Feedback: The double bass, in the context of an orchestra, often doubles the cello part an octave lower, to reinforce the
fundamental tones of the harmony.
Feedback: Da capo means "from the beginning," indicating that the performer should return to the beginning of the piece and
repeat the music until further direction.
Feedback: A rondo form establishes a main theme that returns often, alternating with contrasting sections. Common rondo
patterns are ABACA and ABACABA.
Feedback: In a rondo, the main theme is usually lively, pleasing, and simple to remember, so that the listener can easily recognize
its return.
Feedback: The popularity of the rondo did not end with the classical period. It was used by twentieth-century composers such as
Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.
58. The return of the main theme in rondo form is all the more welcome because it is usually ______.
A. in a contrasting key
B. in the tonic key
C. slow and dignified
D. in varied form
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Learning Objective: Know the structural pattern of a rondo
Topic: Rondo
Feedback: The return of the main theme is usually stated in the tonic key, making it welcome after contrasting sections.
Feedback: A sonata-rondo combines elements of a rondo, such as a lively, pleasing, simple theme with those of a sonata, such as
a development section.
Feedback: The main theme of a rondo, is usually in the tonic key, is lively, returns frequently throughout the movement, and
closes the movement.
61. Because of its character, the rondo most often serves as a ______.
A. slow movement
B. first movement
C. set of variations
D. finale
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Learning Objective: Know the structural pattern of a rondo
Topic: Rondo
Feedback: A rondo often serves as a finale, because its liveliness, regularity, and buoyancy bring a happy sense of conclusion.
Feedback: The rondo was used either as an independent piece or as one movement of a symphony, string quartet, or sonata. Its
popularity lasted through to the twentieth century, used by composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.
Feedback: The popularity of the rondo did not end with the classical period. It was used by twentieth-century composers such as
Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.
Feedback: A symphony is an extended, ambitious composition typically lasting between 20 and 45 minutes, exploiting the
expanded range of tone color and dynamics of the classical orchestra. A classical symphony usually consists of four movements
which evoke a wide range of emotions through contrasts of tempo and mood.
Feedback: A typical sequence is (1) a vigorous, dramatic fast movement; (2) a lyrical slow movement; (3) a dancelike movement
(minuet or scherzo); and (4) a brilliant or heroic fast movement.
66. The first movement of a classical symphony is almost always fast, and in _____ form.
A. sonata
B. rondo
C. minuet
D. ABA
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Learning Objective: Know the pattern of movements in a symphony of the classical era
Topic: Symphony
Feedback: Classical composers almost always wrote the first movement of a symphony is sonata form.
Feedback: A symphony can be thought of as a sonata for orchestra. It is an extended, ambitious composition that is usually in
four movements. A composition for solo instrument and orchestra is known as a concerto.
Feedback: Unlike the other movements in the symphony, the slow movement is generally not in the tonic key.
Feedback: The opening movement of a classical symphony is usually quick and lively and in sonata form.
70. The lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the ______.
A. first
B. second
C. third
D. fourth
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Topic: Symphony
Feedback: The second movement of a symphony is mostly used to provide contrast and is rarely in the tonic key. It is generally
slow and can be in a variety of forms, such as sonata, rondo, or theme and variations.
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72. The last movement of a classical symphony ______.
A. is most often in sonata or sonata-rondo form
B. is usually fast, lively, and brilliant, but somewhat lighter in mood than the opening movement
C. is always in the tonic key of the symphony
D. All answers are correct.
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Learning Objective: Know the pattern of movements in a symphony of the classical era
Topic: Symphony
Feedback: The fourth, concluding movement of a classical symphony is usually fast, lively, and brilliant. It is always in the tonic
key and in sonata or sonata-rondo form.
73. One way that unity is often achieved in the classical symphony is by the use of the same ______.
A. key in three of its four movements
B. theme in each of its four movements
C. key in all four movements
D. rhythm in all four movements
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Learning Objective: Know the pattern of movements in a symphony of the classical era
Topic: Symphony
Feedback: In most classical symphonies, each movement is a self-contained composition with its own set of themes. A theme in
one movement will only rarely reappear in a later movement. But a symphony is unified partly by the use of the same key in
three of its movements.
Feedback: Like symphonies, concertos can last anywhere from twenty minutes to forty-five minutes.
Feedback: A classical concerto is a three-movement work for an instrumental soloist and orchestra. It combines the soloist’s
virtuosity and interpretive abilities with the orchestra’s wide range of tone color and dynamics.
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Learning Objective: Know the movements and characteristics of a concerto of the classical era
Topic: Concerto
Feedback: In contrast to a symphony’s four movements, a classical concerto has three: (1) fast, (2) slow, and (3) fast. A concerto
has no dance-related movement.
77. The favored solo instrument in the classical concerto was the ______.
A. harpsichord
B. cello
C. piano
D. clarinet
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Learning Objective: Know the movements and characteristics of a concerto of the classical era
Topic: Concerto
Feedback: Although classical concertos featured different solo instruments (violin, cello, horn, trumpet, clarinet, and bassoon) the
piano was the most favored and featured instrumental soloist.
Feedback: The main purpose of a concerto is to display the interplay, or dialogue, between a soloist and the orchestra.
Feedback: A classical concerto begins with a movement in sonata form, containing two expositions. The first is played by the
orchestra, which presents several themes in the home key. The second exposition begins with the soloist’s first notes.
81. The classical concerto differs from the symphony in that it does not have a ___________ movement.
A. sonata form
B. slow
C. minuet or scherzo
D. rondo finale
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Learning Objective: Know the movements and characteristics of a concerto of the classical era
Topic: Concerto
Feedback: Concertos have many sections that require a soloist to have a certain level of virtuosity; they are often showpieces for
a soloist, especially the cadenza section.
83. A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performer's virtuosity is called ______.
A. a cadenza
B. a fermata
C. a pause
D. da capo
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Learning Objective: Know the movements and characteristics of a concerto of the classical era
Topic: Concerto
Feedback: In the first movement and sometimes in the last movement, there is a special unaccompanied showpiece for the soloist,
the cadenza (Italian for cadence).
Feedback: The pause before a cadenza is indicated in the score by a fermata, which is placed over a suspenseful chord. The
suspense leads into the entry of the soloist’s cadenza.
Feedback: Classical chamber music is designed for the intimate setting of a room (chamber) in a home or palace, rather than for a
public concert hall. Chamber music was often written for nonprofessional musicians of the aristocracy or middle class.
86. The most important form of classical chamber music is the ______.
A. piano trio
B. string quintet
C. string quartet
D. violin and piano sonata
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Learning Objective: Know the characteristics of classical chamber music
Topic: Chamber music
Feedback: The most important form in classical chamber music is the string quartet, written for two violins, a viola, and a cello.
Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven wrote some of their most important music in this form.
87. A major factor that distinguishes chamber music from the symphony or concerto is that chamber music ______.
A. does not use sonata form
B. is performed in concert halls
C. does not have difficult parts
D. is performed by one player per part
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Learning Objective: Know the characteristics of classical chamber music
Topic: Chamber music
Feedback: Chamber music is performed by a small group of two to nine musicians, with one player to a part.
Feedback: The string quartet is the most important form in classical chamber music. It is written for two violins, a viola, and a
cello and usually consists of four movements.
Feedback: The instrumentation for a string quartet is: two violins, viola, and cello. This provides the most flexibility and range
for musical ideas.
Feedback: The piano trio is a chamber piece written for violin, cello, and piano.
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Learning Objective: Know the characteristics of classical chamber music
Topic: Chamber music
Feedback: A string quartet is similar to a symphony in the way its four movements unfold: (1) fast, (2) slow, (3) minuet or
scherzo, (4) fast.
Feedback: The piano trio was written for violin, cello, and piano.
93. Haydn was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable, relationship with the noble Hungarian family
of ______.
A. Esterházy
B. Stefanházy
C. Liszt
D. Kadar
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Topic: Franz Joseph Haydn
Feedback: For almost thirty years, Haydn composed most of his music for performance in the palaces of the Esterházys, the
family who employed him.
94. Which of the following was not one of Haydn's duties while in the service of the Esterházys?
A. Composing all the music requested by his patron
B. Conducting the orchestra
C. Coaching the singers for operatic performances
D. Writing a cantata each week for Sunday services.
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Topic: Franz Joseph Haydn
Feedback: Although Haydn's duties for the Esterházys included composing all the music requested by his patron, conducting the
orchestra, coaching singers, and overseeing the instruments and the music library, it did not include writing cantatas for church
services every Sunday.
Feedback: Although greatly respected and admired, Haydn was still subservient to his employers; he was a highly-skilled servant.
96. Although Haydn spent most of his time in Hungary, he often traveled to ________, where his music was performed often and
greatly admired.
A. Paris
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B. Venice
C. Florence
D. London
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Topic: Franz Joseph Haydn
Feedback: Haydn traveled frequently to London, which welcomed him with open arms. His works were performed often there
and he became a celebrity there.
97. Haydn's two popular oratorios are entitled The Seasons and ______.
A. The Creation
B. The Magic Flute
C. Judas Maccabaeus
D. Elijah
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Topic: Franz Joseph Haydn
Feedback: In his late sixties, Haydn composed two oratorios, The Creation (1798) and The Seasons (1801). They were so popular
that choruses and orchestras were formed for the sole purpose of performing them.
98. Haydn was a prolific composer, as demonstrated in part by his 68 string quartets and 104 ______.
A. operas
B. serenades
C. songs
D. symphonies
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Topic: Franz Joseph Haydn
Feedback: Haydn’s music, like his personality, is robust and direct; it radiates a healthy optimism. Much of it has a folk flavor
(due to his use of actual folk melodies) and has great contrasts in texture, dynamics, and orchestration.
100. Along with his symphonies, Haydn's ___________ are considered his most important works.
A. operas
B. string quartets
C. baryton trios
D. serenades
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Franz Joseph Haydn
Topic: Franz Joseph Haydn
Feedback: Haydn's sixty-eight string quartets are among the most important of his vast output. He was a pioneer of the form
(some scholars believe that Haydn actually invented it).
Feedback: A child prodigy, by the time Mozart was six, he could play the harpsichord and violin, improvise fugues, write
minuets, and read music perfectly at first sight.
Feedback: As celebrated as Mozart was in his early life, his later years were a struggle and he died heavily in debt at only thirty-
six.
Feedback: As a child prodigy, Mozart was warmly welcomed all around Europe. Between the ages of six and fifteen he was
continually on tour. He played for Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna, Louis XV at Versailles, George III in London, and
innumerable aristocrats along the way. On his trips to Italy he was able to master the current operatic style, which he later put to
superb use.
105. Mozart tried to find fame and fortune by moving to _________, at the age of twenty-five.
A. Vienna
B. Salzburg
C. London
D. Paris
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Learning Objective: Recall the biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Topic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Feedback: When he was twenty-five, Mozart left provincial Salzburg and traveled to Vienna, intending to achieve success as a
freelance musician.
Feedback: While working on his opera, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), Mozart was visited by a stranger who carried an
anonymous letter commissioning a requiem, a mass for the dead.
Feedback: Mozart died before finishing his Requiem. Afterwards, it was completed by his friend and pupil Franz Süssmayer.
108. Which of the following is not one of Mozart's three masterpieces of Italian opera?
A. Così fan tutte
B. The Marriage of Figaro
C. Orfeo
D. Don Giovanni
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Topic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Feedback: All of the above were Mozart operas, except for Orfeo, which was written by Claudio Monteverdi.
109. Why did Mozart's music fall out of favor with Vienna audiences towards the end of this life?
A. The Viennese thought that it was too complicated and contained too many dissonances.
B. The nobility prohibited performances of his music because of his politics.
C. Many people thought that his music was old-fashioned.
D. The Viennese were very musically intelligent and thought Mozart's music was not well crafted.
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Topic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Feedback: Mozart wrote music that was very complex and, as a result, many average listeners found it hard to follow and too
demanding. They also thought that he used too many dissonances, giving his music a dark quality.
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Topic: Opera
Topic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Feedback: Don Giovanni is based on the tales of Don Juan, the legendary Spanish lover.
Feedback: Mozart's Symphony No. 40 was in G minor and consisted of four movements, typical of a classical symphony.
Unusual for its time, the work was full of passion and intense emotional energy, foreshadowing the coming Romantic period.
112. The Third Symphony of Beethoven was originally composed to commemorate the deeds of _________ as the embodiment
of heroism and democratic ideals.
A. George Washington
B. Napoleon Bonaparte
C. the Marquis de Lafayette
D. the Duke of Wellington
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Symphony
Feedback: In 1803 Beethoven composed the gigantic Third Symphony, the Eroica, in honor of Napoleon. When he learned,
however, that Napoleon had proclaimed himself emperor of the French, Beethoven crossed out the dedication and later wrote on
the title page “Heroic Symphony composed to celebrate the memory of a great man.”
Feedback: Beethoven was a brilliant and virtuosic pianist, earning him much acclaim. Although self-educated, he was
intellectual, curious and read widely (although was poor in mathematics). Tragically, he began to grow deaf when he was only
twenty-nine years old.
Feedback: Beethoven was a pioneer and innovator in music, as well as in business. Unlike many of his predecessors and even
contemporaries, Beethoven made his living independently of aristocratic support, solely through freelance means.
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115. We have a record of Beethoven's struggle with his musical material because he did what?
A. Described his struggles in letters to friends
B. Showed his workflow in musical sketchbooks
C. Told his troubles to his biographer
D. Kept a diary
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Learning Objective: Recall the biography of Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Feedback: Beethoven struggled greatly with his compositions. He carried music sketchbooks everywhere, jotting down new
ideas, revising and refining old ones. The final versions of his works were often hammered out through great labor.
116. Beethoven's late works, composed after he was totally deaf, include ______.
A. Missa solemnis
B. String quartets
C. The Ninth Symphony
D. All answers are correct.
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Feedback: Despite his deafness, Beethoven had a creative outburst after 1818 that produced some of his greatest works: the late
piano sonatas and string quartets, the Missa solemnis, and the Ninth Symphony.
117. What following technique did Beethoven use more extensively in his late works?
A. Fugal counterpoint
B. Monophony
C. Operatic form
D. Basso continuo
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Feedback: During his later works, Beethoven often used the fugue to express new musical concepts.
118. Beethoven's sixteen __________ are generally considered among the greatest music ever composed.
A. piano concertos
B. string quartets
C. piano sonatas
D. symphonies
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Feedback: The sixteen string quartets are considered to be among the greatest music composed, containing an incredible marriage
of technique and inspired creativity.
Feedback: Beethoven's music, especially his later pieces, combined classical structures and form with the emotional intensity that
would become the hallmark of romantic music. He is therefore often thought of as the bridge between the two styles.
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120. Beethoven's only opera is entitled ______.
A. The Magic Flute
B. Madame Butterfly
C. Don Giovanni
D. Fidelio
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Opera
121. The opening motive of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 has a ____________ rhythm.
A. short-long-short
B. short-short-short-long
C. long-long-short
D. short-short-long
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Symphony
Feedback: The Fifth Symphony opens with one of the most famous rhythmic ideas in all music, a short-short-short-long motive.
Beethoven reportedly explained this four-note motive as “fate knocking at the door.”
122. Beethoven, in comparison with earlier composers, was far more extensive and explicit in marking __________ in his scores.
A. dynamics
B. expressive indications
C. tempos
D. all of these
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Feedback: Beethoven was one of the first composers to explicitly mark his intentions in the score. Tempo, dynamic, and
expressive indications are marked far more extensively in his scores than in those of earlier composers. Directions such as,
“Somewhat lively and with deepest feeling,” would never have appeared previously.
123. Beethoven greatly expanded the _____________ section of the sonata-form movement and made it more dramatic.
A. introduction
B. exposition
C. development
D. recapitulation
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Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven
Topic: Sonata form
Feedback: Always the innovator, Beethoven greatly expanded a sonata's development section, making it even more dramatic. It
often contains a powerful crescendo that leads to a climactic return of the first theme at the start of the recapitulation.
Category # of Questions
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Bloom's: Apply 1
Bloom's: Remember 79
Bloom's: Understand 43
Learning Objective: Describe the major forms of instrumental music in the classical era 1
Learning Objective: Evaluate the importance of Vienna in the musical life of the classical era 2
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Learning Objective: Know the characteristics of classical chamber music 8
Learning Objective: Know the important trends in European music from 1750 to 1820 11
Learning Objective: Know the movements and characteristics of a concerto of the classical era 11
Learning Objective: Know the pattern of movements in a symphony of the classical era 10
Learning Objective: Know the structural pattern of a minuet and trio 9
Learning Objective: Know the structural pattern of a rondo 9
Learning Objective: Know the structure of a theme and variations movement 4
Learning Objective: Know the structure of sonata (sonata-allegro) form 13
Learning Objective: List the instruments of the orchestra in the classical era 2
Learning Objective: Recall the biography of Franz Joseph Haydn 6
Learning Objective: Recall the biography of Ludwig van Beethoven 4
Learning Objective: Recall the biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 5
Learning Objective: Summarize European culture in the classical era 9
Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Franz Joseph Haydn 5
Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven 8
Learning Objective: Summarize the musical works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 6
Topic: Chamber music 8
Topic: Classical music 15
Topic: Classicism 4
Topic: Concerto 11
Topic: Dynamics 1
Topic: Franz Joseph Haydn 13
Topic: Instrument families 1
Topic: Ludwig van Beethoven 15
Topic: Minuet and trio 9
Topic: Opera 2
Topic: Requiem 2
Topic: Rondo 9
Topic: Sonata form 14
Topic: Symphony 14
Topic: Texture 1
Topic: Theme and variations 4
Topic: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 13
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