Music 121 Final
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- A typical first movement of a Classical string quartet is?
- in a moderate or fast tempo and in sonata form
- Beethoven's personal life was?
- chaotic and lonely
- The slow movement of a Classical instrumental work?
- could be in a variety of classical forms
- Which dynamic indication is the softest?
- pianissimo
- A string quartet consists of ?
- 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello
- Beethoven stopped performing because?
- he became progressively deaf
- In what key is the 2nd theme likely to be heard in the recapitulation?
- the tonic key
- Which diagram shows the greatest amount of musical contrast?
- ABC
- The 3rd movement in most Classical symphonies is generally?
-
the fastest, lightest movement
- Music for the Mass was? Music for the daily Office was?
- complex; simpler
- Who was blamed for seducing Zerlina at the Ball?
- Leporello
- The shape, arrangement, relationship, or organization of elements in disciplins such as poetry, visual arts, and music is called?
- form
- Classical string quartets generally have?
- 4 movements
- A section of a fugue in which new, contrasting material is presented is a(n)?
- subject
- A typical string quartet would not include the?
- bass viol.
- How many Brandenburg Concertos did Bach write?
- six
- Which section in sonata form is most likely to be repeated in a free fashion?
- exposition
- Which composer wrote music in both the Classical style and the Romantic style?
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- a typical form of the theme in them and variations form is?
- I: a :II: b :I
- The musical term for the level of strength of a sound is?
-
dynamics
- The 1st movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 88 in G is?
- in sonata form w/ a slow intro
- The ___________ was the main instrument on which Bach performed.
- Organ
- in the _________ sonata form, there is modulation away from the tonic key?
- exposititon
- The fugue subject is the?
- main theme or melody
- While in Vienna, Mozart relied on _________ for income?
- teaching and conerts
- The Middle Ages, or medieval era, covers the time period of the?
- fifth century to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
- Another name for an ABA form with an exposition, a developement, and a recapitulation is ?
- sonata form
- The standard form for the italian opera aria is?
- da capo form
- When themes are broken up, recombined, reorchestrated, extended, or played in new musical contexts, they are being?
- developed
- Acoustically speaking, a cyle
- is one vibration that is transmitted through the air
- The 1st movement of Mozart's symphony No. 40 in G minor has no?
- slow intro
- The musical term for "suddenly" is?
- subito
- In sonata form, which section conatins the most modulation?
- the development
- Which is not true of an aria
- Has no set meter, the meter and melody serve the text first and foremost
- Haydn's career shows
- a combo of the patronage system and the concert system
- The single-line melodies of the early Christian Church are known as?
- Plainchant
- Name 4 of 7 main characters in movie
- Don Giovanni, Zerlina, Seporello, Donna Elvira
- Which is true of the style periods of Beethoven?
- They progress from Classical to heroic to serence
- What happens to Don Giovanni at the end?
- He goes to hell
- Handel composed most of his operas and oratorios in?
- England
- Which dance movement survived into the Classicl era?
- the minuet
- How many movements does a typical concerto have?
- three
- Which is ture of the key in which the 2nd theme is heard in the exposition?
- The 2nd theme is heard in 2nd key, to which the music has modulated during the bridge section
- With which genre is beethoven most closely associated?
- symphony
- The 1st movement of multimovement words from the Classical era are in ?
- sonata form
- Which characterizes Beethoven's personality?
- brusque and strong willed
- Which is true of most of Haydn's symphonies?
- include simle, cheerful melodies
- Most of the music of medieval times was preserved for us in musical notation that was written down by?
- members of religious orders
- A late eighteenth century work in sonata form that starts in the key of C major will end in the key oof?
- C major
- Which is not a feature of Beethoven's symphonic compositional style?
- disregard for Classical form
- Which of the following is true of the way Classical omposers wrote for the string quartet?
- All 4 parts were interdependent, each reacting to musical gestures by the others
- The 2nd movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata NO. 31 in A-flat, Op.110, is in?
- scherzo form
- What keys are used during the development section in sonata form?
- many different keys
- "Viri Galilaei" would most likely have been used?
- at a royal coronation
- What was the fee Mozart recieved to write the opera?
- 100 ducats
- During the early Middle Ages, the institution(s) that preserved written records of its culture, including music, was/were the?
- Christian Church
- What are the main elements of teh exposition in sonata form>
- 1st theme, bridge, second theme, cadence theme
- Music is exclusively the art of ?
- sound in time
- Italian comic operal was called?
- opera buffa
- Which musical characterisc of Beethoven's symphonies is the most moving to the listener?
- psychological progression
- The 2nd movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 in G is in?
- double exposition form
- Which is not a medieval mode?
- Grecian
- Mozart's Piano concert No. 17 in G can be characterized as?
- delicate
- Beethoven's performing instrument was the?
- piano
- A coda?
- is a closing section of a movement
- In which language are dynamics generally described?
- Italian
- how much of the 1st movement of a symphony is generally repeated?
- the exposition w/out the slow intro
- Which describes the relatinoship between the soloist and the orcestra in the Classical concerto?
- The soloist and the orchestra were equally balanced in importance
- What is the form of the 3rd movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto NO. 17 in G?
- theme and variations form
- The essence of the text of "La guistizia" involves?
-
the encouragement of vengeance and justice
- the firt movement in most classical symphonies is generally?
- a moderate or fast movement in sonata form that sometimes has a slow introduction
- In a piece of music that can be diagrammed as ABA, the A indicates? the B indicates?
- Repetition; contrast
- The major genre developed by Classical composers is the?
- symphony
- Which is not a genre?
- Rondo
- Which is considered to be the most widely used form developed in the Classical era?
- sonata form
- The individual style of a particular composer is described in terms of?
- the way the composer handles musical elements
- Where did the string quartet not perform in the Classical era?
- large concert halls
- In double exposition form?
- the first exposition does not modulate, but the second one does
- The 2nd movement of Symp. No. 88 in G shows Haydn's gift for presenting?
- natural, simple, beautiful melodies
- Which describes the struggle involved in the psychological progression of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?
- There is no break between the third and fourth movements
- The country that led the way in eighteenth-century comic opera was?
- Italy
- From what condition did Beethoven suffer?
- deafness
- The 2nd movement in most Classical symphonies is generally?
- a slow movement with beautiful, relaxing melodies
- Handel's "Glory to God" is a(n)?
- chorus
- The string quartet has as many movements as the?
- symphony
- Which best describe Beethoven's character as relfected in his music?
- heroic, striving, and triumphant
- What month and year did opera premier?
- October 1787
- Which is not a Baroque variation form?
- bourree
- The only one of Mozart's operas to be a success during his lifetime was?
- The Magic Flute
- Another term for tone color is?
- timbre
- In sonata form, the bridge
- restates earlier themes in the tonic key
- Our perception of high, low, and medium pitched sounds stems from?
- the range of the human voice
- What kind of operatic genre is the opera?
- "dramma giocoso" or "light hearted drama"
- In a recitative, the rhythm?
- follows the words
- The broad term for the way music functions in time is>?
- rhythm
- A fast, triple meter movement that evolved from the minuet is called a ?
- scherzo
- Which describes the early nineteenthy century concept of the artist as personified in Beethoven?
- an inspired soul who suffers to deliver art to humanity
- Which instruments are not heard until the fourth movement of beethoven's Symphony No. 5?
- trombones
- Handel's most famous oratorio, which is frequently performed today is?
- Messiah
- Music scholars divide Beethoven's music into what style periods?
- Three
- Beethoven composed mostly what in his last style period?
- piano sonatas and string quartets
- How many movements does a Classical sonata generally have?
- three
- The English word for scherzo is?
- "joke"
- The 1st movement of Mozart's piano Sonata in B-flat, K 570, is?
- in ABCA' coda form
- the form developed by Mozart for the first movement of a concert is called?
- double exposition form
- In a Classical conerto, there is no
- minuet movement
- In the final section of the first movement of a Classical concerto, the solist improvises a solo passage called a?
- cadenza
- The shape, arrangement, relationship, or organization of elements in disciplines such as poetry, visual arts, and music is called?
- form
- Many Baroque operals deal with ancient? whereas oratorios deal with ancient?
- Rome; Israel