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- Classicism, as a stylistic period in western art music, roughly encompassed they years
- 1750-1820
- The preclassical period roughly encompassed the years
- 1730-1770
- The fully develooped classical style in music flourished during the period
- 1770-1820
- Which of the following statements is not true of the classical period
- philosophers and writers in the classical period believed that custom and trdiotion, rather than reason, were the best guides to human conduct
- carl phillip emanuel bach and ____ were two of the more important preclasical composers
- Johann Christian Bach
- Which of the following composers is not considered master of the classical period?
- Johann Christian Bach
- Which of the following is no true?
- composers in the classical period continued to use terraced dynamics in their composition
- Which of the following characteristics is not typical of the musi of the clasical period?
- classical music is basically polyphonic
- Which of the following statements is not true of the music of the classical period?
- the bsso continuo was the nucleus of the instrumental ensemble
- Mozart and Beethoven number of concertos for their favorite solo instrumen, the
- piano
- A typical sequence of movements in a classical concerto is
- fast, slow, fast
- The first movement of a classical concerto
- has 2 expositions
- The classical concerto differs from the symphoy in that it does not have a ________ movement.
- minuet or scherzo
- A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performer\'s virtuosity
- cadenza
- The first movement nd sometimes in the last movement of a classical concerto there is a special unaccompanied showpiece for the soloist, the
- cadenza
- A pause in the score of a concerto is indicted by
- fermata
- classical chamber music is designed
- for the intimate settin of a small room
- the most important form of classical chamber music is the
- string quartet
- A major factor that distinguishes chamber music from the symphony or concerto is that chamber music from the symphony or concerto is that chamber music
- is performed by one player per part
- the lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the
- second
- Unlike the other movements in the symphony, the ______ movement is generally not in the tonic key
- second
- The slow movement of a classical symphony
- is generally not in the tonic key
- The last movement of a classical symphony
- is all of the above
- Unity is achieved in the classical symphony partly by the use of the same
- key in 3 of its four movements
- A symphony is unified partly by the use of the same
- key in 3 of its movements
- A concerto is a large-scale work in several movements for
- an instrumental soloist and orchestra
- A classical concerto is a 3 movemnt work for
- instrumental soloist and orchestra
- Which of the following statements is not true
- a typical sequence of movements ina classical concerto is fast, slow, dance-related, fast
- The favored solo instrument in the classical concerto was the
- piano
- Which of the following statements is not true?
- the character of the minuet is best described as brisk and lively
- In many of Beethoven\'s works, there is a ________ movement instead of the minuet
- scherzo
- The scherzo differs from the minuet in that is
- moves more quickly
- A ____________ is a musical composition that is usually light in mood, and meant for evening entertainmnet
- serenade
- The double bass in the classical orchestra, as in Mozart\'s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, usually
- doubles he cello part an octave lower
- Typical in classical music, the string bass part in Mozart\'s Eine kleine Nachtmusik
- sounds an octave lower than the cello part
- The rondo may be schematically
- ABACABA
- A common rondo pattern is
- ABACA
- Another common rondo patter is
- ABACABA
- The return of the main theme in rondo form is all the more welcome because it is usually
- in the tonic key
- The sonata-rondo
- all of the above
- The main theme of the rondo
- is usually in the tonic key
- At the end of a classical exposition there usually is a
- repeat sign
- A transitional pasage that leads to a contrasting section is called a
- bridge
- A modulation from the home key to a new key in the exposition of a sonata form movement takes place in the
- bridge
- A feeling of harmonic tension and forward motion
- the conflict of tonalities between the first and second themes
- Short musical ideas or fragments f themes that are developed within a composition are called
- motives
- The 3 main sections of a sonata-form movement are often followed by a concluding section known as the
- coda
- Sonata form should be viewed as
- a set of principles that serve to shape and unify contrasts of them and key
- Each successive variation in a theme with variations
- retain some elements of the theme
- Theme-and-variations form may be schematically outlined as
- AA\'A\"A\"\'A\"\"