Music Exam 2
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- A Vivaldi concerto usually has how many movements?
- three
- Sets of dance-inspired instrumental movements are called what?
- suites
- Unlike other movements in the symphony, the ____ movement is generall NOT in the tonic key.
- Slow
- Which is not true of the minuet?
- Presto Tempo
- In the recapitulation of a sonata-form movement, ___________.
- all themes are in the tonic key.
- Sonata form is used frequently as the ____ movemenet of a symphony.
- first
- A classical concerto is a 3-movement work for who?
- instrumental soloist and orchestra
- The _____ is a Lutheran hymn tune.
- chorale
- J.S. Bach created masterpieces in every Baroque form except
- opera
- The two giants of Baroque composition were
- Bach and Handel
- Handel spent the major portion of his life in
- England
- A bass part together with numbers that specify the chords to be played above it is called
- basso continuo
- The main keyboard instruments used during the Baroque were
- organ and harpsichord
- Within the same movement, a Baroque musical composition usually expresses
- one basic mood
- The composer whose career and musical style was a model for many romantic era composers was
- Beethoven
- A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is a (an)
- etude
- The section often added on to the end of a piece is called
- coda
- Instrumental music written for its own sake, and for which the composer did not intend a program, is called
- absolute music
- A symphony is a ________work for orchestra.
- four movement work for orchestra
- "Terraced" dynamics refers to
- the sudden change from one dynamic level to another
- The position of a Baroque period composer was that of
- a high class servant
- Sonata form's three main sections are
- exposition, development, recapitulation
- Short musical fragments of themes, containing just a few notes, are called
- motives
- A piano sonata is a musical composition in two or more movements for how many players?
- one player
- A polyphonic composition based on one main theme called a "subject" is the
- fugue
- In Beethoven's 5th Symphony, a _______ is used instead of the minuet.
- scherzo
- The usual order of movements in a classical syphony is
- fast, slow, dance, fast
- An art song, or "lied" in German, is a musical composition for who?
- solo voice and piano
- A choral work with orchestra performed in church services is
- cantata
- Oratorios differ from operas in that they contain no
- scenery and costumes
- Which of the following is NOT part of a sonata form movement?
- rondo
- Dance movements called ______ often appear in classical symphonies.
- minuets
- The piano's relentless rhythm in "Erlkonig" suggests the
- galloping of the horse
- The orchestra in the Romantic period had how many players?
- 60-100
- A ____________ is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
- program symphony
- A slow, lyrical composition for piano is a (an)
- nocturne
- The first movement of a classical symphony is usually fast and in _______ form.
- sonata
- The rondo may be schematically outlined as
- A B A C A
- The second movement of Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" is in
- themes and variations form
- Program music is
- instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene
- Composers expressed nationalism in their music by
- basing their music on the folk songs of their country
- Schubert's song "Erlkonig" is set to a poem by
- Goethe
- A large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists and orchestra NOT usually heard in a regular church service is
- oratorio
- A section of music that sounds complete but is part of a larger composition is called a
- movement
- A _____________ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
- tone poem
- Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique" is unified by the recurrence of a theme called a (an)
- "idee fixe"
- The piece by Smetana that depicts Bohemia's main river is the
- Moldau
- A slight slowing down or speeding up of the tempo is called
- rubato
- In Puccini's "La Boheme," the character Rodolfo is a young
- poet