Music Test
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- An unaccompanied showpiece for the concerto's soloist is known as a
- True
- The function of the recapitulation section is to stabilize and resolve the tension created by the exposition.
- Classical
- Attempt to reclaim the noble simplicity and calm grandeur of ancient Greece and Rome
- stately and dignified
- The character of the minuet is best described as
- True
- Beethoven's symphonies were conceived for performances in large concert halls
- minuet or scherzo movement
- The symphonic movement usually lacking in the concerto is the
- True
- Melodies tend to be balanced and symmetrical in classical style music.
- The Esterházy estate included
- an opera house, theater, and two concert halls
- False
- A composer must use an original (rather than borrowed) theme for a theme and variations form.
- violin, cello, and piano
- The piano trio is a composition for
- True
- During the baroque period, the trio was usually played by three instruments
- True
- The middle class organized public concerts in the classical period
- instrumental soloist and orchestra
- The classical concerto is a three-movement work for
- False
- Orfeo is one of Mozart's Italian opera masterpieces
- True
- Beethoven was a perfectionist who constantly revised his ideas.
- True
- The theme can be repeated in a different voice, such as the bass.
- False
- Beethoven's decision to be a freelance musician was a commercial failure
- False
- The components of sonata form happen in the following order: exposition, coda, recapitulation, and development.
- True
- A symphony usually lasts between 20 and 45 minutes
- Schiller's Ode to Joy.
- The chorale finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is based on
- development
- Beethoven greatly expanded the __________section of the sonata-form movement and made it even more dramatic
- Baroque
- A complex mixture of rationalism, sensuality, materialism, and spirituality
- A Skilled servant
- Haydn's contract of employment shows that he was considered
- finale
- Because of its character, the rondo most often serves as a
- By the age of six, Mozart was able to
- play the harpsichord and violin, improvise fugues and write minuets, and sightread music perfectly
- True
- Beethoven was born in Bonn, but spent most of his life in Vienna.
- True
- A string quintet consists of two violins, two violas, and cello
- Haydn's duties while in the service of the Esterházys included
- composing all the music requested by his patron, conducting the orchestra of about 25 player, and coaching the singers for operatic performances
- ridiculed the aristocracy
- In the classical period, comic operas sometimes
- True
- Twentieth-century composers such as Stravinsky and Schoenberg composed rondos.
- has two expositions
- The first movement of a classical concerto
- False
- Music in the classical style carefully avoids contrast within themes.
- True
- Mozart's decision to be a freelance musician was a commercial failure.
- string quartets
- Along with his symphonies, Haydn's ___________ are considered his most important works.
- False
- The first exposition is usually the soloist's exposition
- sonata
- The first movement of a classical symphony is almost always in __________ form.
- Vienna in 1800
- was the fourth largest city in Europe, had a population of almost 250,000, and was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire
- False
- Cadenzas were played with orchestral accompaniment.
- False
- Beethoven wrote at least 104 symphonies
- False
- The main theme returns most often in a different key.
- True
- Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria
- True
- Unexpected pauses and syncopations are characteristic of classical style music.
- string quartets
- Beethoven's sixteen ___________ are generally considered among the best music ever composed
- fast, slow, minuet or scherzo, fast
- The usual order of movements in a classical string quartet is
- In the classical period, demand increased among the public for
- printed music, musical intstruments, and music lessons
- retains some element of the theme.
- Each successive variation in a theme and variations form
- second
- The __________ movement of Haydn's Surprise Symphony is in theme and variations form
- True
- Crescendos and decrescendos were so surprising to audiences used to terraced dynamics that they sometimes rose from their seats
- True
- Haydn was born in a tiny Austrian village
- True
- Mozart's Symphony No. 40 is one of his last three symphonies.
- as late as the twentieth century
- The rondo was used
- the same key in at least three of its movements
- The symphony is often unified by
- True
- The minuet and trio is characterized by a moderate tempo
- False- The development section creates drama and tension.
- The function of the development section is to stabilize and resolve the tension created by the exposition.
- enabled him to study and master the Italian operatic style
- Mozart's trips to Italy
- Missa Solemnis
- Beethoven's greatest liturgical music is to be found in his
- False
- Beethoven was born deaf.
- False- it means joke
- The term scherzo means dance
- False
- Variations are always separated by pauses.
- True
- A theme in a major key can be repeated in a minor key.
- True
- Mozart's finest German opera was The Magic Flute
- False
- Haydn composed many string quartets and symphonies, but no oratorios
- True
- A chamber group usually consists of between two to nine players.
- ABACA
- A common rondo pattern is
- First
- Sonata form is used most frequently as the __________ movement of a work.
- True
- Motives are short musical ideas
- False
- The coda repeats but never develops thematic material
- for the intimate setting of a small room.
- Classical chamber music is designed
- Sonata form should be viewed as
- stylistic structure which invites both order and flexibility.
- piano
- The favored solo instrument in the classical concerto was the
- True
- Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major was scored for orchestra without timpani or trumpets
- False
- The most important goal with theme and variations form is to hide the theme so that listeners do not hear it.
- Changes in the theme can include
- melodic, harmonic, & rhythmic variation
- There are few changes in texture and orchestration
- Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Haydn's music?
- True
- The term da capo means from the beginning
- True
- The classical orchestra was larger than the baroque orchestra.
- Beethoven's late works, composed after he was totally deaf, include
- piano sonatas,string quartets, and the Ninth Symphony
- True
- Haydn influenced both Mozart and Beethoven
- Symphony may be defined as
- a composition for orchestra, an ambitious, emotional composition, and an extended work, usually in four movements
- ABACABA.
- Another common rondo pattern is
- True
- Haydn hated arbitrary rules and once said, "art is free."
- divertimento & serenade
- popular Viennese outdoor entertainment piece was often called
- False
- The rondo is only used as a movement in a multi-movement work; never as an independent work.
- True
- The concerto form appeals to the classical love of contrast and balance.
- In the exposition of a sonata-form movement
- the second theme is in a new key
- True
- J. C. Bach, one of J. S. Bach's sons, organized a concert series in London.
- Classical .
- Age of Enlightenment
- True
- Mozart and Haydn generally used the minuet and trio for their third movements, but Beethoven preferred the more energetic scherzo.
- fast, slow, dance-related, fast.
- The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is
- third
- The minuet is generally the __________ movement of a classical symphony.
- False
- The concerto has three expositions: one for the soloist, another for the orchestra, and a third for both together
- False
- The scherzo differs from the minuet in that it is in duple meter
- servant
- In Haydn's employment with the Esterházys, he was considered a
- False
- The importance of the symphony waned after the classical period
- ABA
- The minuet and trio movement may be outlined as
- True
- Fidelio was Beethoven's only opera.
- a borrowed tune & a simple waltz tune
- Beethoven's famed Diabelli Variations are thirty-three variations on
- dance at the French court of Louis XIV
- The minuet first appeared around 1650 as a/n
- False
- Haydn and Mozart never met.
- True
- Cadenzas were generally improvised in the classical period
- Classical
- Emphasis on balance and structural clarity.
- slow movement
- ABA form is typical of the minuet movement and is also common in the
- two violins, viola, and cello
- The classical string quartet is a composition for
- repeat sign
- At the end of a classical exposition there usually is a
- True
- Late in life, Haydn was honored and given celebrity status in London
- False
- Beethoven served a patron just as Haydn did: he lived on his patron's estate and composed music at the patron's whim.
- True
- Rondo and sonata forms are often combined in a form known as sonata-rondo.
- In a recapitulation of a sonata-form movement
- all the principal material is in the tonic key.
- False
- The conductor plays a particularly important role in a chamber music ensemble
- False
- Aristocrats generally did not take part in performing chamber ensembles, thinking the activity "below" them.
- is usually in the tonic key.
- The main theme of the rondo
- was continually on tour in England and Europe
- Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart
- scherzo
- Many of Beethoven's works have a __________ instead of a minuet and trio.
- string quartet
- The most important form of classical chamber music is the
- A1 A2 A3 A4.
- Theme and variations form may be schematically outlined as
- False
- Chamber music usually features simple music that is easy to perform.
- Baroque
- Basso continuo as the nucleus of the instrumental ensemble
- finished by one of his pupils
- Mozart's Requiem was
- the legendary Spanish lover
- Don Giovanni, in Mozart's opera of that name, is
- True
- The main theme of a rondo is usually lively and simple.