Mul 2010 Midterm 2
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- The very beginning of the first movement of a classical concerto always starts with:
- B – Orchestra alone
- Mozart is remembered today as:
- B – The most gifted child prodigy in the history of music
- Beethoven’s own instrument for which he wrote numerous concertos and sonatas, was
- A – The Piano
- The classical period in music ranged from approximately:
- D – 1750-1825
- Haydn’s Surprise Symphony was composed for this trip to which city?
- D – London
- in the classical orchestra, which group of instruments served as the ensemble of nucleus?
- B – Strings
- Which trait does not apply to Opera Buffa?
- A – It was opera for the aristocracy
- A string quartet consists of?
- D – 2 violins, viola, and cello
- The composer generally credited with transforming the classical style into the romantic
- C Beethoven
- The first movement of a classical concerto features sonata-allegro form with
- A – a double exposition
- Who was Haydn’s principal patron
- C – Prince EsterHazy
- The number of players in the classical orchestra was typically around
- B – 25-50
- The tree main sections of sonata allegro from are the exposition, development , and
- B - recapitulation
- The instrument which Mozart played and for which he wrote many concertos was
- C – the piano
- The first movement of a symphony is usually in
- A – sonata allegro form
- Music for a small ensemble of two to about ten players with one player to a part is called
- B – chamber music
- who was not a master of the Viennese Classical style
- C – JS Bach
- a typical feature of a concerto is a free solo passage without orchestral accompaniment called
- C - Cadenza
- which best describes the form of the first movement of Mozart’s little night musc?
- A – sonata-allegro
- in the classical multi-movement cycle, the third movement is usually in
- D – minuet and trio form
- Beethoven suffered perhaps the most traumatic of all maladies of musician what was it?
- B - deafness
- the third movement of a symphony is usually in _________ form
- C – Minuet& trio
- What is unusual about Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 when compared to earlier classica symp?
- B – there is no break between the thir and fourth movements
- in the classical era, an “Alberti bass†is
- C – A kind of accompaniment pattern
- what is the function of the transition in sonata-allegro form
- B – to modulate to a new theme
- which best describes Beethoven:
- C – a transitional composer whose early works reflected many classical elements and who later works led the way to romanticism
- W.A. Mozart’s greatest opera was:
- C – Don Giovanni
- 28 shortly after Beethoven arrived in Vienna, he earned money by
- A – Playing piano
- a coda is
- A – a small ending added to a movement
- Beethoven’s Eroca symphony is famous for
- D – all of these
- 31 Beethoven’s career can be divided into
- B – three style periods
- classical phrase structure often involves phrases that are
- D – all of these
- Hayden considered himself to be an artists who was superior to his employers
- false
- Music of the classical era is characterized by simple, lyrical melodies
- true
- Mozart wrote his piano concertos primarily for his own public performances
- true
- the classical era attitude toward art was strongly influenced by the Ancient Greeks
- true
- The classical period has been called the “Age of Reasonâ€
- true
- the Heiligenstadt testament is Hayden’s only opera
- false
- Beethoven’s last works were well loved for their simple tunes
- false
- at the time of his death, Mozart was employed by the emperor of Austria
- false