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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A a freelance musician.
B an equal by his employer.
C a visiting guest composer.
D a skilled servant.
Question #2
A Stefanházy.
B Liszt.
C Esterházy.
D Kadar.
Question #3
A piano and two violins.
B violin, cello, and piano.
C violin, piano, and continuo.
D three pianos.
Question #4
A All answers are correct.
B violin, guitar, viola, and cello.
C two violins, viola, and cello.
D violin, viola, cello, and bass.
Question #5
A usually consists of four movements.
B is the most important form in classical chamber music.
C is written for two violins, viola, and cello.
D All answers are correct.
Question #6
A does not have a development section.
B has two expositions.
C is in the same form as a classical symphony.
D is usually a long cadenza.
Question #7
A vocal soloist and orchestra.
B instrumental soloist and piano.
C symphonic orchestra.
D instrumental soloist and orchestra.
Question #8
A All answers are correct.
B is always in the tonic key of the symphony.
C is usually fast, lively, and brilliant, but somewhat lighter in mood than the opening movement.
D is most often in sonata or sonata-rondo form.
Question #9
A is generally not in the tonic key.
B All answers are correct.
C tends to be more heroic and triumphant in character.
D is usually in theme and variations form.
Question #10
A rondo
B sonata
C minuet
D ABA
Question #11
A is usually slow and dignified.
B returns only once in the movement.
C is usually in the tonic key.
D seldom ends the movement.
Question #12
A All answers are correct.
B combines rondo form with elements of sonata form.
C may be outlined as ABA-development section-ABA.
D usually has a lively, pleasing, and simple to remember theme.
Question #13
A play the written part an octave higher.
B return to the beginning of the piece and repeat the music.
C play extremely quietly.
D look at the conductor.
Question #14
A ritornello
B scherzo
C fugato
D presto
Question #15
A brisk and lively.
B stately and dignified.
C heavy and ponderous.
D quiet and relaxed.
Question #16
A ABA
B AABB
C AA’A”A”’A””
D ABACABA
Question #17
A retains some elements of the theme.
B is usually in the same key.
C is usually in a new key.
D presents a new melodic idea.
Question #18
A melodies.
B rides.
C codas.
D motives.
Question #19
A retaining the same tonality for both themes.
B changing the meter of the second theme.
C the introduction of a new theme in the bridge.
D the conflict of tonalities between the first and second themes.
Question #20
A coda.
B theme.
C motive.
D bridge.
Question #21
A the closing section is in the tonic key.
B the second theme is in a new key.
C a new theme is presented in the bridge.
D there is no second theme.
Question #22
A the closing theme is in the tonic key.
B a new theme is always presented in the bridge.
C the second theme is in a new key.
D a new meter enters with the second theme.
Question #23
A recapitulation.
B motives.
C introduction.
D transition.
Question #24
A Exposition
B Development
C Recapitulation
D Rondo
Question #25
A final fast
B first
C slow
D All answers are correct.
Question #26
A writing dance music for public balls.
B flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music.
C writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy.
D All answers are correct.
Question #27
A was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire.
B All answers are correct.
C had a population of almost 250,000.
D was the fourth-largest city in Europe.
Question #28
A a freelance musician.
B a visiting guest composer.
C an equal by his employer.
D a skilled servant.
Question #29
A as a professional free-lance musician.
B as an independently wealthy composer.
C as a church musician and organist.
D serving a wealthy aristocratic family.
Question #30
A theater.
B literature.
C All answers are correct.
D music.
Question #31
A All answers are correct.
B folk and popular music.
C elaborately ornamented improvisational melodies.
D heroic and mythological plots.
Question #32
A church.
B colonial powers.
C military-industrial complex.
D military.
Question #33
A a limited sociological factor.
B ruthlessly stamped out by the aristocracy.
C promoted and encouraged by the church.
D an important factor in the rise of the middle class.
Question #34
A short-long-short
B long-long-short
C short-short-long
D short-short-short-long
Question #35
A work for piano solo.
B work for solo instrument.
C sonata for orchestra.
D work for chorus and orchestra.
Question #36
A Fidelio.
B Don Giovanni.
C The Magic Flute.
D Madame Butterfly.
Question #37
A the first musician to incorporate folk tunes into serious compositions.
B the bridge between the classical and romantic periods.
C the inventor of the symphony.
D the pioneer of light classical music.
Question #38
A Basso continuo
B Fugal counterpoint
C Operatic form
D Monophony
Question #39
A All answers are correct.
B Missa solemnis
C the Ninth Symphony.
D string quartets.
Question #40
A began to feel the first symptoms of deafness in his twenty-ninth year.
B All answers are correct.
C was a brilliant pianist.
D was self-educated and had read widely, but was weak in elementary arithmetic.
Question #41
A Trombones
B Horns
C Trumpets
D Timpani
Question #42
A Sir John Falstaff.
B a despotic Italian nobleman.
C the legendary Spanish lover.
D the servant to Leporello.
Question #43
A Don Giovanni
B Orfeo
C Cos” fan tutte
D The Marriage of Figaro
Question #44
A as an exercise for his composition teacher.
B on commission from a stranger.
C to help his pupil Süssmayr.
D for his own funeral.
Question #45
A Salzburg
B Paris
C London
D Vienna
Question #46
A went to Vienna to study with Haydn.
B received an excellent formal education in Salzburg.
C was continually on tour in England and Europe.
D played in the archbishop’s orchestra in Salzburg.
Question #47
A Bonn, Germany.
B Salzburg, Austria.
C Eisenach, Germany.
D Rohrau, Austria.
Question #48
A serenades
B baryton trios
C operas
D string quartets
Question #49
A a loose ensemble of available instruments.
B strings, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani.
C woodwinds, trombones, drums, and strings.
D strings with harpsichord continuo.
Question #50
A 1820-1900.
B 1600-1750.
C 1450-1600.
D 1750-1820.