Quiz 4 The Classical Period

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Question #1

Haydn’s contract of employment shows that he was considered

A a visiting guest composer.

B an equal by his employer.

C a skilled servant.

D a freelance musician.

Question #2

Haydn was fortunate in having a long and fruitful, as well as financially stable, relationship with the noble Hungarian family of

A Kadar.

B Esterházy.

C Stefanházy.

D Liszt.

Question #3

The piano trio is a musical composition for

A three pianos.

B piano and two violins.

C violin, cello, and piano.

D violin, piano, and continuo.

Question #4

The classical string quartet is a musical composition for

A two violins, viola, and cello.

B violin, guitar, viola, and cello.

C violin, viola, cello, and bass.

D All answers are correct.

Question #5

The string quartet

A is the most important form in classical chamber music.

B usually consists of four movements.

C All answers are correct.

D is written for two violins, viola, and cello.

Question #6

The first movement of a classical concerto

A does not have a development section.

B is usually a long cadenza.

C has two expositions.

D is in the same form as a classical symphony.

Question #7

A classical concerto is a three-movement work for

A vocal soloist and orchestra.

B symphonic orchestra.

C instrumental soloist and orchestra.

D instrumental soloist and piano.

Question #8

The last movement of a classical symphony

A is most often in sonata or sonata-rondo form.

B is usually fast, lively, and brilliant, but somewhat lighter in mood than the opening movement.

C All answers are correct.

D is always in the tonic key of the symphony.

Question #9

The slow movement of a classical symphony

A is usually in theme and variations form.

B All answers are correct.

C tends to be more heroic and triumphant in character.

D is generally not in the tonic key.

Question #10

The first movement of a classical symphony is almost always fast, and in _____ form.

A ABA

B minuet

C sonata

D rondo

Question #11

The main theme of the rondo

A seldom ends the movement.

B is usually in the tonic key.

C is usually slow and dignified.

D returns only once in the movement.

Question #12

The sonata-rondo

A combines rondo form with elements of sonata form.

B may be outlined as ABA-development section-ABA.

C All answers are correct.

D usually has a lively, pleasing, and simple to remember theme.

Question #13

When performers encounter the phrase, da capo, they

A look at the conductor.

B play extremely quietly.

C return to the beginning of the piece and repeat the music.

D play the written part an octave higher.

Question #14

In many of Beethoven’s works, there is a _______ movement instead of the minuet.

A scherzo

B presto

C ritornello

D fugato

Question #15

The character of the minuet is best described as

A heavy and ponderous.

B quiet and relaxed.

C stately and dignified.

D brisk and lively.

Question #16

The minuet-and-trio movement of a classical symphony, string quartet, or other work, is in ____________ form.

A AA’A”A”’A””

B ABACABA

C ABA

D AABB

Question #17

Each successive variation in a theme with variations

A is usually in a new key.

B is usually in the same key.

C presents a new melodic idea.

D retains some elements of the theme.

Question #18

Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are called

A rides.

B motives.

C codas.

D melodies.

Question #19

A feeling of harmonic tension and forward motion is created in the exposition of a sonata form movement by

A changing the meter of the second theme.

B the introduction of a new theme in the bridge.

C the conflict of tonalities between the first and second themes.

D retaining the same tonality for both themes.

Question #20

A modulation from the home key to a new key in the exposition of a sonata form movement takes place in the

A theme.

B motive.

C coda.

D bridge.

Question #21

In the recapitulation of a sonata-form movement

A a new theme is presented in the bridge.

B the closing section is in the tonic key.

C the second theme is in a new key.

D there is no second theme.

Question #22

In the exposition of a sonata-form movement

A a new meter enters with the second theme.

B the second theme is in a new key.

C the closing theme is in the tonic key.

D a new theme is always presented in the bridge.

Question #23

Sonata form consists of three main sections: exposition, development, and

A motives.

B transition.

C introduction.

D recapitulation.

Question #24

Which of the following is not part of a sonata form movement?

A Development

B Rondo

C Recapitulation

D Exposition

Question #25

Sonata form is used frequently as the form for the ________ movement of a multimovement work.

A first

B final fast

C slow

D All answers are correct.

Question #26

Composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by

A writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy.

B flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music.

C writing dance music for public balls.

D All answers are correct.

Question #27

Vienna, when Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were active,

A was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire.

B had a population of almost 250,000.

C was the fourth-largest city in Europe.

D All answers are correct.

Question #28

Haydn’s contract of employment shows that he was considered

A an equal by his employer.

B a visiting guest composer.

C a skilled servant.

D a freelance musician.

Question #29

Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life

A as a church musician and organist.

B as a professional free-lance musician.

C as an independently wealthy composer.

D serving a wealthy aristocratic family.

Question #30

The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as

A music.

B All answers are correct.

C theater.

D literature.

Question #31

In the classical period, serious composition was flavored by

A heroic and mythological plots.

B All answers are correct.

C folk and popular music.

D elaborately ornamented improvisational melodies.

Question #32

Political and economic power shifted to the middle class from the aristocracy and the

A military-industrial complex.

B colonial powers.

C church.

D military.

Question #33

Social mobility during the classical period was

A an important factor in the rise of the middle class.

B a limited sociological factor.

C ruthlessly stamped out by the aristocracy.

D promoted and encouraged by the church.

Question #34

The opening motive of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 has a ____________ rhythm.

A short-long-short

B short-short-long

C short-short-short-long

D long-long-short

Question #35

A symphony is a

A work for solo instrument.

B sonata for orchestra.

C work for piano solo.

D work for chorus and orchestra.

Question #36

Beethoven’s only opera is entitled

A Madame Butterfly.

B Fidelio.

C Don Giovanni.

D The Magic Flute.

Question #37

Beethoven is often credited as being

A the pioneer of light classical music.

B the bridge between the classical and romantic periods.

C the inventor of the symphony.

D the first musician to incorporate folk tunes into serious compositions.

Question #38

What following technique did Beethoven use more extensively in his late works?

A Basso continuo

B Operatic form

C Monophony

D Fugal counterpoint

Question #39

Beethoven’s late works, composed after he was totally deaf, include

A the Ninth Symphony.

B string quartets.

C Missa solemnis

D All answers are correct.

Question #40

Beethoven

A was a brilliant pianist.

B began to feel the first symptoms of deafness in his twenty-ninth year.

C was self-educated and had read widely, but was weak in elementary arithmetic.

D All answers are correct.

Question #41

Which of the following instruments were not normally included in the classical orchestra?

A Trumpets

B Trombones

C Horns

D Timpani

Question #42

Don Giovanni, in Mozart’s opera of that name, is

A Sir John Falstaff.

B the servant to Leporello.

C a despotic Italian nobleman.

D the legendary Spanish lover.

Question #43

Which of the following is not one of Mozart’s three masterpieces of Italian opera?

A Orfeo

B Don Giovanni

C Cos” fan tutte

D The Marriage of Figaro

Question #44

Mozart composed his Requiem

A as an exercise for his composition teacher.

B to help his pupil Süssmayr.

C on commission from a stranger.

D for his own funeral.

Question #45

Mozart tried to find fame and fortune by moving to _________, at the age of twenty-five.

A Salzburg

B London

C Vienna

D Paris

Question #46

Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart

A received an excellent formal education in Salzburg.

B played in the archbishop’s orchestra in Salzburg.

C was continually on tour in England and Europe.

D went to Vienna to study with Haydn.

Question #47

Mozart was born in

A Bonn, Germany.

B Eisenach, Germany.

C Salzburg, Austria.

D Rohrau, Austria.

Question #48

Along with his symphonies, Haydn’s ___________ are considered his most important works.

A string quartets

B serenades

C operas

D baryton trios

Question #49

The typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of

A woodwinds, trombones, drums, and strings.

B strings, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani.

C strings with harpsichord continuo.

D a loose ensemble of available instruments.

Question #50

Classicism, as a stylistic period in western music, roughly encompassed the years

A 1820-1900.

B 1600-1750.

C 1450-1600.

D 1750-1820.

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