Quiz 4 The Classical Period

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Question #1

Haydn’s contract of employment shows that he was considered

A an equal by his employer.

B a skilled servant.

C a visiting guest composer.

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 Stefanházy.

B Liszt.

C Esterházy.

D Kadar.

Question #3

The piano trio is a musical composition for

A violin, cello, and piano.

B three pianos.

C piano and two violins.

D violin, piano, and continuo.

Question #4

The classical string quartet is a musical composition for

A violin, viola, cello, and bass.

B violin, guitar, viola, and cello.

C two violins, viola, and cello.

D All answers are correct.

Question #5

The string quartet

A All answers are correct.

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

C usually consists of four movements.

D is the most important form in classical chamber music.

Question #6

The first movement of a classical concerto

A is usually a long cadenza.

B does not have a development section.

C is in the same form as a classical symphony.

D has two expositions.

Question #7

A classical concerto is a three-movement work for

A instrumental soloist and orchestra.

B instrumental soloist and piano.

C symphonic orchestra.

D vocal soloist and orchestra.

Question #8

The last movement of a classical symphony

A All answers are correct.

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

C is always in the tonic key of the symphony.

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

Question #9

The slow movement of a classical symphony

A is generally not in the tonic key.

B All answers are correct.

C is usually in theme and variations form.

D tends to be more heroic and triumphant in character.

Question #10

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

A ABA

B rondo

C minuet

D sonata

Question #11

The main theme of the rondo

A seldom ends the movement.

B is usually slow and dignified.

C is usually in the tonic key.

D returns only once in the movement.

Question #12

The sonata-rondo

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

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

C All answers are correct.

D combines rondo form with elements of sonata form.

Question #13

When performers encounter the phrase, da capo, they

A play extremely quietly.

B play the written part an octave higher.

C look at the conductor.

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

Question #14

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

A scherzo

B ritornello

C fugato

D presto

Question #15

The character of the minuet is best described as

A stately and dignified.

B heavy and ponderous.

C quiet and relaxed.

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 AABB

C ABACABA

D ABA

Question #17

Each successive variation in a theme with variations

A is usually in a new key.

B presents a new melodic idea.

C is usually in the same key.

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 codas.

B rides.

C melodies.

D motives.

Question #19

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

A the introduction of a new theme in the bridge.

B retaining the same tonality for both themes.

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

D changing the meter of the second theme.

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 bridge.

B coda.

C motive.

D theme.

Question #21

In the recapitulation of a sonata-form movement

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

In the exposition of a sonata-form movement

A a new theme is always presented in the bridge.

B the closing theme is in the tonic key.

C the second theme is in a new key.

D a new meter enters with the second theme.

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 Recapitulation

C Rondo

D Exposition

Question #25

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

A All answers are correct.

B first

C final fast

D slow

Question #26

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

A writing dance music for public balls.

B All answers are correct.

C writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy.

D flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music.

Question #27

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

A was the fourth-largest city in Europe.

B had a population of almost 250,000.

C was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire.

D All answers are correct.

Question #28

Haydn’s contract of employment shows that he was considered

A a freelance musician.

B a visiting guest composer.

C an equal by his employer.

D a skilled servant.

Question #29

Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life

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

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

A music.

B theater.

C All answers are correct.

D literature.

Question #31

In the classical period, serious composition was flavored by

A elaborately ornamented improvisational melodies.

B All answers are correct.

C heroic and mythological plots.

D folk and popular music.

Question #32

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

A colonial powers.

B military.

C military-industrial complex.

D church.

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-short-long

B short-short-short-long

C short-long-short

D long-long-short

Question #35

A symphony is a

A work for piano solo.

B work for solo instrument.

C sonata for orchestra.

D work for chorus and orchestra.

Question #36

Beethoven’s only opera is entitled

A Fidelio.

B The Magic Flute.

C Don Giovanni.

D Madame Butterfly.

Question #37

Beethoven is often credited as being

A the pioneer of light classical music.

B the inventor of the symphony.

C the bridge between the classical and romantic periods.

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 Fugal counterpoint

B Basso continuo

C Operatic form

D Monophony

Question #39

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

A Missa solemnis

B string quartets.

C All answers are correct.

D the Ninth Symphony.

Question #40

Beethoven

A was a brilliant pianist.

B All answers are correct.

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

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

Question #41

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

A Trumpets

B Horns

C Timpani

D Trombones

Question #42

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

A a despotic Italian nobleman.

B Sir John Falstaff.

C the servant to Leporello.

D the legendary Spanish lover.

Question #43

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

A Don Giovanni

B The Marriage of Figaro

C Cos” fan tutte

D Orfeo

Question #44

Mozart composed his Requiem

A on commission from a stranger.

B to help his pupil Süssmayr.

C as an exercise for his composition teacher.

D for his own funeral.

Question #45

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

A Vienna

B Salzburg

C London

D Paris

Question #46

Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart

A received an excellent formal education in Salzburg.

B went to Vienna to study with Haydn.

C was continually on tour in England and Europe.

D played in the archbishop’s orchestra in Salzburg.

Question #47

Mozart was born in

A Salzburg, Austria.

B Bonn, Germany.

C Eisenach, Germany.

D Rohrau, Austria.

Question #48

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

A string quartets

B operas

C serenades

D baryton trios

Question #49

The typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of

A a loose ensemble of available instruments.

B strings with harpsichord continuo.

C woodwinds, trombones, drums, and strings.

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

Question #50

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

A 1600-1750.

B 1450-1600.

C 1820-1900.

D 1750-1820.

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