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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A a freelance musician.
B a visiting guest composer.
C a skilled servant.
D an equal by his employer.
Question #2
A Kadar.
B Esterházy.
C Liszt.
D Stefanházy.
Question #3
A three pianos.
B violin, piano, and continuo.
C violin, cello, and piano.
D piano and two violins.
Question #4
A All answers are correct.
B violin, viola, cello, and bass.
C violin, guitar, viola, and cello.
D two violins, viola, and cello.
Question #5
A is the most important form in classical chamber music.
B is written for two violins, viola, and cello.
C usually consists of four movements.
D All answers are correct.
Question #6
A does not have a development section.
B is in the same form as a classical symphony.
C has two expositions.
D is usually a long cadenza.
Question #7
A symphonic orchestra.
B instrumental soloist and piano.
C vocal soloist and orchestra.
D instrumental soloist and orchestra.
Question #8
A All answers are correct.
B is usually fast, lively, and brilliant, but somewhat lighter in mood than the opening movement.
C is most often in sonata or sonata-rondo form.
D is always in the tonic key of the symphony.
Question #9
A tends to be more heroic and triumphant in character.
B All answers are correct.
C is generally not in the tonic key.
D is usually in theme and variations form.
Question #10
A ABA
B rondo
C minuet
D sonata
Question #11
A seldom ends the movement.
B returns only once in the movement.
C is usually slow and dignified.
D is usually in the tonic key.
Question #12
A combines rondo form with elements of sonata form.
B usually has a lively, pleasing, and simple to remember theme.
C All answers are correct.
D may be outlined as ABA-development section-ABA.
Question #13
A look at the conductor.
B play the written part an octave higher.
C play extremely quietly.
D return to the beginning of the piece and repeat the music.
Question #14
A ritornello
B presto
C fugato
D scherzo
Question #15
A heavy and ponderous.
B stately and dignified.
C brisk and lively.
D quiet and relaxed.
Question #16
A ABA
B AABB
C ABACABA
D AA’A”A”’A””
Question #17
A is usually in the same key.
B is usually in a new key.
C retains some elements of the theme.
D presents a new melodic idea.
Question #18
A motives.
B melodies.
C codas.
D rides.
Question #19
A changing the meter of the second theme.
B the conflict of tonalities between the first and second themes.
C the introduction of a new theme in the bridge.
D retaining the same tonality for both themes.
Question #20
A bridge.
B motive.
C coda.
D theme.
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 meter enters with the second theme.
C the second theme is in a new key.
D a new theme is always presented in the bridge.
Question #23
A introduction.
B transition.
C motives.
D recapitulation.
Question #24
A Recapitulation
B Rondo
C Development
D Exposition
Question #25
A final fast
B slow
C All answers are correct.
D first
Question #26
A flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music.
B writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy.
C All answers are correct.
D writing dance music for public balls.
Question #27
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
A a visiting guest composer.
B a skilled servant.
C a freelance musician.
D an equal by his employer.
Question #29
A as a church musician and organist.
B as an independently wealthy composer.
C serving a wealthy aristocratic family.
D as a professional free-lance musician.
Question #30
A literature.
B All answers are correct.
C theater.
D music.
Question #31
A heroic and mythological plots.
B All answers are correct.
C elaborately ornamented improvisational melodies.
D folk and popular music.
Question #32
A military-industrial complex.
B church.
C military.
D colonial powers.
Question #33
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
A short-short-long
B short-short-short-long
C short-long-short
D long-long-short
Question #35
A work for chorus and orchestra.
B work for piano solo.
C work for solo instrument.
D sonata for orchestra.
Question #36
A Don Giovanni.
B The Magic Flute.
C Madame Butterfly.
D Fidelio.
Question #37
A the first musician to incorporate folk tunes into serious compositions.
B the pioneer of light classical music.
C the bridge between the classical and romantic periods.
D the inventor of the symphony.
Question #38
A Fugal counterpoint
B Basso continuo
C Monophony
D Operatic form
Question #39
A Missa solemnis
B string quartets.
C All answers are correct.
D the Ninth Symphony.
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 Trumpets
B Trombones
C Horns
D Timpani
Question #42
A the legendary Spanish lover.
B Sir John Falstaff.
C a despotic Italian nobleman.
D the servant to Leporello.
Question #43
A The Marriage of Figaro
B Don Giovanni
C Cos” fan tutte
D Orfeo
Question #44
A for his own funeral.
B to help his pupil Süssmayr.
C on commission from a stranger.
D as an exercise for his composition teacher.
Question #45
A London
B Paris
C Vienna
D Salzburg
Question #46
A played in the archbishop’s orchestra in Salzburg.
B was continually on tour in England and Europe.
C received an excellent formal education in Salzburg.
D went to Vienna to study with Haydn.
Question #47
A Rohrau, Austria.
B Bonn, Germany.
C Salzburg, Austria.
D Eisenach, Germany.
Question #48
A operas
B serenades
C string quartets
D baryton trios
Question #49
A strings with harpsichord continuo.
B strings, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani.
C woodwinds, trombones, drums, and strings.
D a loose ensemble of available instruments.
Question #50
A 1750-1820.
B 1600-1750.
C 1820-1900.
D 1450-1600.