Category - Audio (2018-2020)

Question 1

Dec 2019 p, 43

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. composer: 2: Era:
3: Genre:
4: Musical texture demonstrated in this passage
5: Identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work.

Question 2

May 2020, p. 131

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title:
2. Composer
3. Era
4. Name the this movement:
5: Identify two specific musical features of this work.

Question 3

Dec 2019 p. 11

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title: 2: Era:
3: Musical texture demonstrated in this passage
4: Name the source of the text.
5: Identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work.

Question 4

Dec 2019, p.83

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title of complete work:
2. Composer:
3. Era:
4: Performing forces of this movement:
5: Identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work.

Question 5

Dec 2019, p.20

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title:
2. Era:
3: Genre:
4: This work is: (choose one)
heterophonic or isorhythmic or polytextual
5: Identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work.

Question 7

- Dec 2019, p. 83

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title of complete work:
2. composer:
3. Performing forces:
4: Name the musical texture demonstrated in this passage
5: Identify one poetic image in this movement and describe how it is depicted.
6. Identify one additional musical feature of this work.

Question 8

Dec 2019, p. 88

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. composer:
2. Era:
3. Name the form of this movement:
4: Name the solo instruments in this work.
_______ ________ ________ _________
5: Identify one specific musical features of this work.

Question 9

Dec 2019, p. 30

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. composer:
2. Era:
3. Name the form of this movement:
4: Name the solo instruments in this work.
_______ ________ ________ _________
5: Identify one specific musical features of this work.

Question 10

May 2020, p. 11

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title:
2. Composer
3. Era
4. Source of text:
5. Language:
6: Name the type of notation originally used for this work.

Question 11

May 2020, p. 60

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Era:
4. Form:
5. Name the mode of this work.
6: Name thecollection in which this work is found:

Question 13

May 2020, p. 120

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Era:
4. Form of this movement:
5. For whom was this concerto composed?
6: Identify and briefly explain two musical features of this work.

Question 15

May 2020, p. 52

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Era:
4. Texture of this excerpt: :
5. Provide two examples of word painting in this work.

Question 16

Dec 2018, p. 83

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Era:
4. Number of movements in complete work:
5. Source of upper melody:
6. Librettist of lower text:

Question 17

May 2020, p. 85

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Era:
4. Language:
5. Composer of thei original melody on which this work is based:
6. Breifly explain the role of the orchestra in this movement.

Question 18

Dec 2018, p. 77

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Era:
4. Genre of complete work:
5. Form of this movement:
6. Character who sings this passage:

Question 19

Dec 2018, p. 73

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title of complete work:
2. Composer:
3. Era:
4. Genre of this passage:
5. Character who sings this passage:
6. Example of word painting in this passage:

Question 20

Dec 2018, p. 94

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title of this movement
2. Composer:
3. Era:
4. Collection that inclues this work:
5. Formal structure of this movement:
6. Image depicted in this passage:

Question 21

May 2019, p. 43

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Composer:
2. Era:
   3: Genre:
3. Name the musical texture demonstrated in this excerpt:
4. identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work:

Question 22

May 2019, p. 85

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title of complete work:
2. Composer:
3. Performing forces of this movement:
4. Describe how the music reflects the meaning of the text in this movement. (2 marks)

Question 23

May 2019, p. 60

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Form of this work:
4. Identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work.
   a.
   b.

Question 24

May 2019, p. 20

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title:
2. Era:
3. Genre:
4. Identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work.
   a.
   b.

Question 25

May 2019, p. 11

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title:
2. Era:
3. This piece is sung during the: (choose one)
   Gradual or Gloria or Council of Trent
4. Choose the performance sytle of this piece:
   Antiphonal or responsorial or Countrapuntal
5. Identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work.
   a.
   b.

Question 26

May 2019, p. 96

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title of complete piece:
2. Composer:
3. Performing forces:
4. Form of this movement:
5. Identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work.
   a.
   b.

Question 27

August 2019, p. 85

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Performing forces of this movement:
4. Name the source of the melody:
5. Identify two features of the orchestration in this movement.
   a.
   b.

Question 28

August 2019, p. 132

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title of complete work:
2. Composer:
3. Form of this movement:
4. Name the texture demonstrated in this audio recording.
5. This movement modulates to: (choose one)
   C minor or E major or D flat major
6. Explain the relatinoship of the above key to the principal key of the whole work.

Question 29

August 2019, p. 43

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Genre:
4. Era:
5. Name the texture demonstrated in this audio clip.
6. Breifly describe the harmonic language employed in this work.

Question 30

August 2019, p. 11

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title:
2. Genre:
3. Name the source of the text:
4. Name the texture demonstrated in this work.
5. Identify two stylistic features of this genre.

Question 31

August 2019, p. 34

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title of complete work:
2. Composer
3. Identify the language in this movement.
4. Identify the ars nova rhythmic and melodic technique employed in this passage:
5. This movement is based on which mode:
   Ionian mode or Lydian mode or Dorian mode

Question 32

August 2019, p. 14

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title of complete work:
2. Composer
3. Genre
4. Identify the image suggested by this passage.
5. Identify two other examples of word painting in this movement.

Question 33

Dec 2017. P. 77

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title of complete work:
2. Composer
3. Era:
4. Form:
5. Briefly summarize the text of this excerpt and the main afect that is projected.

Question 34

Dec 2017. P. 61

Provide the following for the audio clip:

1. Title:
2. Composer
3. Era:
4. Collection in which this work is found:
5. Identify and briefly explain two specific musical features of this work.

Question 35

Dec 2017. P. 138

Provide the following for the audio clip: (the entire audio is very quiet).

1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Performing forces:
4. Predominant texture of this movement:
5. Briefly describe the mood and musical character projected in this movement.

Question 36

Dec 2017. P. 114

Provide the following for the audio clip: (the beginning of the audio is very quiet)
1. Title:
2. Composer
3. Era:
4. Genre:
5. Identify two examples of word painting in this work and briefly describe how thiey are musically depcited.

Question 37

Dec 2017. P. 30

Provide the following for the audio clip: (the beginning of the audio is very quiet)
1. Title:
2. Composer
3. Era:
4. Form:
5. Identify two examples of two specific musical features demonstrated in this passage.

Question 38

Dec 2017. P. 25

Provide the following for the audio clip: (the beginning of the audio is very quiet)
1. Title:
2. Composer
3. Era:
4. Genre:
5. Summarize the meaning of the text of this work.

Question 39

Dec 2017. P. 34

Provide the following for the audio clip: (the beginning of the audio is very quiet)
1. Title of complete work:
2. Composer
3. Title of this movement:
4. Language:
5. Identify two composition devices employed in this movement.
a.
b.

Question 40

May 2018. p. 30

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title :
2. Composer
3. Texture:
4. Era:
5. Identify the collection that includes this work.
6. Name two instruments that might have performed this work in the era it was written.
a.
b.

Question 41

May 2018. p. 88

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title :
2. Composer
3. Genre:
4. Era:
5. Give the term for the group of instruments that play this theme:
6. Name two instruments featured in this group.
a.
b.

Question 42

May 2018. p. 60

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title :
2. Composer
3. Form:
4. Era:
5. Identify the collection that includes this work:
6. Name two instruments that maight have performed this work in the era it was written.
a.
b.

Question 43

May 2018. p. 108

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title :
2. Composer
3. Form of this movement:
4. Era:
5. Name the key of the theme’s second statement.
6. Identify and briefly explain one musical feature of this movement.

Question 44

May 2018. p. 96

Provide the following for the audio clip:
1. Title of complete work:
2. Composer:
3. Genre:
4. Era:
5. Identify the form of this movement.
6. Name the rhythmic device featured in this excerpt.

Question 45

May 2018. p. 138

Provide the following for the audio clip: (you may need to turn up the volume)
1. Title:
2. Composer:
3. Texture of this movement:
4. Era:
5. Identify the instrument that introdues this theme.
6. Name the key of the second entry.