Intro to Classical Listening Test 2

Question 1

Symphony No 95 in C Minor I. Allegro Moderato

Answer 1

Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
ID Confidence: 4
Properties: First movement, fast sonata a la Vienna Classical symphony. In sonata form.
Exposition: A bridge B coda. key shifts from home to away in bridge. Repeated.
Development: starts in away key but modulates wildly, wild counterpoint. aesthetic climax in Haydn’s worked.
Recapitulation: A bridge B coda. repetition of expo except it stays in home key throughout, requiring some changes to B and bridge.

Question 2

Symphony No 95 in C Minor II. Andante cantabile

Answer 2

Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
ID Confidence: 3
Properties: Second movement of VCS, a theme and variations. Basically, a theme is played, followed by a series of variations. 
This one is pretty folksy. Has three variations then a coda. AABB form. 
Var 1: AABB
Var 2: abb (minor key)
Var 3: aab
Coda: a (based on)

Question 3

Symphony No 95 in C Minor III. Menuetto

Answer 3

Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
ID Confidence: ?
Properties: Third movement of VCS, a minuet and trio. Adapted from baroque form of stylized dance. In triple meter. Switches from C minor to c major in trio!!!!
\:a: :a'b: minuet home key
\:c: :c'd: trio away key
aba' minuet home key

Question 4

Symphony No 95 in C Minor I. Finale, Vivace

Answer 4

Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
ID Confidence: ?
Properties: Fourth movement of VCS, rondo form.
Has a rondo, recurring music with different music in the middle.
ABA’B/CA’’
a is aabcbc
feignts going back to B second time… becomes C! HA!.

Question 5

Don Giovanni - “Ho Capito”, from act one

Answer 5

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ID Confidence: 3
Properties: A comic opera, which does away with the stiff classical heroes of the baroque opera and replaces it with everyday characters and comedy, with the addition of the larger Classical orchestra. Don Giovanni is a very dark comedy about Don Juan and his conquests. Has fewer de capos, more loose w/ sonata form, and lots of ensemble singing. 
First part:
Andante 2/4 AA'BA' coda
Second part:
Allegro 6/8 - when they leave

Question 6

Don Giovanni - “Alfin siam liberati”, from act one

Answer 6

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 7

Don Giovanni - “Là ci darem la mano”

Answer 7

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 8

Symphony No 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 I. Allegro con brio

Answer 8

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
ID Confidence: 4
Properties: Characteristic of middle beethoven. An aggressive and heroic take on classical themes. In sonata form. Exposition2x, development, bridge, coda. coda is like another development and has its own coda! Characterized by the sssl motto running underneath.
Mysterious oboe cadenza in recap transition.

Question 9

Symphony No 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 II: Andante con moto

Answer 9

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
ID Confidence: 2
Properties:
A double theme and variation
Third is in minor key and repeats A.
A is in A flat major, B is in C major, they duel and A flat major prevails. Had undercurrents of sssL motto from before.

Question 10

Symphony No 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 III: Allegro

Answer 10

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
ID Confidence: 2
Properties: 
Scherzo and trio. Scherzo is a minuet but faster, means "joke". Triple meter
A, B, mixes of A+B, scherzo C minor
\:C:, gruff, low. C major
A, B, mixes of A+B, scherzo C minor
bridges directly to four

Question 11

Symphony No 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 IV: Allegro

Answer 11

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
ID Confidence: ?
Properties: 4th of VCS, sonata. Glorious military march. As of expo have flourishes. Adds trombones, contrabassoon, and piccolo to orchestra. 
Revisit of scherzo in development. 
Accelerates near last part.

Question 12

String Quartet in F, Op. 135

Answer 12

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
ID Confidence: 4
Last published work by Beethoven. Very crazy and angry. Fortiisimo, with sawing strings. A scherzo+trio, fast minuet and trio. Written while he was deaf.

Question 13

Erlkönig

Answer 13

Composer: Franz Schubert
ID Confidence: 5
Song. Right hand constantly depicts horse galloping, left hand repeated ominous theme. Setting of a poem by faust. Through-composed song, no strophic repetition. Song= short, music and voice.

Question 14

Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488

I. Allegro

Answer 14

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ID Confidence:
Concerto. Piano concerto, which solo piano playing off orchestra. In DOUBLE-ExpOSITION form. instead of repeated exposition in normal sonata form, there are two expositions, one with only the orchestra staying in the home key, then another that adds the solo instrument and goes into the away key in the bridge as normal exposition does.

Question 15

Carnaval, Op 9 “Eusebius”

Answer 15

Composer: Robert Schumann
ID Confidence:
Piano miniature. Depicts guests at a masquerade ball, attributed to Schumann’s dreamy and introspective personality “eusebius”. Use of rubato.

Question 16

Carnaval, Op 9 “Florestan”

Answer 16

Composer: Robert Schumann
ID Confidence:
Piano miniature.
Depicts guests at a masquerade ball, by “Florestan”, Schumann’s impetuous and fiery side, use of rubato. Ends suddenly

Question 17

Carnaval, Op 9 “Chiarina”

Answer 17

Composer: Robert Schumann
ID Confidence:
Piano miniature.
Depicts arrival of his GF clara at the party. not sure what schumann part is by, passionate playing to signify his passion for her. Rubato.

Question 18

Nocturne in F#, Op 15, No. 2

Answer 18

Composer: Frédérick Chopin
ID Confidence: 5
Piano miniature. Is a nocture, a genre invented by Chopin that intends to depict nighttime. aa’bca’.
Shows chopin’s use of soft and sustain pedals, relatively new inventions.

Question 19

Symphonie fantastique, V Larghetto-Allegro “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath”

Answer 19

Composer: Hector Berlioz
ID Confidence: 4
Program symphony.
Last movement of a program symphony, which tells a story in its music and is accompanied by a written program. This part depicts a dream of a witches’ orgy, scandalously (very Berlioz) incorporating the gregorian chant Dies Irae into a fugue with the wild dancing of the witches. FEATURES AN IDEE FIXEE WHICH KEEPS COMING BACK IN VARIED FORMS.

Question 20

The Valkyrie, Act I scene i

Answer 20

Composer: Richard Wagner
ID Confidence: 5
(the only german opera?)
Opera that showcases many of Wagner’s favorite things: abolishment of number opera, continuous singing, lack of clear cadences. Part of his Ring of the Nibelung Cycle.

Question 21

Rigoletto, from Act III “La donna è mobile” and “Bella figlia d’amore”

Answer 21

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
ID Confidence: 3
Opera. Features Bel Canto, Italian style of focusing on beautiful vocal songs. In contrast to German/Wagner style, where vocalists are almost just another part of the orchestra.

Question 22

Romeo and Juliet (Overture Fantasy)

Answer 22

Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
ID Confidence:
Tone poem, a popular romantic idiom of telling a story in tones. This one depicts Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, using three primary themes: A conflict theme, love theme, and a friar jacques theme.

Question 23

Pictures at an Exposition - Promenade 1 & 2

Answer 23

Composer: Modest Musorgsky
ID Confidence: 4
Tone poem/nationalism. Tone poem which tells a story of a exhibition of pictures. Integrates Russian folk themes into music, has high use of chromaticism. This part is wandering between the pictures.

Question 24

Pictures at an Exposition - Gnomus

Answer 24

Composer: Modest Musorgsky
ID Confidence: 3
Tone poem/nationalism. Tone poem which tells a story of a exhibition of pictures. Integrates Russian folk themes into music, has high use of chromaticism. This piece describes a painting of a hideous disfigured gnome.

Question 25

Pictures at an Exposition - Great Gate of Kiev

Answer 25

Composer: Modest Musorgsky
ID Confidence: 3
Tone poem/nationalism. Tone poem which tells a story of a exhibition of pictures. Integrates Russian folk themes into music, has high use of chromaticism.Use of sustain and soft pedals. Describes a conceptual drawing of a glorious gate in Kiev.

Question 26

Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77

Answer 26

Composer: Johannes Brahms
ID Confidence: 4
Concerto. Brahms was a composer who baked in romantic feelings and techniques into classical forms. Features cross rhythms, two rhythms going at once.

Question 27

Symphony No 1, III: Funeral March

Answer 27

Composer: Gustav Mahler
ID Confidence: 5
Symphony. Shows mauler’s contradictions of childish enjoyment and moody/dark late romantic stuff. Is in the form of a March+Trio, third mvt of vienna. Minor key parody of Frere jacques. each solo gets its own day in the sun.