Mozart 40

Question 1

What are the three sections to sonata form?

Answer 1

Exposition, development, recapitulation

Question 2

What is the first subject played by?

Answer 2

violins accompanied by the violas, cellos and double basses. (Strings section)

Question 3

What is the key signature of the first subject?

Answer 3

G minor

Question 4

At the beginning, the melody starts on the ……. beat, a weak beat of the bar – this is known as an …….

Answer 4

fourth, anacrusis

Question 5

Another feature of the …… Is question and ……. phrasing – a four-bar phrase answered by another ……..-bar phrase

Answer 5

Meoldy, answer, four

Question 6

Listen to the opening. Notice how the second four-bar phrase ends with a …….. . Notice the use of the ………. in the first six bars and the repeated quaver accompaniment.

Answer 6

Perfect cadence, tonic pedal

Question 7

What is the note of the pedal used in the first subject?

Answer 7

G

Question 8

What is a perfect cadence?

Answer 8

A perfect cadence sounds final and uses chord 5 (the dominant, in this case D) followed by chord 1 (the tonic, in this case G minor).

Question 9

How does mozart link the first two subjects?

Answer 9

He uses a transition or bridge at the end of he first subject, leading to the second. Between the 2 subjects there is a bridge passage which is used to modulate from one key to the other

Question 10

How do you find the relative minor of something?

Answer 10

Count down 3 semitones from the beginning of the scale

Question 11

What is the structure of the piece?

Answer 11

Sonata form

Question 12

How do you find the relative major of something?

Answer 12

Go up 3 semitones

Question 13

What is the key signature of the second subject?

Answer 13

B-flat major

Question 14

How are the keys of the two subjects linked?

Answer 14

The second subject is the relative major (b-flat major) of the first subject (g minor)

Question 15

Does the second subject use an anacrusis when opening?

Answer 15

No, the melody starts on the fist beat if the bar

Question 16

What instruments play the melody in the second subject?

Answer 16

has a melody shared between strings and woodwind (clarinets and bassoons)

Question 17

In the exposition, the second subject is made up of two ……….. phrases, the first ending with an ……. and the second phrase ending with a …….. .

Answer 17

Four-bar, imperfect cadence, perfect cadence

Question 18

What section comes after the exposition in sonata from?

Answer 18

Development

Question 19

The recapitulation follows the ………… . Here the material from the ………… is repeated in a slightly different and shorter form. The recapitulation returns to the …… key of G minor and opens with the first subject.

Answer 19

development, exposition, tonic

Question 20

In the recapitulation, what key is the second subject now played in?

Answer 20

The second subject is now also heard in G minor.

Question 21

What is a coda?

Answer 21

A coda is a short section which comes at the end of a movement.

Question 22

The movement ends with a …….. . The final bars close the movement with repeated perfect ……… played by full orchestra

Answer 22

Coda, cadences

Question 23

What era was the pice composed in?

Answer 23

From the Classical era 1750-1830

Question 24

Exposition ends with a short ……

Answer 24

codetta (a smaller version of a coda)

Question 25

The harmonies are largely …..

Answer 25

Diatonic (harmonies without added notes)

Question 26

What is the difference between diatonic and chromatic harmony?

Answer 26

Diatonic has no added notes to chords, chromatic has added notes to chords

Question 27

1st subject is based around a repeated short …….

Answer 27

motif

Question 28

2nd subject is based on a descending ……..

Answer 28

chromatic scale