Test - August 10, 2024 - 70 minutes - with answers

Question 1

1 August 2019 #5

1 - Name the individual, group, or publication title most closely assoicated with the following description.

Leader of the Roman Catholic Church from 590 to 604 who organized and codified plainchants.

p. 9

Answer 1

1 Pope Gregory I

Question 2

3 Dec 2019 #3

3 - Identify the era that most closely associated with the following publiciations, and give a description of its contents.

Musica enchiriadis

p.14

Answer 2

3 Middle Ages
It contains the earliest examplies of notated polyphony

Question 2

2 Dec 2016 #6

2 - Give the title of a composition, collection, or treatise for the following.

A practical guide to all aspects of keyboard performance by CPE Bach

p.91

Answer 2

2 Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instrument

Question 3

9 (Dec 2017 - #1)

9 - Identify the historical era (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

The sonta cycle served as the primary form for instrumental music.

Answer 3

9 Classical

Question 4

8 (Practice Paper 1 #5)

8 - Identify the historical era (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

String Quartet

Answer 4

8 Classical

Question 5

6 (Practice Paper 1 #6)

6 - Identify the historical era (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

English Madrigal

Answer 5

6 Renaissance

Question 6

10 (Practice Paper 1 #14)

10 - Identify the historical era (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

Notre Dame School

Answer 6

10 Middle Ages

Question 7

7 (Practice Paper 3 #14)

7 -Identify the historical era (Middles Ages, Renassiance, Baroque or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

Instrumental music from this era was often written for consorts of instruments.

Answer 7

7 Renaissance

Question 8

5 (Practice Paper 3 #20)

5 - Identify the historical era (Middles Ages, Renassiance, Baroque or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

The solo concerto of this era often featured a double exposition.

Answer 8

5 Classical

Question 9

4 (May 2017 #13)

4 - Identify the historical era (Middles Ages, Renassiance, Baroque or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

The Council of Trent banned the use of secular cantus firmus.

Answer 9

4 Renaissance

Question 10

20 August 2020 #1

20 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He composed the first complete polyphonic setting of the mass.

Answer 10

20 Machaut

Question 11

15 August 2020 #3

15 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He was the leader of the Roman Catholic Church who organized and codified the chant repertoire.

Answer 11

15 Pope Gregory I

Question 12

14 August 2020 #6

14 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He composed many works in “sets”, including two- and three-part inventions, English Suites and French Suites.

Answer 12

14 JS Bach

Question 13

12 August 2020 #12

12 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He composed over 100 symphonies, many of which were humorous in nature.

Answer 13

12 Hyadn

Question 14

16 August 2020 #16

16 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

His association with Johann Christian Bach influenced his piano concerto writing.

Answer 14

16 Mozart

Question 15

11 August 2020 #17

11 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He pubished his Traite de l’harmonie in 1722.

Answer 15

11 Rameau

Question 16

19 August 2020 #20

19 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

This 13th century composer wrote three- and four-voice organum with substitute clausulae.

Answer 16

19 Perotin

Question 17

13 May 2019 #7

13 - Name the composer most closely associated with each of the following statements. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a composer’s name more than once.

He expolited the technological improvements to the piano in his thirty-two piano sonatas.

Answer 17

13 Beethoven

Question 18

18 August 2017 #7

18 - Name the composer most closely associated with each of the following statements.

He somtimes imposed imposed instrumental forms such as sonata form on vocal numbers in his operas.

Answer 18

18 Mozart

Question 19

17 August 2017 #9

17 - Name the composer most closely associated with each of the following statements.

His vocal lyricism and use of word painting established this compsoer as the most significant figure in early English opera.

Answer 19

17 Henry Purcell

Question 20

21 p. 31 (August 2020 #1)

21 - For the definition below, provide the term:

The second section of the Mass Ordinary

Answer 20

21
Kyrie

Question 21

22 p. 130 (Dec 2019 #5)

22 - For the definition below, provide the term:

ABACA or ABACABA; a form often used in a sonata cycle

Answer 21

22
rondo

Question 22

23 p. 52 (August 2020 #2)

23 - For the definition below, provide the term:

Musical pictorialization in which the music mirrors the literal meaning of the words.

Answer 22

23
Word painting

Question 23

24 p. 68 (August 2020 #3)

24 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A speech-like, declamatory style of singing supported by continuo

Answer 23

24
recitative secco

Question 24

25 p. 93 (August 2020 #4)

25 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A Baroque genre that typically include an allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue.

Answer 24

25
Suite.

Question 25

26 p. 130 (August 2020 #5)

26 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A five-part form (ABACA) frequently used in the Classical era.

Answer 25

26
rondo

Question 26

27 p. 7 (August 2020 #6)

27 For the definition below, provide the term:27 - For the definition below, provide the following:
1. term
2. a representative composition title
3. genre of the title
4. composer of the title

The 13th century practice of using two or more texts simultaneousl

Answer 26

27
polytextual

Question 27

28 p. 50 (August 2020 #9)

28 - For the definition below, provide the term:
An Elizabethan vocal genre that often used nonsense syllables

Answer 27

28
English Madrigal

Question 28

29 p. 67 (August 2020 #7)

29 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A solo song in a ternary form used in Baroque operas and oratorios

Answer 28

29
da capo aria

Question 29

31 - p. 31 (August 2020 #10)

31 - For the definition below, provide the term:

The fourth section of the Mass Proper

Answer 29

31
Gradual

Question 30

32 p. 7 (August 2020 #11)

32 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A texture that consists of a single line of melody

Answer 30

32
monophonic

Question 31

34 p. 32 (May 2020 #1)

34 - For the definition below, provide the term:

An ars nova technique in which two voices combine to create a single melody: one resting while the other sings

Answer 31

34
hocket

Question 32

35 p. 19 (May 2020 #2)

35 - For the definition below, provide the term:

Two or more texts heard simultaneously

Answer 32

35
polytextuality

Question 33

36 - p.15 (May 2020 #4)

36 - For the definition below, provide the term:
the voice that contains the cantua firmus, from the Latin for “to hold”

Answer 33

36
Tenor

Question 34

37 p.23 (May 2020 #5)

37 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A French aristocratic poet-musician in northern France in the Middle Ages

Answer 34

37
Trouvere

Question 35

38 p. 52 (May 2020 #6)

38 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A song type embraced by English madralists; from the the Italian for “little dance”

Answer 35

38
ballett

Question 36

39 p. 65 (Dec 2019 #1)

39 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A three-part form (ABA)

Answer 36

39 ternary

Question 37

40 p. 67 (Dec 2019 #2)

40 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A solo song in an opera, oratorio, or cantata

Answer 37

40 aria

Question 38

30 p. 59 (Dec 2019 #3)

30 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A popuar Baroque keyboard instrument in which small quills pluck the strings

Answer 38

30
harpsichord

Question 39

33 p. 81 (M4ay 2020 #1)

33 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A multi-movement choral work that performed part of the Lutheran church service

Answer 39

33
Cantata

Question 40

41 p. 30 Dec 2017 #5, May 2018

41 - Answer the following questions for the audio clip:
* Title:
* Composer:
* Texture:
* Era:
* Identify the collection that includes this work:

Bonus: Name two instruments that might have performed this work in the era it was written.

Answer 40

41 p. 30 - Royal Estampie No. 4, dance music, from Chansonnier du Roy, Middle Ages, Anonymous composers

Chansonnier du Roy
Bonus: Shawm, sackbut

Question 41

43 p. 60 May 2018

43 - Answer the the following questions for the audio clip:

• Title:
• Composer:
• Form:
• Era:
• Identify the collection that includes this work:

Bonus: Name two instruments that might have performed this work in the era it was written.

Answer 41

43 p. 60 The Carman’s Whistle (variation 1), keyboard by William Byrd in Renaissance

Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

Harpsichord, clavier, virginal

Question 42

42 p. 88 May 2018

42 - Answer the following questions for the audio clip:
* Title:
* Composer:
* Genre:
* Era:
* Give the term for the group of instruments that play this theme:

Bonus: Name two instruments featured in this group:

Answer 42

42 p. 88 Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major (concertino theme), Concerto Grosso by JS Bach in Baroque

Concertino
Bonus: violin; oboe; record; trumpet

Question 43

45 p. 96 May 2018

45 - Answer the the following questions for the audio clip:

• Title of complete work:
• Composer:
• Genre:
• Era
• Identify the form of this movement:

Bonus: Name the rhythmic device featured in this audio

Answer 43

45 p. 96

• Title of complete work: Water Music: Hornpipe (section A) - Suite in D major, HWV 349
• Composer: Handel
• Genre: Orchestral suite
• Era: Baroque
• Identify the form of this movement: ternary (ABA)

Bonus: rhythmic device: homorhythm
homorhythm

Question 44

44 p. 106 May 2018

44 - Answer the the following questions for the audio clip:

• Title:
• Composer:
• Form of this movement:
• Era:
• Name the key of the the theme’s second statement:

Bonus: Identify and briefly explain one musical featureof this movement>

Answer 44

44 p. 106

• Title: Symphony No. 104 in D Major, (London Symphony)
• Composer: Haydn
• Form of this movement: sonata (p. 108)
• Era: Classical
• Name the key of the teheme’s second statement: A major (dominant key of the D major)

Bonus: Monthematic;

Question 45

46 p. 138 Dec 2017#3, May 2018

46 - Answer the the following questions for the audio clip:

• Title:
• Composer:
• Texture:
• Era:
• Identify the instrument that introduces this theme.

Bonus: Name the key of the second entry.

Answer 45

46 p. 138
* Title: String Quartet in C sharp Minor, op. 131 (fugual exposition),
* Composer:Beethoven
* Texture: Fugal
* Era: Classical
* 1st violin introduces this theme
*
Bonus: Second entry is a real answer. F sharp minor (Sub dominant) (instead of the expected dominant).