Unit 4

Question 1

Section of a concerto in which the soloist plays alone without the orchestra in an improvisatory style

Answer 1

Cadenza

Question 2

Music— such as art songs, piano, character, pieces, and string quartets— primarily performed in small spaces, often for personal entertainment

Answer 2

Chamber music

Question 3

Optional final section of a movement, that reasserts the home key of the movement, and provides a sense of conclusion

Answer 3

Coda

Question 4

• Instruction that is commonly found at the end of the B section/trio of a minuet trio, to return to the “head” or first section
• generally resulting in an A - B - A form

Answer 4

Da capo

Question 5

The middle section of a sonata form movement in which the themes and key areas introduced in the exposition or developed

Answer 5

Development

Question 6

• Form of the first movement of a classical period.
• Concerto that combines the exposition, development, and recapitulation of sonata form with the retornello form used for the first movements of Baroque concertos.
• called first Movement concerto form
• Mozart made this form

Answer 6

Double-Exposition Form

Question 7

• First section of a sonata, form movement, where the themes and key areas of the movement are introduced
• The section normally modulates from the home key to a different key

Answer 7

Exposition

Question 8

A momentary shifting from a duple to a triple, or vice versa

Answer 8

Hemiola

Question 9

• Form based on the minuet dance
• consists of a minuet (A), then a contrasting trio (B), followed by a return to the minuet (A)

Answer 9

Minuet and trio form

Question 10

Comic style of opera, made famous by Mozart

Answer 10

Opera Buffa

Question 11

Serious style of 18th century opera made famous by Handel, generally features, mythology, or highborn characters and plots

Answer 11

Opera Seria

Question 12

The plucking of a bow string instrument, such as violin, producing a percussive affect

Answer 12

Pizzicato

Question 13

• Third and final section of a sonata form movement
• The themes of the exposition return, now in the home key of the movement

Answer 13

Recapitulation

Question 14

• Instrumental form
• consisting of the alternation of a refrain “A” with contrasting sections (“B”, “C”, “D”, etc.)
• often the final movements of string quartets, classical symphonies, concerti, and sonata.

Answer 14

Rondo

Question 15

• Form that prominently replaced the minuet in symphonies and string quartets
• Similar to minuet
• Ternary form and have a triple feel although they tend to be so much faster tempo did a minuet

Answer 15

Sherzo

Question 16

• A form often found in the first and last movements of sonatas, symphonies, and string quartets
• consisting of three parts (exposition, development, and recapitulation)

Answer 16

Sonata form

Question 17

• Performing ensemble, consisting of two violinists, one violinist, and one cellist that plays compositions
• These compositions are generally in four movements

Answer 17

String Quartet

Question 18

• Multi-movement composition for orchestras
• often four movements

Answer 18

Symphony

Question 19

• describes a musical composition in three parts
• Often featuring two similar sections, separated by a contrasting section
• represented by the letters A - B - A

Answer 19

Ternary Form

Question 20

• The presentation of a theme, and then variations upon it.
• The sea may be illustrated as A, with any number of variations following it
• ex. A’ A’’ A’’’ A’’’’

Answer 20

Theme and variation form

Question 21

A piece that sounds fairly complete an independent, but it’s part of a larger composition

Answer 21

Movement

Question 22

Who is Beethoven influenced by?

Answer 22

Haydn and Mozart

Question 23

What was going on during the lifetimes of Hayden, Mozart and Beethoven

Answer 23

American war for independence

Question 24

What was Mozart famous for?

Answer 24

Operatic music

Question 25

Father of the symphony

Answer 25

Hadyn