week 4

Question 1

Select all the composers of the classical era.

Answer 1

Haydn

Mozart

Beethoven

Question 2

Select all the statements that illustrate how classical composers created expression of mood in their music.

Answer 2

The composers emphasized balance through unity and logic in music with a wide emotional range.

The composers firmly controlled changes of mood in their music, however abrupt or extreme the change might be.

Question 3

Select all the descriptions that apply to the orchestra of the classical period.

Answer 3

The clarinet began to be used.

It consisted of string, wind, brass, and percussion instruments.

Question 4

Select all the typical practices for composers of the classic era.

Answer 4

Contrasting themes vividly

Having the music pause to signal the entrance of a new theme

Using two or more themes in one movement

Question 5

Who were some of the pioneers of the new preclassical period, or style galant?

Answer 5

Bach’s sons

Question 6

Select all the statements that explain Vienna’s importance in the development of classical-era music.

Answer 6

Street musicians could perform profitably in Vienna and be hired to play for outdoor garden parties.

Aristocrats in Vienna were sometimes accomplished musicians, including the Empress Maria Theresa and the Emperor Joseph II.

Aristocrats from all over the Holy Roman Empire spent the winter there, bringing their private orchestras with them.

Question 7

Select all the statements that describe mood in classical-era music, particularly in contrast to baroque music.

Answer 7

Classical music fluctuated between dramatic and carefree moods.

A classical movement can have contrasts within a theme.

Question 8

Select all the common sections of the sonata form.

Answer 8

Exposition

Recapitulation

Development

Question 9

Select all the groups of instruments that were standard in the orchestras of Haydn and Mozart.

Answer 9

Woodwinds

Strings

Brass

Question 10

What usually comes at the end of the exposition section of the sonata form?

Answer 10

A repeat sign

Question 11

In a classical-era work for orchestra or string quartet, the tempos of the four movements typically followed which of the following patterns?

Answer 11

Fast/slow/dance related/fast

Question 12

Select all the characteristics of the development section in the sonata form.

Answer 12

It uses motives (fragments of themes) with new emotional meanings.

It contains modulations through several keys (tonalities).

It combines motives (fragments of themes).

Question 13

Select all the ways that middle-class tastes influenced classical music.

Answer 13

Early classical composers wrote pieces that were easy for amateurs to play.

Classical composers wrote more comic operas, some with plots that ridiculed the aristocracy.

Classical composers used folk songs as themes in instrumental music and composed melodies with a rustic (country) flavor.

Question 14

Select all the composers who worked in Vienna during the classical period.

Answer 14

Mozart

Beethoven

Haydn

Question 15

What is the most important aspect of the recapitulation in sonata form?

Answer 15

All the important material such as the second theme are in the tonic key.

Question 16

To achieve an even more conclusive ending, composers often added a ______ (meaning tail in Italian) at the end of a movement in sonata form.

Answer 16

coda

Question 17

What is the function of a coda?

Answer 17

It rounds off the movement by repeating themes or developing them further.

Question 18

In the sonata form, the key that comes in the bridge or transition to the second theme is typically ______.

Answer 18

new

Question 19

What are motives?

Answer 19

Short musical ideas

Question 20

What form has one theme that is repeated again and again and changed each time?

Answer 20

Theme and variations

Question 21

Select all the statements that describe the minuet and trio.

Answer 21

A woodwind solo often appears in the trio section.

The trio is quieter than the minuet and requires fewer instruments.

The opening minuet section features three smaller parts: a, b, and a’ (variation of a).

Question 22

What is one crucial change to how the first theme, bridge, second theme, and concluding section are presented in the recapitulation?

Answer 22

All principal material is now in the tonic key.

Question 23

Select all the descriptions that apply to the rondo form.

Answer 23

In the rondo pattern A B A C A B A, the C theme may be replaced by a development section to create a sonata-rondo.

A rondo can be an independent piece or the final movement of a multi-movement work such as a symphony or sonata.

Question 24

Select all the characteristics associated with the coda section of the sonata form.

Answer 24

Stability

Resolution of conflict

Question 25

Select all the characteristics of the first movement of a classical symphony.

Answer 25

It has a fast tempo and dramatic mood.

A slow introduction may precede the fast first movement.

It is usually in sonata form.

Question 26

What usually comes at the end of the exposition section of the sonata form?

Answer 26

A repeat sign

Question 27

Select all the statements describing the first movement of a classical concerto.

Answer 27

The second exposition is played by both the soloist and the orchestra.

The first movement is in sonata form with two expositions.

The first movement begins with only the orchestra playing.

Question 28

Which description applies to the theme-and-variations form of the classical period?

Answer 28

Each variation is usually about the same length as the theme.

Question 29

Chamber music of the classical era has the same pattern of movements as a symphony, but it differs in what way?

Answer 29

Sometimes the minuet and trio is the second movement, and the slow movement is the third.

Question 30

Which sequence represents the structure of a minuet and trio form?

Answer 30

minuet → trio → minuet

Question 31

Select all the statements about Haydn’s childhood and youth.

Answer 31

For a time, Haydn made a living playing violin on the streets.

Haydn was born in an Austrian village.

Haydn served as a choirboy in Vienna.

Question 32

Which pattern describes the exposition (opening section) of the sonata-rondo form?

Answer 32

A B A

Question 33

What is a distinguishing feature of Haydn’s most popular symphonies?

Answer 33

They have nicknames.

Question 34

Which movement of the classical symphony typically features a dancelike mood and a moderate-to-fast tempo?

Answer 34

The third movement

Question 35

Which of the following statements about Mozart’s final years and premature death is accurate?

Answer 35

The failure of the opera Don Giovanni in Vienna led to a decline in Mozart’s popularity.

Question 36

What form does the finale of a concerto usually take?

Answer 36

Rondo

Question 37

Select all the descriptions that summarize or typify the music of Mozart.

Answer 37

Ease, grace, and spontaneity

Balance, restraint, and proportion

Mysterious harmonies which bring dark moods that contrast with the lyricism

Question 38

Select all the statements that describe classical chamber music.

Answer 38

It performed without a conductor.

It is intended for performance in a room (chamber) in a home or palace.

It has one player to a part, with usually two to nine players.

Question 39

True or false: Beethoven believed he was at the same level as the aristocracy and deserved to be treated equally.

Answer 39

True

Question 40

Select all the statements about Haydn in his later career.

Answer 40

He composed twelve symphonies for performance in London in the 1790s.

His music became popular all over Europe.

He was very well received in London and even presented with an honorary doctorate from Oxford.

Question 41

Select all the statements about Beethoven’s musical style.

Answer 41

Beethoven composed long movements, yet used various means of unity to give his works cohesion.

Using the classical forms and techniques of Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven added innovations that bridged the classic and romantic eras.

Beethoven’s music has strong tension and dissonances, wide ranges of pitch and dynamics, and titanic climaxes.

Question 42

Some consider Haydn the inventor of which musical form or genre?

Answer 42

String quartet

Question 43

Some of Mozart’s greatest works are his ______, which he wrote to feature many different instruments such as the piano, violin, oboe, and bassoon.

Answer 43

concertos

Question 44

Select all the statements about Beethoven’s adult career.

Answer 44

Beethoven received an annual income from three noblemen so he would stay in Vienna.

Beethoven began to lose his hearing in his late twenties but found a new determination to be a composer in his Heiligenstadt Testament (1802).

In Vienna, Beethoven became popular with the public and nobility alike.

Question 45

How are the third movements of Beethoven’s symphonies and string quartets different from traditional third movements?

Answer 45

They often feature a scherzo rather than a traditional minuet.

Question 46

Which of the following statements about Mozart’s final years and premature death is accurate?

Answer 46

The failure of the opera Don Giovanni in Vienna led to a decline in Mozart’s popularity.

Question 47

Select all the statements about Mozart’s childhood and youth.

Answer 47

He learned the operatic style practiced in Italy at that time when he traveled there.

He could improvise fugues at age 6, compose symphonies by age 8, and wrote his first opera at age 12.

He was a child prodigy who toured throughout Europe, performing before the public and before Louis XV of France and other royalty.