Music Appreciation Unit 5 - The Classical Era

Haydn's contract of employment shows that he was considered ______.

The lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the ______.

Mozart composed his Requiem ______.

Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart ______.

Which of the following statements is not true of the music of the classical period?

A typical sequence of movements in a classical concerto is ______.

Each successive variation in a theme with variations ______.

Which of the following characteristics is not typical of the music of the classical period?

Why did Mozart's music fall out of favor with Vienna audiences toward the end of his life?

At the end of a classical exposition there usually is a ______.

In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart ______.

The sonata-rondo ______.

Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life as what?

What is a symphony?

What did the typical orchestra of the classical period consist of?

The three main sections of a sonata-form movement are often followed by a concluding section known as the ______.

Beethoven was far more extensive and explicit in marking __________ in his scores.

Haydn often traveled to ________, where his music was performed often and greatly admired.

A classical concerto greatly relies on a soloist's ______.

Don Giovanni, in Mozart's opera of that name, is _____.

The minuet-and-trio movement of a classical symphony, string quartet, or other work, is in ____________ form.

The usual order of movements in a classical string quartet is ______.

What is the essence of a classical concerto?

True or False? Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were active in Vienna, Austria.

A major factor that distinguishes chamber music from the symphony or concerto is that chamber music ______.

What is a symphony?

Classical chamber music is designed ______.

Political and economic power shifted to the middle class from the aristocracy and the ______.

The rondo may be schematically outlined as

Haydn's two popular oratorios are entitled The Seasons and ______.

Which of the following is not part of a sonata form movement?

Which of the following elements is usually not changed in varying the theme in theme-and-variations form?

The main theme of the rondo does what?

Mozart's Requiem was

Beethoven ______.

A transitional passage that leads to a contrasting section is called a ______.

The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as ______.

Classicism, as a stylistic period in Western music, roughly encompassed the years ______.

Mozart was born in ______.

In the classical period, serious composition was flavored by ______.

Sonata form is used frequently as the form for the ________ movement of a multimovement work.

The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is ______.

Which of the following statements is not true?

The most important form of classical chamber music is the ______.

A classical concerto is a three-movement work for ______.

Beethoven is often credited as being ______.

The string quartet ______.

The movement of a symphony that is often patterned after a dance is the _____.

Short musical ideas or fragments of themes that are developed within a composition are called ______.

Haydn was fortunate in having a long and fruitful relationship with the noble Hungarian family of ______.

Which of the following is not one of Mozart's three masterpieces of Italian opera?

Theme-and-variations form may be schematically outlined as ______.

By the age of six, Mozart could ______.

A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performer's virtuosity is called ______.

Which of the following was not one of Haydn's duties while in the service of the Esterházys?

In many of Beethoven's works, there is a _____ movement instead of the minuet.

Beethoven's late works, composed after he was totally deaf, include ______.

The piano trio is a musical composition for ______.

Haydn was a prolific composer, as demonstrated in part by his 68 string quartets and 104 ______.

When performers encounter the phrase, da capo, they _____.

Composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by doing what?

The first movement of a classical symphony is almost always fast, and in _____ form.

Which of the following is not true about the rondo?

Which of the following composers is not considered a master of the classical period?

The 3rd Symph. of Beethoven was originally composed to commemorate the deeds of _________ .

The opening motive of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 has a ____________ rhythm.

Beethoven's sixteen __________ are generally considered among the greatest music ever composed.