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1
Who composed the opera Don Giovanni?
Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Haydn
2
What is a Requiem Mass?
a. mass of the church holiday
b. mass for honoring the dead
d. mass written by dead ugly composers
c. mass for serious music
3
Beethoven bridged between what two musical periods ?
a. Baroque , Classical
d. romantic, piano
c. Classical, romantic
b. Renaissance, Baroque
4
Short musical ideas or fragments of themes are called
c. melodies
b. rides
a. codas
d. motives
5
Beethoven, compared to earlier composers, wrote far more extensive markings on
a. dynamics
b. tempos
d. all the above
c. expressive indications
6
Symphony may be defined as an
d. all of the above
c. extended ambitious work exploiting range color dynamics
b. sonata
a. music composition for orchestra usually in four movements
7
Beethoven
b. self-educated, heavy reader, poor at math
a. was a pianist
d. all the above
c. began to feel symptoms of deafness at 29
8
In Beethoven's music, the coda is
a. often expanded and develops the theme further
c. used to create a strong feeling of what was to follow
b. nonexistent
d. substituted for the minuet
9
Chorale finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is based on
a. Dante's Inferno
d. Shelly's Ode to Joy
b. Schiller's Ode to Joy
c. Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night
10
by age six, Mozart
b. read music at sight
c. improvise fugues
d. all the above
a. play the violin
11
In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart
b. became close friends
c. were jealous of each other
d. never met
a. avoided each other
12
Social Mobility during the classicla period was
c. promoted by the church
a. limited
b. ruthlessly stamped out by the aristocracy
d. an important factor in the rise of the middle class
13
Usual order of movements in a classical symphony is
c. fast, slow,dance, fast
b. fast,slow,fast,slow
a. fast, dance, slow, fast
d. slow,fast,slow,fast
14
Who is said to have a rivalry with Antonio Salieri
Bach
Beethoven
Haydn
Mozart
15
Mozart and Beethoven wrote a number of Concertos for their favorite solo instrument, the
d. piano
c. flute
a. cello
b. violin
16
Beethoven is known for greatly expanding the
a. development section and more dramatic
b. introduction section more interesting
d. recapitulation
c. exposition section to new heights
17
sonata form is used frequently as the form for what movement in a symphony?
b. second
c. third
last
a. first
18
In Amadeus, Salieri was taken to a _____________
a. Hospital
d. treatment center
c. Health spa
b. Mental Asylum
19
What was significant about Mozart's originals handwritten music?
a. no edits, without much changes
c. food and drink stains on them
d. really hard to read, messy
b. neatly done
20
Concerto is a large classical work in several movement for
d. orchestra
b. instrument soloist and orchestra
c. combination of instruments
a. instrument soloist
21
Haydn was content to spend lost of his life
d. as a church musician and organist
b. as a professional free-lance musician
c. serving a wealthy aristocratic family
a. as an independently wealthy waethly composer
22
Which was NOT one Haydn's duties while serving Esterhazys?
d. teaching music
c. conducting the orchestra
b. coaching opera singers
a. write ALL music requested by his patron
23
We have record of Beethoven's struggle cause of his habit of
a. carrying a pocket recorder
d. keeping diary
b. carrying musical notebook
c. telling his friends
24
Classical Sonata form consists of there main sections, exposition, development, and
c. motives
a. introduction
b. recapitulation
d. transition
25
Mozart was born in
a. Salzburg
c. Vienna
b. Bonn
c. Austria
26
first movement of a classical symphony is almost always and in what form?
d. ABA
b. rondo
a. sonata
c. minuet
27
in Amadeus, who was telling the story?
b. Mozart
d. narrator
a. priest
c. Salieri
28
Last movement of a classical symphony
b. usually fast, lively, brilliant
d. all of the above
c. always in the tonic key of the symphony
a. most often in sonata form
29
Composers in the classical period took middle-class tastes into account by
c. writing dance music
a. flavoring their compositions with folk and popular music
b. writing operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy
d. all of the above
30
considered to Beethoven's greatest works
b. 16 string quartets
c. concertos
d. 9 symphonies
a. piano sonatas
31
Who composed Symphony no. 5 in Cminor
Beethoven
Bach
Mozart
Haydn
32
Haydn wrote 68 string quartets and 104
d. serenades
c. symphonies
a. operas
b. songs
33
Beethoven was born in
b. Vienna, Austria
d. Mannheim, Germany
a. Salzbyrg
c. Bonn, Germany
34
what did Mozart do with the march Salieri wrote?
c. played it faster and way better than the King
b. played from memory and changed it to make it better
d. memorized it upon only hearing it once
a. laughed at it
35
Standard Catalog of Mozarts compositions was made by
d. Freidrich Kulhlau "K"
a. Ludwig Kochel "K"
c. Franz Sussmayr "S"
b. Lorenzo da Ponte "P"
36
Who composed the surprise symphony?
Beethoven
Bach
Mozart
Haydn
37
between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart
c. continually touring Europe
a. received formal education
b. went to Vienna to study music
d. played in an orchestra
38
In Amadeus, who paid for Mozarts maid?
d. Wife
c. Salieri
a. Father
b. Mother
39
Haydn had a long financially stable relationship with the noble family
c. Lizst
a. Esterhazy
d. Kohler
b. Stefanhazy