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