978-1259892707 Test Bank Part V The Classical Period Part 1

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Part V

The Classical Period

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

A. 1450-1600

2. The preclassical period roughly encompassed the years ______.

A. 1600-1750

3. The fully developed classical style in music flourished during the period ______.

A. 1600-1750

4. Which of the following statements is not true of the classical period?

D. Philosophers and writers in the classical period saw their time as a great turning point in history and called it the “age of

enlightenment.”

5. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and _____ were two of the more important preclassical composers.

A. Jean Honoré Fragonard

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C. Johann Sebastian Bach

D. Joseph Haydn

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

D. Joseph Haydn

7. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. In the classical period, composers were influenced by folk and popular music.

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

A. Classical melodies are tuneful and easy to remember.

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

A. Classical composers stressed balance and clarity of structure.

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

A. A loose ensemble of available instruments

11. Which of the following instruments were not normally included in the classical orchestra?

A. Horns

12. What is a symphony?

D. A work for piano solo

13. What was social mobility like during the classical period?

A. A limited sociological factor

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

D. military-industrial complex

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Learning Objective: Summarize European culture in the classical era

Topic: Classical music

Feedback: With the rise of a prosperous middle class, the aristocracy, nobility, and the church lost some of their influence in

people’s lives.

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

D. All answers are correct.

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

A. theater

17. Public concerts presented by the Concert des Amateurs in Paris in the 1770s were conducted by ______.

A. Ludwig van Beethoven

18. Which of the following statements is not true?

D. Comic operas in the classical period treated middle-class subjects, had folklike tunes, and sometimes even ridiculed the

aristocracy.

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

A. An independently wealthy composer

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D. A church musician and organist

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

D. an equal by his employer

21. Vienna, when Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were active, ______.

A. was the fourth-largest city in Europe

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

A. Flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music

23. In the classical period, comic operas sometimes ______.

A. were based on the Old Testament

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Feedback: Comic operas of the classical period appealed to middle-class subjects and used folklike tunes, sometimes even

ridiculing the aristocracy. They rarely included religious subjects and most of the operas were written in either French, Italian, or

German.

24. In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart ______.

A. avoided each other

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

A. first

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

A. Recapitulation

27. Sonata form consists of three main sections: exposition, development, and ______.

A. introduction

28. In the exposition of a sonata-form movement, what happens?

A. The closing theme is in the tonic key.

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Learning Objective: Know the structure of sonata (sonata-allegro) form

Topic: Sonata form

Feedback: In the exposition section of a sonata form, the first theme is presented in the tonic (home) key, the bridge contains

modulation from the home key to new key, leading into a second theme in the new key . The closing section is in the key of the

second theme.

29. In the recapitulation of a sonata-form movement, what happens?

D. There is no second theme.

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

A. new tempo indication

31. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. The development section of a sonata form almost always takes the main thematic material through several different keys.

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

A. coda

33. A modulation from the home key to a new key in the exposition of a sonata form movement takes place in the ______.

A. coda

34. A feeling of harmonic tension and forward motion is created in the exposition of a sonata form movement by ______.

D. changing the meter of the second theme

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

A. codas

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

D. motive

37. How should the sonata form be viewed as?

A. A rigid mold into which musical ideas are poured

38. Each successive variation in a theme with variations ______.

D. presents a new melodic idea

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

A. AABB

40. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. Each variation in a theme-and-variations form is unique and may differ in mood from the theme.

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

A. Melody

42. The _________ movement of Haydn’s Surprise Symphony is in theme-and-variations form.

A. first

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

D. ABACABA

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

A. first

45. The minuet first appeared around 1650 as a(n) ______.

A. instrumental composition for concert performance

46. The character of the minuet is best described as ______.

A. brisk and lively

47. The minuet is in _______ meter.

A. duple

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Learning Objective: Know the structural pattern of a minuet and trio

Topic: Minuet and trio

Feedback: The minuet is a waltz-type dance, in triple meter.

48. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the minuet?

A. Triple meter

49. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. The minuet movement of a symphony or string quartet is almost always the last movement.

50. In many of Beethoven’s works, there is a _______ movement instead of the minuet.

A. presto

51. The scherzo differs from the minuet in that it ______.

D. All answers are correct.

52. A _____________ is a musical composition that is usually light in mood, and meant for evening entertainment.

A. minuet and trio

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D. rondo

53. The double bass in the classical orchestra, as in Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, often does what?

A. Has a separate and distinct bass part

54. When performers encounter the phrase, da capo, they ______.

A. play extremely quietly

55. The rondo may be schematically outlined as _______.

D. ABA

56. The main theme in a rondo movement is usually ______.

D. slow, grave, and mournful

57. Which of the following is not true about the rondo?

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C. It features alternating and contrasting sections.

D. It was often combined with elements of sonata form.

58. The return of the main theme in rondo form is all the more welcome because it is usually ______.

A. in a contrasting key

59. The sonata-rondo ______.

A. may be outlined as ABA-development section-ABA

60. The main theme of the rondo does what?

A. Returns only once in the movement

61. Because of its character, the rondo most often serves as a ______.

A. slow movement

62. The rondo was used ______.

A. only in the classical symphony and quartet

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C. as late as the twentieth century

D. exclusively in the classical period

63. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. A rondo movement features a tuneful main theme which returns several times in alternation with other themes.

64. What is a symphony?

A. A musical composition for orchestra, usually in four movements

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

A. fast, dance-related, slow, fast

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

D. ABA

67. Which of the following is not true of the symphony?