Music 2

*A piano trio consists of:

*Quick crescendos and the four-movement cycle in symphonies were developed in:

*The number of players in a Classical orchestra was typically:

*Which of the following best describes the opening idea of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?

*Which composer rebelled against the patronage system and struggled to achieve financial independence?

*How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?

*The patronage system failed to support Haydn, and he was forced to live by teaching and performing?

*A musical setting of the Mass for the Dead is called a:

*The most important instrumental genre of the Classical period is:

*A short repeated musical pattern is called:

*Who was Haydn's principal patron?

*A string quartet consists of:

*Mozart dies while composing:

*The three main sections of sonata-allegro form are the exposition, development, and:

*Using material from an earlier movement in a symphony is called:

*Which work by Beethoven is called the Choral Symphony?

*Beethoven suffered perhaps the most traumatic of all maladies for a musician. What was it?-

*A theme may be fragmented by dividing it into smaller units called:

*Which of the following best describes absolute music?-

*Music for a small ensemble of two to about ten players with one player to a part is called:-

*Beethoven belonged to a generation of artists who were influenced by the full impact of:-

*Mozart's melodies are simple, elegant, and songful.

*The typical first movement of a Classical concerto begins with-

*Of the following, who is NOT a major composer of string quartets?-

*Mozart is known only as a composer of instrumental music

*In musical composition, a theme is:-

*Mozart is remembered today as:-

*In the Classical orchestra, which group of instruments serves as the ensemble's nucleus?

*Haydn served as a choirboy in:

*Beethoven's temperament could be best described as:-

*Which of the following does NOT describe Schumann's "In the lovely month of May"?-

*Who was the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?

*The Moldau represents:

*The favorite subjects for the Romantic poets were:

*A group of Lieder unified by some narrative thread or a descriptive or expressive theme is called:-

*The short, lyric piano piece is the instrumental equivalent of:-

*Which of the following was NOT a technical improvement in the nineteenth-century piano?

*Titles such as Prelude, Impromptu, and Intermezzo are used for:

*Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was discouraged from pursuing a career as a composer because:

*Which of the following is NOT a type of orchestral program music?-

*The German term for art song is:-

*A song structure that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called:

*Chopin in considered to be the national composer of:

*The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:-

*Robert Schumann ended his career and life:

*The familiar tune heard at the end of The Banjo is:-

*A song form in which the same melody is repeated with every stanza of text is called:-

*Which musical devices help to portray the child's terror in Erlking?

*The term tempo rubato means:-

*Chopin spent most of his productive life in:-

*In Schubert's Erlking, the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano represents:-

*Which of the following compositions is LEAST likely to be an example of program music?-

*Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Berlioz's music?-

*Dvorak composed his New World Symphony while living in:

*Which composer has been considered to be the single most important phenomenon in the artistic life of the latter half of the nineteenth century?

*What French composer wrote Carmen?

*Italian comic opera is called:-

*What is unusual about the opening of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?-

*Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of:

*The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism called:

*The melody of the African-American spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is suggested by the third theme in:-

*Brahms maintained a lifelong close relationship with:-

*A special theater was built at ________ for the presentation of Wagner's music dramas.-

*Of the following, who did NOT write a major concerto in the Romantic Era?

*Felix Mendelssohn played an important role in the revival of music by which Baroque composer?-

*Who composed The Barber of Seville and the overture to William Tell?-

*Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of the gamelan from:-

*Of the following, which describes Clara Schumann's balance between family and career?-

*What composer's musical language was based on chromatic harmony?-

*The term bel canto refers to:

*Tchaikovsky's fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is:-

*By the Romantic Era, concerts had moved from:

*Brahms is often described as a(n) ____________, because of his use of forms of the Classical masters.-

*Clara Schumann was a virtuoso performer on:-

*Brahms composed _____ symphonies-

*A fanciful solo passage in an improvisational style that is interpolated into a concerto movement is called:-

*The Impressionists turned to the open intervals and church modes of medieval music for inspiration.-

*The scheme of a traditional symphony is:

*While teaching in America, the Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak developed a particular fondness for:-

*Which of the following is true of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?-

*Which work by John Cage has no musical content and can be performed by anyone on any instrument?

*Of the following, who was the Russian-born composer that wrote post-Impressionist, primitivist, Neoclassical, and serial styles?-

*The element of rhythm in 20th century music is best characterized as:

*America's greatest bandmaster is:

*Who invented the prepared piano?

*Who was the Paris-based Russian ballet impresario that commissioned Stravinsky to write ballets?

*What Hungarian composer combined native folk music characteristics with main currents of European music?-

*The element that most decisively separated 20th century music from that of the past was:-

*What kind of jazz is Duke Ellington known for?-

*Music that features the repetition, with little variation, of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns is known as:

*The "interruption" in Bartok's Interrupted Intermezzo represents:-

*The arrangement of tones in 12 tone music is called:-

*Schoenberg experimented with tone-color melody, or shifting each note of a melody to a different instrument. He called this:-Klangfarbenmelodie

*Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as:-

*What is considered to be America's unique contribution to theater?-

*Bartok's use of rhythm was:

*The 12 tone method:.

*Which of the following film scores was not composed by John Williams?-

*Which instrument did Louis Armstrong play?-

*The composer most closely associated with 12 tone music is:-

*West-Side Story is a modern-day musical setting of Shakespeare's:-

*A style of jazz singing that sets syllables without meaning to an improvised vocal line is known as:-

*What American folk opera by George Gershwin was far ahead of its time?

*Copland's Appalachian Spring depicts;-

*Which composer developed an electronic glove for playing the cello?-

*The Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to:

*Stravinsky immigrated to _______ just before World War II.