Music Exam 5

Polyphonic texture prevailed during the classical period

Gradual crescendos and decrecendos were developed during the classical period

Brass instruments were especially favored in orchestral music during the classing period

Painters and sculptors in the classical style favored works that were filled with emotion

Music in the classical style has no continuo part

Composers in the classical period usually used forms in their instrumental works

Composers in the classical period composed many symphonies and concertos

The "K' by the numbers of Mozart's compositions stands for an amateur musicologist named Kochel who catalogued Mozart's music

The first movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 begins with an introduction

A sonata and sonata form are basically the same thing

Mozart created the basic plan for sonata form

Mozart's personal feelings are often evident in the works he composed

The solo part in a solo concerto is more showy than the parts for the orchestra

The soloist in a concerto sites at his or her usual place in the orchestra

The first movements of Classical concertos feature two development sections, one for the soloist and the other for the orchestra

The instruments most frequently featured in concertos during the Classical period were the piano and the trumpet

Composers in the classical period did not write the cadenzas for their concertos; they only indicated where a cadenza should appear

Neither Mozart nor Haydn fared well under the patronage system

Mozart wrote the libretto for his opera Don Giovanni

Mozart's Don Giovanni consists of arias, recitatives, and choruses

Chamber music works tend to follow the same pattern of movements as symphonies and concertos

Chamber music was created for performance in large concert halls

During the classical period, a sonata usually had at least one movement in sonata form

During the Classical period composers were asked to write much chamber music

The first movement of a sonata composed in the Classical period is usually in sonata form

In the Classical period the piano replaced the harpsichord as the favored keyboard intrument

Mozart composed only three piano sonatas

Beethoven could compose music that was louder and more powerful than Mozart could because the piano available to him had more black and white keys

Like Mozart, Beethoven had his compositions well thought out before putting them on paper

Beethoven's rondo in his "Waldstein" Sonata is very similiar in length and character to the rondo in Haydn's Trumpet Concerto

Beethoven's music often features dramatic contrasts

Beethoven's music usually contains a sense that the music is moving toward a final destination

Beethoven composed very little music other than symphonies and piano sonatas

Beethoven's early compositions are in the Classical style of Mozart and Haydn, but later his works often were longer and more powerful

The themes in the classical style tend to be

Which form was not used in many classical works

The word "classical" means something that is

The word classical refers to music composed between the years of appoximately

The Classical Period is sometimes referred to as the

Which intellectual leader of the Classical Period invented a musical instrument

Which intellectual leader of the Classical period composed music

Which is one of the basic philosophical beliefs of the Classical Period?

The Rococo style was

The classical period in art and music existed at about the same time as the

The phrases in Classical music are often

Which statement is not true about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The word "development" in music implies

The first large section in sonata form is called the

The exposition in sonata form usually contains

Transitions between themes in sonata form are valuable because they

In the development section in sonata form, the composer can

The recapitulation is similar to the exposition, except that the

In which movement of a symphony or concerto is sonata form likely to be found?

The three main sections in sonata form are

Mozart was highly successful in composing

Which section in sonata form is often "Doubled," or played through twice?

How many movements do most concertos have?

The second movement of a concerto is usually

Which is a rondo form?

The first movement of a concerto during the Classical period was almost always

What form is used often by composers in the Classical period for the last movement of concertos?

What city was considered the center for music during the Classical period?

Haydn was born the same year as

Haydn was very successful at composing

Opera buffa is

In Mozart's Don Giovanni, the statue that comes to dinner is

Don Giovanni dies when

During his life Mozart was best known for his

Christoph Willibald Gluck attempted to reform opera by

Don Giovanni mockingly invited the statue of the Commandant to

When Don Giovanni grabs the statue's hand,

The demon voices tell Don Giovanni that

Chamber music is

The first movement of most chamber music works composed during the Classical period is in

The word ensemble means

A piano quartet is comprised of

Since the Classical period, the word sonata means a work for

In a theme and variations the theme

A string quartet consists of

A chamber music ensemble consisting of a piano, violin, and cello is called a

When listening to chamber music, you should

The fourth movement of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet is

The appeal of chamber music lies in its

An important change in the piano during Beethoven's lifetime was the

A piano sonata in the Classical period typically had

A triplet is

An unusual feature of the first theme of the first movement of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata is that it

The second theme of the first movement of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata is not typical of second themes in Classical music, because it is

Beethoven's personality was influenced very much by the fact that he

Beethoven's ideals are represented in his setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" in his

Which techniques does Beethoven use in his "Waldstein" Sonata?

Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca" is so named because

The approximate tempos of the four movements of a symphony are usually in which order?

One of the important changes Beethoven made in sonata form was to

Beethoven was especially fond of

The second movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is

In the third movement of his Symphony No. 5, Beethoven changed the traditional minuet and trio to a

The third movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony uses a theme called the

A fugato is

Usually the fourth movement of symphonies in the Classical period

The fourth movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

The fourth movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is

When composers invert a motive, they

The second movement of a symphony is usually

Beethoven frequently used

How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?