Answer Choices:
Emotionally intensive moments from movement I
Gentle transition from one major theme to another in the recapitulation
Thematic material is expanded and explored
Where the themes return in the original order
Answer: Thematic material is expanded and explored
Question: In most recapitulation sections, which of these is true?
Answer Choices:
Themes from the exposition return; but now the second tonal area and closing material are in the first key.
The opening section often starts with new themes in the recapitulation.
The original key is avoided
New sections written for the recapitulation make it appear (sometimes) to be completely new material.
Answer: Themes from the exposition return; but now the second tonal area and closing material are in the first key.
Question: Which of these characteristics is NOT true about Mozart’s operas?
Answer Choices:
He was the first to introduce the OVERTURE in the opera itself
Servants from his operas would outsmart their masters
Mozart wrote German Singspiel operas (dialogue and songs)
He wrote Die Zauberflöte “The Magic Flute”
Answer: He was the first to introduce the OVERTURE in the opera itself
Question: In the opera Don Giovanni, who was “Don Giovanni”?
Answer Choices:
An engaged peasant girl
A wife of Don Giovanni in Act III
Servant to Don Giovanni
A woman scorned by many men’s requests
An attractive villain
Answer: An attractive villain
Question: What type of songs have a series followed by a refrain/chorus?
Answer Choices:
Trouveur
Troubadour
Trouvere
Chanson
Organum
Answer: Carols
Question: What was a minstrel from southern France called?
Answer Choices:
Trouveur
Troubadour
Canso
Chanson
Answer: Troubadour
Question: In the opera Don Giovanni, who is the “Zerlina”?
Answer Choices:
A virtuous village girl
A woman scorned named by a nobleman
Servant to Don Giovanni
A wife to Don Giovanni in Act III
An engaged peasant girl
Answer: An engaged peasant girl
Question: In Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, which of these is not characteristic of the development section?
Answer Choices:
The original key is avoided
First theme is developed briefly
Music shifts to minor ton
A brief change, changing the mood with a muddied resolution
Development is important and is written with much detail
Answer: Development is important and is written with much detail (The user answered incorrectly)
Question: Identify the piece that is playing in class.
Answer Choices:
Mozart: “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
Tchaikovsky: “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
Mozart: “Die Zauberflöte” (The Magic Flute), K620
Tchaikovsky: “Romeo and Juliet” Overture-Fantasy, 1880
Tchaikovsky: “Swan Lake” Opus 20
Answer: Mozart: “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
Question: What type of music would be performed in a Mass by monks?
Answer Choices:
Gregorian Chant
Organum
Chanson de Geste (Song of the Deeds)
Canso
Carols
Answer: Gregorian Chant
Question: Put the following parts of ternary form in order: Statement Contrast Recurrence
Answer Choices:
Answer: Statement: First Contrast: Second Recurrence: Third
Question: The Recitative is:
Answer Choices:
Speech like singing
A slow lyrical song
An instrument played between each sung line
Answer: Speech like singing
Question: Match the movements of a common 4-movement plan in the classical era to their correct terms: Sonata-Allegro Theme and variations, rondo Ternary form (A-B-A) and minuet and trio Sonata-Allegro, theme and variations, or rondo
Answer Choices:
Answer: Sonata-Allegro: First Theme and variations, rondo: Third Ternary form (A-B-A) and minuet and trio: Second Sonata-Allegro, theme and variations, or rondo: Fourth
Question: In a Sonata-Allegro form, what is “reposition”?
Answer Choices:
Where the introductory section was presented
Harmony becomes stable, ending of the piece
The section that ends with the half-cadence
Answer: Where the introductory section was presented
Question: The Aria is:
Answer Choices:
A song in an opera
Used for the chorus
An instrument played between each sung line
A very slow piece of music
The end of an opera
Answer: A song in an opera
Question: True or False: This is the correct makeup of the Exposition in a Sonata-Allegro movement: The first tonal area states (theme(s)) in the home key. Transition or bridge (modulates) and moves the music forward. The second tonal area states (theme(s)) in the contrasting key. The Closing material uses frequent cadences to signal the end of the exposition.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following instruments did NOT have an ancestor in the medieval period?
Answer Choices:
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Lute
Violin
Answer: Saxophone
Question: What is the complex mass text formulaic?
Answer Choices:
Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Gregorian Chant
Chanson
Organum
Answer: Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Question: How did Mozart change opera?
Answer Choices:
He focused on love stories in German history
All of the above
He enjoyed some success with the opera; he wanted it to be more audience
He used Turkish and world elements to expand Mozart’s effects
Answer: All of the above
Question: What is a libretto?
Answer Choices:
The last part of an opera
Wonderful movement that preceded the baroque
The musical score or the singing in lyrical opera
The musical score or the singing in lyrical opera
Answer: The text of an opera or other long vocal work.
Question: Of the following, which is NOT representative of music of the medieval period?
Answer Choices:
Repetitive use of words from Scripture in music for the first time.
Beginning of musical forms and notated music (when the music was written).
Music that publicly humiliated rivals.
Music was mainly heard by the mass public in churches that could fit the huge and more diverse demographic but was not diverse.
Church music was written from chant traditions, which is linked to the beginnings of harmony.
Answer: Music that publicly humiliated rivals.