Music Appreciation Test 3

Classicism, as a stylistic period in western art music, roughly encompassed the years

1750-1820

One of the biggest differences between Baroque and Classical music is that

Basso continuo is not used in Classical music

The typical orchestra of the classical period consisted of

strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani.

Haydn's contract of employment shows that he was considered

a skilled servant, loyal to a certain family.

This city was the music capital during the Classical Era.

Vienna

Symphony may be defined as a(n)

All answers are correct

The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is

fast, slow, dance-related, fast

A classical concerto is a three-movement work for

instrumental soloist and orchestra

A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performer's virtuosity is called

a cadenza

Mozart’s Requiem

was completed by one of his students because Mozart died while writing it.

In composing music, Mozart

was a prodigy, composing hundreds of works from a very young age.

This composer was a friend of Mozart and a teacher of Beethoven.

Haydn

Classical chamber music featured

a small group of 4 to 9 musicians

Beethoven

All answers are correct

Beethoven, in comparison with earlier composers, was

a far more successful freelance musician than any previous musician

The Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb Major (3rd Movement), heard in class, includes which of the following:

A virtuosic trumpet soloist with orchestra

One of Mozart’s most famous operas features a womanizer named _________________, which is also the title of the opera.

Don Giovanni

The Heilingenstadt Testament

was written by Beethoven to his brothers about his increasing despair and his deafness

Beethoven’s final Symphony, Symphony No. 9

Is known as the “Ode to Joy” Symphony and has a theme of universal brotherhood

This composer was a musical prodigy and genius, and was one of the most famous and influential composers of the classical era

Mozart

Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western art music, encompassed the years

1820-1900

Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?

An emphasis on being unemotional, dull, and boring

Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as

exoticism

Program music is

All answers are correct.

The classical composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers due to being a savvy business man and freelance musician was

Ludwig van Beethoven.

Composers were often known as “starving artists” during this era because

few were financially successful and barely made ends meet

Compositions during the Romantic era included the following except

works featuring harpsichord and basso continuo

A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso piano performer was

Franz Liszt.

An important musical instrument common in almost every middle-class home during the romantic period was the

piano.

One of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by a private patron was

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

An art song is typically a musical composition for

solo voice and piano.

The mood of an art song is often set by a brief piano introduction and summed up at the end by a piano section called a

postlude.

Schubert's songs number more than

600.

The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig (The Erlking) suggests

he galloping horse.

While in Paris, Chopin

earned a good living by teaching piano to the daughters of the rich.

A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is

an etude.

Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso

pianist.

Audiences were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because

of its vivid description of the weird and fantastical including witches and beheading

Which of the following statements is not true?

Tchaikovsky was a happily-married family man with a cheerful self-confident outlook.

In 1892, Dvořák went to ___________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music.

New York

Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 is also known as ___________

The New World Symphony

Like Berlioz’s idee fixe, a short musical idea used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called

leitmotif.

As heard in class, Tchaikovsky wrote an overture-fantasy based on this Shakespearean play:

Romeo and Juliet

Puccini was known for his use of an artistic “true to life” style known as ___________.

Verismo

This opera composer did not use the traditional format of recitative and arias, but instead had continuous music throughout, creating the longest opera in history.

Wagner

Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, is a great example of ___________ because it is set in China, but Puccini was from Italy.

Exoticism

In the Romantic era, composers wanted

to have their own uniquely identifiable music

Tcahikovksy’s 1812 Overture features

real cannon fire as part of the piece

Wagner’s Ring Cycle is notable because

all of the above