He enjoyed a prosperous career working for a wealthy Hungarian aristocrat:
Question 3 options:
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Franz Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Question 5
What was the most important orchestral genre of the Classical period?
Question 5 options:
Overture
Symphony
Concerto
Tone Poem
Question 6
He was a prodigy unlike any the world had ever seen, composing his first pieces of music at age 5:
Question 6 options:
Beethoven
Mozart
Sammartini
Haydn
Question 7
This was the most important keyboard instrument of the Classical period:
Question 7 options:
Question 8
What is chamber music?
Question 8 options:
Music for performance in church and state-related ceremonies (weddings, coronations, etc.)
Music for large concert halls with a ticket-buying audience
Music for one person to play alone, privately, with no one else there
Music intended for small, intimate rooms and gatherings.
Question 9
He was the “father of the symphony”:
Question 9 options:
Mozart
Haydn
Beethoven
Hummel
Question 10
What was the most popular type of chamber music in the 18th Century?
Question 10 options:
Piano trio
Sonata
String quartet
Woodwind quintet
Question 11
His 9 symphonies are considered indispensable to the symphonic literature:
Question 11 options:
Haydn
Mozart
CPE Bach
Beethoven
Question 12
Which of the following best describes chamber music?
Question 12 options:
Relies on a conductor to help keep the musicians in time rhythmically
Creates a musical conversation between the players
Is generally very simple, easy to play, and therefore a favorite among young student musicians
Creates very dramatic, vivid images from a poem or other literature
Question 13
Music that does not have any literary or pictorial associations; it is simply music for music’s own sake:
Question 13 options:
Program music
Chamber music
Absolute music
Concert music
Question 14
This is an improvisatory part of a concerto movement, for soloist alone, that gives the performer a chance to demonstrate the highest levels of their technical proficiency:
Question 14 options:
Cadenza
Coda
Exposition
Development
Question 15
During the Classical period, the first movement of multi-movement works such as symphonies and string quartets were almost always in this structural form:
Question 15 options:
Binary
Strophic
Sonata (or sonata allegro)
Rondo
Question 16
Who composed the first symphony to include the human voice?
Question 16 options:
CPE Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Question 17
Match the parts of sonata form with their correct descriptions.
Question 17 options:
1234
A return to the opening themes, but with no key change.
1234
The ending, the final wrap-up of the movement
1234
Uses fragmented themes and multiple key changes to heighten musical tension.
1234
Exposition
1.
Presents the primary musical themes
2.
Coda
3.
Development
4.
Recapitulation
Question 18
He never was awarded a meaningful permanent appointment with any aristocratic court, so he essentially became one of the first freelance musicians.
Question 18 options:
Handel
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
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