Test - Exam 2017 Dec (with answers)

Question 1

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

The sonata cycle served as the primary form for instrumental music

Answer 1

Classical

Question 2

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

English oratorio originated in this era

Answer 2

Baroque

Question 3

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Rocket themes were often used as the dramatic opening of a movement during this era

Answer 3

Classical

Question 4

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Electronic instruments like the synthesizer were used in instrumental works

Answer 4

Modern

Question 5

Dec 2017 - Identify the era
Nationalism and exoticism emerged as important currents.

Answer 5

Romantic

Question 6

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Composers used non-traditional scales, including modes, whole-tone, and pentatonic scales

Answer 6

Modern

Question 7

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Composers of this era absorbed popular music and jazz into their works

Answer 7

Modern

Question 8

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Composers employed ritornello form in concerto

Answer 8

Baroque

Question 9

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Equal temperament emerged as a preferred tuning system for keyboard

Answer 9

Baroque

Question 10

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Compositions from this era are characterized by elegance, balance, and restraint

Answer 10

Classical

Question 11

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Movements were often dominated by a single “affect”

Answer 11

Baroque

Question 12

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Composers of the Viennese School favored absolute music in this era.

Answer 12

Classical

Question 13

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Figured bass provided the structure for guided improvisation.

Answer 13

Baroque

Question 14

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

This era saw the use of expanded rhythmic elements, including polyrhythm and changing meter.

Answer 14

Modern

Question 15

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

The Lied was an important genre, capturing the spirit of this era.

Answer 15

Romantic

Question 16

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Elements of the musical style included chromatic harmony, virtuosity and lyrical melodies

Answer 16

Baroque

Question 17

Dec 2017 - Identify the era

Composers cultivated several genres of program music, including the program symphony and the symphonic poem

Answer 17

Romantic

Question 18

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

1. A Baroque performance practice involving two performers, one playing the notated bass line and one realizing the harmonies.
   Term: _______________ Title: ________________
   Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 18

Basso Continuo
Spring from Four Seasons
Vivaldi
Solo Violin concerto

Question 20

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

2. A musical effect created largely through strong accents, heavy syncopation, polyrhythm, and an expanded percussion section
   Term: _______________ Title: ________________
   Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 20

Primitivism
Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
Ballet

Question 21

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

3. the second main section of a sonata form, involving frequent modulations and the manipulation of previously introduced themes
   Term: _______________ Title: ________________
   Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 21

Development
Symphony No. 5 in C-
Symphony
Beethoven

Question 22

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

4. musical embellishments that decorates a melody line
   Term: _______________ Title: ________________
   Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 22

Ornamentation
Spring from Four Seasons
Vivaldi
Solo Violin concerto

Question 23

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

5. A temporary shirt of the metric accents; notes groups in threes are momentarily groups in twos or vice versa
   Term: _______________ Title: ________________
   Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 23

hemiola
West Side Story
Musical
Bernstein

Changes
Solo piano
Louie

Question 24

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

6. Fasciation with foreign lands and cultures evoked through melody, rhythm, harmony, and orchestration
   Term: _______________ Title: ________________
   Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 24

Exoticism
Carmen
(Lyric) opera
Bizet

Question 25

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

7. a non-traditional scale consisting of six different, equally spaced pitches.
   Term: _______________ Title: ________________
   Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 25

Whole tones
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Debussy
Symphonic poem

Question 26

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

8. A note that is sustained while the harmony changes in other parts
   Term: _______________ Title: ________________
   Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 26

pedal point
Spring from Four Seasons
Vivaldi
Solo Violin concerto

Question 27

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

9. music composed for a small ensemble of two to ten players, usually performed without a conductor
   Term: _______________ Title: ________________
   Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 27

Chamber Music
Emperor Quartet
Haydn
String quartet

Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Little Night Music
Mozart
serenade for strings (chamber music)

Question 28

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

10. A song structure that does not repeat entire sections of the music, thereby allowing for a close relationship between the text and music
    Term: _______________ Title: ________________
    Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 28

durchkomponiert (Through-composed)
Erlking
Schubert
Lied

Question 29

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

11. A French literary movement of the lat 19th century in which authors sought to suggest images rather than depict them directly
    Term: _______________ Title: ________________
    Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 29

Symbolism
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Debussy
Symphonic Poem

Question 30

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

12. A two-part form in which opening material from Section A returns after B material
    Term: _______________ Title: ________________
    Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 30

Rounded Binary
Polonaise in A flat major
Chopin
Solo piano music

Question 31

Dec 2017 - Provide the term for all of the following definitions. Name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination.

13. a monophonic chant melody dating from the late Middle Ages drawn from the Roman Catholic Mass for the dead
    Term: _______________ Title: ________________
    Composer: __________ Genre: ____________

Answer 31

dies irae
Symphonic fanstique
Berlioz
program symphony

Question 32

4. Name the composer most closely associated with all of the following and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (out of 21)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Composer: ___________
Association:

Answer 32

Schubert
Goethe was Schubert’s favourite poet and Erlking is based on one of Goethe’s poems

Question 33

4. Name the composer most closely associated with all of the following and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (out of 21)

Charles Jennens Composer: ___________
Association:

Answer 33

Handel
Jennens is the librettist for Handel’s Messiah

Question 34

4. Name the composer most closely associated with all of the following and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (out of 21)

Lorenzo da Ponte Composer: ___________
Association:

Answer 34

Mozart
da Ponte was Mozart’s favourite librettist

Question 35

4. Name the composer most closely associated with all of the following and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (out of 21)

Prosper Merimee Composer: ___________
Association:

Answer 35

Bizet
Merimee was the librettist for Carmn.

Question 36

4. Name the composer most closely associated with all of the following and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (out of 21)

Harriet Smithson Composer: ___________
Association:

Answer 36

Berlioz
Berlioz was in love was Smithson and the idee fixe in Symphonie fanstique was based on Smithson.

Question 37

4. Name the composer most closely associated with all of the following and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (out of 21)

Stephen Sondheim Composer: ___________
Association:

Answer 37

Bernstein
Sondheim is the lyricist for Bernstein’s West Side Story