Test - Exam 2020 May - (no answers)

Question 1

1. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

The inspiration for this work is a group of sonnets, most likely written by the composer.
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Question 2

2. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This stately Polish dance features dotted rhythmic figures.
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Question 3

4. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This ballet features strong accents, syncopations, and polyrhythms.
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Question 4

3. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This 1986 work is written for large symphony orchestra and two synthesizers.
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Question 5

5. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

The keyboard work displays contrapuntal mastery.
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Question 6

6. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This work is based on a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Question 7

7. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This exotic opera features Spanish dance rhythms and vivid orchestration
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Question 8

8. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This work integrate jazz, and Hispanic elements.
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Question 9

9. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

The second movement of this work is based on an anthem written to honour the Austrian Emperor.
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Question 10

10. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This work opens with a short motive performed in unison by the strings and clarinets.
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Question 11

11. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This program symphony uses an expanded symphony orchestra.
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Question 12

12. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

A rocket theme in G major opens the fourth movement of this work.
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Question 13

13. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

The minimalist piano work is based on the principle of repetition.
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Question 14

14. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

Murmuring streams and a barking dog are among the poet images depicted in this work.
Title: Composer: Genre:

Question 15

15. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This work is subtitled Scenes from Pagan Russia.
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Question 16

16. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This fugue features a tonal answer and two countersubjects.
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Question 17

17. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

The second movement of this work is a graceful rondo in C major.
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Question 18

18. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This large-scale dramatic work opens with a French overture.
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Question 19

19. Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

The third movement is a scherzo and trio.
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Question 20

20 Identify the work most associated with each of the following statements. Composition titles must be chosen from the specific works required for this examination. You may use a composition title more than once.

This Lied was written when the composer was eighteen years old.
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Question 21

21. Provide the term for the following definitions, and name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination. (one mark for each answer)

A method of tuning keyboard instruments in which the octave is divided into twelve equal semitones.
Term: Title:

Question 22

22. Provide the term for the following definitions, and name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination. (one mark for each answer)

A group of notes sung on a single syllable/vowel
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Question 23

23. Provide the term for the following definitions, and name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination. (one mark for each answer)

A form that combines elements of sonata form and rondo form
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Question 24

24. Provide the term for the following definitions, and name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination. (one mark for each answer)

A highly stylized type of dance that often interprets a story
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Question 25

25. Provide the term for the following definitions, and name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination. (one mark for each answer)

A structure in which material heard in one movement recurs in later movements.
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Question 26

26. Provide the term for the following definitions, and name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination. (one mark for each answer)

A musical style characterized by the repetition of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns with little variation
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Question 27

27. Provide the term for the following definitions, and name one representative composition title for each term. Composition titles must be chosen from the works required for this examination. (one mark for each answer)

A solo song with accompaniment, heard in an opera, oratorio, or cantata.
Term: Title:

Question 28

28. Fill in the blanks for the music excerpt (5)
    Title of the collection
    Composer:
    Era:
    Number of voices:
    Texture of this movement:
    Provide the term for the initial statement of the theme shown above.

Question 29

29. Fill in the blanks for the music excerpt (5)

Title:
Composer:
Era:
Song structure:
Identify two characters portrayed in this work, and briefly describe their musical depiction.
1.
2.

Question 30

30. Fill in the blanks for the music excerpt (5)

Title: Composer:
Era:
Form of this movement:
Name the four instruments used in this work.
1. 2.
3. 4.

Question 31

31. Fill in the blanks for the music excerpt (5)
    Title: Composer:
    Era:
    Form of this movement:
    Number of movements:
    Name the key of the second theme group in the exposition.

Question 32

32. Fill in the blanks for the music excerpt (5)
    Title: Composer:
    Era:
    Form:
    Briefly explain how this work demonstrates nationalism in music.

Identify one pianistic challenge in this work.

Question 33

33. Fill in the blanks for the music excerpt (5)

Title of complete work: Composer:
Era:
Name the theme shown in this excerpt.
Identify the instrument that plays the theme in this excerpt.

Question 34

34. Identify the composer most closely associated with the following individuals and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (2 mark)

Stephen Sondheim
Composer:
Association:

Question 35

35. Identify the composer most closely associated with the following individuals and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (2 mark)

Stephane Mallarme
Composer:
Association:

Question 36

36. Identify the composer most closely associated with the following individuals and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (2 mark)

Prince Leopold of Cothen
Composer:
Association:

Question 37

37. Identify the composer most closely associated with the following individuals and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (2 mark)

Vaslav Nijinsy
Composer:
Association:

Question 38

38. Identify the composer most closely associated with the following individuals and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (2 mark)

Christian Neefe
Composer:
Association:

Question 39

39. Identify the composer most closely associated with the following individuals and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (2 mark)

Lorenzo da Ponte
Composer:
Association:

Question 40

40. Identify the composer most closely associated with the following individuals and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (2 mark)

Anna Magdalena
Composer:
Association:

Question 41

41. Identify the composer most closely associated with the following individuals and explain the musical association. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. (2 mark)

The Esterhazy Family
Composer:
Association:

Question 42

42. Fill in the blanks for the following composer (5 marks each)

Alexina Louie
Era:
Title of required work:
Identify and briefly explain two features of her musical style.
1.
2.

Question 43

43. Fill in the blanks for the following composer (5 marks each)

Igor Stravinsky
Era: Title of required work:
Name two countries in which this composer lived.
1. 2.

Name one genre cultivated by the composer, other than ballet, and provide one composition title.
Genre: Title:
Explain the term primitivism and briefly describe how it relates to the required work.

Question 44

44. Fill in the blanks for the following composer (5 marks each)

Claude Debussy
Dates: __________ to ___________ Era:
Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune was inspired by the work of which Symbolist poet?
_______________
Briefly define the term symphonie poem.

Name two genres cultivated by the composer, other than ballet, and provide one composition title.
Genre: Title:
Genre: Title:

Question 45

45. Fill in the blanks for the following composer (5 marks each)

John Adams
Title: Era:
Name one way in which Adam’s work demonstrates minimalism.

Name two genres cultivated by the composer, and provide one composition title for each.
Genre: Title:
Genre: Title: