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Test - Exam 2020 May (with answers) Flashcards

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  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.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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Spring, Four Seasons
Vivaldi
Solo violin concerto

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  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.

This stately Polish dance features dotted rhythmic figures.
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Polonaise in A flat major
Chopin
solo piano

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  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.

This 1986 work is written for large symphony orchestra and two synthesizers.
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Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Adams
Fanfare for orchestra

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  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.

This ballet features strong accents, syncopations, and polyrhythms.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
Ballet

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  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 keyboard work displays contrapuntal mastery.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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Prelude and Fugue in B flat major
Bach
Solo keyboard music

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  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.

This work is based on a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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Erlking
Schubert
Lied

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  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.

This exotic opera features Spanish dance rhythms and vivid orchestration
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Carmen
Bizet
lyric opera

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  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.

This work integrate jazz, and Hispanic elements.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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West Side Story
Bernstein
musical theatre

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  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 second movement of this work is based on an anthem written to honour the Austrian Emperor.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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Emperor quartet
Haydn
String quartet

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  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.

This work opens with a short motive performed in unison by the strings and clarinets.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67
Beethoven
Symphony

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  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.

This program symphony uses an expanded symphony orchestra.
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Symphonie fantastique
Berlioz

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  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.

A rocket theme in G major opens the fourth movement of this work.
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Little Night Music (Eine kleine Nacthmusik) (p. 68)
Mozart
Serenade for strings (chamber music)

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  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 minimalist piano work is based on the principle of repetition.
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Changes
Louie
solo piano

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  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.

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

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Spring from the Four Seasons
Vivaldi
Solo violin concerto

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  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.

This work is subtitled Scenes from Pagan Russia.
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Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
Ballet

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  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.

This fugue features a tonal answer and two countersubjects.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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Prelude & Fugue in B flat major
Bach
solo keyboard

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  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 second movement of this work is a graceful rondo in C major.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Little Night Music)
Mozart
Serenade for Strings (chamber music).

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  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.

This large-scale dramatic work opens with a French overture.
Title: Composer: Genre:

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Messiah
Handel
oratorio

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  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 third movement is a scherzo and trio.
Title: Composer:

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Symphony No. 5 in C-, op. 67
Beethoven

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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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Erlking
Schubert

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  1. 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:

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Equal temperament
Prelude and Fugue in B flat major

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  1. 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
Term: Title:

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Melisma
Messiah
(see word painting example on p. 42)

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  1. 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
Term: Title:

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Sonata rondo
Little Night music (p. 68)

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  1. 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
Term: Title:

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Ballet
Rite of Spring

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  1. 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.
Term: Title:

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Cyclical structure
Symphony No. 5 in C-, op. 67

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  1. 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
Term: Title:

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Minimalism
Changes (Louie)
Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Adams)

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  1. 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:

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Aria
Messiah / Carmen

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  1. 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.
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Title of the collection: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Composer: Bach
Era: Baroque
Number of voices: 3
Texture of this movement: polyphonic
Provide the term for the initial statement of the theme shown above: subject

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  1. 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.

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Title: Erlking
Composer: Schubert
Era: Romantic
Song structure: Through-composed
Identify two characters portrayed in this work, and briefly describe their musical depiction.
1. Narrator - middle register, matter-of-fact emotion
2. the father - lower register, legato phrases to convey calmness
3. the son - higher register to show his youth.
4. Erlking - the middle register and has a fake sweetness in the beginning and then becomes forceful

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  1. 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.

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Title: Emperor Quartet
Composer: Haydn
Era: Classical
Form of this movement: theme and variations
Name the four instruments used in this work.
1. violin
2. violin
3. viola
4. cello

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  1. 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.
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Title: Little Night Music
Composer: Mozart
Era: Classical
Form of this movement: sonata form
Number of movements: 4
Name the key of the second theme group in the exposition: G major

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  1. 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.

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Title: Polonaise in A flat major, op. 53
Composer: Chopin
Era: Romantic
Form: ABA1 (with introduction and coda)
Briefly explain how this work demonstrates nationalism in music.
Chopin was born in Poland and polonaise is a Polish court dance.

Identify one pianistic challenge in this work:
- Sudden stress and extreme dynamics
- ornamentations
- soft and fast staccato octaves in left hand
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  1. 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.

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Title of complete work: Symphonie fantastique
Composer: Berlioz
Era: Mozart
Name the theme shown in this excerpt. idee fixe (the beloved)
Identify the instrument that plays the theme in this excerpt. clarinet

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  1. 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:

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Stephen Sondheim
Composer: Bernstein
Association: Sondheim is the lyricist of West Side Story

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  1. 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:

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Stephane Mallarme
Composer: Debussy
Association: The Afternoon of a Faun is based on a symbolist poem by Mallarme

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  1. 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:

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Prince Leopold of Cothen
Composer: Bach
Association: the Prince is Bach’s patron (supporter/employer)

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  1. 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:

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Vaslav Nijinsy
Composer: Stravinsky
Association: Nijinsky is the choreographer of The Rite of Spring

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  1. 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:

A

Christian Neefe
Composer: Beethoven
Association: Neefe was Beethoven’s composition and counterpoint teacher

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  1. 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:

A

Lorenzo da Ponte
Composer: Mozart
Association: da Ponte was Mozart’s favourite librettist

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  1. 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:

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Anna Magdalena
Composer: Bach
Association: Magdalena was Bach’s second wife

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  1. 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:

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The Esterhazy Family
Composer: Haydn
Association: Haydn worked for the Esterhazy family for about 30 years

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  1. 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.

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Alexina Louie
Era: Modern
Title of work: Changes
Identify and briefly explain two features of her musical style.
1. minimalist style, on the repetition of 16th-note
2. accents create a bell-like effect
3. variety created by changing dynamics and accents

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  1. 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.

Explain the term primitivism and briefly describe how it relates to the required work.

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

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Igor Stravinsky
Era: Modern
Title of required work: The Rite of Spring
Name two countries in which this composer lived.
1. Russia
2. Switzerland
3. USA

Explain the term primitivism and briefly describe how it relates to the required work:

Primitivism is an effect created using rhythm. The music has strong accents, heavy syncopation, polyrhythms and expanded percussion sections. The Rite of Spring has a pounding rhythms, strings are used percussively and the syncopation is reinforced by French horns

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

(numerous answers possible - see Genres and Titles on p. 121)

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  1. 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 symphonic poem.

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

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Claude Debussy
Dates: _1862 to 1918
Era: Modern
Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune was inspired by the work of which Symbolist poet? Stephanie Mallarme
Briefly define the term symphonic poem:
Symphonic poem is a one-movement orchestral work, free in form and with literary or pictorial associations

Name two genres cultivated by the composer, other than ballet, and provide one composition title. (see Genres and Titles on p. 115)
Genre: piano Title: Children’s Corner
Genre: opera Title: Pelleas et Melisande
Genre: Ballet Title: Jeux

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  1. 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:

A

John Adams
Title: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Era: Modern
Name one way in which Adam’s work demonstrates minimalism.
- the piece has short repetitions (ostinato)

Name two genres cultivated by the composer, and provide one composition title for each. (see Genres and Titles on p. 136)
Genre: Orchestral Title: Absolute Jest
Genre: opera Title: Nixon in China
Genre: Film scores Title: Matter of Heart

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