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----- is NOT an important composer of nineteenth-century Lieder.: Heinrich Heine.
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------ was born in Germany and studied in Italy, but spent much of his creative life in England.: Handel.
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A drama that is sung is called:: An opera.
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A highly emotional song in an opera is called:: An aria.
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A jazz style that sets syllables without meaning (vocables) to an improvised vocal line.: Scat singing.
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A keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked by quills is:: The harpsichord.
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A large-scale work in several movements for solo instrument(s) and orchestra is called:: A concerto.
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A short phrase repeated over and over in the bass is called:: A ground bass.
9.
A slight drop of pitch on the third, fifth, or seventh note of the scale, common in blues and jazz. Also "bent pitch.": "Blue" note.
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A song structure that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called:: Through-composed.
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A string quartet consists of:: 2 violins, viola, and cello.
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A theme may be fragmented by dividing it into smaller units called:: Motives.
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A twelve-tone scale, including all the semitones of the octave, is called:: Chromatic.
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A twentieth-century style that combined elements of Classical and Baroque music with modernist trends.: Neoclassicism.
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A typical feature of a concerto is a free solo passage without orchestral accompaniment called:: The cadenza.
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A vocal style in which the melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches; developed by Arnold Schoenberg.: Sprechstimme.
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All of the following were new opera types that sought to reflect simplicity and real human emotions EXCEPT:: Opera Seria.
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An arrangement of the twelve chromatic tones that serves as the basis of the a twelve-tone composition.: Tone Row.
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An Italian comic opera is called:: Opera buffa.
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Approximately how many songs did Schubert compose?: More than 600.
21.
Beethoven suffered perhaps the most traumatic of all maladies for a musician. What was it?: Deafness.
22.
Beethoven's career is often divided into ----- periods.: Three.
23.
Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata has ------ movements.: Three.
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Beethoven's temperment could be best described as:: Explosive and independent.
25.
Begli occhi, by Barbara Strozzi, is written for:: Two sopranos and basso continuo.
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Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is an example of:: A program symphony.
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Brahms wrote no symphonies until he was past the age of forty, in part because he was in awe of the symphonies of:: Beethoven.
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Chopin is considered to be national composer of:: Poland.
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Chopin is credited with creating:: The modern piano style.
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Clara Schumann was a virtuoso performer on:: The piano.
31.
Comparative study of musics of the world, with a focus on the cultural context of music.: Ethnomusicology.
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Compositional procedure of the twentieth century based on the use of all twelve chromatic tones (in a tone row) without a central tone, or tonic, according to prescribed rules.: Twelve-tone Music.
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Dido sings her famous lament in Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas just prior to:: Killing herself.
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During the nineteenth century, concert life began to center in the:: Public concert hall.
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's Under the Greenwood Tree is written for:: Unaccompanied four-voice choir.
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George Frederic Handel was considered master of:: The oratorio.
37.
Haydn enjoyed phenominal musical success with two trips to which country?: England.
38.
How did comic opera differ from opera seria?: It was sung in the vernacular, it presented down-to-earth plots, and it featured ensemble as well as solo singing.
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How did Haydn's Surprise Symphony earn its nickame?: A surprise loud chord is played in the slow movement.
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How many bars is in the standard blues song repeating pattern?: Twelve.
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How many movements are in a Classical concerto?: Three.
42.
How many notes in a scale does an octave span?: Eight.
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How many players are generally necessary to perform a trio sonata?: Four.
44.
How many symphonies did Beethoven write?: Nine.
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In addition to composing music, Hildegard of Bingen is known for:: Visions that foretold the future, founding her own convent, and writing religious poetry.
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In Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, the idee fixe:: Symbolizes the beloved, recures by virtue of the literary program, and unifies the five movements, which are diverse in character and mood.
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In her aria "Un Bel Di" from Madame Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San sings of:: Her wish for her husband to return.
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In music compositions, a theme is:: A musical idea that is used as a building block.
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In sonata-allgro form, the section that features the most tension and drama through modulation and motivic interplay is called:: The development.
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In the Classical multimovement cycle, the third movemet is usually in:: Minuet and trio form.
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Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictoral associations is called:: Program music.
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Is Billy the Kid an opera, ballet, or a cantata?: Ballet.
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Mozart is remembered today as:: The most gifted child prodigy in the history of music.
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Mozart's compositions are often listed by their K numbers, which refer to:: The man who first cataloged his works.
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Mozart's librettist for The Marriage of Figaro was:: Lorenzo da Ponte.
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Music based on the seven tones of a major or minor scaled is called:: Diatonic.
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Music for a small ensemble of two to about ten players with one player to a part is called:: Chamber music.
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Music of the fourteenth century underwent a change of style that became known as:: the Ars nova.
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Of the following, which does NOT describe orchestras of the nineteenth century?: The size of orchestras decreased, making for more compact ensembles.
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Of the following, which form would be found most likely as the last movement of a Classical sonata or symphony?: Rondo.
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Opera that featured huge choruses, elaborate dance scenes, ornate costumes and scenery, and serious historical plots is called:: Grand opera.
62.
Puccini's Madame Butterfly ends:: Tragically.
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Rapid-fire, talky singing whose primary function is to advance the plot in an opera is called:: Recitative.
64.
Robert Schumann's wife, Clara, was:: The daughter of his piano teacher, one fo the foremost pianists of her day, and the inspiration for A Poet's Love.
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Romantic composers sought to make the instruments sing. This statement best describes the element of:: Melody.
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Schumann's "In The Lovely Month of May" is from which song cycle?: A Poet's Love.
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Tchaikovsky's fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is:: The Nutcracker.
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Tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in Neoclassical music.: Formalism.
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The ------ became the most important genre of orchestral music during the Romantic era.: Symphony.
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The accompanying group in a concerto grosso is called:: The ripieno.
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The approximate dates of the Baroque period are:: 1600-1750.
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The artificially created male soprano or alto who dominated opera was known as:: The castrato.
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The Baroque era witnessed the appearance of the:: Solo concerto and concerto grosso.
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The Baroque period witnessed a new style of music, which featured a single vocal melody with accompaniment. This was known as:: Monody.
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The chorale is a type of hymn tune created by:: Martin Luther.
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The Classical orchestra, which group of instruments served as the ensemble's nucleus?: Strings.
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The Classical period in music ranged from approximately:: 1750-1825.
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The dreamy first movement of the Moonlight Sonata features:: A singing melody, an accompaniment with arpreggios, and a strophic-like form.
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The early Classical symphony was characterized by quickly ascending themes with a strong rhythmic drive. These are known as:: Rocket themes.
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The expressive device used by Renaissance composers to pictorialize words musically is called:: Word painting.
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The familiar tune quoted near the end of Gottschalk's work The Banjo is:: Camptown Races.
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The favorite subjects for the Romantic poets were:: Love, longing, and nature.
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The final section of a sonata-allegro movement, which rounds it off with vigorious closing cadence, is:: The coda.
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The first era of Western music in which instrumental music was as important as vocal music was the:: Baroque era.
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The first movement of a symphony is usually in:: Sonata-allegro form.
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The fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing in the Renaissance was called:: A cantus firmus.
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The German term for the art song is:: Lied.
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The greatest native English composer of the Baroque was:: Henry Purcell.
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The group of early Baroque writers, artists, and musicians whose aim was to resurrect the musical drama of ancient Greece was known as:: The Florentine Camerata.
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The instrument which Mozart played and for which he wrote many concertos was:: The piano.
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The instrumental form based on the contrast of two dissimilar masses of sound is called:: The concerto.
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The late Renaissance madrigal came to full flower in the music of:: Claudio Monteverdi.
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The late Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism called:: Verismo.
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The librettist for Wagner's music dramas was:: The composer himself.
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The most important instrumental genre of the Classical period was:: The symphony.
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The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was:: The piano.
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The most important patron of music in the Middle Ages was:: The Roman Catholic Church.
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The new pre-Classical "sensitive" style, which saw the first stirrings of Romanticism, was called:: Empfindsamkeit.
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The overall form of a minuet and trio is best described as:: A-B-A.
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The short, lyric piano piece was the instrumental equivalent of:: The song.
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The simultaneous use of two or more keys, common in twentieth-century music.: Polytonality.
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The smallest interval in our Western musical system is called:: A half-step.
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The solo concerto is:: An instrumental work, usually in three movements, that features one performer supported by an accompanying group of instruments.
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The solo instrument in Spring from The Four Seasons is:: The violin.
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The structure known as binary form is:: a-a-b-b.
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The system in which the aristocracy sponsored musicians is called:: Patronage.
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The term tempo rubato means:: Borrowed time.
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The text of an opera is called:: The libretto.
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The third movement of a Classical symphony is most frequently in:: Minuet and trio form.
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The three main sections of sonata-allegro form are the exposition, development, and:: Recapitulation.
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The two principal centers of nineteenth century ballet were France and:: Russia.
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The vocal style in opera that imitates the natural inflections of speech is called:: Recitative.
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Tonality means that we hear a piece of music in relation to a central tone, called:: The tonic.
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Total abandonment of tonality (centering in a key). Atonal music moves from one level of dissonance to another, without areas of relaxation.: Atonality.
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Using material from an earlier movement in a symphony is called:: Cyclical form.
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Vivaldi was known as "the red priest" for:: His red hair.
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Vivaldi's music students at the Conservatorio del'Ospedale della Pieta were:: Young women.
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Wagner called his operas:: Music dramas.
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Wagner's cycle of four music dramas is called:: The Ring of the Nibelung.
120.
Water Music by Handel is best described as a:: Suite.
121.
What 20th century Hungarian composer combined folk music elements with European classical style?: Bela Bartok
122.
What does NOT characterize Gregorian chant?: Triadic harmonies.
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What does the "interruption" in Bartok's Interrupted Intermezzo represent?: The Nazi invasion of Russia in 1942.
124.
What happened at the premiere of The Rite of Spring in Paris, 1913?: The revolutionary score touched off a near riot.
125.
What happens to Billy at the end of Billy the Kid?: Billy is tracked down and killed by his childhood friend Sheriff Pat Garrett.
126.
What instrument did Louis Armstrong play?: The trumpet.
127.
What is the form of the second movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?: Theme and Variations.
128.
What is the principal element of a fugue?: Counterpoint.
129.
What is the program, or story, behind Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun?: The text describes a faun, a mythological creature of the forest that is half man, half goat. This "simple sensuous passionate being" awakes in the woods and tries to remember: was he visited by three lovely nymphs, or was this but a dream? He will never know. The sun is warm, the earth fragrant. He curls himself up and falls into a wine-drugged sleep.
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What is the typical number of movements found in a concerto?: Three.
131.
What is unusual about Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?: There is no break between the third and fourth movements.
132.
What scene is depicted in Smetana's The Moldau?: A peasant wedding, nymphs in the moonlight, and patriotic castles.
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What trend inspired composers to write music evoking scenes or sounds of far off lands?: Exoticism.
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When a meloldy is transposed to another key, what remains the same?: The shape of the melodic line.
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Which 20th century Russian composer had three periods of composition and also wrote The Rite of Spring?: Igor Stravinsky
136.
Which American city is the birthplace of jazz?: New Orleans
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Which best describes absolute music?: Music without a story or text.
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Which best describes the form of the first movement of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik?: Sonata-allegro.
139.
Which best describes the inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique?: The actress Harriet Smithson.
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Which best describes the lyrical melodies of the Classical period?: Conjunct, diatonic, and singable.
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Which best describes the opening idea of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?: A four-note motive.
142.
Which best describes the style of the third movement of Brahm's Symphony No. 3?: A melancholic waltz.
143.
Which character in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro is best described as a young, innocent man who is in love with love?: Cherubino.
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Which composer has been considered to be the single most important phenomenon in the artistic life to the latter half of the nineteenth century?: Wagner.
145.
Which composer is known as "the poet of the piano"?: Chopin.
146.
Which composer is noted for his monethematic sonata-allegro form?: Haydn.
147.
Which composer rebelled against the patronage system and struggeled to achieve financial independence?: Mozart.
148.
Which composer responded to the reforms of the Council of Trent in an exemplary fashion?: Palestrina.
149.
Which country does Mariachi music come from?: Mexico.
150.
Which country started the Expressionist movement?: Germany.
151.
Which description characterizes the story of The Marriage of Figaro?: It satirizes the upper class.
152.
Which does NOT characterize an oratorio?: Elaborate scenery.
153.
Which early Renaissance composer exerted a powerful influence on generations of composers who followed?: Josquin.
154.
Which is NOT an important keyboard instrument in the Baroque?: The piano.
155.
Which is NOT true of Brahm's German Requiem?: The name of Christ is mentioned throughout.
156.
Which is true of Schubert's Erlking?: It is the masterpiece of his youth, it is based on the legend that whoever is touched by the kind of the elves must die, and it presents four characters who are differentiated in the music.
157.
Which movement of a symphony is traditionally the slowest?: The second movement.
158.
Which of the following dance types was NOT standard in a Baroque suite: Tarantella.
159.
Which of the following does NOT characterize the music for Act III, scene 1 of Die Walkure?: Subordinate orchestral role.
160.
Which of the following genres does NOT usually follow the general structure of a multimovement cycle?: Overture.
161.
Which of the following is a common characteristic of the second movement of a multimovement cycle?: A slow tempo, theme and variations form, and new key.
162.
Which of the following is a set of forty eight preludes and fugues by Bach?: The Well-Tempered Clavier.
163.
Which of the following is a well-known set of concertos by Vivaldi?: The Four Seasons.
164.
Which of the following is NOT a type of orchestral program music?: Concerto.
165.
Which of the following was a widely loved nationalist opera composer?: Verdi.
166.
Which of the following women organized concerts featuring music by her brother?: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.
167.
Which three characters sing the terzetta, or trio, in Act I of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro?: The Count, Basilio, and Susanna.
168.
Which two instruments would most likely have played the basso continuo in the Baroque era?: Cello and harpsichord.
169.
Which Western orchestral instrument, or instruments, derive from Turkish military bands?: Triangles, cymbals, and bass drums.
170.
Who dies at the end of Rigoletto?: Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter.
171.
Who was Haydn's principal patron?: Prince Esterhazy.
172.
Who was John Phillip Sousa, i.e. what was he famous for?: America's greatest band master who conducted the U.S. Marine Band from 1880-1892 and later formed the Sousa's Band. Known as "the March King".
173.
Who was the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?: Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
174.
Who was the King of Ragtime?: Scott Joplin.
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Who was the main Impressionist composer we studied and what nationality was he?: Claude Debussy; France.
