Unit #3 Listening Test

Piano, quiet, water lapping

Beethoven

Which statements best describe the life and career of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

Born into a musical family His own instrument was the piano By the age of thirteen he had written several operas

Piano, Prepared

Cage

Piano, contrary motion, "wobbly" rhythm

Chopin

Who of the following composers wrote short lyric piano pieces in the Romantic era

Clara Wieck Schumann Felix Mendelssohn Franz Liszt

The divertimento and the serenade are genres from opera

False; chamber

Sonata-allegro form is made up of one main section

False; three

Whose poetry did George Crumb set in his second book of madrigals?

Federico García Lorca

Which of the following describes Robert Schumann's Dicterliebe (A Poet's Love)?

It is a song cycle. It is comprised of sixteen songs. The poems follow a psychological progression.

Which of the following is a characteristic of Robert Schumann's In the Lovely Month of May?

It is for solo voice and piano. It is in a strophic form The poetry was written by Heine.

The opera Madame Butterfly is set in:

Japan

Chamber Strings, melody in solo violin

Mozart - Little Night Music

Orchestra, singable melody, melody in highest voices

Mozart Piano Concerto

Which of the following correctly describe Countess Giulietta Guicciardi?

One of Beethoven's students The dedicatee of the Moonlight Sonata

For which setting did Mozart write Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A little night music)?

Public outdoor entertainment

Voice and orchestra, for soprano & orchestra, opens w/ soprano (doubled by violins), bass drum = cannon

Puccini

Which of the following operas is considered part of the verismo tradition?

Puccini's Tosca Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci Puccini's La bohème

What is the last section of sonata-allegro form in which the opening thematic material is restated?

Recapitulation

Voice and chamber ensemble, for sopranos, and opens with the soprano only

Schoenberg

Voice and piano, for baritone & piano, opens with piano only

Schubert

For which soloist did Mozart write his G Major Piano Concerto, K. 453?

Babette von Ployer

Which of the following correctly describe the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata?

Continuous triplet pattern in accompaniment In an expressive minor key

Orchestra, opens with solo flute

Debussy

Which of the following correctly describes strophic song form?

Every stanza is set to same melody

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is associated with the twentieth-century arts movement known as

Expressionism

Which of the following describe the first movement of Mozart's G Major Piano Concerto, K. 453?

It is in a major key. It is mostly homophonic. It is written in first-movement concerto form.

Which of the following is true of Impressionism?

It was initially a term denoting scorn of the new style. It developed in parallel with the Symbolist movement in poetry. It was rebuffed by the academic salons of Paris.

Puccini makes reference to the music of which nations in Madame Butterfly?

Japanese and United States

e prepared piano required in Sonatas and Interludes simulates a

Javanese gamelan

Who wrote the dramatic poem (based on a Danish legend) which provides the text for Schubert's Elfking?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who is the inventor of the "prepared piano"?

John Cage

The Moonlight Sonata evokes what new expressive style?

Romantic

What type of character is Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

a poet-rascal-clown

Cadenza

a unique feature of the solo concerto in which the orchestra drops out and the soloist improvises

Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

chromatic and with a free rhythm

Which of the following describes Chopin's Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op. 24, No. 4?

chromatic melody triple meter

What instruments does Puccini use to evoke the timbres of the Japanese gagaku orchestra?

harp, flute, piccolo, bells

Which of the following best describe the sonata in the Classical era?

sometimes designed for amateur performance considered the most significant in the keyboard literature sometimes used by composer-performers as show pieces

In Caballito negro, Crumb instructs the soprano to sing without vibrato, with a ______ tone

white

The system in music composition in which all twelve tones of the chromatic scale are equally important is known as

atonality

The form of John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes is

binary with each section repeated

Robert Schumann was noted for which of the following in his day?

composition music criticism

Absolute music

consists of music without literary or pictorial meanings

Which of the following characteristics are found in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire

disjunct melody fast, free-flowing rhythm

For which instruments did Mozart write Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Little Night Music)?

double bass, string quarter

Which of the following is a characteristic of Japanese kabuki?

drama makeup costumes dance

Which of the following describe aspects of the fourth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique?

duple meter prominent use of timpani minor tonality

Program music

evokes images and ideas

The nineteenth-century trend towards evoking a culture outside the composer's in opera was known as:

exoticism

The nineteenth-century trend towards realism in opera was known as:

exoticism

Beethoven called the Moonlight Sanata a:

fantasy-like sonata

In which movement is the Dies irae ("Day of Wrath") theme from the Mass for the Dead heard in Symphonie fantastique?

fifth

Which instrument is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

flute

Which instruments did Puccini use in Madame Butterfly to evoke the Japanese gagaku orchestra?

flute harp bells piccolo

In Crumb's Caballito negro, the piccolo player uses a technique similar to "rolling an R," called

flutter-tonguing

In order to marry her American love, Cio-Cio-San, in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, renounces her role as a ________________.

geisha

Which of the following describes the form of the second movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata?

gentle

Which of the following made improved instruments possible in the nineteenth century?

increased availability of raw materials improved production of metal alloys machines powered by steam

What specific musical technique did Puccini borrow from Wagner in his Madame Butterfly?

leitmotifs

What instruments accompany the voice in Crumb's Cabillito negro?

metallic percussion piccolo

The third movement of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Little Night Music) is in what form?

minuet and trio

The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns which?

mythological faun in a dream-like state

Which two scale types did Puccini use in Madame Butterfly to evoke Japanese culture?

pentatonic whole-tone

Which of the following describe John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes?

piano produces percussive effects irregular phrases

Which best describes the tempo of the third movement of the Moonlight Sonata?

presto agitato

Which of the following are characteristics of Impressionist music?

rich orchestral color unresolved dissonances modal scales

Which is the best definition of tempo rubato?

robbed time

What is Pierrot attempting to do in The Moonfleck?

rub a spot of moonlight off his jacket

In the second movement of his Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven uses a variant of the minuet called what?

scherzo

The first movement of a classical multimovement cycle is often in _______ form

sonata-allegro

Schoenberg's composition Pierrot lunaire is a(n):

song cycle

What is the term for a group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme?

song cycle

The German word Sprechstimme means

speech-like melody

Which of the following describe George Crumb's Caballito negro?

sung in Spanish atonal harmony disjunct melody

Which genre best describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

symphonic poem

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as which?

ternary (A-B-A)

The form of George Crumb's Caballito negro is

ternary (three-part)

What special technique is used at the end of the first verse in the song "In the Lovely Month of May"?

text-painting; the melody rises at the point that the text refers to love rising up

What does the loud chord at the end of the fourth movement (March to the Scaffold) of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique represent?

the falling of the guillotine's blade

A song that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is in which form?

through-composed form

Which of the following are pieces that Chopin wrote and which are not?

études polonaises nocturnes

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" features which of the following?

"blue" chords chromaticism homophonic texture antique cymbals

Da capo

"from the beginning", usually located at the end of the trio section

Which of the following composers were students of Arnold Schoenberg?

Alban Berg Anton Webern

Orchestra, opens with percussion & low brass

Berlioz

Which of the following describes first-movement concerto form of the Classical era?

Combines elements of ritornello procedure with sonata-allegro form. It is the longest of the three movements. It is the most complex of the three movements.

Japan's two hundred years of isolation ended when the US Navy arrived in 1854, lead by ___________.

Commodore Perry

Sonata-allegro form:

First theme, bridge, second theme, closing theme, exposition repeated

Who of the following were prominent composers of Romantic-era Lieder?

Franz Schubert Clara Schumann

Which of the following is a post-Romantic composer

Giacomo Puccini Richard Strauss Gustav Mahler

Which composer adapted instruments to be capable of microtonality?

Harry Partch

Which of the following correctly describe a part of Franz Schubert's career?

He sang in a prestigious choir in Vienna. His music shows both Classical and Romantic traits. He wrote more than 600 Lieder.

Which of the following is true of Mozart at the time just before his death?

He was working on his Requiem

Which of the following is true about Hector Berlioz?

He won the Prix de Rome. Some of his works have a literary basis. He was a genius at orchestration.

Which French painter is credited with starting the Impressionistic movement with his painting Impression: Sunrise?

Monet

Mazurka

The lively triple-meter dance with an accent on the second or third beat in the measure that originated in Mazovia

idée fixe

The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

Which statements best describe the third movement of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music)?

The texture is homophonic. The harmony is consonant. It is in triple meter It is minuet-and-trio form.

Mozart most likely wrote Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Little Night Music) for string quarter with support from a double bass

True