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
