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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A a freelance musician.
B a visiting guest composer.
C an equal by his employer.
D a skilled servant.
Question #2
A Kadar.
B Stefanházy.
C Esterházy.
D Liszt.
Question #3
A piano and two violins.
B violin, cello, and piano.
C violin, piano, and continuo.
D three pianos.
Question #4
A two violins, viola, and cello.
B violin, guitar, viola, and cello.
C violin, viola, cello, and bass.
D All answers are correct.
Question #5
A All answers are correct.
B is the most important form in classical chamber music.
C is written for two violins, viola, and cello.
D usually consists of four movements.
Question #6
A is in the same form as a classical symphony.
B is usually a long cadenza.
C has two expositions.
D does not have a development section.
Question #7
A instrumental soloist and orchestra.
B symphonic orchestra.
C instrumental soloist and piano.
D vocal soloist and orchestra.
Question #8
A is most often in sonata or sonata-rondo form.
B is usually fast, lively, and brilliant, but somewhat lighter in mood than the opening movement.
C All answers are correct.
D is always in the tonic key of the symphony.
Question #9
A is generally not in the tonic key.
B All answers are correct.
C tends to be more heroic and triumphant in character.
D is usually in theme and variations form.
Question #10
A sonata
B minuet
C rondo
D ABA
Question #11
A is usually in the tonic key.
B returns only once in the movement.
C is usually slow and dignified.
D seldom ends the movement.
Question #12
A combines rondo form with elements of sonata form.
B may be outlined as ABA-development section-ABA.
C All answers are correct.
D usually has a lively, pleasing, and simple to remember theme.
Question #13
A return to the beginning of the piece and repeat the music.
B play the written part an octave higher.
C look at the conductor.
D play extremely quietly.
Question #14
A presto
B ritornello
C scherzo
D fugato
Question #15
A brisk and lively.
B heavy and ponderous.
C stately and dignified.
D quiet and relaxed.
Question #16
A ABACABA
B ABA
C AA’A”A”’A””
D AABB
Question #17
A is usually in the same key.
B presents a new melodic idea.
C retains some elements of the theme.
D is usually in a new key.
Question #18
A melodies.
B motives.
C rides.
D codas.
Question #19
A changing the meter of the second theme.
B the introduction of a new theme in the bridge.
C retaining the same tonality for both themes.
D the conflict of tonalities between the first and second themes.
Question #20
A theme.
B coda.
C bridge.
D motive.
Question #21
A there is no second theme.
B the second theme is in a new key.
C a new theme is presented in the bridge.
D the closing section is in the tonic key.
Question #22
A the second theme is in a new key.
B a new theme is always presented in the bridge.
C a new meter enters with the second theme.
D the closing theme is in the tonic key.
Question #23
A introduction.
B recapitulation.
C transition.
D motives.
Question #24
A Rondo
B Exposition
C Development
D Recapitulation
Question #25
A final fast
B slow
C All answers are correct.
D first
Question #26
A writing comic operas that sometimes ridiculed the aristocracy.
B flavoring their serious compositions with folk and popular music.
C All answers are correct.
D writing dance music for public balls.
Question #27
A had a population of almost 250,000.
B was the fourth-largest city in Europe.
C All answers are correct.
D was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire.
Question #28
A a freelance musician.
B a visiting guest composer.
C a skilled servant.
D an equal by his employer.
Question #29
A serving a wealthy aristocratic family.
B as a professional free-lance musician.
C as an independently wealthy composer.
D as a church musician and organist.
Question #30
A literature.
B All answers are correct.
C theater.
D music.
Question #31
A All answers are correct.
B folk and popular music.
C heroic and mythological plots.
D elaborately ornamented improvisational melodies.
Question #32
A military-industrial complex.
B colonial powers.
C church.
D military.
Question #33
A an important factor in the rise of the middle class.
B promoted and encouraged by the church.
C a limited sociological factor.
D ruthlessly stamped out by the aristocracy.
Question #34
A short-short-short-long
B long-long-short
C short-short-long
D short-long-short
Question #35
A work for solo instrument.
B sonata for orchestra.
C work for chorus and orchestra.
D work for piano solo.
Question #36
A Madame Butterfly.
B Don Giovanni.
C Fidelio.
D The Magic Flute.
Question #37
A the bridge between the classical and romantic periods.
B the first musician to incorporate folk tunes into serious compositions.
C the inventor of the symphony.
D the pioneer of light classical music.
Question #38
A Basso continuo
B Operatic form
C Monophony
D Fugal counterpoint
Question #39
A All answers are correct.
B string quartets.
C the Ninth Symphony.
D Missa solemnis
Question #40
A All answers are correct.
B was a brilliant pianist.
C began to feel the first symptoms of deafness in his twenty-ninth year.
D was self-educated and had read widely, but was weak in elementary arithmetic.
Question #41
A Trumpets
B Horns
C Trombones
D Timpani
Question #42
A Sir John Falstaff.
B the servant to Leporello.
C the legendary Spanish lover.
D a despotic Italian nobleman.
Question #43
A The Marriage of Figaro
B Cos” fan tutte
C Don Giovanni
D Orfeo
Question #44
A to help his pupil Süssmayr.
B on commission from a stranger.
C for his own funeral.
D as an exercise for his composition teacher.
Question #45
A Vienna
B London
C Salzburg
D Paris
Question #46
A played in the archbishop’s orchestra in Salzburg.
B received an excellent formal education in Salzburg.
C went to Vienna to study with Haydn.
D was continually on tour in England and Europe.
Question #47
A Salzburg, Austria.
B Rohrau, Austria.
C Bonn, Germany.
D Eisenach, Germany.
Question #48
A string quartets
B serenades
C baryton trios
D operas
Question #49
A a loose ensemble of available instruments.
B strings, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani.
C strings with harpsichord continuo.
D woodwinds, trombones, drums, and strings.
Question #50
A 1820-1900.
B 1600-1750.
C 1750-1820.
D 1450-1600.