2nd Music Appreciation Exam

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1. The word BAROQUE has at various times meant all of the following EXCEPT a. naturalistic b. flamboyant c. bizarre d. elaborately ornamented 2. The two giants of Baroque composition were George Frederic Handel and a. Johann Christian Bach b. Johann Sebastian Bach c. Giovanni Gabrielli d. Galileo Galilei 3. The main keyboard instruments of the BAROQUE period were the organ and the a. clavichord b. piano c. harpsichord d. accordion 4. A collection of 24 Preludes and Fugues, one in each major and minor key, basic to the keyboard player’s repertoire today is a. Bach’s WELL TEMPERED CLAVIER. b. The ‘Messiah’ by Handel c. Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ d. The Book of Intonation 5. A Lutheran congregational hymn tune used as the basis for Bach’s Cantatas is called a. a prelude b. a Chorale c. a vibrato d. a harpsichord 6. Handel’s MESSIAH is an example of a. musical comedy b. an opera c. an oratorio d. a mass 7. Handel wrote a great deal of music but the core of his output consists of English Oratorios and Italian a. symphonies b. songs c. operas

d. madrigals 8. Classicism as a period in Music History is from a. 1600-1720 b. 1750-1820 c. 1900-1990 d. 1830-1900 9. A three part musical form consisting of three parts called – exposition (the opening), development, and recapitulation (return) is known as a. Sonata Allegro Form b. Fugue c. Cantata d. Symphony Orchestra 10 Mozart’s Italian operas ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and ‘Don Giovanni’ reflected a. a conservative tradition of German opera b. great masterpieces written when the composer was deaf c. important republican ideals of freedom for the 18 th century d. great pieces without singers where the orchestra tells the story in program music 11. Beethoven’s 9 th Symphony is unusual in that it is scored for ______________ as well as orchestra. a. a chorus b. four vocal soloists and chorus c. a piano soloist d. a violin soloist 12. One of Beethoven’s innovations was a. basing entire pieces on the development of motifs as well as melodies b. disinterested and weak chord structure for which he was severely criticized c. the use of the Italian language in his operas d. requiring his music to be played loud because he was deaf 13. Frederic Chopin expressed his love for his native Poland by composing polonaises and a. waltzes b. folk songs c. mazurkas d. polkas 14. Brahms’ work, though very personal in style, is deeply rooted in the classical tradition of a. Joseph Haydn b. all of these choices c. Ludwig van Beethoven d. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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