FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSIC TEST 2

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSIC TEST 2

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Question 1: What are the five most common subjects of romantic music?

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Lovers facing obstacles; the fantastic/diabolical (as in Dream of a Witches' Sabbath); aspects of nature as in shepherds' pipes and distant thunder; the Middle Ages; Shakespeare's plays Question 2: Early-to-mid Romantic composer born in Poland who moved to Paris at age 21, wrote almost exclusively for piano, and composed mostly for chamber concerts as opposed to concert halls

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Frederic Chopin Question 3: At the climax of the fifth movement of Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony," which two melodies are played against each other?

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The witches' dance and the Dies irae Question 4: Where is the most famous place that Bach worked, and what did he do there?

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St. Thomas Church. He played the organ, composed a cantata, and led the boys' church choir. He wrote a cantata each week for several years.

Question 5: Most of Chopin's pieces are exquisite ________ in size.

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Miniatures

Question 6: The classical period extended from _______.

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1730-1820

Question 7: Handel wrote in every _____ form, but the bulk of his work was in ______ and

________.

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Baroque; oratorios, operas Question 8: True or false: Chopin wrote a lot of program music.

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False. It wasn't program music, but it still evoked an image in the way program music did.

Question 9: Handel's ______ were meant to showcase virtuoso singers' abilities.

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Arias Question 10: The classical symphony was an extended, ambitious work lasting _______ minutes.

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20-45

Question 11: What is the overall topic of Handel's "The Messiah"?

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Prophecies about Christ, His birth and death

Question 12: Rather than ff and pp, romantic composers could use ____ and ____.

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ffff, pppp

Question 13: In Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the basic ______ of the first movement reappears in the _______ and _______ movements.

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Four-note motive; third, fourth Question 14: True or false: Beethoven wrote his final pieces while totally deaf.

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True Question 15: The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of....

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Death Question 16: Some critics accused Berlioz of heresy because of his use and treatment of the Dies irae in his "Fantastic Symphony." Why did he choose to include it?

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It makes the piece very eerie and morbid. He uses it to represent to eternal damnation of the main character.Question 17: A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with nighttime

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Nocturne Question 18: Compositional form - derived from a dance - in 3 parts: minuet (A), trio (B), minuet (A). Often used as the third movement of classical symphonies, string quartets, and other works, it is in triple meter and usually in a moderate tempo.

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Minuet and trio Question 19: New _____ classes emerged in the romantic period, leading to new musical

______.

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Urban; topics

Question 20: _______ music-making increased in the romantic period, leading to the _____ becoming a fixture in most homes.

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Private; piano Question 21: Music that intentionally implies a foreign culture; frequently used in operas with foreign settings

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Exoticism Question 22: Series of seven different tones within an octave, with the eighth tone repeating the first tone an octave higher, consisting of a specific pattern of whole and half steps; the whole step between the second and third tones is characteristic

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Major scale Question 23: Name three criteria that make Schubert's "Erlking" romantic in style.

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Subject is supernatural; uses aspects of nature (horse galloping); uses thematic transformation Question 24: In the classical period the ______ gradually replaced the harpsichord.

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Piano

Question 25: Who is the composer of Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2?

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Chopin Question 26: What four things happened to the orchestra during the classical period?

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Standardization of instrumentation (how many used); increase in size of orchestra; core of orchestra still strings; composers made use of various timbres available