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1. Schubert's songs number more than ______.

250

100

600

Answer

Correct Answer: 600

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2. In da capo form, more elaborate ornamentation occurs primarily in the ________ section(s).

Opening A

Final A

A and B

Answer

Correct Answer: Final A

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3. John plays ___________ on this rare cut from 1975.

Acoustic

Pianoelectric

Organelectric

Pianoacoustic

Guitarelectric bass

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: All of these

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4. Count basie corner pocket in this video you see ____?

Aa trumpet soloa saxophone

Solo Count Basie (piano player)

Opens the song with piano riffs

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Solo Count Basie (piano player)

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5. The first instrumental break features a(n) _____ solo and band.

Sitar

Acoustic guitar

Electric guitar

Electric keyboard

Answer

Correct Answer: Electric keyboard

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6. The standard 12-bar blues progression uses only ______ harmonic chords.

Three

Four

Two

Six

Answer

Correct Answer: Three

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7. The full-choir gospel style was started by ___________ in the early 1930s.

Cover Song

Thomas A. Dorsey

Sun Records

Fats Domino

Answer

Correct Answer: Thomas A. Dorsey

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8. Robert schumann's fantasiestcke is a(n) ______.

Composition for orchestra

Cycle of piano pieces

Etude for piano students

Song cycle

Answer

Correct Answer: Cycle of piano pieces

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9. Wagner advocated that, in opera, the orchestra should __________.

Participate in the drama

She is his daughter

Ear-splitting noise

Steady and confident,

Answer

Correct Answer: Participate in the drama

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10. This movement's opening theme is heard in a(n) ________ key.

Minor

Triple

Woodwinds

Cellos

Answer

Correct Answer: Minor

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11. Nirvanas album ________________ launched the alternative rock boom in the 1990s.

Unplugged in New York

In Utero

Vitology

Nevermind.

Answer

Correct Answer: Nevermind.

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12. The national gallery of art, dedicated in 1941 is a beautiful example of ________ architecture.

Neo-classical.

Installing fountains

Sailed shape roof

Sidi bashir mosque

Answer

Correct Answer: Neo-classical.

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13. A relief sculpture can be seen from _____________ point(s) of view.

One

Three

Two

Multiple

Answer

Correct Answer: One

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14. The opening of this song establishes a _________ key.

Minor

German

Through

Composed

Answer

Correct Answer: Minor

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15. The _______ chord is counterposed against active chords.

First

Tempo

Active

Rest

Answer

Correct Answer: Rest

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16. One of the most common scales used in african, far eastern, and native american music is the _____.

Microtones

Transposition

Dominant

Pentatonic and tritonic

Answer

Correct Answer: Pentatonic and tritonic

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17. In twentieth-century music ______.

Percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous

Dissonance has been emancipated

String players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their bows

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: All of these

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18. Richard wagner's last opera was ______.

Siegfried

Tristan Und Isolde

Fidelio

Parsifal

Answer

Correct Answer: Parsifal

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19. In the works of erasmus, more, and cervantes, ________ is employed to great effect.

Faith

Satire

Montaigne.

Madrigal.

Answer

Correct Answer: Satire

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20. A piano is often used in twentieth-century orchestral music to ______.

A percussive edge

A tone cluster

A polychord

Arnold schoenburg

Answer

Correct Answer: A percussive edge

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21. The main (opening) theme of the mazurka in b-flat consists of __________.

Passionate speech

A singing melody with accompaniment

An upward contour and a major scale

A particular rhythmic pattern

Answer

Correct Answer: An upward contour and a major scale

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22. The symphonie fantastique mirrors berlioz's obsession with __________.

What Berlioz's song reflects

"March to the Scafford"

Berlioz's "Fantasy-Symphony"

Berlioz on sound

Answer

Correct Answer: Berlioz on sound

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23. Minuet and trio is a form that is typically found in the ___________ movement of a symphony.

First

Second

First And Fourth

Third

Answer

Correct Answer: Third

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24. Church authorities in the middle ages ____________________ their religious services.

Wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to

An estampie is a medieval

The term ars nova refers to

The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was

Answer

Correct Answer: Wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to

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25. The inspiration for berlioz's symphonie fantastique was _____.

The actress Harriet Smithson.

The composer Clara Schumann

The actress Harriet Smithson

The writer George Sand

Answer

Correct Answer: The actress Harriet Smithson.

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26. Berlioz used _________ in symphonie fantastique.

Berlioz: 'Symphonie Fantastique' ...

Revolutionary use of idee fixe

'Grande messe des morts'.

Answer

Correct Answer: Berlioz: 'Symphonie Fantastique' ...

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27. ______ is the composer known as the father of the symphony and string quartet.

Mozart

Beethoven

Vivaldi

Haydn

Answer

Correct Answer: Haydn

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28. In chant from the middle ages, if there are many notes per syllable, the style is called _____.

Melismatic

Syllabic

Neumatic

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Melismatic

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