EMUS 1832 (Caballero)
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Homework 2 (covers Wright up to p. 370)
 

1. Haydn spent the bulk of his musical career in the employ of this family.

a. The Esterházy
b. The Hohenzollern
c. The Electors of Hanover
d. The English royal family
2. The first movement of Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata and Mendelssohn's Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" both
a. contain enormous codas
b. re-use introductory material in an interesting way
c. deviate strongly from the outlines of sonata form
d. lack a second theme
3. The minuet of the Classical symphony was, in most nineteenth-century (romantic) symphonies, replaced by the
a. scherzo
b. rondo
c. symphonic poem
d. polonaise
4. Romanticism seeks
a. sentimental content in a fantastic form
b. the balance of ordered symmetries
c. harmony of the secular and sacred
d. rhythmic aggression above all
5. The text of "Der Erlkönig" ("The Elfking") is by
a. Hegel
b. Goethe
c. Mallarmé
d. Byron
6. The producer of "Les Ballets russes" (The Russian Ballet) was
a. Chaikovsky
b. Diaghilev
c. Graham
d. Stravinsky
7. Which is most likely the subtitle of Copland's Appalachian Spring?
a. Scenes from Pagan Russia
b. Ballet for Martha
c. A Symphonic Poem in Five Parts
d. Scenes from Harlem
8. The normal purpose of a coda in a symphony is
a. to affirm closure and completion
b. to modulate to surprising new tonalities
c. to expose the main themes
d. to provide a place for soloists to improvise
9. In her final scene, Isolde sings the "Liebestod," which signifies
a. her endless despair over Tristan's death
b. her stoicism in the face of death
c. that the poison did not work, and Tristan did not die
d. her transcendent vision of blissful reunion with Tristan
10. Which is a good description of the rhythmic profile of Ravel's "Habanera" from Rapsodie espagnole?
a. march-like, rigid
b. exploits irregular meters such as 5/4 and 7/4
c. triple meter, like a slow waltz
d. alternates triple and duple subdivisions of the meter