- 1. . What era is known as “The Age of Reason”?
A) Baroque
B) Renaissance
C) Medieval
D) Classical
- 2. What is the general texture of classical music?
A) homophonic
B) monophonic
C) heterophonic
D) polyphonic
- 3. He is a prominent composer known as a child prodigy and the most amazing genius in musical history.
A) Mozart
B) Haydn
C) Vivaldi
D) Beethoven
- 4. What is the most important form developed during the classical era and is usually the form of the first movement of a sonata or symphony?
A) rondo
B) minuet
C) symphony
D) sonata allegro
- 5. What do you call the section of the Sonata Allegro form where the themes are being introduced?
A) development
B) theme and variation
C) recapitulation
D) exposition
- 6. What is the short musical composition designed to provide practice in a technical skill in the performance of a solo instrument?
A) sonata
B) etude
C) dynamics
D) suite form
- 7. What word is associated to Classical music?
A) poor
B) lower class
C) nobility
D) honor
- 8. What do you call a person who conducts the orchestra.
A) musician
B) conductor
C) composer
D) writer
- 9. What did Haydn introduce to symphony that made use of percussion instrument?
A) Fifth Symphony
B) Military Symphony
C) symphony
D) Nos. 40, K 550
- 10. What is the most important era that had contributed a lot to the development of orchestra?
A) Baroque
B) Classical
C) Romantic
D) Renaissance
- 11. Who was the prominent composer that made innovations in orchestra during Classical period?
A) Da Vinci
B) Beethoven
C) Haydn
D) Mozart
- 12. What benefit a person can get upon listening to classical music?
A) improved mental awareness
B) become rich
C) strong career
D) feel alive
- 13. Which of the main instruments in an orchestra set up does NOT belong here?
A) clarinet
B) guitar
C) trumpets
D) cellos
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