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