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