Chapter 31 Quiz

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. In what city did Haydn compose the twelve symphonies that are considered the culmination of his symphonic style?

London correct incorrect

Paris correct incorrect

Vienna correct incorrect

Leipzig correct incorrect

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. Which statement about the Esterházy family is NOT true?

They eventually became the largest landowners in Hungary correct incorrect

Dedicated patrons of the arts, three of the family's princes employed Haydn as court composer correct incorrect

They were fierce political rivals of the Hapsburg family, if never openly rebellious correct incorrect

They expected Haydn, as court composer, to appear on command with all of his musicians ready to perform correct incorrect

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. How did Haydn petition his employer to grant his orchestral musicians leave to visit their families?

By composing a symphonic movement that ends with each musician symbolically dropping out correct incorrect

By writing an opera about the journey of Odysseus correct incorrect

The two conversed as equals due to their common Enlightenment philosophy, so the composer simply asked correct incorrect

By going over his employer's head and petitioning the Emperor; included in this petition was the score for the famed Emperor Quartet correct incorrect

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. Haydn composed The Creation and The Seasons in response to the legacy of which composer?

Bach correct incorrect

Handel correct incorrect

Byrd correct incorrect

Purcell correct incorrect

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. Haydn's music was so popular that his compositions were widely performed in Vienna, London, and Paris, and he received commissions from France, Spain, and Italy.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. By the time Haydn began writing symphonies, there were two basic types: the Italian, in three movements (fast-slow-fast) and the German, in four movements (one of which was usually a minuet and trio).

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Listen to the selection from the fourth movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G major (Surprise). What features mark this as the coda?

The theme is restated in multiple keys and the strings drop out completely correct incorrect

The music returns to tonic, the tempo is rapid, and the dynamics are loud correct incorrect

The music feigns a modulation and moves to the dominant with a dramatic diminuendo correct incorrect

The dynamics are consistently soft and the texture is monophonic correct incorrect

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. Listen to the selection from Haydn's String Quartet in G major, Op. 76 No. 3 (Emperor), Second Movement. Which variation is this, and why?

Fourth, because it is forte with all instruments sharing the theme correct incorrect

Second, because the Emperor's theme is in the cello correct incorrect

Fourth, the first violin has the Emperor's theme correct incorrect

First, because the Emperor's theme is in the viola correct incorrect