MUSIC COMPREHENSIVE 01 1. The home key of "Tic-Toc-Choc" is 8. "Hyme à la statue de la liberté" was written in a. C minor a. 1784 b. D minor b. 1777 c. G major c. 1793 d. F major d. 1789 e. A major e. 1796 2. Recitative is characterized by its 9. La Vestale is set in a. fast pace and delivery a. France b. highly melodic nature b. ancient Rome c. rhythmic similarity to normal speech c. Spain d. lack of plot advancement d. Italy e. heavily ornamented music e. ancient Greece 3. Who is NOT present in "Cosa sento"? 10. Beethoven's final name for his Symphony No. 3 was a. Cherubino a. Pastoral b. Basilio b. Choral c. the Count c. Die Weihe des Hauses d. Susanna d. Bonaparte e. Figaro e. Eroica 4. Basilio comes to Susanna immediately before "Cosa sento" to 11. In Fidelio, Florestan and Leonore are a. serve her food a. governor and subject b. insult Cherubino b. master and slave c. teach her music c. cell mates d. gossip d. husband and wife e. seduce her e. jailer and prisoner 5. In "Cosa sento," Susanna tries to distract the Count by 12. The full title of Symphonie fantastique is a. revealing Cherubino a. "Herminie" b. going to the kitchen b. "Scene in the Fields" c. pretending to faint c. "Episode in the Life of an Artist" d. running away d. "Messe solennelle" e. flattering him e. "Dreams, Reveries" 6. The form of "La Marseillaise" is 13. In 1793, Nicolas Méhul wrote Hymne à la a. rondo a. Raison b. sonata b. souveraineté du people c. ternary c. Liberte d. strophic d. l'Égalite e. binary e. Fraternité 7. "Chant du neuf Thermidor" was performed for the National 14. The alto clef is MOST commonly used for the Convention on a. trumpet a. November 23 b. cello b. September 18 c. viola c. August 6 d. violin d. February 18 e. clarinet e. June 28 MUSIC COMPREHENSIVE 01 PAGE 2 OF 20 DEMIDEC RESOURCES ©2009 15. Which opera style dominated French theater after the Querelle des 23. The Enlightenment is characterized by a focus on Bouffons? a. economics a. opéra comique b. religion b. tragédie lyrique c. rationality c. opéra bouffe d. mysticism d. opera buffa e. impressionism e. opera seria 24. The effect of Jacques Necker's Compte rendu au roi was 16. Claude Rouget de Lisle was born in a. Necker losing his job a. 1760 b. the loss of France's colonies b. 1755 c. taxes on the nobility and clergy c. 1718 d. a public understanding of France's finances d. 1767 e. a sharp cutting of spending e. 1738 25. Europe was stabilized after the Napoleonic Wars by the 17. An increase of 20 dB is equivalent to an increase by a factor of a. Congress of Vienna a. 100 b. Congress of Paris b. 400 c. First Congress of Rastatt c. 40 d. Treaty of Berlin d. 200 e. Treaty of Versailles e. 20 26. Standard A pitch currently corresponds with the frequency 18. Louis XIV's reign ended in a. 448 Hz a. 1719 b. 532 Hz b. 1793 c. 402 Hz c. 1715 d. 450 Hz d. 1789 e. 440 Hz e. 1713 27. The protagonist of Faust falls to temptation due to his pursuit of 19. A French "vaudeville" commented on a. power a. the Jacobins b. knowledge b. articles of constitutions c. satisfaction c. music and dance d. equality d. French military victories e. intimacy e. social norms 28. The most important pieces François Couperin published were for 20. How old was Louis XVI when he was betrothed to Marie a. harpsichord Anotinette? b. string quartets a. 20 c. chorus b. 11 d. symphonies c. 13 e. piano d. 12 e. 19 29. A 12-pitch scale is known as a a. modal scale 21. An oboe's timbre is created by b. fully diminished scale a. almost all overtones c. diatonic scale b. only the fundamental d. chromatic scale c. all even overtones e. pentatonic scale d. all odd overtones e. only the first two overtones 30. Why did the Committee of Public Safety's fail its initial purpose? a. One man consolidated its power. 22. Napoleon Bonaparte started his military career as a(n) b. It could not bring France to a political consensus. a. diplomat c. It failed to prevent the Reign of Terror. b. minister d. The people turned against the Committee. c. grenadier e. It failed to stabilize France's economy. d. rifleman e. artillery officer MUSIC COMPREHENSIVE 01 PAGE 3 OF 20 DEMIDEC RESOURCES ©2009 31. Which country was France NOT fighting after the Revolution? 38. Beethoven initially admired Napoleon for his a. Austria a. merit-based rise to power b. England b. military prowess c. the United States c. Corsican heritage d. the Netherlands d. ending of the Reign of Terror e. Prussia e. Enlightenment philosophies 32. Which instrument's sound envelope spends the LEAST time in 39. Le chant du depart was easy for crowds to sing because it the sustain stage? a. used the same melody as "La Marseillaise" a. vocal b. had a simple melody b. percussion c. was reminiscent of opera seria c. string d. has multiple voices d. synthesized e. did not have sophisticated lyrics e. woodwind 40. Rameau's Zoroastre reflects the philosophies of 33. In the second half of the 18th century, how many opera houses a. French Enlightenment philosophers did France have? b. the First Estate a. 2 c. the Second Estate b. 5 d. English Enlightenment philosophers c. 17 e. the Masonic Order d. 3 e. 12 41. In Don Giovanni, Zerlina finds out the truth behind Don Giovanni from 34. Jean-Philippe Rameau's landmark text on music theory is a. a former lover a. Formal Principles of Polyphony b. another nobleman b. Counterpoint and Effect c. her brother c. Between Tonality and Atonality d. a priest d. Music of Perotin e. a street peddler e. Theory of Harmony 42. Low pressure regions of a sound wave are called 35. Christoph Willibald Gluck likened his opera method to a. expansions a. philosophy b. rarefactions b. architecture c. transients c. painting d. compressions d. poetry e. harmonics e. mathematics 43. In La Vestale, Julia is in love with 36. A time signature of 2/2 is also known as a. Fernand a. syncopated time b. Statira b. cut time c. Hermas c. double time d. Licinius d. irregular time e. Cinna e. waltz time 44. Napoleon was so pleased with La Vestale that he gave Spontini 37. Who attempted to synthesize all knowledge into one source, the a. a congratulatory ceremony Encyclopédie? b. 10,000 francs a. Adam Smith c. a court position b. David Hume d. another commission c. Denis Diderot e. a post as a diplomat d. Jean-Jacques Rousseau e. Voltaire 45. The majority of musical terms are a. English b. French c. German d. Spanish e. Italian MUSIC COMPREHENSIVE 01 PAGE 4 OF 20 DEMIDEC RESOURCES ©2009 46. Beethoven was MOST furious with Napoleon's a. consolidation of power b. self elevation c. invasion of Germany d. refusal to patronize him e. history of human rights abuses 47. The funeral march of "Eroica" draws influence from a. François-Joseph Gossec b. Claude Joseph de Lisle c. Hector Berlioz d. Gaspare Spontini e. Luigi Cherubini 48. Which interval is composed of 10 semitones? a. major sixth b. minor seventh c. Octave d. half-diminished seventh e. tritone 49. Fidelio's conflict stems from the philosophical issue of a. freedom of religion b. social contracts c. free speech d. divine right e. war and peace 50. Whose writings on social contracts influenced American revolutionaries? a. Jean-Philippe Rameau b. Jean-Jacques Rousseau c. John Calvin d. Thomas Hobbes e. John Locke MUSIC COMPREHENSIVE 02 1. In which form is "Tic-Toc-Choc"? 8. The rhythm of "Hymne à la statue de la liberté" is BEST described as a. sonata b. rondo a. Baroque c. strophic b. populist d. binary c. regular e. ternary d. syncopated e. polyrhythmic 2. "Brilliant auteur de la lumière" first modulates to the major mode when 9. "Dialogues" in Dialogues des carmélites are a. Agamemnon asks Diana for help a. political arguments b. Agamemnon mentions Achilles b. court hearings c. Diana demands another sacrifice c. religious discussions d. Agamemnon remembers his daughter d. arguments with the Jacobins e. the introduction is over e. opera performances 3. The meter of "Brillant auteur de la lumière" is 10. In La Vestale, Julia is to be executed by a. compound triple a. guillotine b. simple triple b. immolation c. compound quadruple c. hanging d. common time d. defenestration e. cut time e. burial 4. The librettist for Don Giovanni was 11. The second movement of Eroica is the a. Pietro Metastasio a. scherzo b. Lorenzo da Ponte b. opening c. Marco Coltellini c. finale d. Giuseppe Parini d. aria e. Johann Andreas Schachtner e. allegro vivace 5. Haydn's Symphony No. 85 is in 12. In Fidelio, Florestan is saved by a. C# minor a. Napoleon b. F major b. Don Pizarro c. C minor c. Rocco d. Bb major d. the Governor e. Eb major e. Leonore 6. "La Marseillaise" alternates between a chorus and a(n) 13. On which chord does a half cadence end? a. instrumental section a. I b. duet b. IV c. SATB quartet c. ii d. vocal soloist d. vi e. sonata e. V 7.