MUS 121 Questions Questions with CORRECT Answers (Grade A+)

MUS 121 Questions Questions with CORRECT Answers
(Grade A+)

Question 1:
A ______ is a musical work where the main melody (the subject) is developed polyphonically. After
the initial melody is heard, that same melody enters a few seconds later but at a different note-level.
This process continues until all layers of melodies have entered and a complicated web of sound has
been created.
Answer:
Fugue

Question 2:
What is improvisation as it relates to music?
Answer:
Music that is created by the performer during the moment of performance

Question 3:
What did Denis Diderot, with the help of other French philosophers, contribute to the belief in
enlightenment and reason?
Answer:
He compiled and wrote the first encyclopedia

Question 4:
Which of the following best exemplifies the classical period's emphasis on clear and balanced artistic
style?
Answer:
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David

Question 5:
Beethoven wrote how many symphonies?
Answer:
9

,Question 6:
King Louis XVI banned the play-version of what Mozart opera before his execution by Guillotine?
Answer:
The Marriage of Figaro

Question 7:
The Strophic song form uses new music for each verse of a song.
Answer:
False

Question 8:
Ballas is most similar to which art song form?
Answer:
Through-Composed

Question 9:
Johann Sebastian Bach lived during what musical period?
Answer:
Baroque

Question 10:
The main melody of a fugue is called the
Answer:
Subject

Question 11:
Question not clearly extracted from source.
Answer:
False The exposition in a fugue includes the first statement of the subject only

Question 12:
Later in the baroque, royals and other wealthy families hired orchestras to provide music
Answer:
True

, Question 13:
Which of the following is NOT one of the dances commonly present in a baroque suite?
Answer:
Fantasia

Question 14:
Which of these statements is true?
Answer:
By the end of the baroque era, instrumental music had gradually equaled or surpassed vocal music in
popularity

Question 15:
The countersubject of a fugue appears only at the very end of the piece
Answer:
False

Question 16:
A toccata keyboard piece is characterized by
Answer:
many scale passages, rapid runs and trills, and massive chords

Question 17:
Which painting best represents the Baroque era aesthetic?
Answer:
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula by Caravaggio

Question 18:
The organic "spinning out" of a musical work based on the first few notes played is called what?
Answer:
Fortspinnung

Question 19:
What section of a fugue begins immediately after the exposition?
Answer:
Episode