MUSC 326 Final questions & answers
graded A+ 2025/2026
divertimento - ANS ✔✔piece designed to divert, amuse, entertain.
Rousseau - ANS ✔✔Novelist, autobiographer, philosopher, publicist, composer
- alienated intellectual
- idealized primitive peoples in the Americas
- natural man; attached opera - wanted an opera that would portray real people in life. `
comic opera - ANS ✔✔portraying everyday characters and feelings in a relatively vivid and
natural way - "opera buffa"
style features of classical music - ANS ✔✔rhythm: flexible and variant while tempo and meter
remain constant. audiences wanted variety.
dynamics: graduations of volume as opposed to previous period
tone colour: various instruments involved in the classical orchestra changed things
predominant texture of classical music - ANS ✔✔homophonic! without a straightforward
accompaniment in chords without counterpoint and without a melodic sounding bass line.
symphony no. 40 in g minor - ANS ✔✔Mozart, Classical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45DAuXYSIs
symphony - ANS ✔✔large, impressive concert piece for the orchestra
, - predominance in classical era - crucial development in the sociology of music - growth of
public concerts.
movements in a symphony - ANS ✔✔FIRST: substantial piece in FAST tempo - sonata form
SECOND: slow tempo and quiet mood
THIRD: persistent dance meter - minuet and trio
FOURTH: Fast! Faster than the first! Sonata or rondo!
SONATA FORM - ANS ✔✔A: exposition
B: development
A1: recapitulation
A: Exposition - ANS ✔✔large, diverse section of music where the basic material is 'exposed'.
- presented in tonic: first theme
- bridge; after theme is established, there is a change in key
- second goruip - some of the new themes contrast with the first theme in melody, rhythm,
dynamics etc.
- cadence theme - solid ending prior to a full stop and big repeat.
B: Development - ANS ✔✔Heightens tensions set up by contrasting themes and keys - themes
are developed by being broken up, recombined, extended, new contexts.
A': Recapitulation - ANS ✔✔you hear the theme again followed by all other themes and other
elements of exposition - original order
- music remains in the same key
- optional ending: CODA.
graded A+ 2025/2026
divertimento - ANS ✔✔piece designed to divert, amuse, entertain.
Rousseau - ANS ✔✔Novelist, autobiographer, philosopher, publicist, composer
- alienated intellectual
- idealized primitive peoples in the Americas
- natural man; attached opera - wanted an opera that would portray real people in life. `
comic opera - ANS ✔✔portraying everyday characters and feelings in a relatively vivid and
natural way - "opera buffa"
style features of classical music - ANS ✔✔rhythm: flexible and variant while tempo and meter
remain constant. audiences wanted variety.
dynamics: graduations of volume as opposed to previous period
tone colour: various instruments involved in the classical orchestra changed things
predominant texture of classical music - ANS ✔✔homophonic! without a straightforward
accompaniment in chords without counterpoint and without a melodic sounding bass line.
symphony no. 40 in g minor - ANS ✔✔Mozart, Classical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45DAuXYSIs
symphony - ANS ✔✔large, impressive concert piece for the orchestra
, - predominance in classical era - crucial development in the sociology of music - growth of
public concerts.
movements in a symphony - ANS ✔✔FIRST: substantial piece in FAST tempo - sonata form
SECOND: slow tempo and quiet mood
THIRD: persistent dance meter - minuet and trio
FOURTH: Fast! Faster than the first! Sonata or rondo!
SONATA FORM - ANS ✔✔A: exposition
B: development
A1: recapitulation
A: Exposition - ANS ✔✔large, diverse section of music where the basic material is 'exposed'.
- presented in tonic: first theme
- bridge; after theme is established, there is a change in key
- second goruip - some of the new themes contrast with the first theme in melody, rhythm,
dynamics etc.
- cadence theme - solid ending prior to a full stop and big repeat.
B: Development - ANS ✔✔Heightens tensions set up by contrasting themes and keys - themes
are developed by being broken up, recombined, extended, new contexts.
A': Recapitulation - ANS ✔✔you hear the theme again followed by all other themes and other
elements of exposition - original order
- music remains in the same key
- optional ending: CODA.
