MUSC 1101 - Final Exam questions
with 100% correct answers 2025/2026
C.P.E. Bach - ANS ✔✔"Sollecito in C Minor"
Haydn - ANS ✔✔"Emperor String Quartet" Op. 76 No. 3 (II)
Mozart - ANS ✔✔"A Little Night Music" (I)
Mozart - ANS ✔✔"Catalogue Aria" from Don Giovanni
Beethoven - ANS ✔✔"Symphony No. 5 in C Minor" (I)
Beethoven - ANS ✔✔"Moonlight Sonata"
Schubert - ANS ✔✔"The Elfking"
Schumann - ANS ✔✔"In the Lovely Month of May"
Chopin - ANS ✔✔"Nocturne in Eb Major"
Berlioz - ANS ✔✔"Symphonie Fantastique" (IV) - March to the Scaffold
Grieg - ANS ✔✔"In the Hall of the Mountain King" from the Peer Gynt Suite
,Brahms - ANS ✔✔"Symphony No. 3 in F Major" (III)
Verdi - ANS ✔✔"Rigoletto Act III, Excerpts" - Women are fickle
Wagner - ANS ✔✔"Ride of the Valkyries"
Puccini - ANS ✔✔"Nessun Dorma" from Turandot
Debussy - ANS ✔✔"Claire de Lune"
Schoenberg - ANS ✔✔"Pierrot Lunaire" No. 18 "Moonfleck"
Stravinsky - ANS ✔✔"The Rite of Spring"
Cage - ANS ✔✔"Sonata V" from Sonatas and Interludes
Scott Joplin - ANS ✔✔"Maple Leaf Rag"
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives - ANS ✔✔"Potato Head Blues"
Benny Goodman - ANS ✔✔"Sing, Sing, Sing"
Charlie Parker - ANS ✔✔"Yardbird Suite"
Miles Davis - ANS ✔✔"So What"
, Headhunters - ANS ✔✔"Watermelon Man"
Absolute Music - ANS ✔✔Music that is written purely for music's sake
Multi-movement cycle. - ANS ✔✔A new structure consisting of 3-4 movements that emerged as
the standard in symphonies, sonatas, string quartets, and concertos
The First Movement - ANS ✔✔Sonata form -which contains 3 main sections - sometimes there
is an Introduction, ->Exposition-> Development ->Recapitulation
The Second Movement - ANS ✔✔Theme and Variation; Characterized by lyrical, graceful
melodies; Also characterized by a slow tempo
Theme and Variation - ANS ✔✔A form where a musical idea, or theme is repeated over and
over and is changed or varied with each repeat.
How do you vary a theme? - ANS ✔✔Composers can (and did) change parts of the melody,
rhythm, harmony, accompaniment, dynamics, or tone color. But adding those minor changes
each variation could have its own identity.
The Third Movement - ANS ✔✔The Minuet and Trio; a Minuet and Trio in a symphony, sonata,
concerto, or chamber music was for listening, not dancing; This is the optional part of a multi-
movement cycle
Scherzo - ANS ✔✔Instead of the traditional "Minuet and Trio," - Beethoven (after hearing it in
Haydn's later string quartets) favored a more robust, livelier dance for his third movements.
Thus Beethoven preferred the form known as a ___ The form was also a little less rigid than the
Minuet and Trio, but mostly followed the ternary minuet style
Scherzo - ANS ✔✔A playful and quicker tempo "dance" in ¾ time
with 100% correct answers 2025/2026
C.P.E. Bach - ANS ✔✔"Sollecito in C Minor"
Haydn - ANS ✔✔"Emperor String Quartet" Op. 76 No. 3 (II)
Mozart - ANS ✔✔"A Little Night Music" (I)
Mozart - ANS ✔✔"Catalogue Aria" from Don Giovanni
Beethoven - ANS ✔✔"Symphony No. 5 in C Minor" (I)
Beethoven - ANS ✔✔"Moonlight Sonata"
Schubert - ANS ✔✔"The Elfking"
Schumann - ANS ✔✔"In the Lovely Month of May"
Chopin - ANS ✔✔"Nocturne in Eb Major"
Berlioz - ANS ✔✔"Symphonie Fantastique" (IV) - March to the Scaffold
Grieg - ANS ✔✔"In the Hall of the Mountain King" from the Peer Gynt Suite
,Brahms - ANS ✔✔"Symphony No. 3 in F Major" (III)
Verdi - ANS ✔✔"Rigoletto Act III, Excerpts" - Women are fickle
Wagner - ANS ✔✔"Ride of the Valkyries"
Puccini - ANS ✔✔"Nessun Dorma" from Turandot
Debussy - ANS ✔✔"Claire de Lune"
Schoenberg - ANS ✔✔"Pierrot Lunaire" No. 18 "Moonfleck"
Stravinsky - ANS ✔✔"The Rite of Spring"
Cage - ANS ✔✔"Sonata V" from Sonatas and Interludes
Scott Joplin - ANS ✔✔"Maple Leaf Rag"
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives - ANS ✔✔"Potato Head Blues"
Benny Goodman - ANS ✔✔"Sing, Sing, Sing"
Charlie Parker - ANS ✔✔"Yardbird Suite"
Miles Davis - ANS ✔✔"So What"
, Headhunters - ANS ✔✔"Watermelon Man"
Absolute Music - ANS ✔✔Music that is written purely for music's sake
Multi-movement cycle. - ANS ✔✔A new structure consisting of 3-4 movements that emerged as
the standard in symphonies, sonatas, string quartets, and concertos
The First Movement - ANS ✔✔Sonata form -which contains 3 main sections - sometimes there
is an Introduction, ->Exposition-> Development ->Recapitulation
The Second Movement - ANS ✔✔Theme and Variation; Characterized by lyrical, graceful
melodies; Also characterized by a slow tempo
Theme and Variation - ANS ✔✔A form where a musical idea, or theme is repeated over and
over and is changed or varied with each repeat.
How do you vary a theme? - ANS ✔✔Composers can (and did) change parts of the melody,
rhythm, harmony, accompaniment, dynamics, or tone color. But adding those minor changes
each variation could have its own identity.
The Third Movement - ANS ✔✔The Minuet and Trio; a Minuet and Trio in a symphony, sonata,
concerto, or chamber music was for listening, not dancing; This is the optional part of a multi-
movement cycle
Scherzo - ANS ✔✔Instead of the traditional "Minuet and Trio," - Beethoven (after hearing it in
Haydn's later string quartets) favored a more robust, livelier dance for his third movements.
Thus Beethoven preferred the form known as a ___ The form was also a little less rigid than the
Minuet and Trio, but mostly followed the ternary minuet style
Scherzo - ANS ✔✔A playful and quicker tempo "dance" in ¾ time
