MUSC Final Exam questions with
100% correct answers 2025/2026
Timeframe Hildegard of Bingen's life - correct answer ✔✔1098-1179
What did Felix Mendelssohn say to his daughter fanny? - correct answer ✔✔"Perhaps for Felix
music will become a profession, while for you it will always remain but an ornament; never can
nor should it become the foundation of your existence."-Abraham Mendelssohn
What are the three works in a common format program? - correct answer ✔✔a light
introductory piece (overture), a concerto, and a symphony
What does an overture do? - correct answer ✔✔1. Allows the audience members a chance to
settle in and warm up their ears for more complex pieces
2. Allows latecomers to be seated relatively early in the concert
What is a significant difference between a classical music concert and jazz,pop, or jazz concerts?
- correct answer ✔✔Late patrons are only allowed into the hall between pieces, or occasionally
between movements, or at intermission
What is a concerto? - correct answer ✔✔A composition featuring a solo instrumentalist with
orchestra
What new changes and significances were added to symphonies? - correct answer ✔✔It
became a multi-movement composition performed by an ensemble.
-Beethoven greatly expanded the form, in length and complexity.
100% correct answers 2025/2026
Timeframe Hildegard of Bingen's life - correct answer ✔✔1098-1179
What did Felix Mendelssohn say to his daughter fanny? - correct answer ✔✔"Perhaps for Felix
music will become a profession, while for you it will always remain but an ornament; never can
nor should it become the foundation of your existence."-Abraham Mendelssohn
What are the three works in a common format program? - correct answer ✔✔a light
introductory piece (overture), a concerto, and a symphony
What does an overture do? - correct answer ✔✔1. Allows the audience members a chance to
settle in and warm up their ears for more complex pieces
2. Allows latecomers to be seated relatively early in the concert
What is a significant difference between a classical music concert and jazz,pop, or jazz concerts?
- correct answer ✔✔Late patrons are only allowed into the hall between pieces, or occasionally
between movements, or at intermission
What is a concerto? - correct answer ✔✔A composition featuring a solo instrumentalist with
orchestra
What new changes and significances were added to symphonies? - correct answer ✔✔It
became a multi-movement composition performed by an ensemble.
-Beethoven greatly expanded the form, in length and complexity.
