MUSC 130 Final Exam questions well
answered 2025/2026
Classical Period Dates - correct answer ✔✔1750-1827
Classical Period Composers - correct answer ✔✔Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven
Nationality of Mozart - correct answer ✔✔Austrian
Nationality of Haydn - correct answer ✔✔Austrian
Nationality of Beethoven - correct answer ✔✔German
Characteristics of Classical Period - correct answer ✔✔light texture
order in musical form
slight expansion of the orchestra
timpani in orchestra plays a larger role
chamber music
What instruments were added to the orchestra in the Classical Period? - correct answer
✔✔snare drum/crash symbals
wind octet - correct answer ✔✔2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons
string quartet - correct answer ✔✔2 violins, viola, and cello
, string quintet - correct answer ✔✔2 violas, 2 violins, and a cello
In what piece were trombones used for the first time? - correct answer ✔✔Beethoven's
Symphony No. 5
opus - correct answer ✔✔
opera - correct answer ✔✔sung drama
patronage system - correct answer ✔✔composers made a living by residing in courts of kings
and queens and would write music for them
symphony - correct answer ✔✔four movements- fast, slow, dance, fast with the first movement
being in the EDR fugue form and a coda at the end (a tag to round out the movement)
concerto - correct answer ✔✔solo instrument/voice is featured with an orchestra backing it up
Koechel - correct answer ✔✔Mozart's cataloging system
Dates of the Romantic Period - correct answer ✔✔1827-1900
Composers of the Romantic Period - correct answer ✔✔Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak,
Mendelssohn, Puccini, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Verdi
Nationality of Berlioz - correct answer ✔✔French
answered 2025/2026
Classical Period Dates - correct answer ✔✔1750-1827
Classical Period Composers - correct answer ✔✔Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven
Nationality of Mozart - correct answer ✔✔Austrian
Nationality of Haydn - correct answer ✔✔Austrian
Nationality of Beethoven - correct answer ✔✔German
Characteristics of Classical Period - correct answer ✔✔light texture
order in musical form
slight expansion of the orchestra
timpani in orchestra plays a larger role
chamber music
What instruments were added to the orchestra in the Classical Period? - correct answer
✔✔snare drum/crash symbals
wind octet - correct answer ✔✔2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons
string quartet - correct answer ✔✔2 violins, viola, and cello
, string quintet - correct answer ✔✔2 violas, 2 violins, and a cello
In what piece were trombones used for the first time? - correct answer ✔✔Beethoven's
Symphony No. 5
opus - correct answer ✔✔
opera - correct answer ✔✔sung drama
patronage system - correct answer ✔✔composers made a living by residing in courts of kings
and queens and would write music for them
symphony - correct answer ✔✔four movements- fast, slow, dance, fast with the first movement
being in the EDR fugue form and a coda at the end (a tag to round out the movement)
concerto - correct answer ✔✔solo instrument/voice is featured with an orchestra backing it up
Koechel - correct answer ✔✔Mozart's cataloging system
Dates of the Romantic Period - correct answer ✔✔1827-1900
Composers of the Romantic Period - correct answer ✔✔Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak,
Mendelssohn, Puccini, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Verdi
Nationality of Berlioz - correct answer ✔✔French
