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6. What do the four- and eight-bar phrases sound like?

  • Questions and answers
  • Slurred
  • Totally mismatched
  • Unfinished

7. What are the phrases?

  • Syllabic
  • Scalic
  • Melismatic
  • Staccato

8. What is the meter of the piece?

  • 2/4
  • 4/4
  • 3/4
  • 2/2

9. What rhythmic change(s) are used to add interest?

  • Syncopation and dotted rhythms
  • Slurs and syncopation
  • Syncopation and melismas
  • Staccato and dotted quavers

10. What kind of chords are used?

  • Minor
  • Chromatic
  • Major
  • Plagal

11. Which of these is a key feature of classical music?

  • Contrasts within movements
  • Complicated textures
  • Sudden dynamic changes
  • Orchestras with no wind instruments

12. What key is the exposition in?

  • C# major
  • It's atonal (no key)
  • G minor
  • Bb (relative) major

13. What does the melody in the second subject have?

  • Descending G minor triad
  • Descending chromatic patterns
  • Descending major scales
  • Ascending chromatic patterns

14. The development section (based on the first subject of the exposition) moves through the keys. Which key does it start on?

  • F# minor
  • G minor
  • C major
  • Bb (relative) major

15. What key is the second subject in?

  • G minor
  • Bb (relative) major
  • C major
  • C# minor

16. How do they show the 'answer' phrase?

  • It ends with a perfect cadence
  • It ends with a plagal cadence
  • It gets quieter
  • It gets louder

17. What instruments play the first subject?

  • Piano
  • Strings
  • Harp
  • Wind

18. How do they show the 'question' phrase?

  • It gets louder
  • It gets quieter
  • It finishes with an imperfect cadence
  • It finishes with an interrupted cadence

19. How do the contrasts occur?

  • Suddenly
  • They don't - there are no contrasts
  • Slowly
  • Irregularly

20. What is the recapitulation?

  • A cadence
  • A totally improvised section
  • The same as the exposition with a bit of variation
  • The finishing section which changes the key of the piece