Music: An Appreciation, Brief 7th Edition (Kamien)

Chapter 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Multiple Choice

1
By the age of six, Mozart could
A)play the harpsichord and violin.
B)improvise fugues and write minuets.
C)read music perfectly at sight.
D)All answers are correct.
2
Don Giovanni, in Mozart's opera of that name, is
A)a despotic Italian nobleman.
B)the legendary Spanish lover.
C)Sir John Falstaff.
D)the servant to Leporello.
3
Mozart's Symphony No. 40
A)is in G minor.
B)has only three movements.
C)sounds very classical in its emotional intensity.
D)All answers are correct.
4
Mozart's finest German opera was
A)The Magic Flute.
B)The Marriage of Figaro.
C)Don Giovanni.
D)Fidelio.
5
Mozart was born in
A)Salzburg, Austria.
B)Eisenach, Germany.
C)Bonn, Germany.
D)Rohrau, Austria.
6
Which of the following is not one of Mozart's three masterpieces of Italian opera?
A)The Marriage of Figaro.
B)Cosi fan tutte.
C)Orfeo.
D)Don Giovanni.
7
Which of the following statements is not true about the late eighteenth-century fortepiano?
A)Its tone was softer and lasted a shorter time than the modern piano.
B)It weighed the same as the modern piano.
C)It had thinner strings held by a frame of wood, rather than metal.
D)Its pitch range was smaller than the modern piano.
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