Question: In musical compositions, a theme is:

Answer: a musical idea that is used as a building block

Question: The repetition of a motive at a higher or lower pitch level is called a:

Answer: sequence

Question: In absolute music, the lack of a prescribed story to text to hold the music together makes the element of _________ especially important

Answer: form

Question: Which genre does not usually follow the general structure of a multimovement cycle?

Answer: overture

Question: Which movement is the most highly organized and most characteristic of the multimovement cycle?

Answer: first

Question: A string quartet consists of:

Answer: two violins

viola

cello

Question: Who was not a major composer of string quartets?

Answer: Bach

Question: Haydn served as a choirboy in:

Answer: Vienna

Question: The Classical symphony had its roots in the:

Answer: opera overture

Question: How many movements are typical of pre-Classical symphonies?

Answer: three