My Own Anticipated Thesis Defense Questions and Answers

QUESTIONS

1. In the keyboard of J.S. Bach, the free fantasy was either inserted before a fugue by itself, or if was given what alternate name?

2. Tell briefly the structure (the usual one) of Domenico Scarlatti's piano sonatas.

3. Derek Watson said that Liszt's hands moved like what?

4. For most two-stave passages, Liszt would often use up-stemmed or down-stemmed notes to do what?

5. Was it regular procedure to use rests in the empty spaces between the opposite directions of the stemmed notes?

6. The "Unser dunkel Poebel meint" variations, composed in 1787, was taken from what

opera by Christoph Wilhelm von Gluck?

7. The tragic aria in Act IV, "Le gioje i dolori tra poco avran fine", was taken from what

Verdi opera?

8. Charles Rosen said that the pianoforte was important in the fantasy whether he was the arranger or what other person?

9. Charles Rosen said  that the great instrumentalists were trained as what?

10. Charles Rosen labeled these four composers as mainly keyboard performers. Name them.

ANSWERS

1. It was given a name, capriccio or toccata.

2. It starts with an exposition in the first part, and  then a development and a short

recapitulation in the second part.

3. A great ballet dancer.

4. To indicated the parts of the texture.

5. No.

6. The Pilgrim From Mecca.

7. La Traviata.

8. The innovator.

9. Singers.

10.Scarlatti, Handel, J.S. Bach, and Couperin.