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.
Sorry for the typo on "indicated" in the answers. It should be "indicate."
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