Ludwig Van Beethoven Test (Page 2 of 3) in pdf

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II.

MUSIC –Fill in the blank

8. Beethoven stunned the world with his 9th symphony by using a chorus/choir in the

final movement!

9. Possibly his most famous, Beethoven’s 5

symphony has a motif of four notes

which recurs and develops in the first movement.

10. Beethoven wrote nine (number) symphonies in all.

11. In Beethoven’s time, a symphony had four movements.

12. Some of Beethoven’s notebooks reveal to us that writing music for him was

Very difficult/hard/a struggle

III.

SONATA-ALLEGRO FORM

Write the THREE sections of Sonata-Allegro form in the blanks:

Exposition

Development

Recapitulation

Using the letters “A, B, or C” from the blanks, place the correct letter next to its

answer:

the first and second themes “return” to the “head” of the piece

the themes changed, combined, and used to form a new idea

can be found in the first movement of most symphonies (this is a trick!)

A, B or C

the first and second themes are “placed out”

in a way, this portion of the Sonata-Allegro form has already been heard!

IV.

SHORT ANSWER

BEETHOVEN came on the scene when new and powerful forces were happening in

human society. In what ways were the American and French Revolutions going to

shape his thinking and influence his music? Events like the American and French

Revolutions were about freedom and new thinking. Beethoven took up these same

ideas and applied them to composing music.

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