The Western Classical Tradition overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Music quiz

The development of the symphony from 1750 to 1900

The history of jazz improvisation

The structure of a West End musical

The production techniques of pop records

Beethoven's Fifth and Brahms's First

Haydn's London Symphony and Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony

Mozart's Jupiter and Schubert's Unfinished

Mahler's First and Sibelius's Second

Four slow movements of equal weight

Fast sonata-form allegro, slow movement, minuet and trio, lively finale

Overture, aria, recitative, chorus

Verse, chorus, bridge, outro

Verse, chorus and bridge

Head, solos and head

Exposition, development and recapitulation

Introduction, scherzo and coda

In the dominant key

In the same tonic key as the first subject

In a chromatic scale with no key

In the relative minor only, never the dominant

With a fast fugue in the tonic minor

With a slow introduction in D minor before a D major Allegro

With an unaccompanied solo flute cadenza

With a saltarello dance

It is sung by a choir

It is derived from the first subject (monothematic writing)

It is in a completely unrelated atonal key

It is played only by the timpani

A stately minuet

A slow sarabande

A whirling saltarello

A courtly gavotte

The tonic major (A major)

The tonic minor (A minor)

The dominant (E major)

The subdominant (D major)

Imperfect cadence

Plagal cadence

Interrupted cadence

Perfect cadence

IV to I, a soft 'amen' close

V to vi, a surprise where the expected tonic is replaced

I to V, ending openly on the dominant

vi to ii, with no dominant at all

It shrank to a string quartet

It grew, adding trombones, tuba, harp, cor anglais and more percussion

It removed all woodwind instruments

It used only electronic instruments

A second slow movement

A faster, lighter scherzo and trio

A spoken recitative

A choral finale only

Only the first movement of one symphony

One symphony in depth (all four movements) and the other in general

Both symphonies only in their final movements

Just a single page of the score