Listening for Cues
Name______________________________________Period_____________
1. Who is the host of this video?
2. ____________________________ is the way musical ideas are organized.
3. The three parts of sonata form are ______________________, fantasia and
restatement.
4. What is Seiji Ozawa’s job in this video?
5. How many themes does Wynton talk about in the first piece by Prokofiev that
the orchestra plays?
6. The way that music travels smoothly from one theme to another is called
a. Transition
b. Transportation
c. Transmutation
7. How many flutes players are there in the orchestra?
8. What is the part of sonata form called that “twists the themes of the statement
together and all around,” giving the themes to different sections or sometimes
changing from a major to a minor key?
a. Statement
b. Fantasia
c. Finale
9. What is the last part of sonata form called?
a. finale
b. ending
c. restatement
10. The George Gershwin song, “I Got Rhythm” has four sections, AABA. How many
measures are in each section?
11. The bridge is another name for what section in the 32 bar song form?
a. A
b. B
c. Z
12. AABA form is also called the _______________ bar song form.
13. Duke Ellington wrote “Cottontail.” It is an example of:
a. Sonata form
b. 32 bar song form
c. theme and variations
14. What is the name of the Charles Ives piece that demonstrates theme and
variations?
a. America the Beautiful
b. Star Spangled Banner
c. My Country ‘Tis of Thee
15. Describe theme and variations in your own words.
16. How bars (or measures) are in one section of a piece in the blues form?
17. True or False. A riff chorus is a chorus that just keeps repeating a musical idea
over and over again.