CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◍ Joseph Haydn.
Answer: prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the
symphony (1732-1809)
◍ Wolfgang Mozart.
Answer: prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the
classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791)
◍ symphony.
Answer: an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most
often written by composers for orchestra.
◍ aesthetic (p. 117).
Answer: relating to beauty and taste; artistic
◍ sonata form.
Answer: a type of composition in three sections (recapitulation , exposition ,
and development [RED]) in which two themes or subjects are explored
according to set key relationships.
◍ cadence (p. 87).
Answer: rhythmic; expressive
◍ Enlightenment.
Answer: a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th
centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
, ◍ certitude (p. 115).
Answer: certainty, confidence
◍ complementing (p. 104).
Answer: going well together
◍ convolution (p. 159).
Answer: a coiled shape or part
◍ desolation (p. 160).
Answer: the result of deviating event; ruin
◍ exhalation (p. 85).
Answer: an emission of air or vapor
◍ falter (p. 129).
Answer: to be unsteady; to stumble
◍ guild (p. 143).
Answer: an association of people in the same trade
◍ insidious (p. 100).
Answer: spreading harm slowly and secretly; treacherous
◍ Classical Era.
Answer: The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally
accepted as being between about the year 1730 and the year 1820.
◍ absolute music.
Answer: instrumental music composed purely as music
◍ Ludwig van Beethoven.
Answer: German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic
and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing
(1770-1827)
◍ intuitively (p. 96) (appears as intuitive).
Answer: through the senses rather than rational thought
◍ metropolis (p. 161).