Mozart: Mass in C minor, K. 472 ("Grand Mass") page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

1) Mozart’s Mass in C minor is considered by many scholars to be one of the three greatest settings of the Ordinary of the Mass ever written. What are the other two?
b) Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in D major and Bach’s B Minor Mass

2) Mozart wrote the Mass in C minor
b) for his father, as a gift of appreciation for allowing Mozart to get married

3) Mozart’s Mass is considered incomplete because:
c) he didn’t complete the Credo

4) Mozart’s Mass in C minor does not include an Agnus Dei, which:
a) was not unusual in Salzburg, where the Archbishop preferred the missa brevis

5) Mozart’s Mass in C minor contains a number of fugues because
c) both a and b

6) The 5th movement of the Gloria of the C minor Mass contains a passage related to:
d) Bach’s B Minor Mass ("Crucifixus")

7) The Credo movement repeats many times this important word:
c) Credo

8) It was common for major-key pieces in the Viennese Classical era to move to what key area?
a) the dominant

9) The Sanctus and Osanna sections of the Sanctus contrast each other in which ways?
d) all of the above

10) The Benedictus ends with:
a) an abridged version of the Osanna


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