Music Appreciation Test #5

True or False: The opera carmen is set in Cuba.

False (set in Spain)

Of the following, which does not describe the orchestra of the 19th century?

Composers produced more symphonies than their classical era counterparts.

Of the following, which does not describe the Romantic orchestra/era?

The orchestra decreased in size.

The favorite subjects of the romantic poets were ________.

Love, longing, nature

Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial __________.

Program Music

True or False: The romantics embraced conventional forms.

False

True or False: Solo musicians became stars in the romantic era idolized by the public.

True

________ is not a famous Romantic composer of the 19th century.

Heinrich Heine (he was a poet)

A song form where the main melody is repeated for 2 or 3 stanzas but has new or significant varied material introduced when the text requires it is called:

Modified Strophic

True or False: Goethe and Heine were 2 of the leading 19th century writers whose writing was set by leader composers.

True

Schubert was born in _________.

Vienna

Chopin is considered to be the national composer of ________.

Poland

In Schubert's elf king the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano accompaniment represents ________________.

Galloping of The Horses

True or False: The form of Schubert's lead elf king is through composed.

True

Robert Schumann's A Poet's Love is set to text by ___________.

Heinrich Heine

Robert Schumann ended his career and life........

in an insane asylum as a result of mental illness.

The composer who founded the new journal of music was __________.

Robert Schumann

True or False: Robert Schumann was a carefree spirit who lived a long and lovely life as a composer.

False (he went crazy)

Chopin is credited with creating __________.

The Modern Piano style

The term "tempo rubato" associated with Chopin's music means ____________.

"Robbed time" or Taking liberty with the rhythm/tempo without upsetting the beat

Of the following, who was a noted woman composer of the romantic era?

Clara Schumann

Fanny Mendelssohn's output is dominated by what?

Lied/lieder and piano

Who composed the piano cycle and titled it the year?

Fanny Mendelssohn's Hensel.

True or False: Fanny Mendelssohn's 'the year' has extra musical connections. (was related to her life)

True

Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is an example of ______.

Program Symphony

Berioz's symphony the fantastique idée fixe was _________.

The basic theme of the symphony heard through all of the movements

National styles of opera developed in Germany, Italy, and France

All of the above

A piece of program music for orchestra in one movement that develops a mood and is through composed is ___________.

Symphonic poem

Who was the first bohemian composer to achieve international prominence?

Bedrich Smetana

What was Verdi's last opera, completed at age 80?

Falstaff

True or False: In the 19th century women's opera talents were encouraged on stage.

True

Italian comic opera is called ________.

Opera Buffa

The ensemble that follows the 'La donna e mobile' follows what?

Quartet

Which of the following was not a prominent female opera singer in the 19th century

Clara Schumann

In the last decades of the 19th century, composers fell under the influence of or reacted against ______________. (a lot of people hated him)

Wagner

Wagner called his operas _____ ______.

Muisc Dramas

What composer created the music drama?

Wagner

Which characteristic of traditional opera did Wagner eliminate

Separate Arias

Wagner chose to base his stories on ____________.

Idealized folk legends

True or False: Wagner did not wish to change the prevailing form of opera in the 19th century.

False

True or False: Wagner pushed major/minor tonality to extreme limits with his style of chromatic harmony.

True

Which of the following is not a famous Russian ballet based on folklore?

Percofia Romeo and Juliet

The two principle centers of ballet were France and ______.

Russia

Verismo is a late Romantic movement in opera which sought to make it ___________.

Realism/Real

True or False: Putini's opera madame butterfly is an example of Nationalism.

False (it is an example of Exoticism)

Mendolson's Italian symphony Bizet's carmen and ravels Spanish rhapsody are all examples of _____________.

Exoticism

Puccini's Madame Butterfly is ____________________.

A tragic tale of a Japanese geisha and a U.S. Naval officer

A japanese geisha is best compared in western culture to _ __________.

A Courtesan.

True or False: Exoticism was expressed by incorporating folk music of one's own music with one of another.

False

Of the following, which instrument first appeared in the Romantic era?

Saxophone