3/23 Test Questions

The works of which composer best represent a “cosmopolitan” musical style in French music in the later nineteenth century?

cesar franck

Who wrote the texts of La bonne chanson? With what poetic movement was the poet associated?

paul verlaine, symbolism

Band transcriptions were primarily intended for what purpose?

to establish a repertoire of serious works for band worthy of comparison to the orchestral repertoire

What does the expression the “long nineteenth century” denote as it pertains to historians’ view of the nineteenth century?

• From 1789 to 1914

• From theFrench Revolution to World War I.

• From the end of the old order to the end of relative peace in Europe