Romantic period music test

The most important instrument of the Romantic Period was?

Piano

Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of

Claude Debussy

The French movement in poetry that rebelled against traditional modes of expression is called?

Symbolism

Wagner’s cycle of four music dramas is called?

Lohengrin

The composer who founded the New Journal of Music was?

Robert Schumann

Which of the following are characteristics of impressionist music?

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Which of the following best describes the effect achieved by impressionist painting

Luminous, shimmering colors

The librettist for Wagner’s music drama was?

Wagner himself

Which of the following instruments is capable of simultaneously playing both melody and harmony?

piano

Schubert’s song "Elfking" is a ballad written by?

Goethe

The impressionist painters’ interest in color is paralleled by impressionist composers’ interest in?

Timbre

Which of the following best describes the work of the impressionist painters?

They attempted to capture the freshness of the first impressions

Who managed singer Jenny Lind’s 1850 American tour?

P.T. Barnum

Chopin is credited with developing the?

Modern piano style

The favorite Romantic poets of the composers of Lieder were?

Goethe and Heine

"Impression Sunrise," the painting that sparked the impressionist art movement, was created by?

Claude Monet

Tchaikovsky was invited to participate in the 1891 inaugural concert of?

Carnegie Hall in New York

The singing star Giuseppina Strepponi helped launch ________ career

Giuseppe Verdi

In connection with Chopin’s music, the term "rubato" means that the performer should

take liberties with the tempo

The German term for the art song is

Lied

The program of Debussy’s prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" evokes a

landscape with a mythological creature

"The Nutcracker" is based on a story by

E.T.A. Hoffmann

Which nineteenth-century opera singer made a great impression in America by performing both opera excerpts and parlor songs?

Jenny Lind

Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called ______ music

Program

The split between light music and art music occurred during the ________ century.

Late nineteenth

Who choreographed the first performance of Tchaikovsky’s "Nutcracker"?

Marius Petipa

What type of works did Tchaikovsky compose?

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Music composed without literary or pictorial meanings is called _____ music.

Absolute

Which of the following characterizes musicians of the Romantic era?

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The symphonic poem is also called the tone poem

True

Which of the following was Tchaikovsky’s principal patron

Nadezhda von Meck

The most important organizing element in absolute music is

form

Which of the following composers is considered the first great proponent of musical Romanticism in France?

Berlioz

The nineteenth century saw the rise of a new social order shaped by the

Technological advances of the industrial revolution

The first Russian composer whose music appealed to Western tastes was

Tchaikovsky

Wagner freely adapted the "Ring of the Nibelung" from myths of

The Norse Sagas

Which of the following are types of absolute music?

The concerto, the symphony, and the piano trio

Which of the following inspired Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?

The actress Harriet Smithson

Which of the following describes Romanticism?

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In Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, what is the "idee fixe"?

The basic theme of symphony, heard in every movement

The concept of ballet dates back to the

Renaissance

Wagner’s total artwork, in which all the arts—music, poetry, drama, and visual spectacle—are fused together is called

The Gesamtkunstwerk

Grieg collaborated with the playwright

Henrik Ibsen

Nationalistic composers expressed their nationalism by

employing songs and dances from their home countries in their works