romantic era test - western music appreciation

Which of the following is not ture of the music of the Romantic Period?

All the music was deeply rooted in the classical tradition

Which of the following music reflects the concept of exoticism?

Bizet’s opera Carmen

Instrumental music associated with a story is called

Program music

By the end of the Romantic era, an orchestra might include ______ musicians

100

The purpose of using chromatic chords in Romantic music was to

Add color and motion

Berlioz’s use of a lyrical melody from the opening movement of Symphonic Fantastique, which is then repeated as a grotesque dance in the Finale, is an example of

Thematic transformation

The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was

Beethoven

A composer who made their living as a violin virtuoso was

Niccolo Paganini

When music conservatories were founded, women

Were accepted only as students of perfomance

One of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by a private patron was

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music criticism was a source of income for both Robert Schumann and

Franz Liszt

Franz Schubert

Was the first great master of the romantic art song

The piano’s relentless rhythm in Erlkonig (The Erlking), unifies the song’s episodes and suggets the

A galloping horse

Schubert’s composed songs numbering more than

600

The Erlking, in Schubert’s song of that name, is a romantic personification of

death

The Erlking is a poem by

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The form of The Erlking is

through-composed

Which characteristic is not true of Schumann’s works?

Usually linked to non-descriptive texts, titles, or programs

Robert Schumann’s Carnaval is a(n)

Cycle of piano pieces

Clara Weick was

Schumann’s wife and a virtuoso pianist

During the first 10 years of his creative life, Schumann published only

piano pieces

One characteristic of Schumann’s Carnaval is that it

is a song cycle of 21 pieces

Clara Wieck considered herself to be primarily

a performing artist

Romanze (Romance) in the 19th century was often used for a(n)

Short, lyrical piece for piano

Clara Schumann frequently perfomed the works of her husband and her close friend

Johannes Brahms

Clara Schumann

Stopped composing at the age of 36

As a composer, Clara Schumann

wrote songs, piano pieces, a piano concerto, and a trio for piano, violin, and cello

Chopin was

shy and reserved

Most of Chopin’s pieces are

exquisite miniatures

Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude in C minor develops the pianist’s left hand because

The left hand must play rapid passages throughout

The polonaise is

A dance in triple meterA

Among Fraz Liszt’s favorite inspirations were the literary works of

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Liszt typified the romantic movement because he

Had a charismatic personality and was an incredible (stupendous) performer

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Liszt’s piano works?

A small dynamic range

In many of his works, Liszt unified contrasting moods by a process known as

Thematic transformation

During his teens and twenties, Liszt lived in

Paris

As a youth, Liszt was influenced by the performance of

Niccolo Paganini

Liszt created the ____, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea

Symphonic poem

Until the age of 36, Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso

pianist

The high point of Mendelssohn’s career was the triumphant premiere of his oratorio ___________ in England

Elijah

Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin in E minor opens with a(n)

Soloist who presents the main theme

The 3 movements of Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin

are played without pause

In the first movement of the Concerto for Violin, the cadenza

appears at the end of the development section as a transition to the recapulation

Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of

Johann Sebastian Bach

The aim of most program music is

description

A _______ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea

Symphonic poem

The composer who developed the symphonic poem was

Franz Liszt

Today’s movie scores may be regarded as examples of

Incidental music

Nonprogram music is also known as _______ music

absolute

In order to support his family, Berlioz turned to

musical journalism

Parusuabs were startled by Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony because of its

all answers are correct

In 1830 the Paris Conservatory awarded Berlioz

The Prix de Rome

The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of the Fantastic Symphony is the

Dies Irae

Outside France, Hector Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a(n)

conductor

Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony is unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the

idee fix

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz’s

love for the actress Harriet Smithson

The 4th movement of the Fantastic Symphony depicts a

march to the scaffold

Which of the following was not composed by Berlioz?

The socerer’s apprentice

The most original, and probably the greatest of the Russian five, was

Modeste Mussorgsky

The Founder of Czech national music was

Bedrich Smetana

Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under _____ domination

austrian

Smetana’s most popular opera is

The Bartered Bride

Even though Smetana was deaf at the time, he composed a musical work depicting Bohemia’s main river as it flows through the countryside. The name of the river, and the musical composition, is the

Moldau

Antonin Dvorak’s music was first prompted by

Johannas Brahms

Dvorak ______ quoted actual folk tunes in his compositions

rarely

In 1892, Dvorak went to _______, where he spent almost 3 years a Conductor of the New National Conservatory of Music

New York

Dvorak “found a secure basis for a new national (American) music school” in the

Native American melodies and African-American spirituals

The popular character of Dvorak’s New World Symphony can be traced to the composer’s use of _______ often found in folk music

All of the above

Nadezhda von Meck was

A wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity

At is premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture was

a dismal failure

Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky?

Russian Easter Overture

Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is a(n)

Concert overture

Brahms’ musical trademake included

the use of two notes against three

The course of Brahms’ artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer

Robert Schumann and his wife, Clara

Brahms created masterpieces in all the traditional forms except

Opera

Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi’s operas because they

seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love

Which of the following was NOT by Verdi?

Cavalleria Rusticana

Verdi’s great comic masterpiece, written when he was 79, is

Falstaff

Verdi studied music in ______, the city where Italy’s most important opera house, La Scala, is located

Milan

Rigoletto, the title character in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is

A hunchback court jester

Verdi’s first great success, and opera with strong political overtones, was

Nabucco

Verdi mainly composed his operas

to entertain the mass public

The famous aria “La donna e mobile” is taken from Verdi’s opera

Rigoletto

The soul of a Verdi opera is

Expressive vocal melody

Verdi’s later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have

all answers are correct

Puccini’s operas have lasting appeal because

he had a marvelous sense of theatre

In La Boheme, who sings the aria “Che gelida manina” (“how cold your little hand is!”)

Rodolfo

Puccini used melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Asian music in his operas

Madame Butterfuly and Turandot

An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as

Verismo

Which of the following operas was not written by Puccini

I Pagliacci

La Boheme takes place in

Paris

Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in La Boheme because she has come to his door to ask for a

Light for her candle

In La Boheme, Rodolfo is a young

poet

Which of the following operas is considered an example of a verismo

tosca

The composer who had overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was

Ludwig van Beethoven

Wagner called his works music dramas rather than operas because

There are no breaks where applause can interrupt

Wagner’s last opera was

Parsifal

The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by

Wagner himself

A short music idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Wagner in his operas, is called

leitmotif

Valhalla, in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, is

the castle of the gods