Romantic Period Test Study Guide

A song that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called:

through-composed

A song whose text is a short lyric poem in German with piano accompaniment is called a:

Lied

Which of the following was a typical theme of Romantic poetry?

All answers are correct.

A group of Lieder unified by a narrative thread or by a descriptive or expressive theme is called a(n):

song cycle

A song form in which the same melody is repeated for every stanza of text is called:

strophic

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s output is dominated by ________ music.

Lieder and piano

Women made great strides during the nineteenth century in establishing careers as professional musicians and public advocates for musical innovation.

True

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

program

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a:

program symphony

In Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, the idée fixe

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In which of the following excerpts from Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique can you hear the idée fixe (recurring theme)?

the first excerpt

Music endowed with literary or pictorial associations is called absolute music.

False

A one-movement piece of program music for orchestra that, through several contrasting sections, develops a poetic idea or suggests a scene or mood is called

a symphonic poem

The “Mighty Five” were composers from what country?

Russia

Who of the following was a widely beloved nationalist opera composer?

Giuseppe Verdi

The term bel canto refers to

a style of singing that features agility and purity of tone

Italian comic opera is called

opera buffa.

The principal themes in Wagner’s operas, which recur throughout and carry specific meanings, are called

Leitmotifs.

Wagner’s cycle of four music dramas is called

The Ring of the Nibelung.

Who of the following is considered the greatest figure in German opera?

Wagner

Which of the following characterizes Singspiel?

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Tchaikovsky’s fanciful ballet about a child’s Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is

 

The Nutcracker

Which of the following describes the work of the Impressionist painters?

They attempted to capture the freshness of first impressions.

Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of

Claude Debussy.

Impression Sunrise, the painting that sparked the Impressionist art movement, was created by

Claude Monet.

Which of the following are characteristics of Impressionist music?

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What did spirituals include that made them politically subversive?

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Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals overlapped with which cultural movement?

Harlem Renaissance

When was the Harlem Renaissance?

the early part of the twentieth century

Which statement describes the activities of the Fisk Jubilee Singers?

All statements are true