CH 37

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"Everything he touched turned to song" refers to which composer?
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Schubert
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A Poet's Love is one of Schumann's best-known
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song cycles
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A group of Lieder unified by a descriptive or narrative theme is known as a
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song cycle
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A song form that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is
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through-composed form
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According to Danish legend, anyone touched by the Elfking must die.
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true
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Art song was a popular repertory
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for both amateur and professional musicians.
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Dichterliebe was written in 1840,
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Schumann's "year of song."
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Goethe and _____ were the two leading German poets whose poetry was often set to music.
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Heine
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Hymns, carols, as well as most folk and popular songs are written in _____ form.
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Strophic
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In Schubert's Elfking, how many vocalists sing the poem's four characters?
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one
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It was Schubert's dying wish
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to be buried near Beethoven
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The ______ art song, or Lied, is performed by solo voice and piano.
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German
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Robert Schumann sets texts by _______ in his song cycle A Poet's Love.
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Heine
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Robert Schumann suffered from
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auditory hallucinations
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Robert Schumann was a composer and
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music critic
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Schubert wrote approximately_____ songs.
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six hundred
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How did Robert Schumann meet his wife Clara?
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by studying with Clara's father
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A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as
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strophic form
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Schubert died at a young age from
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syphilis
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Schubert's newest works could be heard at
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Schubertiads
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Schumann's Dichterliebe follows a psychological progression
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from the freshness of new love to complete despair.
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Which is NOT true of Schubert's Elfking?
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four characters, four singers
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Which of the following is NOT true?
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Most Lied composers wrote their own words for their songs.
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Which type of song structure follows the story line, changing according to the text?
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through-composed form
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________ is defined as the same melody repeated for two or three stanzas, with new material introduced when the poem requires it.
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Modified strophic form