Music Appreciation

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Of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important than
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Nature
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Which of the following composers is not associated with the romantic period?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Drawing creative inspiration from culture of lands foreign to the composer is known as?
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exoticism
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what is program music?
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all the answers are correct
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The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as
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nationalism
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How did composers express musical nationalism in their music?
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An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to musicians
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100A
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A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as
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rubato
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The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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A romantic period composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was
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Frasz Liszt
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A very important musical part of every middle class home during the romantic period was the
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piano
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One of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by private patrons was
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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An art song is a musical composition for
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solo voice and piano
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The word is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text
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lied
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The mood of an art song is often set by a brief piano introducation and summed up ath the end by a piano section called a
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postlude
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Schubert's Winterreise and Schumann's Dichterliebe are examples of
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song cycles
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Schubert
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was the first great master of the romantic art song
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Schubert's songs number more than
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600
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The form of The Erkling is
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Through-Composed
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Clara Schumann was a
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Composer, touring performer, virtuoso pianist
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Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and
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mazurkas
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A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the
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nocturne
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The is a dance in triple meter that originated as a stately processional for the Polish nobility
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polonaise
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Until the age of thirty-six,Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso
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pianist
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Liszt created the , a one movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea
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symphonic poem
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Mendelsshon is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Mendelsshon wrote in all musical forms except
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operas
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Instrumental music, associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called
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program music
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Non program music is also known as music
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absolute
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A is an instrumental compistion in several movements used to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea
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program symphony
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Music intended to be preformed before and during a play to set the mood or scenes or highlight dramatic action is known as
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incidental music
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Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of
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incidental music
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In 1803 Berlioz was awaarded
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the Prix de Rome
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The fourth movement of Beroliz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a
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march to the scaffold
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Antonio Dvorakmusic was first promoted by
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Johannes Brahms
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In 1892, Dvorak went to , where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music
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New York
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The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer(s)
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Robert Schumann and his wife Clara
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Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any
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operas
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Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was
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Nabucco
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Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they
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seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love
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Wagner's preeminence was such that an opera house of his own design was built in _________________, solely for performances of his music dramas.
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Bayreuth, Germany
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The composerwho had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called
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leitmotif