Music Appreciation Test 3

Romanticism encompassed the year

at the end of the first act of Wagners opera Die Walkure,

Valhalla, in Wagners Ring cycle is

a short musical idea associated with a person, object or thought by Richard operas is called

when he was 15, Wagner was overwhelmed by the power of the music of

Wagners preeminence was such that operas house of his own design was built was built in __________, solely for performance of his music drams

in Puccinis La Boheme, Rodolfo is a young

Giacomo Puccinis opera La Boheme takes place in

an artist trend of the 1890s, in which opers dealt with ordinary people and true to life sutuations was known as

the soul of a verdi opera is

Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas

Brahms works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of

Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any

the course of Brahms artistic and personal life was shaped by the influences f the composer

Tchaikovskys Romeo and Juliet is

Nadezhda von Meck was

antonin dvoraks symphony no. 9

in 1892, dvorak went to _____, where he spent almost three years as a director of the national conservatory of musci

Dvorak "found a secure basis for a new national (american) musical school" in

even though smetana was deaf as the time, he composed a musical work depicting Bohemias river as it flows through the countryside. the name if the river, and the musical composition, is the

Bedrich Smetana

the citizens sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by

the fourth movement of Berlioz Fantastic Symphony depicts

the contrasting episodes of Berliozs Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recrurrence of a theme known as the

as one of the first great _____, berlioz influenced a whole generation of musciciand

the fantastic symphoney reflects Berliozs

the writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was

todays movie scores may be regarded as examples of

music intended to be performed before and during a play to set the mood for scenes or high dramatic action is known as

a ____ is a one movement orchestral composition based to some extent on literary or pictorial idea

non program music is also known as ____ music

a ___ is an snstrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea

instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period is called

the opening of menelssohns violin concerto in E minor is unusual that

mendlessohn earned an international reputation and rekindled an interest in the earlier composers music by comducting the first performance since the composers death of

liszt created the ____, a one mevement orchestral compostion based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea

liszt typified the romantic period because he

until the age 36, franz liszt toured europe as a virtuso

a study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties is known as

chopinc output is

most of chopins pieces

johannes brahms

robert schumanns carnaval is a

the pianos relentless rythm in erlkonig unifies the episodes on the song and suggest the

schubert

the word ____ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a german text

an art song is a musical composition for

one of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by private patrons was

a very important musical part of every middle class home during the romantic period was the

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

a slight slowing down or speeding up of the tempo, characteristically employed in the performance of much romantic music is

the orchestra in the romantic period

composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by

the deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composers own homeland is known as

of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important then

this listening example is which genre of music

this listening example is from the opera

this listening example is which genre of music

this listening example is which genre of music?

this listening example is which genre of music?