Music Terms Part 4

26 August 2022
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A ____ is an instumental compostion in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea
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Program symphony
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A ____ is a one movement orchestral compostion based to some extent on a literay or pictorial idea
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Symphonic poem
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The composer who developed the symphonic poem was
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Franz Liszt
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Music intended to be performed before and after a play to set the mood for scenes or highlight dramatic action is known as
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Incidental music
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Today's movies scores may be regarded as examples of
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Incidental music
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In 1830 Berlioz was awarded
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The Prix de Rome
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The writer whose works had the greatest impact on young Berlioz was
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William Shakespeare
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The fantastic symphony reflects Berlioz
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Love for the actress Harriet Smithson
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Parisians were startled by Berlioz's fantastic symphony because of its
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Which of the following statements is not true
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Berlioz's reputation outside of France were even lower than it was in his homeland
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In order to support his family, Schumann turned to
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Musical journalism
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Outside France, Berlioz enjoyed a great career as an
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Conductor
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Berlioz was a extraordinarily imaginative in teaching the orchestra, creating ____ never before heard
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Tone colors
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The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's fantastic symphony are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the
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Idee fixe
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Which of the following instruments is not a part of the orchestra for the fantastic symphony
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Organ
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The fourth movement of Berlioz's fantastic symphony depicts a
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March to the scaffold
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The citizens sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by
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Which of the following statements is not true
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The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt by Italy France Germany and Austria
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The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in
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Who laid the ground work for a nationalist style in russian music
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Mikhail Glinka
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The opera that laid the ground work for the russian national style was
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Mikhail Glinka
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The founder of the Czech national music was
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Bedrich Smetena
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Smetena grew up when Bohemia was under ___
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Austrian
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Even though Smetena 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 musical composition, is
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Moldau
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The german master ____ recommended Dvorak's music to his own publisher, resulting in a rapid spread of Dvorak's fame
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Johannes Brahms
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Antonin Dvorak's music was first promoted by
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Johannes Brahms
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Dvorak "found a secure basis for a new national american musical school" in
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African American spirituals
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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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Antonin Dvorak Symphont number 9
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In the first movement of the new world symphony, Dvorak
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Composed a theme that resembles swing low, sweet chariot
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The popular character of the new world symphony can be traced to the composers use of ____ often found in folk music
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All of these
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Which of the following statements is not true
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Tchaikovsky was a happily-married man with a cheerful, self-confident outlook.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Began to study music theory at age of 21
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Nadezhda von Mack was
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A wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with annuity
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Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony
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Ends with a slow, despairing fianle
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Which of the following was not a member of the Russian five
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky