Music Test 5

The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a

Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of

Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years

A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was

In the first movement of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin, the cadenza

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

Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?

Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of

The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was

The form of The Erlking is

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

Most of Chopin's pieces

Altering the character of a melody by changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm is a romantic technique known as

Nonprogram music is also known as _____________ music.

Because of the French Revolution and the __________________, many aristocrats could no longer afford to maintain private opera houses, orchestras, and "composers in residence".

The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of

was the first great master of the romantic art song.

Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as

The German master _____________ recommended Dvořák's music to his own publisher, resulting in a rapid spread of Dvořák's fame.

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's

Chopin's Revolutionary Étude develops the pianist's left hand because

Liszt created the ______________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ____________ never before heard.

Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso

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

The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the

A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was

The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig (The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the

Wagner's preeminence was such that an opera house of his own design was built in _________________, solely for performances of his music dramas.

A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as

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

A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the

The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as

program music is

By the age of thirteen, Mendelssohn had written ____________ of astounding quality.

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

Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they

Liszt abandoned his career as a traveling virtuoso to become court conductor at __________, where he championed works by contemporary composers.

Which of the following composers is not associated with the romantic period?

The founder of Czech national music was

Schubert was eighteen years old when he composed the song Erlkönig, set to a poem by

began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one.

When music conservatories were founded, women

while in Paris, Chopin

The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by

A ____________ is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

Even though Smetana 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 the musical composition, is the

Which of the following statements is not true?

An art song is a musical composition for

The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer