Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as _____________.
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Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene
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What is program music?
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By using the folksongs, dances, legends, and history of their homelands
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How did composers express musical nationalism in their music?
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Napoleonic wars
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Because of the French Revolution and the _____________ many aristocrats could no longer afford to maintain private houses, orchestras and "composers in residence."
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-the formation of many orchestras and opera groups
-The piano becoming a fixture in every middle-class home
-The development of regular subscription concerts
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What of the rise of the urban middle class lead to?
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Robert Schumann
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Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and ____________.
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solo voice and piano
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an art song is a musical composition for _________.
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Heinrich Heine
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The German composers of art songs favored, among others, the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and __________.
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postlude
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The mood of an art song is often set by a brief piano introduction and summed up at the end by a piano section called a ___________.
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Beethoven
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Schubert wrote a number of symphonies and chamber works that are comparable in power and emotional intensity to those of his idol, ___________.
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through-composed
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The from of The Erlking is _______-.
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-The daughter of Schumann's piano teacher
-a virtuoso pianist
-Schumann's wife
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Clara Wieck was ___________.
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was a close friend of Clara and Robert Schumann
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Johannes Brahms _________.
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are exquisite miniatures
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Most of Chopin's pieces ____________.
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nocturne
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A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime is the ___________.
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Franz Schubert; German lied, simple duple rhythms
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Who wrote The Erlking? What best describes it?
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Frederic Chopin; waltz like accompaniment; enhanced by numerous turns and trills
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Who composed Nocturne in
E flat Major?
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Frederic Chopin; his left hand
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Who composed Etude in C Minor? Performed mainly by ______.
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Franz Liszt
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The composer who developed the symphonic poem was _______.
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the Prix de Rome
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In 1830 Berlioz was awarded _____________.
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love for the actress Harriet Smithson
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The "Fantastic Symphony" reflects Berlioz's ____________.
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Moldau
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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 ___________.
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Johannes Brahms
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Antonin Dvrak's music was first promoted by __________.
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New York
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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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-is his most famous work
-is subtitled "From the New World"
-glorifies both the Czech and the American folk spirit
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Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 _____________.
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Robert Schumann and his wife Clara
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The course of Brahm's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer(s) ___________.
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the use of two notes against three
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Brahm's musical trademarks included _____________.
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-Bizet originally intended for there to be some spoken dialogue, but productions often replace the dialogue with recitative
-although it is now wildly popular, the original production was unsuccessful
-critics objected to the sexual behavior and brutal murder of the main character
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Which of the following statements is true about the opera, "Carmen?"
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Hector Berlioz
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Who composed "Symphonie fantastique, V: Dream of a Witches' Sabbath"?
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Bedrich Smetana
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Who composed "The Moldau"?
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Antonin Dvorak. a symphony
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Who composed "From the New World"? What is it best described as?
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Johanes Brahms
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Who composed "Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90, III"?
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"Nabucco"
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Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was ______________.
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to entertain a mass public
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Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas ___________.
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"Rigoletto"
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The famous aria "La donna e mobile" is taken from Verdi;s opera _____________.
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Giacomo Puccini
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The movement in opera known as "verismo" is best exemplified by ___________.
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Beethoven
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The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was ___________.
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"Rienzi"
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Wagner was appointed conductor of the Dresden opera mainly because of the success of his first opera __________.
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Richard Wagner
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The librettos to "The Ring of the Nibelung" were written by ____________.
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"Parsifal"
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Richard Wagner's last opera was __________.
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full and colorful
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The orchestration in Wagner's operas is ____________.
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Who composed "Rigeletto, Act III: La donna e mobile"?
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Giacomo Puccini
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Who composed "La Boheme, Act I, excerpt"?
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Richard Wagner
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Who composed "Die Walkure, Act I, excerpt"?
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