Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western art music, encompassed the years
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1820-1900
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Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?
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An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures
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Which of the following is not a characteristic aspect of romanticism in literature and painting?
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Emotional restraint
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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 cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as
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exoticism.
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Fascination with national identity also led composers to draw on colorful materials from foreign lands, a trend known as musical
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exoticism.
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Program music is
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instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Fascination with the melodies, rhythms, and colorful materials from distant lands is a romantic trend known as musical nationalism.
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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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Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by
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All answers are correct.basing their music on the folk songs of their country. using their national legends as subject matter.using the rhythms of the dances of their homelands.
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An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to ______ musicians.
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100
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The orchestra in the romantic period
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was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.
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The 1844 Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration that signaled the recognition of orchestration as an art in itself was written by
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Hector Berlioz.
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Which of the following statements is not true of the piano in the early romantic period?
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The piano's range remained basically the same as in the classical period
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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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A slight slowing down or speeding up of the tempo, characteristically employed in the performance of much romantic music, is
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rubato
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Altering the character of a melody by changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm is a romantic technique known as
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thematic transformation.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Romantic composers rejected the basic forms of the classical period and preferred to develop new forms of their own.
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Because of the French Revolution and the __________________, many aristocrats could no longer afford to maintain private opera houses, orchestras, and "composers in residence".
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Napoleonic Wars
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Romantic musicians often composed to execute a commission or meet the demands of an aristocratic or church patron.
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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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All of the following romantic composers were also virtuoso instrumentalists giving solo recitals except
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Hector Berlioz.
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A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was
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Franz Liszt.
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A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was
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Niccolò Paganini.
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The rise of the urban middle class led to the
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All answers are correct. development of regular subscription concerts.formation of many orchestras and opera groups.piano becoming a fixture in every middle-class home.
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When music conservatories were founded, women
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were at first accepted only as students of performance, but by the late 1800s could study musical composition
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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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Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and
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Robert Schumann.
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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 German composers of art songs favored, among others, the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and
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Heinrich Heine.
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Which of the following statements is not true of the romantic art song?
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The art song is restricted to strophic or through-composed forms.
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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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postlude.
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When the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem, the form is known as
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strophic.
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When a composer writes new music for each stanza of a poem, the form is known as
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through-composed.
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Schubert's primary source of income came from his
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musical compositions.
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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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Beethoven.
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Schubert
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was the first great master of the romantic art song.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Schubert labored at great length over each of his compositions, which accounts for his small output.
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Schubert's songs number more than
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600
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Schubert wrote compositions in every musical genre except
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piano concertos.
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Schubert was eighteen years old when he composed the song Erlkönig, set to a poem by
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The form of The Erlking is
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through-composed.
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The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of
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death.
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The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig (The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the
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galloping horse.
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Schubert's song Die Forelle is an example of __________ form.
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modified strophic
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The instrumentation of Schubert's Trout Quintet is unusual because of the inclusion of a(n)
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double bass
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Robert Schumann founded and edited the New Journal of Music in order to
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promote musical originality and combat the commercial trash that flooded the market.
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As a writer and critic, Robert Schumann
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All answers are correct.wrote appreciative reviews of young "radical" composers like Chopin and Berlioz.tried to combat the commercial trash that flooded the market.founded and edited the New Journal of Music.
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Which of the following is not typical of Robert Schumann's works?
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They are all written for the piano.
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Clara Wieck was
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All answers are correct.Schumann's wifea virtuoso pianist.the daughter of Schumann's piano teacher.
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During the first ten years of his creative life, Schumann published only
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piano pieces.
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Which of the following statements regarding Robert Schumann is not true?
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Schumann's short piano pieces often express a wide variety of moods.
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Robert Schumann's Carnaval is a(n)
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cycle of piano pieces.
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Clara Schumann frequently performed the works of her husband and of her close friend
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Johannes Brahms.
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Johannes Brahms
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was a close friend of Clara and Robert Schumann.
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Clara Schumann
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stopped composing at the age of thirty-six when her husband died.
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As a composer, Clara Schumann
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wrote songs, piano pieces, a piano concerto, and a trio for piano, violin, and cello.
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A leading pianist of the nineteenth century, Clara Schumann
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did some composing, but considered herself primarily a performer.
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Romanze (romance) in the nineteenth century was often used for a(n)
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short, lyrical piece for piano or solo instrument with piano accompaniment.
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Clara Wieck Schumann's "Romance in E minor" op.11, uses the form of
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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Which of the following statements is not true?
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During the last years of his life, Liszt settled in Rome and devoted himself solely to his religious duties.
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As a youth, Franz Liszt was influenced by the performances of
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Niccolò Paganini
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During his teens and twenties, Franz Liszt lived in
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Paris.
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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 abandoned his career as a traveling virtuoso to become court conductor at __________, where he championed works by contemporary composers.
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Weimar
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Liszt established himself as a conductor and champion of contemporary music in the city of
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Weimar
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Liszt's piano works are characterized by
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All answers are correct.arpeggios.rapid octaves and daring leaps.an unprecedented range of dynamics.
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The cimbalom is
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a Hungarian instrument in which strings are struck by hand-held hammers.
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The writer whose literary works greatly inspired Franz Liszt was
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Liszt typified the romantic movement because he
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All answers are correct.was an innovative composer.was a stupendous performer.had a charismatic personality.
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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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In many of his works, Liszt unified contrasting moods by a process known as
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thematic transformation
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In Leipzig, Mendelssohn
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All answers are correct.directed the premiere of Schubert's Great C Major Symphony.conducted the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and transformed it into one of the finest orchestras in Europe.founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music.
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By the age of thirteen, Mendelssohn had written ____________ of astounding quality.
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All answers are correct.symphonies and concertossonatas
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Besides his musical achievements, Mendelssohn was a
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All answers are correct.
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Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of
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Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Mendelssohn earned an international reputation, and rekindled an interest in the earlier composer's music, by conducting the first performance since the composer's death of
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Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
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The high point of Mendelssohn's career was the triumphant premiere of his oratorio _____________ in England.
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Elijah
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Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except
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operas.
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The three movements of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin
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are played without pause
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Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin in E Minor opens with a(n)
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soloist, who presents the main theme.
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The opening of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor is unusual in that
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the main theme is presented by the soloist
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Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture
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portrays the sea.
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In the first movement of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin, the cadenza
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appears at the end of the development section as a transition to the recapitulation.
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The first movement of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin is linked to the introduction of the second movement by a(n)
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single bassoon tone
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The second movement of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin is in _____ form.
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sonata
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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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Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony contains realistic imitations of
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bird calls.
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The work referred to by Beethoven as an "expression of feeling rather than painting" was his
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Symphony No. 6.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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The symphonic poem, or tone poem, is a one-movement composition in sonata-allegro form.
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Non-program music is also known as _____________ music.
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absolute
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Absolute music is also known as
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non-program music.
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Program music found its most varied expression in the coloristic resources of the
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romantic orchestra.
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A ____________ is an instrumental composition 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 composition based to some extent on a literary 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 during 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 movie scores may be regarded as examples of
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incidental music.
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In 1830 the Paris Conservatory awarded Berlioz
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the Prix de Rome.
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The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was
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William Shakespeare.
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The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's
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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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All answers are correct.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Berlioz's reputation outside France was even lower than it was in his homeland.
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In order to support his family, Berlioz turned to
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musical journalism.
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Outside France, Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a(n)
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conductor.
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As one of the first great ____________, Berlioz influenced a whole generation of musicians.
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orchestral conductors
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Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ____________ never before heard.
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tone colors
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Which of the following is not an opera by Berlioz?
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Otello
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Which of the following was not composed by Berlioz?
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the
The second movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony is a ______________, the most popular dance of the romantic era.
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waltz
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Which of the following statements is not true of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony?
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The fourth movement depicts a dream of a witches' sabbath.
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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 liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony is the
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Dies irae.
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The citizen's sense of national identify and patriotic feelings were intensified by
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All answers are correct.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in Italy, France, Germany, and Austria.
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Libretti that fanned the public's hatred for its Austrian overlords were deliberately chosen by the composer
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Giuseppe Verdi.
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The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in
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All answers are correct.
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Which of the following countries did not produce important composers whose music had a national flavor?
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Portugal
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The folk music of Russia sounds different from that of western Europe because it is often based on
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ancient church modes.
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The "father of Russian music" is
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Mikhail Glinka.
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The opera that laid the groundwork for a Russian national style, A Life for the Tsar, was composed by
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Mikhail Glinka.
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Which of the following is not a composition by Modest Mussorgsky?
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A Life for the Tsar
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Mussorgsky's piano composition Pictures at an Exhibition is best known today in its brilliant orchestral arrangement by
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Maurice Ravel.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Tchaikovsky was a happily-married family man with a cheerful self-confident outlook.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one.
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Nadezhda von Meck was
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a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity.
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In 1891 Tchaikovsky was invited to the United States to conduct four concerts inaugurating
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Carnegie Hall, New York
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Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony
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ends with a slow, despairing finale.
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Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky?
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Pictures at an Exhibition
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Which of the following is not a ballet by Tchaikovsky?
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Coppelia
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Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky?
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Russian Easter Overture
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At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture was
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a dismal failure.
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Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is
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a concert overture consisting of a slow introduction and a fast movement in sonata form.
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Bedřich Smetana
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was the founder of Czech national music.
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The founder of Czech national music was
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Bedřich Smetana.
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Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under ____________ domination.
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Austrian
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As a result of foreign domination, the official language in Prague schools in Smetana's youth was
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German.
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Smetana's most popular opera is
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The Bartered Bride.
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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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Moldau.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Smetana passed the last few years of his life teaching and conducting in Prague.
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The German master _____________ recommended Dvořák's music to his own publisher, resulting in a rapid spread of Dvořák's fame.
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Johannes Brahms
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Antonin Dvořák's music was first promoted by
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Johannes Brahms.
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Dvořák "found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school" in
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African American spirituals.
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Antonin Dvořák __________ quoted actual folk tunes.
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rarely
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In 1892, Dvořák 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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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Dvořák frequently quoted actual folk tunes in his music.
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Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9
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All answers are correct
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In the first movement of the New World Symphony, Dvořák
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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 composer's use of ___________ often found in folk music.
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all of these
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In the second movement of Dvořák's New World Symphony, the nostalgic quality of the melody of the famous largo movement is heightened by the timbre of the
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english horn.
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The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer
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Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.
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In Vienna, Johannes Brahms
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All answers are correct.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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One of Brahms's musical trademarks is his exotic orchestration
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In comparison to some earlier composers, Brahms's musical output may be considered small. This is explained in part by the fact that Brahms
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was extremely critical of his own work, and endlessly revised his compositions.
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Music critics of the day pitted Brahms's fondness for traditional forms against
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Wagner's innovative music dramas.
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Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any
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operas.
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Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of
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All answers are correct.
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Brahms's musical trademarks included
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the use of two notes against three
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The original source for the theme of the fourth movement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony was a
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cantata by J. S. Bach.
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The fourth movement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony is a _____________, a baroque variation form.
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passacaglia
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Verdi studied music in _________, the city where Italy's most important opera house, La Scala, is located.
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Milan
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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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Verdi's great comic masterpiece, written when he was seventy-nine, is
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Falstaff.
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The librettist of Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff was
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Arrigo Boito.
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Verdi's opera commissioned to commemorate the completion of the Suez canal is
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Aïda.
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Which of the following operas is not by Verdi?
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Cavalleria rusticana
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Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas
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to entertain a mass public.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Verdi composed primarily for the Italian musical elite, those who would best appreciate his talents.
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The soul of a Verdi opera is
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expressive vocal melody.
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Verdi's later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have
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All answers are correct
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Rigoletto, the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's opera, is all of the following except
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the romantic lover.
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The famous aria La donna è mobile is taken from Verdi's opera
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Rigoletto.
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Giacomo Puccini's first successful opera was
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Manon Lescaut
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Which of the following operas was not composed by Giacomo Puccini?
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I Pagliacci
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Giacomo Puccini, in his operas,
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All answers are correct
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An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as
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verismo.
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The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by
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Giacomo Puccini
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Which of the following operas is not considered an example of verismo?
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Turandot
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Some of Puccini's operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas
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Madame Butterfly and Turandot.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Puccini composed long highly ornamented melodies that are difficult to remember and perform well.
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In Puccini's La Bohème, Rodolfo is a young
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poet.
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Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème takes place in
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Milan.
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Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in La Bohème because she has come to his door to ask for a
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light for her candle.
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Who sings the aria Che gelida manina (What a cold little hand) in La Bohème?
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Rodolfo
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At the end of Act I of Puccini's opera La Bohème, Rodolfo and Mimi
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go to the Cafe Momus together, in 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, Bavaria
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Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in
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Bayreuth.
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Wagner envisioned the music drama as a Gesamtkunstwerk, or "universal art work," in which
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All answers are correct.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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As a young man, Wagner spent many years studying music theory and developing a virtuosic piano technique.
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The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was
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Ludwig van Beethoven.
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When he was fifteen, Wagner was overwhelmed by the power of the music of
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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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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Rienzi.
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Richard Wagner's first successful opera was
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Rienzi.
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Which of the following operas was not composed by Richard Wagner?
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Fidelio
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The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by
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Wagner himself.
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Richard Wagner's last opera was
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Parsifal.
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Wagner called his works music dramas rather than operas because
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All answers are correct.
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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.
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Richard Wagner spins an orchestral web out of recurrent musical themes called
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leitmotifs.
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Valhalla, in Wagner's Ring cycle, is
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the castle of the gods.
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Which of the following statements concerning Wagner's Ring cycle is not true?
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Sieglinde is a Valkyrie, one of the daughters of Wotan.
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Siegmund, in Wagner's opera Die Walküre, is
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All answers are correct.
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At the end of the first act of Wagner's opera Die Walküre
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All answers are correct.
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Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, popular during the romantic period, is called
answer
program music
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The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is known as
answer
nationalism
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The typical orchestra of the late romantic period numbered about ______ musicians.
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100
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Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as
answer
exoticism
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Music intended to be performed before or during a play, to set the mood for scenes or highlight dramatic action, is known as
answer
incidental music
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Instrumental music which is written for its own sake, and for which the composer does not provide a program, is called
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absolute music
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Approximately, the romantic period encompassed the years
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1820-1900
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of romanticism?
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emotional restraint
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The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by
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Giacomo Puccini
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