question

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

answer

Nationalism

question

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

answer

Ludwig van Beethoven

question

The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a

answer

march to the scaffold

question

An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as

answer

verismo

question

Program music is

answer

instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene

question

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

answer

1820-1900

question

Schubert's songs number more than

answer

600

question

Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in

answer

Bayreuth

question

An art song is a musical composition for

answer

solo voice and piano

question

Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by

answer

-using their national legends as subject matter. -using the rhythms of the dances of their homelands. -basing their music on the folk songs of their country

question

As a youth, Franz Liszt was influenced by the performances of

answer

Niccolò Paganini

question

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

answer

pianist

question

The popular character of the New World Symphony can be traced to the composer's use of ___________ often found in folk music

answer

-modal scales -pentatonic scales -syncopations

question

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

answer

symphonic poem

question

Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and

answer

mazurkas

question

The word ___________ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text

answer

lied

question

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

answer

galloping horse

question

In the first movement of the New World Symphony, Dvořák

answer

composed a theme that resembles Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

question

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

answer

Franz Liszt

question

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

answer

rubato

question

Dvořák "found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school" in

answer

African American spirituals

question

The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by

answer

Richard Wagner

question

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

answer

Bayreuth, Germany

question

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

answer

piano

question

A ________________ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea

answer

symphonic poem

question

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

answer

Johann Sebastian Bach

question

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

answer

program music

question

Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and

answer

Robert Schumann

question

Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9

answer

- glorifies both the Czech and the American folk spirit. - is his most famous work -is subtitled From the New World

question

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

answer

an etude.

question

Most of Chopin's pieces

answer

are exquisite miniatures

question

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

answer

idée fixe

question

Robert Schumann's Carnaval is a(n)

answer

cycle of piano pieces.

question

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

answer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

question

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

answer

Niccolò Paganini

question

An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to ______ musicians

answer

100

question

The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by

answer

Giacomo Puccini.

question

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

answer

nocturne

question

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

answer

Moldau

question

The orchestra in the romantic period

answer

was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.

question

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

answer

appears at the end of the development section as a transition to the recapitulation

question

The founder of Czech national music was

answer

Bedřich Smetana

question

A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called

answer

leitmotif

question

A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was

answer

Béla Bartók

question

Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of

answer

primitivism

question

Twelve-tone compositional techniques used to organize rhythm, dynamics, tone color, and other dimensions of music to produce totally controlled and organized music are called

answer

serialism

question

Impressionism in music is characterized by

answer

a stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity

question

Using all twelve tones without regard to their traditional relationship to major or minor scales, avoiding traditional chord progressions, is known as

answer

atonality

question

A major composer associated with the serialist movement is

answer

Milton Babbitt

question

The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time is known as

answer

polyrhythm.

question

The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called

answer

polytonality.

question

Around 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano, a(n)

answer

grand piano whose sound is altered by objects such as bolts, screws, rubber bands, pieces of felt, paper, and plastic inserted between the strings of some of the keys

question

Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's

answer

students

question

Ostinato refers to a

answer

motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section

question

The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was called

answer

expressionism

question

Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique

answer

- was one of the earliest masterpieces of electronic music created in a tape studio. -was designed for the 1958 Brussels World Fair. -was composed in collaboration with the famous architect Le Corbusier

question

A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called

answer

ostinato

question

During most of his lifetime, Charles Ives's musical compositions

answer

accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm

question

The most important impressionist composer was

answer

Claude Debussy.

question

Minimalism as an artistic movement was a

answer

reaction against the complexity of serialism and the randomness of chance music

question

The text of A Survivor from Warsaw

answer

-was written by Schoenberg. -is set to a kind of speech-singing. -is partly based on a direct report of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto

question

The term impressionist derived from a critic's derogatory reaction to Impression: Sunrise, a painting by

answer

Claude Monet

question

An eerily expressive kind of declamation midway between song and speech, introduced during the expressionist period, is

answer

Sprechstimme

question

The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as

answer

atonality

question

The deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds is known as

answer

primitivism

question

Since World War II, musical styles have

answer

taken many new directions and changes

question

Alberto Ginastera, one of the most prominent Latin-American composers of the 20th century, was born in

answer

Argentina

question

Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called

answer

Sprechstimme

question

Leonard Bernstein was a well-known

answer

-composer of orchestral and vocal works. -conductor -author-lecturer

question

In chance, or aleatory music, the composer

answer

chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods.

question

A scale made up of six different notes each a whole step away from the next is called a ________ scale.

answer

whole-tone

question

The twelve-tone composer whose style was most imitated in the 1950s and 1960s was

answer

Anton Webern

question

All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except

answer

Hector Berlioz.

question

The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of

answer

Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

question

The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet

answer

The Rite of Spring.

question

Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as

answer

neoclassical.

question

Ellen Taffee Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of

answer

quotation music.

question

The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by

answer

Arnold Schoenberg.

music final Flashcards

Unlock all answers in this set

Haven't found what you were looking for?

Search for samples, answers to your questions and flashcards