Music: Chapter 30 – Flashcards
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Hector Berlioz looked to the writings of Shakespeare as the basis for both operas and symphonic works.
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True
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Music lacking any literary or pictorial association is called:
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Absolute music
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Which term describes a one-movement work for orchestra with a literary program?
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symphonic poem
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Berlioz's innovations include his orchestration effects.
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True
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Grieg's Peer Gynt was the result of a collaboration with which playwright?
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Henrik Ibsen
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Edvard Grieg represents the:
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Scandinavian nationalist school
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Which term describes a one-movement work possibly written to introduce a larger work, but played independently.
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concert overture
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Which composer is generally credited with the first use of the term "symphonic poem"?
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Franz Liszt
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What does the loud chord immediately after the statement of the idée fixe at the end of the fourth movement in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique represent?
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The falling of the guillotine's blade
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Bedrich Smetana represents the:
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Bohemian nationalist school
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Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique exemplifies the type of program music known as:
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the program symphony
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Manuel de Falla represents the:
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spanish nationalist shcool
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In which movement is the Dies irae (Day of Wrath) theme from the Mass for the Dead heard?
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the fifth
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Which of the following is NOT true about Hector Berlioz?
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He was a German Romantic Composer
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Which category of program music best describes The Moldau?
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Symphonic Poem
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov represents the:
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Russian nationalist school
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Which of the following is a type of program music written to accompany plays?
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Incidental music
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The inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was:
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the actress Harriet Smithson
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Which best describes the character of the fourth movement of Symphonie fantastique?
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a diabolical march
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Composers expressed their nationalism through music by basing their compositions on:
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songs and dances of their people, and the celebration of a national hero, event, or place
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Jean Sibelius represents the:
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Scandinavian nationalist school
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Which category of program music best describes Peer Gynt?
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Incidental music
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The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of the Symphonie fantastique, is called:
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the idee fixe
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Antonín Dvorák represents the:
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Czech nationalist school
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Mendelssohn's music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a famous example of:
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incidental music
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Which type of program best describes Smetana's The Moldau?
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Graphic, depicting actual events of places
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The chief difference between a symphonic poem and a program symphony is:
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the number of movements in the work
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The Moldau is part of a cycle of works known as:
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My country
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Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called:
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Program music
