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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel lived a long and productive life

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false

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was encouraged to pursue a musical career by her family

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false

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From a trip to which country did Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel draw inspiration for her work The Year?

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Italy

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote several large-scale works as well as many Lieder

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true

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Chopin paid homage to his Eastern European ancestry by composing

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mazurkas and polaniase

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Following her mother's death, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel took over

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organizing the famous family Sunday concerts.

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Stephen Foster's music is inspired by the time he spent living in the American South

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false

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Music publication in early America was largely comprised of what kind of music

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devotional

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Music in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America was wildly divergent from European traditions

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false

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Stephen Foster is known for his ballads, minstrel show tunes, and plantation songs

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true

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Shape-note notation was designed for people who could not read music

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true

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Devotional music from nineteenth-century America has no presence in modern spiritual music

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false

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Stephen Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair was inspired by real life experiences

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true

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Protestant settlers in New England did not have printed music books until the eighteenth century

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false

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Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is primarily composed in what texture?

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homophonic with some polyphonic

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov represents the

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russian nationalist school

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Jean Sibelius represents the

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Scandinavian school

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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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Bedrich Smetana represents the

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Bohemian 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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Edvard Grieg represents the

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Scandinavian nationalist school

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Grieg's Peer Gynt was the result of a collaborative work with which playwright

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Henrick Ibsen

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Grieg's Peer Gynt was the result of a collaborative work with which playwright

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the idee fixe

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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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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 category of program music best describes Peer Gynt?

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incidental music

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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 type of program best describes Smetana's The Moldau?

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graphic, depicting actual events or places

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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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In which movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique 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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Berlioz's innovations include his orchestration effects

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true

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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. the celebration of a national hero, event, or place.

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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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The Moldau is part of a cycle of works known as:

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my country

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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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Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called:

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Program music

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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 school

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The inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was

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the actress Harriet Smithson.

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Music lacking any literary or pictorial association is called:

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absolute music

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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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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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Antonín Dvorák represents the

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Czech School

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Which category of program music best describes The Moldau?

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Symphonic Poem

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Dvorák wrote a number of operas that reflected the influence of his homeland.

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true

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Romantic composers often wrote a longer last movement of a symphony to balance the first.

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true

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How many symphonies did Brahms write?

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four

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Which composer nurtured Brahms's talents, taking him into his home?

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Robert Schumann

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While in the United States, Dvorák was particularly drawn to

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African American spirituals

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Brahms's Symphony No. 3 exemplifies cyclical structure, bringing back themes at the close from the first movement

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true

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Dvorák rarely included elements of his own musical culture into his symphonic compositions

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False

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Brahms wrote all of his symphonies after he turned forty

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true

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The scherzo differs from the traditional minuet and trio in that it follows a modified sonata form

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False

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Unlike the symphonic poem, the symphony is often absolute music, without a program.

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True

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The opening melody of the third movement in Brahms's Symphony No. 3 is given to which instrument

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The cellos

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Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F major uses none of the forms often found in late eighteenth-century symphonies.

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False

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The Romantic symphony required a larger orchestra than that of the Classical masters

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True

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The third movement of the nineteenth-century symphony is most likely in

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scherzo and trio form.

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Dvorák came to America in the 1890s and taught in ______:

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New York

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Brahms wrote his Requiem mass in memory of:

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His Mother

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Dvorák wrote his ninth symphony, the New World in:

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The United States

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The Romantic symphony cycle typically has three movements

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False

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The middle movements of the New World Symphony are programmatic, based on:

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha.

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The Romantic symphony follows the exact forms and proportions of the Classical genre of Beethoven

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False

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Which is the typical tempo structure for a symphony?

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fast, slow, fast-paced triple dance, fast.

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The first movement of a Romantic symphony is usually the most dramatic and features the use of sonata-allegro form

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true

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