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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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Exoticism
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Of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important than
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ancient Greek art and culture
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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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instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene
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Program music is
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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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An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to ___ musicians.
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100
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was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra
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The orchestra in the romantic period
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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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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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ostinato
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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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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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Clara Wieck Schumann
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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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Niccolo Paganini
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piano becoming a fixture in every middle-class home
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The rise of the urban middle class led to the
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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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Franz Liszi
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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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The word ____ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.
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lied
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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
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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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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's songs number more than
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600
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Schubert himself
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Schubert was eighteen years old when he composed the song Erikonig, set to a poem by
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the form of The Erlking is
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strophic
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The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of
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a galloping horse
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The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkonig (The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the
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steadiness of the father
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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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Clara Schumann frequently performed the works of her husband and of her close friend
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Johannes Brahms
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was a close friend of Clara and Robert Schumann
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Johannes Brahms
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stopped composing at the age of thirty-six when her husband died
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Clara Schumann
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wrote songs, piano pieces, a piano concerto, an a trio for piano, violin, and cello
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As a composer, Clara Schumann
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short, lyrical piece for piano or solo instrument with piano accompaniment
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Romanze (romance) in the nineteenth century was often used for a (n)
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a center of romanticism, the artistic capital of Europe, the home of Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, and Heinrich Heine
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In the 1830s, Paris was
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Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and
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mazurkas
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have a limited variety of moods
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Most of Chopin's pieces
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A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and night time, is the
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nocturne
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A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as
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an etude
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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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During the last years of his life, Liszt settled in Rome and devoted himself solely to his religious duties.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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During his teens and twenties, Franz Liszt lived in
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Paris
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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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The writer whose literary works greatly inspired Franz Liszt was
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Marie d'Agoult
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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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Vocal works, sonatas, symphonies and concertos
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By the age of thirteen, Mendelssohn had written ____ of astounding quality.
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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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Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except
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string quartets
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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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Musicians and audiences in the romantic period liked to read stories into all music, whether intended by the composer or not
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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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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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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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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a graduate fellowship
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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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love for the actress Harriet Smithson
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The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's
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sensationally autobiographical program, amazingly novel orchestration, vivid description of the weird and diabolical
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Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its
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In order to support his family, Shumann 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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Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ____ never before heard.
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tone colors
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The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the
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idee fixe
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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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was the founder of Czech national music, was a leading composer of symphonies, served as a member of the Austrian provincial government
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Bednch Smetana
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Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under ______ domination
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Austrian
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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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The German master ____ recommended Dvorak's music to his own publisher, resulting in a rapid spread of Dvorak's fame
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Johannes Brahms
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Dvorak "found a secure basis for a new national (American) musical school" in
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African American spirituals
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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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New York
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began the symphony with an allegro first theme
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In the first movement of the New World Symphony, Dvorak
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Tchaikovsky was a happily-married family man with a cheerful self-confident outlook.
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one
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Peter llyich Tchaikovsky
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one of Tchaikovsky's lovers
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Nadezhda vo Meck was
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Which of the following is not a ballet by Tchaikovsky
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Coppelia
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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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Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any
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chamber music
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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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Oberto
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symbolized a free and unified Italy
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Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they
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a court jester to the Duke of Mantua
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Rigoletto, the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's opera, is all of the following except
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the famous aria La donna e mobile is taken from Verdi's opera
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Rigoletto
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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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The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by
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Giacomo Puccini
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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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Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme takes place in
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Paris
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In Puccini's La Boheme, Rodolfe is a young
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philosopher
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light for her candle
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Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in La Boheme because she has come to his door to ask for a
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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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Geneva, Switzerland
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Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in
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Dresden
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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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Wagner was appointed conductor of the Dresden opera mainly because of the success of his first opera
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The Ring of the Nibelung
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Die Meistersinger von Numberg
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Which of the following operas was not composed by Richard Wagner?
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Wagner himself
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The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by
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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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the magic ring
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Valhalla, in Wagner's Ring cycle, is
