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For the Romantic artist,

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Dreams were as important as the intellect

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In the 19th C. music was considered the "most Romantic of all the arts" because it

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Provide access to unknown realms, separate from the outer world

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By the middle of the 19th c., pianos were

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Produced in mass quantities and had become more affordable

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Writing _____ was one way Chopin showed his political sympathies.

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Polonaises

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The opening motive in Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 can be characterized as

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None of the above

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What makes Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 cyclic?

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The opening motif recurs in various permutations in all four movements

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What meaning did Beethoven supposedly provide for Symphony no. 5's opening idea

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Fate knocking on the door

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Beethoven wrote ___ symphonies.

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9

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The "Erlkonig" uses modified strophic structure, which is formally similar to

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A set of variations

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In Schubert's "Erlkonig," one singer depicts a narrator and

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Three characters: the father, son, and Erlkonig (death ghost).

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At the end of "Erlkonig," the

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Boy is seized by the Erlkonig and dies in the father's arms just as they arrive at the doctor's house

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Which type of composition became more important in the 19th c. as composers sought to integrate purely instrumental music with outside ideas?

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Program music

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The Symphonie fantastique captures Romanticism's fascination with

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The world of the gothic and the grotesque

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In the 4th movement of Symphonie fantastique, which sections of the orchestra did Berlioz make unusually prominent?

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Brass and percussion

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Which recurring musical image is heard just before the guillotine falls in Symphonie fantastique?

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The idee fixe

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How do we know that the loud crash in the 4th movement of Symphonie fantastique represents the fall of the guillotine?

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Berlioz wrote it in the program

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As Handel's father wanted him to be a lawyer and Vivaldi's father trained him for the priesthood, Berlioz's father wanted his son to follow in his footsteps and become a

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doctor

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At the beginning of his career as a composer, Berlioz's music was

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Not understood

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Which sound has approximately the same decibel level as a large orchestra at full volume?

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A noisy kitchen

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Many of Berlioz's contemporaries criticized him for his music being

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Too loud

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Modernist composers created new and entirely novel approaches by

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Writing works without a tonal center or clear sense of meter Using the new electronically generated sounds Incorporating sounds from the music of non-Western cultures

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Duke Ellington's audiences at the Savoy Ballroom in NY are 1940 were notable for being

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Racially integrated

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Perhaps the single most remarkable aspect of music in the 12th c. is that for the first time

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Listeners could hear music when and where they wanted to hear it

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Debussy's relationship to the artistic movement known as ____ helps give his music the quality of "suggesting rather than stating."

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Impressionism

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How did Debussy elicit new timbres from the piano?

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Instructing performers to play ultra-smooth lines at a persistently soft volume

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Debussy was intent on exploring musical timbre in much the same way that

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The French symbolist poets explored sound for sound's sake

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Voiles provides the listener with

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Almost no sense of a fixed metrical pattern

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Debussy's works that are now recognized as masterpieces were

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Initially greeted with indifference or even scorn

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Which scale, often used by Debussy, undermined any sense of harmonic center?

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Whole tone

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What is the central point of action in the scenarios of The Rite of Spring?

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A young girl dancing herself to death

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What is the name for a harmonic system that uses more than one tonal center?

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Polytonal

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How would one characterize the orchestra used for The Rite of Spring?

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Larger than orchestras of the previous generation

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Which compositional style did Stravinsky use to reinvent himself?

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Neoclassicism & 12 tone music

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Ragtime music

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Was dance music Became immensely popular with the young people Was a foundation of jazz music

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Hemiola is

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Syncopation where patterns of two and tree occur together

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What is the name for piano technique where the left hand alternates between bass notes and middle-register chords?

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Stride bass

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Joplin called his pieces ____ ____ in an attempt to make them sound more refined than other ragtime pieces.

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Classic rags

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In 1916, Scott Joplin recorded "Maple Leaf Rag" on

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A piano roll designed to be played on a player piano

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Which voices engage in the call-and-response texture in "Cotton Tail"?

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Trumpets and tenor saxophone

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The "rhythm changes" harmonic progression used in "Cotton Tail" was written by American composer

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George Gershwin

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What is the name for a groove in which the notes alternate between slightly longer and slightly shorter durations?

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swing

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What is the form of the head in "Cotton Tail"?

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Slightly modified AABA

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In what ways is an operetta different from an opera?

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An operetta uses spoken dialogue and is typically more light-hearted

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Bernstein's West Side Story can be characterized as a

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Modern musical retelling of Romeo and Juliet

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In "Tonight," Bernstein uses additive form to

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Build emotional complexity y adding multiple characters and contrasting melodies

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Which creative role was NOT part of what Ned Rorem described as Leonard Bernstein's "Four lives in one"?

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Playwright

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What is the general purpose of non-diegetic music in films?

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It supports the action and dialogue on screen

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Why does John Williams use such little melody in "The Walls Converge"?

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The action on screen doesn't call for it

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Which of the following compositional devices is NOT used by John Williams in "The Walls Converge"?

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A Leitmotif to signify the power of the Force

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Before 1927 the only way to provide a musical soundtrack for a movie was to have live musicians perform at every show. The _____ was a favorite instrument for this purpose.

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organ

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