Question 1

Which of the following is not characteristic of romanticism?

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An emphasis on balance and clarity of structures

Question 2

Which of the following is not a characteristic aspect of romanticism in literature and painting?

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Emotional restraint

Question 3

Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as

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exoticism.

Question 4

Program music is

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

Question 5

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

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nationalism.

Question 6

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

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100

Question 7

The orchestra in the romantic period

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

The rise of the urban middle class led to the

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Question 10

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

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Robert Schumann.

Question 11

An art song is a musical composition for

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solo voice and piano.

Question 12

Schubert\'s primary source of income came from his

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musical compositions.

Question 13

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

Question 14

Schubert

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was the first great master of the romantic art song.

Question 15

Clara Wieck was

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Question 16

Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and

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mazurkas.

Question 17

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

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nocturne.

Question 18

The ________ is a dance in triple meter that originated as a stately processional for the Polish nobility.

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polonaise

Question 19

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

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NiccolÃ² Paganini.

Question 20

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

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pianist.

Question 21

Liszt\'s piano works are characterized by

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Question 22

Liszt typified the romantic movement because he

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Question 23

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

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symphonic poem

Question 24

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

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Question 25

Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except

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operas.

Question 26

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

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program music.

Question 27

Nonprogram music is also known as ________ music.

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absolute

Question 28

The composer who developed the symphonic poem was

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Franz Liszt

Question 29

The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was

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William Shakespeare.

Question 30

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz\'s

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love for the actress Harriet Smithson.

Question 31

Parisians were startled by Berlioz\'s Fantastic Symphony because of its

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Question 32

Berlioz was extraordinarily imaginative in treating the orchestra, creating ________ never before heard.

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tone colors

Question 33

The citizen\'s sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by

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All answers are correct.

Question 34

The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in

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Question 35

The founder of Czech national music was

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BedÅich Smetana.

Question 36

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.

Question 37

DvoÅÃ¡k \"found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school\" in

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African American spirituals.

Question 38

In 1892, DvoÅÃ¡k went to ________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music.

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New York

Question 39

Antonin DvoÅÃ¡k\'s Symphony No. 9

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Question 40

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one.

Question 41

Nadezhda von Meck was

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a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity.

Question 42

Which of the following was not a member of the Russian five?

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question 43

At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky\'s Romeo and Juliet Overture was

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a dismal failure.

Question 44

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.

Question 45

Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any

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operas.

Question 46

Brahms\'s works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of

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Question 47

Brahms\'s musical trademarks included

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the use of two notes against three.

Question 48

Verdi studied music in ________, the city where Italy\'s most important opera house, La Scala, is located.

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Milan

Question 49

Verdi\'s first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was

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Nabucco.

Question 50

Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi\'s operas because they

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seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love.

Question 51

Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas

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to entertain a mass public.

Question 52

The soul of a Verdi opera is

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expressive vocal melody.

Question 53

The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by

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Giacomo Puccini.

Question 54

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.

Question 55

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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Bayreuth, Germany

Question 56

Wagner was a virtuoso on the

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None of these are correct.

Question 57

During Wagner\'s time in Paris, he

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was unable to get an opera performed and was reduced to musical hackwork

Question 58

The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by

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Richard Wagner

Question 59

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.

Question 60

While Wagner\'s Ring cycle features fantastical elements such as gods, giants, and magic, the opera is really about

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nineteenth-century society and culture.

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