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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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Emotional restraint
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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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Program music is
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instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
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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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The orchestra in the romantic period
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was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.
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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 rise of the urban middle class led to the
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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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An art song is a musical composition for
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solo voice and piano.
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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
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was the first great master of the romantic art song.
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Clara Wieck was
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Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and
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mazurkas.
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A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the
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nocturne.
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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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As a youth, Franz Liszt was influenced by the performances of
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Niccolò Paganini.
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Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso
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pianist.
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Liszt's piano works are characterized by
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Liszt typified the romantic movement because he
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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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Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Mendelssohn wrote in all musical forms except
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operas.
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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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Nonprogram music is also known as ________ music.
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absolute
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The composer who developed the symphonic poem was
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Franz Liszt
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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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The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's
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love for the actress Harriet Smithson.
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Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its
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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 citizen's sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by
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The strongest impact of musical nationalism was felt in
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The founder of Czech national music was
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Bedřich Smetana.
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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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Dvořák "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, Dvořák 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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Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one.
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Nadezhda von Meck was
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a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity.
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Which of the following was not a member of the Russian five?
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture was
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a dismal failure.
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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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operas.
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Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of
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Brahms's musical trademarks included
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the use of two notes against three.
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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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Nabucco.
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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.
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Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas
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to entertain a mass public.
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The soul of a Verdi opera is
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expressive vocal melody.
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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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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
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Wagner was a virtuoso on the
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None of these are correct.
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During Wagner's time in Paris, he
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was unable to get an opera performed and was reduced to musical hackwork
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The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by
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Richard Wagner
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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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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.
