Question 1

What name is given to the expansion and intensification of late Romantic trends?

Accepted Answer

post-Romantic

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a major figure in post-Romanticism?

Accepted Answer

Brahms

Question 3

Which of the following operas is an example of exoticism?

Accepted Answer

Madame Butterfly

Question 4

The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism, called:

Accepted Answer

verismo

Question 5

With which operatic movement is realism associated?

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impressionism

Question 6

Which of the following composers did NOT compose in the verismo style?

Accepted Answer

Verdi

Question 7

Verismo was a late-Romantic movement in opera that sought to:

Accepted Answer

choose subjects from everyday life and treat them realistically

Question 8

The leading composer of Italian opera in the late-Romantic era was:

Accepted Answer

Puccini

Question 9

Which of the following operas is NOT by Puccini?

Accepted Answer

Pagliacci

Question 10

Puccini\'s Madame Butterfly is:

Accepted Answer

a tragic tale of a Japanese geisha and a U.S. naval officer

Question 11

Puccini\'s Madame Butterfly ends:

Accepted Answer

tragically

Question 12

A Japanese geisha is best compared in Western culture with:

Accepted Answer

a courtesan

Question 13

At the close of the opera Madame Butterfly, the title character:

Accepted Answer

kills herself

Question 14

Which of the following exotic elements can be heard in the opera Madame Butterfly?

Accepted Answer

Japanese melodies, pentatonic and whole-tone scales, instrument combinations that evoke the Japanese gagaku (all of the above)

Question 15

In her aria \"Un bel dÃ¬,\" from Madame Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San sings of:

Accepted Answer

her wish for her husband to return

Question 16

The Japanese shamisen is:

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a plucked string instrument

Question 17

Which of the following was NOT a major musical stream in French romantic music?

Accepted Answer

Wagner\'s music dramas

Question 18

French composers developed a type of art song called the:

Accepted Answer

mÃ©lodie

Question 19

Which of the following was NOT a French symbolist poet?

Accepted Answer

Victor Hugo

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT one of FaurÃ©\'s major musical activities?

Accepted Answer

conducting

Question 21

________ was one of FaurÃ©\'s students.

Accepted Answer

Nadia Boulanger

Question 22

Of which genre is FaurÃ© is considered to be a master?

Accepted Answer

song

Question 23

FaurÃ©\'s Requiem was originally scored for:

Accepted Answer

a chamber orchestra

Question 24

The Libera me from FaurÃ©\'s Requiem features which vocal soloist?

Accepted Answer

baritone

Question 25

The form of the Libera me from FaurÃ©\'s Requiem is:

Accepted Answer

A-B-A\'

Question 26

The mood at the end of Libera me from FaurÃ©\'s Requiem is:

Accepted Answer

serene

Question 27

The earliest practitioners of modernism were artists and writers from:

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France

Question 28

Impressionism: Sun Rising, the painting that sparked the Impressionist art movement, was created by:

Accepted Answer

Claude Monet

Question 29

Impressionism was a style of painting that was cultivated principally in:

Accepted Answer

Paris

Question 30

Which of the following painters was NOT associated with the Impressionist school?

Accepted Answer

Goya

Question 31

Which of the following best describes the work of the Impressionist painters?

Accepted Answer

they attempted to capture the freshness of first impressions

Question 32

Which of the following best describes the effect achieved by Impressionist painting?

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luminous, shimmering colors

Question 33

The French movement in poetry that rebelled against traditional modes of expression is called:

Accepted Answer

Symbolism

Question 34

MallarmÃ© and Verlaine were:

Accepted Answer

Symbolist poets

Question 35

The Symbolist poets were strongly influenced by the works of:

Accepted Answer

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 36

The whole-tone scale used by Impressionist composers derives from:

Accepted Answer

non-western music

Question 37

Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of:

Accepted Answer

Claude Debussy

Question 38

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of Impressionist music?

Accepted Answer

strong accents on the first beat of each measure

Question 39

The Impressionist painters\' interest in color is paralleled by Impressionist composers\' interest in:

Accepted Answer

timbre

Question 40

Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of a gamelan from:

Accepted Answer

Java

Question 41

The Spanish dance style performed at the World Exhibition of 1889 was:

Accepted Answer

flamenco

Question 42

What nationality was Claude Debussy?

Accepted Answer

French

Question 43

Debussy\'s opera PellÃ©as and MÃ©lisande is based on a Symbolist drama by:

Accepted Answer

Maeterlinck

Question 44

Which of the following was NOT composed by Debussy?

Accepted Answer

BolÃ©ro

Question 45

The program of Debussy\'s Prelude to \"The Afternoon of a Faun\" evokes:

Accepted Answer

a landscape with a mythological creature

Question 46

The overall form of Debussy\'s Prelude to \"The Afternoon of a Faun\" is best described as:

Accepted Answer

A-B-A\'

Question 47

What is unusual about the opening of Debussy\'s Prelude to \"The Afternoon of a Faun\"?

Accepted Answer

it opens with a flute solo in the velvety lower register

Question 48

Which of the following does NOT characterize the choreography for the Ballets Russes production of Debussy\'s Prelude to \"The Afternoon of a Faun\"?

Accepted Answer

it continued the traditions of classical ballet

Question 49

What was the Second Great Awakening?

Accepted Answer

a Christian movement at the turn of the 1800s

Question 50

Which of the following does NOT describe camp meetings?

Accepted Answer

African Americans did not participate in any such gatherings

Question 51

The tradition of the ring shout was brought to America from:

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 52

African slaves in the nineteenth century created a genre of religious song called:

Accepted Answer

the spiritual

Question 53

Which of the following describes spirituals?

Accepted Answer

the contained coded messages about earthly escape

Question 54

The Fisk Jubilee Singers took their name from:

Accepted Answer

their college

Question 55

Which European composer felt that an American school of music should be built around \"Negro melodies\"?

Accepted Answer

Dvo Ã¡k

Question 56

Which of the following describes the activities of Harry T. Burleigh?

Accepted Answer

He studied with Dvo Ã¡k, He arranged spirituals for voice and piano, He became a music publisher (all of the above)

Question 57

The spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects qualities of which tradition(s)?

Accepted Answer

Native American, European American, African American (all of the above)

Question 58

The melody of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on the ________ scale.

Accepted Answer

pentatonic

Question 59

Which of the following is the source of the text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

Accepted Answer

the Bible

Question 60

Which of the following distinguishes the Fisk Jubilee Singers\' arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot from that of Harry T. Burleigh?

Accepted Answer

the Fisk Jubilee Singers perform a cappella

Question 61

An important American instrumental ensemble of the nineteenth century was the:

Accepted Answer

brass band

Question 62

The most famous eighteenth-century American band was the:

Accepted Answer

U.S. Marine Band

Question 63

Players of brass and woodwind instruments were able to march in the late nineteenth century thanks to instrument designers such as:

Accepted Answer

Adolphe Sax

Question 64

Which of the following does NOT describe the career of Patrick S. Gilmore?

Accepted Answer

earned title as \"March King\"

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