Question 1

After his conservatory studies, Chopin spent most of his productive career in _____.

Accepted Answer

France

Question 2

Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned French _____.

Accepted Answer

Novelist

Question 3

T or F - Romantic-era piano works often had fanciful titles.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

T or F - The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

T or F - The piano changed little technically during the nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

T or F - The piano was the most central instrument in nineteenth-century musical culture.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

T or F - The short, lyric piano work might be considered the instrumental equivalent to the nineteenth-century Lied.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

What best describes the character of Chopin\'s Mazurka?

Accepted Answer

Dancelike

Question 9

Which genre is NOT a part of Chopin\'s compositional output?

Accepted Answer

String quartets

Question 10

Which is the best definition of \"tempo rubato\"?

Accepted Answer

\"Robbed\" time

Question 11

A lost manuscript of music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, in her own handwriting, that contained September: At the River was discovered in _____.

Accepted Answer

1989

Question 12

After her marriage, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was responsible for _____.

Accepted Answer

Organizing the family Sunday salon concerts

Question 13

T or F - Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was enthusiastically encouraged to pursue a musical career by her family.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

T or F - Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote several large-scale works as well as many Lieder.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

In the recently discovered manuscript of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel\'s September: At the River, poetry of which nineteenth-century poet was included _____.

Accepted Answer

Goethe

Question 16

The concept of \"river\" in September: At the River by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is expressed by _____.

Accepted Answer

Quick moving notes that accompany the melody

Question 17

Which role was NOT generally acceptable for women in Romantic society?

Accepted Answer

Conductor

Question 18

T or F - Women in nineteenth-century Europe could not receive training in music.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

T or F - Women in nineteenth-century Europe were expected to have refined musical skills.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

T or F - Women played a critical role in music-making activities of the nineteenth century, except as teachers.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

T or F - Gottschalk began playing piano late in his life.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

T or F - Gottschalk wrote piano works based on North American musical traditions.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

T or F - Gottschalk\'s The Banjo anticipates the syncopated piano style of ragtime.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

In his piece The Banjo, how does Gottschalk evoke, musically, the idea of the title?

Accepted Answer

He simulates banjo strumming and picking on the piano

Question 25

In which American city did Louis Gottschalk grow up?

Accepted Answer

New Orleans

Question 26

In which country was Franz Liszt born?

Accepted Answer

Hungary

Question 27

T or F - Liszt was an admirer of the virtuoso violinist, NiccolÃ² Paganini.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

T or F - The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

Which of the following does NOT characterize Louis Gottschalk\'s piano music?

Accepted Answer

Distinctly European in style

Question 30

Which of the following is considered the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?

Accepted Answer

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Question 31

T or F - Berlioz was a devoted fan of Beethoven.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

T or F - Hector Berlioz looked to the writings of Shakespeare as the basis for both operas and symphonic works.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

T or F - In the nineteenth century Theobald Boehm improved the flute, making it metal rather than wood.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

In which movement is the Dies irae (Day of Wrath) theme from the Mass for the Dead heard?

Accepted Answer

The fifth

Question 35

T or F - Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is absolute music.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 36

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called _____.

Accepted Answer

Program music

Question 37

T or F - Once Adophe Sax developed the saxophone, it became a permanent and popular part of orchestral music.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 38

The inspiration for Berlioz\'s Symphonie fantastique was _____.

Accepted Answer

the actress Harriet Smithson

Question 39

The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of Berlioz\'s Symphonie fantastique, is called the _____.

Accepted Answer

IdeÃ© fixe

Question 40

Which of the following did NOT make improved instruments possible in the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Household electrification

Question 41

T or F - Censors did not concern themselves with political representation in nineteenth-century operas.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 42

Edvard Grieg represents the _____ nationalist school.

Accepted Answer

Scandinavian

Question 43

T or F - Hector Berlioz invented the symphonic poem.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

T or F - In the twenty-first century, composers do not write nationalistic works.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 45

In writing Peer Gynt, with which playwright did Grieg collaborate?

Accepted Answer

Henrik Ibsen

Question 46

T or F - Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called program music.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

T or F - Nationalistic program music might evoke a landscape.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

Tchaikovsky\'s music for Shakespeare\'s Romeo and Juliet is a famous example of _____.

Accepted Answer

Program overture

Question 49

Which category of program music best describes Grieg\'s Peer Gynt?

Accepted Answer

Incidental music

Question 50

Which of the following was NOT a way that programmatic composers portrayed nationalistic sentiments in nineteenth-century music?

Accepted Answer

Utilizing ritornello form

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