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Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western art music, encompassed the years

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1820-1900

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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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Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by +using the rhythms of the dances of their homelands +using their national legends as subject matter +Basing their music on the folk songs of their country

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all of the above

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

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100

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A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as

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rubato

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All of the following romantic composers were also virtuoso instrumentalists giving solo recitals except

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Hector Berlioz

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An important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period was the

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piano

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The German composers of art songs favored, among others, the lyric poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and

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Heinrich Heine

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The form of "The Erlking" is

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through-composed

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The piano's relentless rhythm in "The Erlking" unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the

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galloping horse

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Robert Schumann's works are +intensely autobiographical +usually linked with descriptive titles, texts, or programs +essentially lyrical in nature

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all of the above

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Robert Schumann's "Carnaval" is a(n)

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cycle of piano pieces

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Clara Wieck Schumann was +A composer +A concert pianist +A mother of a large family

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all of the above

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An ____ is a study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties.

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etude

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Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude" in C Minor develops the pianist's left hand because

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the left hand must play rapid passages throughout

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

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polonaise

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Liszt typified the romantic movement because he +had a charismatic personality +was a stupendous performer +was an innovative composer

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all of the above

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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's Concerto for Violin in E Minor opens with a(n)

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soloist, who presents the main theme

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Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations is called ____ music.

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program

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Nonprogram music is also known as ____ music.

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absolute

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The symphonic poem, or tone poem, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on literary or pictorial ideas was developed by

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Franz Liszt

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The musical scores composed for moving pictures may be regarded as examples of ____ music.

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incidental

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The "Fantastic Symphony" reflects Berlioz's

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love for the actress Harriet Smithson

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As one of the first great ____, Berlioz influenced a whole generation of musicians.

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orchestral conductors

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Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" is unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the

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idee fixe

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The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of the "Fantastic Symphony" is the

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"Dies irae"

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Bedrich Smetana

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was the founder of the Czech national music

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Dvorak "found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school" in the

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African American spirituals

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In the first movement of the "New World" Symphony, Dvorak

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composed a theme that resembles "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"

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Which of the following is not a ballet by Tchaikovsky?

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"Coppelia"

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Tchaikovsy's "Romeo and Juliet" is

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a concert overture consisting of a slow introduction and a fast movement in sonata form

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Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of +Joseph Haydn +Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart +Ludwig van Beethoven

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all of the above

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The soul of a Verdi opera is

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expressive vocal melody

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Which of the following operas is not by Verdi?

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"Cavalleria rusticana"

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Rigoletto, the title character in Giuseppe Verdi's opera, is +A hunchback +A court jester to the duke of Mantua +The father of Gilda

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all of the above

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Which of the following operas was not composed by Giacomo Puccini?

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"Aida"

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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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Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in Puccini's "La Boheme" because she has come to his door to ask for a

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light for her candle

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Wagner called his works music dramas rather than operas because +there is a continuous musical flow within each act +there are no breaks where applause can interrupt +the vocal line is inspired by the rhythms and pitches of the German text

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All of the above

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Richard Wagner spins an orchestral web out of recurrent musical themes called

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leitmotifs

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Siegmund, in Wagner's opera "Die Walkure", is +Sieglinde's brother, then wife +Wotan's son by a mortal woman +Siegfried's father

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all of the above

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Romantic style flourished in music during the period

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1820-1900

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Which of the following is NOT characteristic of romanticism?

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emotional restraint

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Which of the following composers is NOT associated with the romantic period?

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composer's own homeland is called

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nationalism

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Instrumental music that is associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene is called ____ music.

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program

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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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A slight slowing down or speeding up of the tempo, characteristically employed in the performance of much romantic music, is

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rubato

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The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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An art song is a musical composition for

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solo voice and piano

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When the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem the form is known as

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strophic

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When a composer writes new music for each stanza of a poem the form is known as

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through-composed

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"The Erlking", in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of

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death

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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 night time, is the

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nocturne

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The symphonic poem, or tone poem, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on literary or pictorial ideas, was created by

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Franz Liszt

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Liszt's piano works are characterized by +An unprecedented range of dynamics +Rapid octaves and daring leaps +Arpeggios

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All of the above

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The opening of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin in E minor is unusual in that

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the main theme is presented by the soloist

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Instrumental music written for its own sake, and for which the composer did not intend a program, is called

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absolute music

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Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of

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incidental music

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Which of the following statements is NOT true of Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony"?

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The fourth movement depicts a dream of a witches' sabbath

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The contrasting episodes of Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" are unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the

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idee fixe

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The founder of Czech national music was

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Bedrich 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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Antonin Dvorak's "Symphony No. 9" +Is his most famous work +Is subtitled "From the New World" +Glorifies Czech and American folk spirits

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All of the above

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In the first movement of the "New World" Symphony, Dvorak introduces a gracious melody that resembles the spiritual

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"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"

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Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" is a(n)

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concert overture

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Brahms created masterpieces in all the traditional forms except

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opera

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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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The famous aria "La donna e mobile" is taken from Giuseppe Verdi's opera

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"Rigoletto"

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An artistic trend of the 1890s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as

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verismo

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Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme" takes place in

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Paris

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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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At the end of the first act of Richard Wagner's opera "Die Walkure", +Sieglinde recognizes the stranger as her brother and renames him Siegmund +Siegmund draws the magical sword "Notung" from the tree +Siegmund embraces Sieglinde with passionate fervor

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All of the above

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