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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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The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a
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march to the scaffold
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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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Program music is
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instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene
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Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years
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1820-1900
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Schubert's songs number more than
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600
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Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in
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Bayreuth
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An art song is a musical composition for
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solo voice and piano
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Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by
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-using their national legends as subject matter. -using the rhythms of the dances of their homelands. -basing their music on the folk songs of their country
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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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The popular character of the New World Symphony can be traced to the composer's use of ___________ often found in folk music
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-modal scales -pentatonic scales -syncopations
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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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Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and
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mazurkas
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The word ___________ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text
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lied
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The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig (The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the
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galloping horse
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In the first movement of the New World Symphony, Dvořák
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composed a theme that resembles Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was
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Franz Liszt
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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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Dvořák "found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school" in
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African American spirituals
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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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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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A very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period was the
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piano
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A ________________ is 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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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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Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and
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Robert Schumann
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Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9
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- glorifies both the Czech and the American folk spirit. - is his most famous work -is subtitled From the New World
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A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as
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an etude.
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Most of Chopin's pieces
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are exquisite miniatures
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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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idée fixe
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Robert Schumann's Carnaval is a(n)
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cycle of piano pieces.
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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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A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was
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Niccolò Paganini
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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 movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by
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Giacomo Puccini.
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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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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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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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In the first movement of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin, the cadenza
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appears at the end of the development section as a transition to the recapitulation
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The founder of Czech national music was
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Bedřich Smetana
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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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A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was
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Béla Bartók
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Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of
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primitivism
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Twelve-tone compositional techniques used to organize rhythm, dynamics, tone color, and other dimensions of music to produce totally controlled and organized music are called
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serialism
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Impressionism in music is characterized by
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a stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity
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Using all twelve tones without regard to their traditional relationship to major or minor scales, avoiding traditional chord progressions, is known as
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atonality
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A major composer associated with the serialist movement is
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Milton Babbitt
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The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time is known as
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polyrhythm.
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The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called
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polytonality.
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Around 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano, a(n)
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grand piano whose sound is altered by objects such as bolts, screws, rubber bands, pieces of felt, paper, and plastic inserted between the strings of some of the keys
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Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's
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students
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Ostinato refers to a
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motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section
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The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was called
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expressionism
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Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique
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- was one of the earliest masterpieces of electronic music created in a tape studio. -was designed for the 1958 Brussels World Fair. -was composed in collaboration with the famous architect Le Corbusier
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A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called
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ostinato
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During most of his lifetime, Charles Ives's musical compositions
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accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm
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The most important impressionist composer was
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Claude Debussy.
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Minimalism as an artistic movement was a
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reaction against the complexity of serialism and the randomness of chance music
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The text of A Survivor from Warsaw
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-was written by Schoenberg. -is set to a kind of speech-singing. -is partly based on a direct report of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto
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The term impressionist derived from a critic's derogatory reaction to Impression: Sunrise, a painting by
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Claude Monet
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An eerily expressive kind of declamation midway between song and speech, introduced during the expressionist period, is
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Sprechstimme
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The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as
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atonality
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The deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds is known as
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primitivism
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Since World War II, musical styles have
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taken many new directions and changes
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Alberto Ginastera, one of the most prominent Latin-American composers of the 20th century, was born in
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Argentina
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Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called
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Sprechstimme
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Leonard Bernstein was a well-known
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-composer of orchestral and vocal works. -conductor -author-lecturer
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In chance, or aleatory music, the composer
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chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods.
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A scale made up of six different notes each a whole step away from the next is called a ________ scale.
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whole-tone
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The twelve-tone composer whose style was most imitated in the 1950s and 1960s was
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Anton Webern
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All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except
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Hector Berlioz.
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The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of
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Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
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The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet
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The Rite of Spring.
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Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as
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neoclassical.
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Ellen Taffee Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of
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quotation music.
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The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by
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Arnold Schoenberg.
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