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The favorite subjects of the Romantic poets were:

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b. love, longing, and nature

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A song form in which the main melody is repeated for two or three stanzas but introduces new or significantly varied material when the text requires it is called:

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c. modified strophic

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Schubert and his friends organized evening gatherings of artists, writers, and musicians, called:

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c. Schubertiads.

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In which genre was Schubert NOT indebted to Classical traditions?

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a. Lied

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Approximately how many songs did Schubert compose?

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d. more than 600

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What is vernacular music?

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b. popular songs sung in a country's native language

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What nationality was Stephen Foster?

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a. American

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The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:

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b. piano

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Which of the following does NOT characterize the piano?

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a. It is capable of only one dynamic level

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Which of the following was NOT a technical improvement to the nineteenth-century piano?

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c. a second keyboard was added

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The short, lyric piano piece is the instrumental equivalent of:

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b. the song

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Nineteenth-century composers of the short, lyric piano piece included:

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d. all of the above

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Chopin is credited with developing the:

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a. modern piano style

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With which famous novelist did Chopin become romantically involved?

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a. George Sand

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Which of the following does NOT characterize Chopin's Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op. 24, No. 4?

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b. Simple A-B-A form

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Which composer is known as the "poet of the piano"?

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b. Frédéric Chopin

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was discouraged from pursuing a career as a composer because:

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a. she was a woman

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Which of the following composed the piano cycle The Year?

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b. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

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The manuscript for Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: At the River, from The Year, has poetic lines by:

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c. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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How does Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's The Year reach a level of achievement beyond that of her brother Felix?

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b. It is a large-scale work unified by musical and extramusical links

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

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a. Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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The familiar tune quoted near the end of Gottschalk's work The Banjo is:

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c. Camptown Races

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Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called:

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b. program music

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Hector Berlioz was born and spent most of his career in:

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b. France

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How many movements are in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique?

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d. five

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Which of the following is NOT true of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique?

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a. The program deals entirely with nature

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In Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, what is the idée fixe?

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c. the basic theme of the symphony, heard in every movement

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Which of the following does NOT characterize the March to the Scaffoldfrom Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique?

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b. dominance of the string instruments

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The Dies irae is:

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c. a chant from the Mass for the Dead

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The concept of a program overture had its origin in the:

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d. opera overture

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Another name for the symphonic poem is:

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b. tone poem

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Nationalism is characteristic of all of the following EXCEPT:

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b. Chopin's sonatas

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Which of the following was NOT a Russian composer?

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a. Borodin

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What is the form of Grieg's Morning Mood?

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d. A-B-A

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Which movement of a Romantic symphony is most likely to be strongly rhythmic and dancelike?

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c. scherzo

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How many movements does a typical Romantic symphony contain?

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d. four

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Brahms composed his German Requiemafter the death of:

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d. his mother

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Brahms maintained a lifelong, close relationship with:

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b. Clara Schumann

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Brahms wrote ________ symphonies.

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a. four

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The singing star Giuseppina Strepponi helped launch the career of:

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d. Giuseppe Verdi

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Italian comic opera is called:

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c. opera buffa

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Who dies at the end of Rigoletto?

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d. Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter

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The ensemble that follows "La donna è mobile" in Act III of Rigoletto is a(n):

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b. quartet

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Which of the following are characteristic of Beijing opera?

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d. all of the above

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A special theater was built at ________ for the presentation of Wagner's music dramas.

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d. Bayreuth

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Wagner's total artwork, in which all the arts—music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle—are fused together, is called:

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a. The Gesamtkunstwerk

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Wagner called his operas:

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b. music dramas

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In Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, who are the Valkyries?

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Tchaikovsky's fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is:

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d.the nutcracker

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The keyboard instrument featured in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker, is the:

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b. celesta

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

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c. puccini

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Which of the following operas is NOT by Puccini?

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c. pagliacci

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The Japanese shamisen is:

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d. a plucked string instrument

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The Libera mefrom Fauré's Requiemfeatures which vocal soloist?

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d. baritone

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The mood at the end of Libera mefrom Fauré's Requiem is:

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c. tenor

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

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b. symbolism

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Mallarmé and Verlaine were:

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a. symbolist poets

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The Symbolist poets were strongly influenced by the works of:

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d. Edgar allan poe

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

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b. non-western music

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

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d. java

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What nationality was Claude Debussy?

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b. French

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Which of the following was NOT composed by Debussy?

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c. Boléro

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

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d. all of the above

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

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d. all of the above

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

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a. The Fisk Jubilee Singers perform a cappella.

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

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c. brass band

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

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d. earned his title as "march king"

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John Philip Sousa conducted the:

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b. U.S. Marine Band

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John Philip Sousa composed:

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d. all of the above

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Which American composer became known as the "King of Ragtime"?

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b. joplin

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