Q: -glorifies both the Czech and the American folk spirit. -is subtitled From the New World. -is his most famous work.

Antonin DvoÅÃ¡k\'s Symphony No. 9

Question 1

A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was

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Franz Liszt

Question 2

A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the

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nocturne

Question 3

Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in

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Bayreuth

Question 4

Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called

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program music

Question 5

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.

Question 6

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

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 7

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

Question 8

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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-syncopations -pentatonic scales -modal scales

Question 9

In the first movement of the New World Symphony, DvoÅÃ¡k composed a theme that resembles __________________.

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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Question 10

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

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 11

In the first movement of Mendelssohn\'s Concerto for Violin, the cadenza appears when and as what?

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at the end of the development section as a transition to the recapitulation.

Question 12

-glorifies both the Czech and the American folk spirit. -is subtitled From the New World. -is his most famous work.

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Antonin DvoÅÃ¡k\'s Symphony No. 9

Question 13

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

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rubato

Question 14

DvoÅÃ¡k \"found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school\" in

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African American spirituals

Question 15

Robert Schumann\'s Carnaval is a(n)

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cycle of piano pieces

Question 16

Music criticism was a source of income for both Hector Berlioz and

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Robert Schumann

Question 17

Until the age of thirty-six, Franz Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso

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pianist

Question 18

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

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piano

Question 19

As a youth, Franz Liszt was influenced by the performances of

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NiccolÃ² Paganini

Question 20

The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by

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Giacomo Puccini

Question 21

The founder of Czech national music was

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BedÅich Smetana

Question 22

Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and

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mazurkas

Question 23

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

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1820-1900

Question 24

A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as

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an etude

Question 25

Schubert\'s songs number more than

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600

Question 26

A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was

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NiccolÃ² Paganini.

Question 27

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

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idÃ©e fixe

Question 28

Liszt created the ______________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

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symphonic poem

Question 29

The fourth movement of Berlioz\'s Fantastic Symphony depicts a

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march to the scaffold

Question 30

Most of Chopin\'s pieces are what?

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exquisite miniatures

Question 31

An art song is a musical composition for what?

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solo voice and piano

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

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100

Question 34

A ________________ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

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symphonic poem

Question 35

Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as

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exoticism

Question 36

___________________ was larger and more varied in tone color than the classical orchestra.

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Orchestra in Romantic Period

Question 37

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

Question 38

instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.

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Program Music

Question 39

The word ___________ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.

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lied

Question 40

Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of

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Johann Sebastian Bach.

Question 41

The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by

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Richard Wagner

Question 42

The piano\'s relentless rhythm in ErlkÃ¶nig (The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the

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galloping horse

Question 43

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

Question 44

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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