The Romantic Period Test Answers – Flashcards
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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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A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was
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Niccolo Paganini
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One of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by private patrons was
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Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky
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Musical criticism was a source of income for both Berlioz and
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Robert Schumann
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When music conservatories were founded, women
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were at first accepted only as student of performance, but by the late 1800s could study musical composition
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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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Public concerts had developed during the eighteenth century, but only in the nineteenth century did regular ___________ concerts become common
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subscription
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It is interesting to note that an American orchestra, the __________, is one of the two orchestras that are the third-oldest in the world.
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New York Philharmonic
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In the 1830s, Paris was
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a center of romanticism the artistic capital of Europe the home of Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, and Heinrich Heine
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Chopin was
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shy and reserved
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Most of Chopin's pieces
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are exquisite miniatures
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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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A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as a(n)
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etude
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A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with nighttime, is known as a(n)
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nocturne
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The __________ is a dance in triple meter that originated as a stately processional for the Polish nobility.
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polonaise
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Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing ______________ and _____________.
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polonaises/mazurkas
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Among Liszt's favorite inspirations were the literary works of
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Liszt typified the romantic movement because he
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had a charismatic personality was an innovative composer was a stupendous performer
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Liszt's piano works are characterized by
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arpeggios rapid octaves and daring leaps an unprecedented range of dynamics
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In many of his works, Liszt unified contrasting moods by a process known as
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thematic transformation
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During his teens and twenties, Liszt lived in
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Paris
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As a youth, Liszt was influenced by the performances of
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Niccolo Paganini
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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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Liszt abandoned his career as a traveling virtuoso to become a court conductor at ___________, where he championed works by contemporary composers.
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Weimar
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Until the age of thirty-six, Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso
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pianist
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The high point of Mendelssohn's career was the triumphant premiere of his oratorio __________ in England.
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Elijah
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Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin in E Minor opens with a(n)
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soloist, who present the main theme
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The three movements of Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin
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are played without pause
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In the first movement of the Concerto for Violin, the cadenza
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appears at the end of the development sections as a transition to the recapitulation
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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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The work referred to by Beethoven as an "expression of feeling rather than painting" was his
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Symphony No.6
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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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The composer who developed the symphonic poem was
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Franz Liszt
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Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of
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incidental music
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Nonprogram music is also known as _________ music.
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absolute
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In order to support his family, Berlioz turned to
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musical journalism
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Parisians were startled by Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony because of its
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sensationally autobiographical program amazingly novel orchestration vivid description of the weird and diabolical
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In 1830 the Paris Conservator awarded Berlioz
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the Prix de Rome
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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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Outside France, Hector Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a(n)
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conductor
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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 Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's
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love for actress Harriet Smithson
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The fourth movement of the Fantastic Symphony depicts a
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march to the scaffold
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Which of the following was not composed by Berlioz?
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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The second movement of the Fantastic Symphony is a ___________, the most popular dance of the romantic era.
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waltz
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The most original, and probably greatest of the Russian five, was
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Modest Mussorgsky
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The founder of the Czech national music was
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Bedrich Smetana
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Liberetti that fanned the public's hatred for its Austrian overlords were deliberately chosen by the composer
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under _________ domination.
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Austrian
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Smetana's most popular opera is _________.
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The Bartered Bride
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Even though Smetana was deaf at the time, he composed a musical work depicting Bohemia's man 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 first American concert pianist to gain international recognition was
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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Antonin Dvorak's music was first promoted by
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Johannes Brahms
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Dvorak _________ quoted actual folk tunes in his compostions.
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rarely
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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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In 1892, Dvorak went to ______________, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music.
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New York
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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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The popular character of the Dvorak's New World Symphony can be traced to the composer's use of ____________ often found in folk music.
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syncopations modal scales pentatonic scales
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Nadezhda con Meck was
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a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity
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At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture was
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a dismal failure
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Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky?
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Russian Easter Overture
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Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is a(n)
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concert overture
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Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony
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ends with a slow, despairing finale
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Brahm's works though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of
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Joseph Haydn Ludwig van Beethoven Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Brahm's musical trademarks included
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the use of two notes against threee
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Johannes Brahm's Symphony No.3 in F Major
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is the shortest of his four symphonies is characterized by thematic connections among its four movements contains striking contrasts between major and minor
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Which of the following statements about the third movement of Brahm's Symphony No. 3 in F Major is not true?
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It utilizes a large orchestra
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In comparison to some earlier compositions, Brahm's musical output may be considered small. This is explained in part by the fact that Brahms
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was extremely critical of his own work, and endlessly revised his compositions
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The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Wagner called his works musical dramas rather than opera because
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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 German text
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Wagner's last opera was
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Parsifal
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The librettos to the Ring of the Nibelung was written by
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Wagner himself
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A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Wagner in his operas is called
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leitmotif
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Valhalla in Wagner's Ring cycle, is
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the castle of the gods
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Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in
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Bayreuth
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Wagner's first successful opera was
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Rienzi
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Sigmund, in Wagner's opera Die Walkure, is
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Sieglinde's brother, then wife Siegfried's father Wotan's son by mortal womean
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Which of the following operas was not composed by Wagner?
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Fidelio
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Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, popular during the romantic period, is called
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program music
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The typical orchestra of the late romantic period numbered about ___________ musicians.
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100
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Music intended to be performed before or during a play, to set the mood for scenes or highlight dramatic action, is known as
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incidental music
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Instrumental music that is written for its own sake, and for which the composer does not provide a program, is called
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absolute music
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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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Approximately, the romantic period encompassed the years
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1820-1900
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All of the following composers are associated with the romantic period except
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozat
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of romanticism?
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emotional restraint
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The movement in opera known as verismo is best exemplified by
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Giacomo Puccini
