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The nineteenth century saw the rise of a new social order shaped by:

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The technological advances of the Industrial Revolution

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The French Revolution signaled:

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The transfer of power from aristocracy to the middle class

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Brass instruments became more flexible due to the invention of:

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Valves

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In the romantic era, skilled musicians were trained at:

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conservatories

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During the 19th century, concert life began to center in the:

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public concert hall

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Of the following, which does NOT describe Romantic orchestral music?

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Composers produced more symphonies than their Classical-era counterparts

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The _________ became the most important genre of orchestral music during the Romantic era

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Symphony

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Romantic composers sought to make instruments sing. This statement best describes the element of:

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melody

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What trend inspired composers to write music evoking scenes or sounds of far-off lands?

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exoticism

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Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Bizet's Carmen, and Ravel's Spanish Rhapsody are examples of:

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exoticism

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The Leipzig Conservatory was founded by:

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Fleix Mendelssohn

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Which of the following women organized concerts featuring music by her brother?

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

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Of the following, who is a noted woman composer of the Romantic era?

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Clara Schumann

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The favorite subject for the Romantic poets were:

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love, longing, and nature

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A song structure that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called:

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Through-composed

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A song form in which the same melody is repeated with every stanza of text is called:

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Strophic

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The German term for the art song is:

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Lied

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A group of Lieder unified by some narrative thread or a descriptive or expressive theme is called:

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A song cycle

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The favorite Romantic poets for the composers of Lieder were:

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Goethe and Heine

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Schubert organized evening gatherings of artist, writers, and musicians, called:

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Schubertiads

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Schubert wrote several song cycles, including:

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Winter's Journey

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Approximately how many songs did Schubert compose?

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More than 600

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Which musical devices help to portray the child's terror in Elfking?

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High range and dissonance

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In which form is the Lied Elfking?

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Through-composed

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In Schubert's Elfking, the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano accompaniment represents:

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the galloping of the horse

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Schumann's A Poet's Love is a:

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Song cycle

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Robert Schumann's A Poet's Love is set to texts by:

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Heinrich Heine

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Schumann's "In the lovely month of May" is from which song cycle?

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A Poet's Love

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The composer who founded the New Journal of Music was:

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Robert Schumann

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Robert Schumann ended his career and life:

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in an asylum, the result of mental illness

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What is the form of "In the lovely month of May"?

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Strophic

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Which of the following does NOT describe Schumann's "In the lovely month of May"?

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It ends with harmonic resolution

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The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was:

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the piano

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Which of the following was NOT a technical improvement in the 19th century piano?

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A second keyboard was added

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

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The song

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Titles such as Prelude, Impromptu, and Intermezzo are used for:

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Short, lyric piano pieces

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Compositions for two performers sitting at one piano are called:

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Four-hand piano music

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Chopin is credited with creating

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The modern piano style

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Chopin is considered to be the national composer of:

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Poland

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Chopin spent most of his productive life in:

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Paris

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The term tempo rubato, associated with Chopin's music, means that the performer should:

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take liberties with the tempo

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Chopin primarily composed for which type of venue

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Salon or drawing room

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Which of the following was NOT a genre of music written by Chopin?

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Symphonies

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Which of the following does NOT characterize the music of Chopin?

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reserved emotions

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What is the origin of the mazurka?

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A stately processional dance for nobility

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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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Standard A-B-A form

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Which composer is generally considered the greatest pianist and showman of the Romantic era?

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Liszt

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In which country was Franz Liszt born?

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Hungary

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What woman significantly influenced Liszt's life and assisted his literary career?

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Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein

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Which composer is considered the creator of the symphonic poem?

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Liszt

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Liszt was inspired by the virtuoso violinist:

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Paganini

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Liszt's The Little Bell is an example of ________________ for piano.

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etude

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Who composed the piano cycle entitled The Year?

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

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

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she was a woman

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's The Year is a cycle for:

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piano

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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's output is dominated by:

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Lieder and piano music

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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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The form of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: At the River, from The Year, is:

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A-B-A'

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

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It is a large-scale work unified by musical and extra-musical links

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Which of the following describes the music in America during the early nineteenth century?

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Music was largely imported from Europe

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Which of the following was NOT composed by Stephen Foster?

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When Johnny Comes Marching Home

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Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is a:

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love song

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Which 19th century American composer is best remembered for his popular ballads and minstrel show tunes?

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Stephen Foster

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The form of Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is:

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strophic

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born in:

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New Orleans

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Of the following statements about Louis Gottschalk, which is NOT true?

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He spent most of his creative life in Europe

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Who was the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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Louis Gottschalk based many of his works on:

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South American and Caribbean songs

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

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Camptown Races

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Which of the following does NOT characterize Gottschalk's The Banjo?

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limited range

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

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program music

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Which of the following is NOT a type of orchestral program music?

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concerto

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Which of the following compositions is LEAST likely to be an example of program music?

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String Quartet in B-flat major

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Music written for plays, generally consisting of an overture and a series of pieces to be performed between acts is called:

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incidental music

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Had movies been invented in the 19th century, to which genre of program music would film soundtracks be most similar?

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incidental music

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A multimovement programmatic work for orchestra is called:

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program symphony

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A piece of program music for orchestra in 1 movement that, through several contrasting sections, develops a poetic idea or suggests a scene or mood is called:

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symphonic poem

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Who was the first composer to use the term symphonic poem?

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Liszt

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Which composer is considered the first great exponent of musical Romanticism in France?

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Berlioz

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Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the music of Berlioz?

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It relies on traditional forms.

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Of the following, which is NOT an orchestral work by Berlioz?

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Italian Symphony

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Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is an example of:

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program symphony

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Which of the following inspired Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique?

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the actress Harriet Smithson

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

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The program deals entirely with nature

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

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the basic theme of the symphony, heard in all movements

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The 19th century brass instrument, now obsolete, for which Berlioz set the Dies irae theme in Symphonie fantastique is

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ophicleide

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Nationalism can be seen in all of the following EXCEPT:

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Chopin's waltzes

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Who was the first Bohemian composer to achieve international prominence?

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Smetana

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Edvard Grieg is a composer from:

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Norway

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Grieg's incidental music for Peer Gynt was written for a play by:

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Henrik Ibsen

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Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt is unified by a recurring:

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theme

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Which of the following is a Finnish nationalist composer?

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Jean Sibelius

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"The Mighty Five" were composers from:

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Russia

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Who composed the opera The Bartered Bride?

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Smetana

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Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is an example of:

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program music

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Which of the following is NOT a famous Russian ballet based on folklore?

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Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet

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

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France

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Smetana's My Country is:

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a set of 6 symphonic poems

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In Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, the idee fixe: a. symbolizes the beloved b. recurs by virtue of the literary program c. unifies the five movements, which are diverse in character and mood d. all of the above

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all of the above

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Of the following, which does NOT characterizte Grieg's Morning Mood for Peer Gynt?

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prominent role for a solo trumpet and trombone

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Of the following, which is NOT a type of absolute music?

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symphonic poem

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Clara Schumann was a virtuoso performer on:

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piano

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Of the following, which describes Clara Schumann's balance between family and career?

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She sacrificed her career for her family until her husband died.

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Clara Schumann's later creative activities were supported by the devotion of which composer?

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Brahms

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Clara Schumann's Piano Trio has _______ movements

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4

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The third movement of Clara Schumann's Piano Trio resembles a:

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Mendelssohn Song Without Words

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Of the following, who did NOT write a major concerto in the Romantic era?

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Schubert

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A fanciful solo passage in an improvisational style that is interpolated into a concerto movement is called:

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cadenza

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In composing his violin concerto, Brahms consulted the famed vitruoso:

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Joseph Joachim

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Which of the following does NOT describe the career of Felix Mendelssohn?

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He was an opera singer

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Of the following, which does NOT describe symphony composition in the Romantic era?

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Composers wrote more symphonies than their Classical counterparts

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Mendelssohn played a important role in the revival of music by which Baroque composer?

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Bach

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By the Romantic era, concerts had moved from:

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the aristocratic palace to the public concert hall

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Where does the cadenza appear in the first movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor?

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at the end of the development

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How many movements are in a typical symphony?

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4

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The 1st movement of a symphony is usually in ___________ form.

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sonata-allegro

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The scheme of a traditional symphony is:

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fast-slow-dance-fast

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Brahms was described as a "young eagle" by:

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Robert Schumann

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Brahms maintained a lifelong close relationship with:

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Clara Schumann

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Brahms wrote no symphonies until he was past the age of 40, in part because he was in awe of the symphonies of:

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Beethoven

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Which of the following does NOT characterize Brahms's Symphony No. 3?

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programmatic images

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Which of the following best describes the style of the 3rd movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 3?

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melancholic waltz

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Brahms is often described as an ___________, because of his use of forms of the Classical masters.

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traditionalist

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The structure of the 3rd movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 3 is first played by the:

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ternary

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Th opening theme of the 3rd movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 3 is first played by the:

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cellos

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While teaching in America, the Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak developed a particular fondness for:

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spirituals

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Of which national school of composition is Dvorak a representative?

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Czech

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Which position did Dvorak hold during his years in America?

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director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City

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The melody of the African American spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is suggested by the 3rd theme in:

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the 1st movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony

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The form of the 1st movement of Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 is:

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sonata-allegro with a slow introduction

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The Allegro section of the 1st movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony presents:

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3 main themes

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Of the following, who was NOT an African American composer?

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Antonin Dvorak

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The Afro-American Symphony was written by:

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William Grant Still

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Italian comic opera is called:

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opera buffa

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Of the following, which does NOT characterize Singspiel?

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It featured elaborate recitatives and arias

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Which of the following was NOT a prominent female opera singer in the 19th century?

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Clara Schumann

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What 19th century opera singer was known as the Swedish Nightingale?

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Jenny Lind

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Of the following, which woman was a successful composer as well as a successful opera singer?

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Louise Bertin

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Who composed The Barber of Seville and the overture to William Tell?

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Rossini

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The term bel canto refers to:

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a style fo singing that features agility and purity of tone

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Which of the following was a widely loved nationalist opera composer?

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Verdi

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La Scala, the famous opera house where Verdi's operas were performed, is in:

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Milan

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Which Verdi opera was commissioned for performance in Cairo to mark the opening of the Suez Canal?

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Aida

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What was Verdi's last opera, completed at age 80?

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Falstaff

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Who was th source of Verdi's inspiration for Rigoletto?

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Victor Hugo

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The librettist for Verdi's Rigoletto was:

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Piave

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The ensemble that follows "la donna e mobile" in Act III of Rigoletto is a:

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quartet

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Who dies at the end of Rigoletto?

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Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter

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Which composer has been considered to be the single most important phenomenon in the artistic life to the latter half of the 19th century?

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Wagner

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Wagner first operatic success was a grand opera entitled:

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Rienzi

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Wagner's cycle of four music dramas is called:

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The Ring of the Nibelung

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A special theater was built at ________for the presentation of Wagner's music dramas

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Bayreuth

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The concept of total artwork in which all the arts--music poetry, drama, visual spectacle--are fused together is called:

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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Wagner called his operas

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music dramas

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Wagner chose to base his stories on:

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idealized folk legend

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In addition to composing music, Wagner was an important

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writer

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Which characteristic of traditional opera did Wagner eliminate?

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separate arias

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The librettist for Wagner's music dramas was

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the composer himself

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The principal theme in Wagner's operas, which recur throughout a work and carry specific meanings, are called

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leitmotifs

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Which of the following is NOT an opera from the Ring Cycle?

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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

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In the Ring cycle, who is the father of the gods?

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Wotan

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What composer's musical language was based on chromatic harmony?

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Wagner

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In the orchestral prelude to Act III of Wagner's Die Walkure, the Ride theme is primarily played by:

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brass

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In Act III, Scene 1 of Die Walkure, what are the Valkyries carrying on their horses?

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fallen heros

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Why did Wotan deprived Brunnhilde of her immortality and leave her sleeping inside the ring

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because she, overcome with compassion, attempted to save Siegmund's life in battle

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Grand opera was the national style in 19th century:

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France

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Which of the following national styles is NOT a comic opera?

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Grand opera

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Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld is:

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an opera comique

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In which country was George Bizet born

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France

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Which of the following best describes Carmen's character?

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capricious and dangerous

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The story of Bizet's Carmen presents a romanticized view of _______ culture.

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Gypsy

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Biezt's opera Carmen draws on dance forms from:

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Spain

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The opening melody of Carmen's Habanera is based on:

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a descending chromatic scale

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Which of the following is the Cuban dance song that Bizet set as an aria in Carmen?

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habanera

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In the last decades of the 19th century, composers fell under the influence of or reacted against

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Wagner

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Which of the following statements about Romantic choral music is NOT true?

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Only professional singers participated in 19th century choruses

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The ______ is the most powerful part of the Requiem Mass

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Dies irae

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Of the following, which characterizes Verdi's requiem Mass?

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The requiem was dedicated to the memory of the poet Manzoni

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The solo voice begging for deliverance in the Libera me: Requiem aeternam section of Verdi's Requiem is:

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a soprano

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The two principal centers of the 19th century ballet were France and:

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Russia

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The development of Russian ballet was stimulated by the greater choreographer ________ in 1847

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Marius Petipa

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What Russian figure played a crucial role in the development of twentieth-century ballet?

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Diaghilev

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Which follow Russian composers was famous for his ballets?

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Tchaikovsky

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Who was Tchaikovsky's principal patron?

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Nadezhda von Meck

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Which of the following is NOT a ballet by Tchaikovsky?

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Eugene Onegin

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Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker is based on a story by:

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E. T. A. Hoffmann

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

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The celesta

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The trepak is a folk dance from:

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Russia

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What name is given to the twentieth-century composers who continued the Romantic tradition?

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post-Romantic

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The movement that, along with post-Romanticism, ushered in the twentieth century was known as:

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Impressionism

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The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism called:

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verismo

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Puccini's Madame Butterfly is:

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a tragic tale of a Japanese geisha and a U.S. naval officer.

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At the close of the opera Madame Butterfly, the title characters:

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Kills herself with a samurai dagger

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The Japanese shamisn is:

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a plucked string instrument.

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The post-Romantic era lasted from approximately:

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1890-1910

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Which of the following composers does NOT represent the Italian verismo style?

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Verdi

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Which of the following operas is NOT by Puccini

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Pagliacci

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Which of the following exotic elements can be heard in the opera Madame Butterfly? -Japanese melodies -pentatonic and whole-tone scales -instrument combinations that evoke the Japanese gagaku -all of the above

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all of the above

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In her aria "Un bel di," from Madama Butterfly, Cio-Cio-san sings of:

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her wish for her husband to return

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A Japanese geisha is best compared in Western culture with:

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A courtesan

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With which of the following movements is Gustav Mahler most closely associated?

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post-Romantic

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Gustav Mahler was trained in music at the _____ conservatory

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Vienna

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It is thought that Mahler's conversion to Catholicism was prompted primarily:

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to avoid anti-Semitism in Vienna

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Which of the following was NOT written by Gustav Mahler?

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Clair de lune

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Mahler's Song of the Earth was written after:

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his daughter's death

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Mahler's Song of the Earth sets texts by:

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A Chinese poet

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Which scale is predominant in the third movement of Mahler's Song of the Earth ?

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pentatonic

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The Chinese poet that inspired Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was:

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Li-Tai-Po

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