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What name is given to the expansion and intensification of late Romantic trends?
post-Romantic
Which of the following is NOT a major figure in post-Romanticism?
Brahms
Which of the following operas is an example of exoticism?
Madame Butterfly
The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism, called:
verismo
With which operatic movement is realism associated?
impressionism
Which of the following composers did NOT compose in the verismo style?
Verdi
Verismo was a late-Romantic movement in opera that sought to:
choose subjects from everyday life and treat them realistically
The leading composer of Italian opera in the late-Romantic era was:
Puccini
Which of the following operas is NOT by Puccini?
Pagliacci
Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is:
a tragic tale of a Japanese geisha and a U.
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Puccini’s Madame Butterfly ends:
tragically
A Japanese geisha is best compared in Western culture with:
a courtesan
At the close of the opera Madame Butterfly, the title character:
kills herself
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)
In her aria “Un bel dì,” from Madame Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San sings of:
her wish for her husband to return
The Japanese shamisen is:
a plucked string instrument
Which of the following was NOT a major musical stream in French romantic music?
Wagner’s music dramas
French composers developed a type of art song called the:
mélodie
Which of the following was NOT a French symbolist poet?
Victor Hugo
Which of the following was NOT one of Fauré’s major musical activities?
conducting
________ was one of Fauré’s students.
Nadia Boulanger
Of which genre is Fauré is considered to be a master?
song
Fauré’s Requiem was originally scored for:
a chamber orchestra
The Libera me from Fauré’s Requiem features which vocal soloist?
baritone
The form of the Libera me from Fauré’s Requiem is:
A-B-A’
The mood at the end of Libera me from Fauré’s Requiem is:
serene
The earliest practitioners of modernism were artists and writers from:
France
Impressionism: Sun Rising, the painting that sparked the Impressionist art movement, was created by:
Claude Monet
Impressionism was a style of painting that was cultivated principally in:
Paris
Which of the following painters was NOT associated with the Impressionist school?
Goya
Which of the following best describes the work of the Impressionist painters?
they attempted to capture the freshness of first impressions
Which of the following best describes the effect achieved by Impressionist painting?
luminous, shimmering colors
The French movement in poetry that rebelled against traditional modes of expression is called:
Symbolism
Mallarmé and Verlaine were:
Symbolist poets
The Symbolist poets were strongly influenced by the works of:
Edgar Allen Poe
The whole-tone scale used by Impressionist composers derives from:
non-western music
Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of:
Claude Debussy
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of Impressionist music?
strong accents on the first beat of each measure
The Impressionist painters’ interest in color is paralleled by Impressionist composers’ interest in:
timbre
Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of a gamelan from:
Java
The Spanish dance style performed at the World Exhibition of 1889 was:
flamenco
What nationality was Claude Debussy?
French
Debussy’s opera Pelléas and Mélisande is based on a Symbolist drama by:
Maeterlinck
Which of the following was NOT composed by Debussy?
Boléro
The program of Debussy’s Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun” evokes:
a landscape with a mythological creature
The overall form of Debussy’s Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun” is best described as:
A-B-A’
What is unusual about the opening of Debussy’s Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”?
it opens with a flute solo in the velvety lower register
Which of the following does NOT characterize the choreography for the Ballets Russes production of Debussy’s Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”?
it continued the traditions of classical ballet
What was the Second Great Awakening?
a Christian movement at the turn of the 1800s
Which of the following does NOT describe camp meetings?
African Americans did not participate in any such gatherings
The tradition of the ring shout was brought to America from:
Africa
African slaves in the nineteenth century created a genre of religious song called:
the spiritual
Which of the following describes spirituals?
the contained coded messages about earthly escape
The Fisk Jubilee Singers took their name from:
their college
Which European composer felt that an American school of music should be built around “Negro melodies”?
Dvo ák
Which of the following describes the activities of Harry T. Burleigh?
He studied with Dvo ák, He arranged spirituals for voice and piano, He became a music publisher (all of the above)
The spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects qualities of which tradition(s)?
Native American, European American, African American (all of the above)
The melody of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on the ________ scale.
pentatonic
Which of the following is the source of the text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?
the Bible
Which of the following distinguishes the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot from that of Harry T. Burleigh?
the Fisk Jubilee Singers perform a cappella
An important American instrumental ensemble of the nineteenth century was the:
brass band
The most famous eighteenth-century American band was the:
U.S. Marine Band
Players of brass and woodwind instruments were able to march in the late nineteenth century thanks to instrument designers such as:
Adolphe Sax
Which of the following does NOT describe the career of Patrick S. Gilmore?
earned title as “March King”
America’s most famous bandmaster was
John Phillip Sousa
John Philip Sousa conducted the:
The Washington Post, The Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis (all of the above)
Which American composer became known as the “King of Ragtime”?
Joplin
Scott Joplin became famous when:
his Maple Leaf Rag sold a million copies
Scott Joplin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his opera
Treemonisha
What is the principal musical characteristic of ragtime?
syncopation
In Joplin’s rags, what is a strain?
a section usually having 16 measures