Music Appreciation Pt. 6
Essay,
Pages 11 (2647 words)
Views
51
Impartial in approach; reality rather than illusion
classicism
Aristocratic patronage of the arts
classicism
Emphasis on balance and clarity of structures
classicism
Emotional subjectivity; fantasy
romanticism
Interest in the strange and the unknown
romanticism
Wide range of emotional expression
romanticism
Nationalism
romanticism
Traditionalism; adherence to established methods
classicism
Enthusiasm for the culture of the Middle Ages
romanticism
Exoticism
romanticism
Belief in the supernatural; personification
romanticism
Art and culture of ancient Greece as a basic influence
classicism
Brilliant colors and dynamic motion
romanticism
Emotional restraint and good taste
classicism
Nature as the mirror of the human heart
romanticism
Frequently autobiographical
romanticism
Period of the industrial revolution
romanticism
Individualism
romanticism
Faith in the power of reason
classicism
Period of the American and French revolutions
classicism
The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was
Ludwig van Beethoven
A composer who earned his/her living as a violin virtuoso was
Niccolo Paganini
One of the few composers fortunate enough to be supported by private patrons was
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Music criticism was a source of income for both Berlioz and
Robert Schumann
When music conservatories were founded, women
were at first accepted only as students of performance
Schubert
was the first great master of the romantic art song
The piano’s relentless rhythm in Erlkonig (The Erlking) unifies the song’s episodes and suggests the
galloping horses
Schubert’s songs number more than
600
The Erlking, in Schubert’s song of that name, is a romantic personification of
death
The Erlking is a poem by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The form of the Erlking is
through-composed
Which of the following is not true of music of the Romantic period?
All the music was deeply rooted in the classical tradition
Which of the following music reflects the concept of exoticism?
Bizet’s opera Carmen
Instrumental music associated with a story is called:
program music
By the end of the romantic era, an orchestra might include ___ musicians.
![](https://paperap.com/wp-content/themes/theme/img-rh/star.svg")
5 (893)
Hire writer
5 (893)
“ Thank you so much for accepting my assignment the night before it was due. I look forward to working with you moving forward ”
+84 relevant experts are online
100
The purpose of using chromatic chords in Romantic music was to
add color and motion
Berlioz’s use of a lyrical melody from the opening movement of Symphonie fantastique that is then repeated as a grotesque dance in the finale is an example of:
thematic transformation
Which characteristic is not true of Schumman’s works?
usually linked with non-descriptive titles, texts, or programs
Robert Schumann’s Carnaval is a(n)
cycle of piano pieces
Clara Wieck was
Schumann’s wife and a virtuoso pianist, and the daughter of his piano teacher
During the first ten years of his creative life, Schumann published only
piano pieces
As a writer and critic, Schumann
founded and edited the New Journal of Music, discovered and made famous some of the leading composers of his day, and wrote appreciative reviews of young radical composers like Chopin and Berlioz
In the art song, which instrument shares an equal interpretive task with the voice?
piano
An art song in which two stanzas of a poem are set to the same music and another stanza is set to different music is called
modified strophic form
A set of art songs that are intended to be performed together as a group is called
a song cycle
One of the characteristics of Schumann’s Carnaval is that it
is permeated with autobiographical references in its musical ideas
Clara Wieck Schumann considered herself to be primarily
a performing artist
Romanze (romance) in the nineteeth century was often used for a(n)
short, lyrical piece for piano
Clara Schumann frequently performed the works of her husband and her close friend
Johannes Brahms
Clara Schumann
stopped composing at the age of thirty-six when her husband died
As a composer, Clara Schumann
wrote songs, piano pieces, a piano concerto, and a trio for piano, violin, and cello
Chopin was
shy and reserved
Most of Chopin’s pieces
are exquisite miniatures
Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude in C Minor develops the pianist’s left hand because
the left hand must play rapid passages throughout
Because of his size, it was difficult for Chopin to
produce big sounds on the piano
Much of Chopin’s music is an example of
nationalism
The polonaise is
a dance in triple meter
In the 1830’s, Paris was
a center of romanticism, the artistic capital of Europe, and the home of Victor Hugo, Honore de Valzac, and Heinrich Heine
Among Liszt’s favorite inspirations were the literary works of
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Liszt typified the romantic movement because he
had a charismatic personality and was a stupendous performer
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Liszt’s piano works?
a small range of dynamics
In many of his works, Liszt unified contrasting moods by a process known as
thematic transformation
During his teens and twenties, Liszt lived in
Paris
As a youth, Liszt was influenced by the performances of
Niccolo Paganini
Liszt created the _____, a one movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
symphonic poem
Liszt abandoned his career as a traveling virtuoso to become court conductor at ____, where he championed works by contemporary composers.
Weimar
Until the age of thirty-six, Liszt toured Europe as a virtuoso
pianist
The high point of Mendelssohn’s career was the triumphant premiere of his oratorio _____ in England.
Elijah
Mendelssohn’s Concerto for violin in E Minor opens with a(n)
soloist, who presents the main theme
The three movements of Mendelssohn’s Concerto for violin
are played without pause
In the first movement of the Concerto for violin, the cadenza
appears at the end of the development section as a transition to the recapitulation
Mendelssohn is known as the man who rekindled an interest in the music of
Johann Sebastian Bach
The work referred to by Beethoven as an expression of feeling rather than painting, was his
Symphony No. 6
The aim of most program music is
expression
A ____ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea
symphonic poem
The composer who developed the symphonic poem was
Franz Liszt
Today’s movie scores may be regarded as examples of
incidental music
Nonprogram music is also known as ____ music.
absolute
In order to support his family, Berlioz turned to
musical journalism
Parisians were startled by Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony because of its
sensationally autbiographical program, amazingly novel orchestration, and vivid description of the weird and diabolical
In the 1830 the Paris Conservatory awarded Berlioz
the Prix de Rome
The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of the Fantastic Symphony is the
Dies irae
Outside France, Hector Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a (n)
conductor
Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony is unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the
idee fixe
The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz’s
love for the actress Harriet Smithson
The fourth movement of the Fantastic Symphony depicts a
march to the scaffold
Which of the following was not composed by Berlioz
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The second movement of the Fantastic Symphony is a _____, the most popular dance of the romantic era.
waltz
The most original, and probably the greatest of the Russian five, was
Modest Mussorgsky
Libretti that fanned the public’s hatred for its Austria overlords were deliberately chosen by the composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under _______ domination.
Austrian
The founder of Czech national music was
Bedrich Smetana
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
Moldau
The first America concert pianist to gain international recognition was
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Smetana’s most popular opera is
The Bartered Bride
Nadezhda von Mecj was
a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity
At its premiere in 1870, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture was
a dismal failure
Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky?
Russian Easter Overture
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is a(n)
concert overture
Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony
ends with a slow, despairing finale
Antonin Dvorak’s music was first promoted by
Johannes Brahms
Dvorak ____ quoted actual folk tunes in his compositions.
rarely
In the second movement of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, the nostalgic quality of the melody of the famous largo movement is heightened by the timbre of the
english horn
In 1892 Dvorak went to ____, where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music
New York
Dvorak “found a secure basis for a new national [American] musical school
in the
in the
African-American spirituals
The popular character of the Dvorak’s New World Symphony can be traced to the composer’s use of ____ often found in folk music.
syncopations, pentatonic scales, and modal scales
Smetana is regarded today as the father of ____.
Czech national music
Smetana’s most famous work is the tone poem Ma Vlast (My Land). In it, the movement called The Moldau depicts
a river
Brahms’s works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of
Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven
Brahms’s musical trademarks included
the use of two notes against three
The course of Brahms’s artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer
Robert Schumann and his wife Clara
Which piece established Brahms as a leading composer of his time?
A German Requiem
Brahms created masterpieces in all the traditional forms except
opera
The original source for the theme of the fourth movement of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony was a
cantata by J.S. Bach
The fourth movement of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is a _____, a baroque variation form.
passacaglia
Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi’s operas because they
seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love
Which of the following operas is not by Verdi?
Cavalleria rusticana
Verdi’s great comic masterpiece, written when he was seventy-nine, is
Falstaff
Verdi studied music in _____, the city where Italy’s most important opera house, La Scala, is located.
Milan
Rigoletto, the title character in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is
a hunchbacked court jester
Verdi’s first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was
Nabucco
Verdi mainly composed his operas
to entertain a mass public
The famous aria “La donna e mobile” is taken from Verdi’s opera
Rigoletto
The soul of a Verdi opera is
expressive vocal melody
Verdi’s later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have
less difference between aria and recitative, greater musical continuity, and more imaginative orchestrations
Puccini’s operas have lasting appeal because
he had a marvelous sense of theater, his melodies have short, memorable phrases and are intensely emotional, and he minimized the difference between aria and recitative, thus creating a continuous flow of music
In La Boheme, who sings the aria “Che gelida manina” (“How cold your little hand is!”)?
Rodolfo
Puccini used melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Asian music in his operas
Madame Butterfly and Turandot
An artistic trend of the 1890’s, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations, was known as
verismo
Which of the following operas was not written by Puccini?
I Pagliacci
Puccini’s first successful opera was
Manon Lescaut
La Boheme takes place in
Paris
Mimi and Rodolfo meet for the first time in La Boheme because she has come to his door to ask for a
light for her candle
In La Boheme, Rodolfo is a young
poet
Which of the following operas is considered an example of verismo?
Tosca
Siegmund, in Wagner’s opera Die Walkure is
Sieglinde’s brother, then lover, Wotan’s son by a mortal woman, and Siegfried’s father
The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wagner called his works music dramas rather than operas because
there are no breaks where applause can interrupt
Wagner’s last opera was
Parsifal
The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by
Wagner himself
A short musical associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Wagner in his operas, is called
leitmotif
Valhalla, in Wagner’s Ring cycle is
the castle of the gods
Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in
Bayreuth
Wagner’s first successful opera was
Rienzi
Which of the following operas was not composed by Wagner?
Fidelio
Inclusion of folk songs, dances, legends, and other national material in a composition to associate it with the composer’s homeland; characteristic of romantic music
nationalism
Uses of melodies, rhythms, or instruments that suggest foreign lands; common in romantic music
exoticism
Explanatory comments specifying the story, scene, or idea associated with program music
program
Use of chords containing tones not found in the prevailing major or minor scale but included in the chromatic scale (which has twelve tones); often found in romantic music
chromatic harmony
Slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo to intensify the expression of music, often used in romantic music
rubato
Alteration of the character of a theme by means of changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm, when it returns in a later movement or section; often found in romantic music
thematic transformation
Concluding section; the section at the end of an art song that sums up its mood, played by the piano or orchestra, without the voice
postlude
Vocal form in which the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem
strophic form
Vocal form in which there is new music for each stanza of a poem
through-composed form
Form in which two or more stanzas of poetry are set to the same music while other stanzas have new music; found in art songs of the romantic period
modified strophic form
Instrumental music having no intended association with a story, poem, idea, or scene; nonprogram music
absolute music
Single melody used in several movements of a long work to represent a recurring idea
Idee fixe
Scale made up of five different tones, used in folk music and music of the far east
pentatonic scale
Short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, characteristic of the operas of Wagner
Leitmotif
In romanticism, the ____ was responsible to learn and play the piano in the house.
daughter
The Carnaval consisted of ___ piano pieces
21
Showed/eveloped a skill on the piano
etude
This person came up with the thought of thematic transformation
Liszt
Liszt’s symphonic poem was instead in
one movement
Gerta was
Schubert’s favorite poet
The father of musicology because he brought back baroque (through Bach & Handle) & did not write any operas
Mendelssohn
The first symphony to have a fifth movements
Symphony Fastique
One of the most famous Russian romanticism composer
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky’s mysterious benefactor was
Monaque (don’t know the spelling lol)
Most famous piano concerto piece was
Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky
What was Tchaikovsky’s favorite piece?
Serenade for strings
Valhalla =
where gods live in Wagner’s “Lite Motif”
Mendelssohn was a
painter, linguist, and writer
Mussorgsky’s pictures at the exhibition was inspired by
pictures in a memorial exhibit
Liszt’s music =
symphonic poem, huge piece with no breaks, and its a bout a story
When a piece is not programmatic it is
absolute
Berlioz wrote
Symphony Fastastique
The fifth movement in Symphony Fantastique =
Dreamis of a Witches Sabbath
The fourth movement in Symphony Fantastique =
March of the Scaffold
The second movement in Symphony Fantastique =
is a waltz (fast/furious)
Tchaikovsky’s favorite instruments to play were the
oboe and the english horn for the melody
Dvorak visited which American state?
New York
Brahm’s original source of inspiration was
Bach
The fourth symphony for Brahm was
Allegro energico e passionato
Ring cycle is an
opera that lasts several days about Valhalla (where gods live)
Mahler began his professional musical life as a
conductor of musical comedies
Which of the following statement is not true?
Mahler; having spent the major portion of his life conducting operas, it is not surprising that his output is mainly in that genre
Which of the following works was not composed by Gustav Mahler?
Die Winterreise
By supervising every aspect of its performances, Mahler brought the _______ to new heights of excellence.
Vienna Opera
Mahler’s Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) is a
song cycle
Music Appreciation Pt. 6. (2017, Dec 20). Retrieved from https://paperap.com/paper-on-music-appreciation-pt-6/
