The favorite subjects of the romantic poets were:
love, longing, and nature
A song form in which the main melody is repeated for two or three stanzas but introduces new or significant varied material when the text requires it is called:
modified strophic
Schubert and his friends organized evening gatherings of artists, writers, and musicians, called:
Schubertiads
In which genre was Schubert NOT indebted to Classical traditions?
Lied
Approximately how many songs did Schubert compose?
more than 600
What is vernacular music
popular sons sung in a country’s native language
What nationality was Stephen Foster?
American
The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:
piano
Which of the following does NOT characterize the piano
It is capable of only one dynamitic level
Which of the following was not a technical improvement to the 19th century piano?
A second keyboard was added
The short, lyric piano piece is the instrument equivalent of:
the song
19th century composers of the short, lyric piano piece included:
Johannes Brahms
Robert Schumann
Frederic Chopin
Chopin is credited with developing the:
modern piano style
With which famous novelist did Chopin become romantically involved?
George Sand
Which of the following does NOT characterize Chopin’s Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op.
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Which composer is known as the “poet of the piano”?
Frederic Chopin
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was discouraged from pursing a career as a composer because:
she was a woman
Which of the following composed the piano cycle The Year?
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
The manuscript for Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s September: At the River, from The Year, has poetic lines by:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How does Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s The Year reach a level of achievement beyond that of her brother Felix?
it is a large-scale work unified by musical and extramusical links
Which of the following was the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
The familiar tune quoted near the end of Gottschalk’s work The Banjo is:
Camptown Races
Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called:
program music
Hector Berlioz was born and spent most of his career in:
France
How many movements are in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?
5
Which is NOT true of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?
the program deals entirely with nature
In Berlioz’s symphonie fantastique, what is the idee fixe?
the basic theme of the symphony, heard in every movement
Which of the following does NOT characterize the March to the Scaffold from Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique?
dominance of the string instruments
The Dies irae is:
a chant from the Mass for the Dead
The concept of a program overture had its origins in the:
opera overture
Another name for the symphonic poem is:
tone poem
Nationalism is characteristic of all the except:
Chopin’s sonatas
Which is NOT a Russian composer?
Borodin
What is the form of Grieg’s Morning Mood?
A-B-A
Which movement of a Romantic symphony is most likely to be strongly rhythmic and dancelike?
scherzo
How many movements does a typical Romantic symphony contain?
4
Brahms composed his German Requiem after the death of:
his mother
Brahms maintained a lifelong, close relationship with:
Clara Schumann
Brahms wrote __________ symphonies.
4
The singing star Giuseppina Streppini helped launch the career of:
Giusppe Verdi
Italian comic opera is called:
opera buffa
Who dies at the end of Rigoletto?
Gilda, Rigoletto’s daughter
The ensemble that follows La donna e mobile in Act III of Rigoletto is an:
quartet
Which of the following are characteristic of Beijing opera?
all of the above
A special theater was built at ________ for the presentation of Wagner’s music dreams.
Bayreuth
Wagner’s total artwork, in which all the arts- music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle- are fused together, is called:
the Gesamtkunstwerk
Wagner called his operas:
music dramas
In Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, who are the Valkyries?
the nine daughters of Wotan
Tchaikovsky’s fanciful ballet about a child’s Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places is:
the Nutcracker
The keyboard instrument featured in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker, is the:
celesta
The leading composer of Italian opera in the late-Romantic era was:
Puccini
Which opera was not by Puccini?
Pagliacci
The Japanese shamisen is:
a plucked string instrument
The Libera me from Faure’s Requiem features which vocal soloist?
baritone
The mood at the end of Libera me from Faure’s Requiem is:
serene
The French movement in poetry that rebelled against traditional modes of expression is called:
symbolism
Mallarme and Verlaine were:
symbolist poets
The Symbolist poets were strongly influenced by the works of:
Edgar Allan Poe
The whole-tone scale used by Impressionist composers derives from:
non- Western music
Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of a gamelan from:
Java
What nationality was Claude Debussy?
French
Which was not composed by Debussy?
Bolero
Which of the following describes the activities of Harry T. Burleigh?
all of the above
The spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects qualities of which traditions?
all of the above
Which of the following distinguished the Frisk Jubilee Singers’ arrangement of Swing Low Sweet Chariot from that of Harry T. Burleigh?
The Frisk Jubilee Singers perform a cappella
An important American instrumental ensemble of the 19th century was the:
brass band
Which of the following does NOT describe the career of Partick S. Gilmore?
earned title as March King
John Philip Sousa conducted the:
US Marine Band
John Philip Sousa composed:
all of the above
Which American composer became known as the King of Ragtime?
Joplin
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